No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Water John

Really sorry to lose you, Judge, always very fair, and really appreciate the amount of time it took you.

BTW the bullocks are organic so ration would be fairly dear and need to justify itself. Was thinking of something like 2kg rolled barley and 1kg to the rest of the animals.
Bass Reeves had also a good point, stopping the meal to stores 4/6 weeks before turnout and availing of compensatory growth. That would be a great saving.
Probably should move this question across to a beef thread but was prompted by Knight and his freezer full of lovely meat last night.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Thanks for all the hard work, it's no easy job.

I can totally understand your POV on this. The f&f forum is somewhat of a bubble on this site as a whole. The expectation of fair play will always lead to disappointment as it doesn't cater to the business of the site as a whole. Nor will it ever as this will never be a farming site.

The way I use this place now is kinda like the way I used to view politicians (changed view on them again since), that it's here to "be used". Then be utterly hard nosed about everything else to do with it, meaning stuff that's outside of the thinking of the myriad of views on the f&f forum itself.

While ya could say we all support it, my thinking now is I do it in a parasitic way

whelan2

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Gutted. Know you from here for years. Liverpool supporter and all. Stay safe. Thanks for all the time you've given to the forum over the years

Water John

Jjameson wrote: »

Are they Angus Hereford types? If the silage is reasonable at all I would bother with meal at all. Minerals yes. Use the grass and your barley next summer and you will see gains of close to 2kg a day in June.

Ch and Lm. They're the first half of weanlings bought last autumn. That could be a good shout. Organic meal is dear but I think 1kg to all until Mid Feb might be worth it. That would be 2.5T. See if I can get 500kg bags.
Yes went with the Himalayan rock salt for minerals.

Organic stock sale in Kilmallock on Sat, will look in. Some non organic farmers pick up stock there too, good quality for anyone interested.

Gawddawggonnit

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Big loss to the forum.
One of the best.
Intelligent, informed and broad minded with a great sense of justice and balance.

Not many left...

Say my name

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Well that's the end of farming & forestry on Boards!!

I know the job was taking a lot of your time especially with the perks of Coke and hookers. But still there'll be a void there.

Feck it anyway now I'll have to put up a profile picture on facebook and try and get into it now for the long posts. :rolleyes: However I'll deal with the crowds there now?

Have you a bomb or anything for your way out? I might know a few Chinese lads that love a bit of spam.

Sale on tumbleweeds..

*You know where to find me if you want a question answered or there's a little nugget of information you've found that you think I might be interested in.

gozunda

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Christ Buford but your going will leave a big gap that no amount of bailer twine, pallets nor cable ties are going to fill

That said I understand your position Buford. But Its not going to be the same here without your input and keeping us in line. In all fairness we should have a full 21 gun salute with the cannons and  artillery positioned for full effect. Keep up the good fight.
Slán go fóill mo chara.

kollegeknight

All the best to you Buford. I have nothing but praise and admiration for you. I only ever come to the F&F forum so definitely in a bubble.

I wouldn’t do your job for all the tea in China.

patsy_mccabe

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

I took a while to respond to this. I'm still don't know what to say. I assume this all has to do with the vegan forum ??? :mad:
Jeez. It must have been fairly bad to upset someone as reasonable and decent as yourself. I can only echo all that has been said before .... you will be a huge loss to everyone on here and thanks for all the help over the years.

Best of luck anyway . Shur there's nothing stopping you coming back as your sidekick Junior.

naughto

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Haven't Read the vegan thread can they not sit back with a nice steak and chip and talk it out......

All the best Buford come back when you clear the head.

Genghis Cant

Its been my great pleasure to work along with Buford. The very best of good luck to you.

In my mind you'll always be....... A fine Man Utd Fan, a fine Corconian and a damn fine tillage farmer!
:=)

Base price

Well Sheriff I'm saddened about the way things developed. I wish you the best and you will be sadly missed on F&F - fookin vegans :mad:

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Well Sheriff I'm saddened about the way things developed. I wish you the best and you will be sadly missed on F&F - fookin vegans :mad:

Did your cow calve yet?

Base price

For any of ye that maybe interested - the Farmers Journal have a year subscription (+ free bucket that includes a useful diary and other stuff) for €119 today. I bought it a few years ago for OH as a Christmas pressie and find the online paper more useful than buying the physical one. You can look back at previous articles and publications on your laptop.

https://www.facebook.com/IrishFarmersJournal/photos/a.10152485251603835/10160503310988835/

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

For any of ye that maybe interested - the Farmers Journal have a year subscription (+ free bucket that includes a useful diary and other stuff) for €119 today. I bought it a few years ago for OH as a Christmas pressie and find the online paper more useful than buying the physical one. You can look back at previous articles and publications on your laptop.

https://www.facebook.com/IrishFarmersJournal/photos/a.10152485251603835/10160503310988835/

Valid until midnight on 9th December

Odelay

Base price wrote: »

Well Sheriff I'm saddened about the way things developed. I wish you the best and you will be sadly missed on F&F - fookin vegans :mad:

I'm gonna have steak for the next week in revenge...

