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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Sure what's wrong with it ?

    Youd need a tetanus to get into it


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Sure what's wrong with it ?

    Plenty of farmers out there that could well afford a decent tractor yet spend their lives in a yoke like that instead of a decent warm cab with a radio and have a bit of comfort for themselves.

    Life’s too short not to have a bit of comfort not to mention the health impact of sitting in a cold draughty yoke for a few hours.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,279 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Plenty of farmers out there that could well afford a decent tractor yet spend their lives in a yoke like that instead of a decent warm cab with a radio and have a bit of comfort for themselves.

    Life’s too short not to have a bit of comfort not to mention the health impact of sitting in a cold draughty yoke for a few hours.
    Years ago, a contractor I know used to take the radios out of new/second hand tractors when he bought them. He reckoned that you couldn't hear a problem with a machine if the radio was on until it was too late and a lot of damage was done.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Base price wrote: »
    Years ago, a contractor I know used to take the radios out of new/second hand tractors when he bought them. He reckoned that you couldn't hear a problem with a machine if the radio was on until it was too late and a lot of damage was done.

    i know a fella who used to work for a family of some devout church in the uk. He had a company car with the job as a salesman and when he went to collect it the radio was missing and there was a shelf installed with a bible instead lol.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    I saw a pic of this tractor this morning and thought of this thread lol

    50968652933_e5f8091d7d.jpgFunny massey by Kevin Hogan, on Flickr
    It's like something out of Mad max 2!


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    It's like something out of Mad max 2!

    Isn't this the year for it?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    It's like something out of Mad max 2!

    hey , thats my ride your slagging off


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Plenty of farmers out there that could well afford a decent tractor yet spend their lives in a yoke like that instead of a decent warm cab with a radio and have a bit of comfort for themselves.

    Life’s too short not to have a bit of comfort not to mention the health impact of sitting in a cold draughty yoke for a few hours.

    Ah - if twas comfort and an easy life you were after, you should sell the farm along with the tractor...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    Base price wrote: »
    Years ago, a contractor I know used to take the radios out of new/second hand tractors when he bought them. He reckoned that you couldn't hear a problem with a machine if the radio was on until it was too late and a lot of damage was done.

    I’d agree with that. When I’m mowing silage or doing anything pto related I never have the radio on much and all as I’d like to. I know a truck driver who says the very same . Your ears are very important with machinery.
    I have become an expert at stopping my tractor dead at the first sound of chugging when the diesel gets low. Have not had air lock in years. Touch wood. Couldn’t do that with a radio blaring.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,595 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Does anyone else turn the radio down in the car when looking for where you are going? I dont know what difference it makes but I always do it


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  • Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Aravo


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Does anyone else turn the radio down in the car when looking for where you are going? I dont know what difference it makes but I always do it

    That depends if the O/H is in the seat beside me


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Aravo wrote: »
    That depends if the O/H is in the seat beside me

    You leave it up if she is?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Ah - if twas comfort and an easy life you were after, you should sell the farm along with the tractor...

    Ah c’mon now, ya know what I mean. Sur why bother with the tractor at all so, a wheelbarrow, a shovel and spade will get it all done albeit a bit longer.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,135 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    I saw a pic of this tractor this morning and thought of this thread lol

    50968652933_e5f8091d7d.jpgFunny massey by Kevin Hogan, on Flickr

    If Ned Kelly built tractors :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Ah c’mon now, ya know what I mean. Sur why bother with the tractor at all so, a wheelbarrow, a shovel and spade will get it all done albeit a bit longer.

    I do, my comment wasn't meant to be cutting, I should have added a ;)

    Its all relative though - a lad with a nice new 150+ HP tractor might look at your machine and say waste of time, even though it does everything you want it to... :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Does anyone else turn the radio down in the car when looking for where you are going? I dont know what difference it makes but I always do it

    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭SCOL


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:

    You pay for parking not me, I'd walk into town before I'd pay


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,806 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:

    Reminds me of the time when my father hit his head on the 'Mind your head ' sign in Aillwee cave.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them


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  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them

    Sounds like Ireland's fittest family


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sounds like Ireland's fittest family
    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them

    Stop, you giving me ideas now :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw

    Pitching round bales of silage lol


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw
    In a shed of bulls:pac:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    blue5000 wrote: »
    [/B]In a shed of bulls:pac:
    Yes getting kicked by the feckers when trying to put in a bit of bedding

    Pairing rams would be a good season finale


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,739 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps

    Tis classic all right - have some on the fathers side that use scrap vans etc. as Hen Houses, Kennels etc.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,595 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Yes getting kicked by the feckers when trying to put in a bit of bedding

    Pairing rams would be a good season finale

    Kick them back and break your toe in the process


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    Worked in local mart years ago and you would see calves coming in on all sort of trailers. The back of a ford escort van cut off and a draw bar welded on was very common calf transportation back in 80s, haven't seen one with years.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,319 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps

    And won't sell any of them even if there's trees growing up through them.


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