Odelay

Odelay wrote: »

I'm gonna have steak for the next week in revenge...

Rare

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Did your cow calve yet?

No. I was saying to OH this morning that we must be newbies with cows calving :rolleyes:.

It's a nuisance when you buy a cow in the "dry cow ring" and it turns out that she is in calf - you don't know for how long or to what breed/scrub bull they are in calf too. We bought her in September and she went out to grass and was getting meal up until that batch was housed in Oct on a finishing diet. OH noticed that she wasn't laying on flesh so I watched her for a few days and I could see a calf moving. We removed her from the batch into a straw bedded pen and she is like a queen in waiting.

She's on hay and 5kgs of rolled oats & minerals since then. Her vulva is swelling/hanging longer by the day and but thankfully her elder is starting to fill. On the upside she has quietened down and enjoys a scratch and doesn't mind us been around her and feeling her elder.

NcdJd

Odelay wrote: »

I'm gonna have steak for the next week in revenge...

Hopefully when he ( i take it ) sees all the responses here to his post he might reconsider closing his account.

Might be better to just take some time out Buford. That vegan forum charter issue was head wrecking and draining. I know you spent a lot of time on it, but you came out of it very well in my opinion. If you've had enough of the modding end of things go back to being a normal poster..

Wouldn't let them have it all their own way, why should you have to go for the sake of a couple of oddball clowns. My advice for what it's worth is take a well earned break and come back in the new year.

Albert Johnson

Base price wrote: »

No. I was saying to OH this morning that we must be newbies with cows calving :rolleyes:.

It's a nuisance when you buy a cow in the "dry cow ring" and it turns out that she is in calf - you don't know for how long or to what breed. We bought her in September and she went out to grass and was getting meal up until that batch was housed in Oct on a finishing diet. OH noticed that she wasn't laying on flesh so I watched her for a few days and I could see a calf moving. We removed her from the batch into a straw bedded pen and she is like a queen in waiting.

She's on hay and 5kgs of rolled oats & minerals since then. Her vulva is swelling/hanging longer by the day and her elder is starting to fill. On the upside she has quietened down and enjoys a scratch and doesn't mind us feeling her elder.

I'd imagine that a fair percentage of cow's sold as dry turn out to be incalf. A lot of lad's run a bull with the cow's all year round and sell the culls as running with a bull. A few of the bigger grazier's would run a bull with the fattening cow's, they reckoned a pregnant cow done a better thrive for the first few months than an empty one.

There's certain cow buyer's have a knack for picking springers out of the culls. They'd split the team then after calving or you'd see the better outfits back through the suckler ring. The most thing I'd be afraid of was that the cow was culled for having poor calving ability, bad temperament, putting out the calf bed ect.

Birdnuts

Odelay wrote: »

I'm gonna have steak for the next week in revenge...

I murdered several lamb burgers in his honor 2nite;)

straight

Base price wrote: »

For any of ye that maybe interested - the Farmers Journal have a year subscription (+ free bucket that includes a useful diary and other stuff) for €119 today. I bought it a few years ago for OH as a Christmas pressie and find the online paper more useful than buying the physical one. You can look back at previous articles and publications on your laptop.

https://www.facebook.com/IrishFarmersJournal/photos/a.10152485251603835/10160503310988835/

I don't get the paper anymore so I've just signed up. I hope it's worth it now.

whelan2

Nice breakfast

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Nice breakfast

Massive !!

funkey_monkey

You'd need that on a day like this.

_Brian

Jez looking at healthcare renewals and options. I’m sure it’s intentionally over complicated just to confuse punters.

_Brian

Jjameson wrote: »

Ah a paper is nice. A mug of Tay and a rasher sandwich makes a right job..

The tea and rasher sandwich still taste good without the propaganda

Avns1s

NcdJd wrote: »

Hopefully when he ( i take it ) sees all the responses here to his post he might reconsider closing his account.

Might be better to just take some time out Buford. That vegan forum charter issue was head wrecking and draining. I know you spent a lot of time on it, but you came out of it very well in my opinion. If you've had enough of the modding end of things go back to being a normal poster..

Wouldn't let them have it all their own way, why should you have to go for the sake of a couple of oddball clowns. My advice for what it's worth is take a well earned break and come back in the new year.

Exactly this!! I wouldn't let the (insert expletive of choice here) bully you and allow them win as a consequence!
Do your own thing for sure but don't let them dictate what it is. They'd be delighted to know they are capable of picking off good and knowledgeable people one by one.
Best of luck with whatever you decide.

What sort of turbo nozzle should I be looking for for a Lidl petrol pressure washer The operating pressure is 180 bar which my converter says is just above 2600psi

_Brian

Deleted User wrote: »

What sort of turbo nozzle should I be looking for for a Lidl petrol pressure washer The operating pressure is 180 bar which my converter says is just above 2600psi

Litres per minute would be important too I’d expect.

While these smaller washers can have a seemingly high psi they lack the water flow of larger washers.

Our small karcher came with a turbo nozzle, honestly it’s only marginally better than the standard Lance.