Silage 2021

White Clover

roosterman71 wrote: »

Engine error codes galore since this morning here when mowing. Kept going as best I could but tractor gone into limp mode. Blood pressure gone through the roof now. Still haven't told the father. Jaysus

Get the Leyland out??!

Waffletraktor

roosterman71 wrote: »

Fendt

Adblu or feeding off it's own engine oil?

Jb1989

White Clover wrote: »

Get the Leyland out??!

I was gonna ask the same.

older by the day

Well feck it anyway the forecast down here in west cork is bad for next. Is there any point ringing the contractor for tomorrow. Bad time for the weather to be mixed

Jb1989

older by the day wrote: »

Well feck it anyway the forecast down here in west cork is bad for next. Is there any point ringing the contractor for tomorrow. Bad time for the weather to be mixed

Are you fully sure of the weather to be accurate?
If so, no harm to ring the contractor, because there may be a chance he wouldnt have a hope at short notice to do anything, so then you'll know to just wait.

older by the day

Jb1989 wrote: »

Are you fully sure of the weather to be accurate?
If so, no harm to ring the contractor, because there may be a chance he wouldnt have a hope at short notice to do anything, so then you'll know to just wait.

I would not like to be a contractor this evening. Rain Monday night thru to Friday

whelan2

Mowed mine yesterday. It rained a bit this morning. Row tomorrow and pick up Monday.

grange mac

older by the day wrote: »

Well feck it anyway the forecast down here in west cork is bad for next. Is there any point ringing the contractor for tomorrow. Bad time for the weather to be mixed

My contractor is flat out dropping silage this evening. Im in SW Cork also and Monday looks fkd so all gonna be picked up tomorrow.....
Seriously good evening here so yesterday's rain gone... Just been shocking last 30 days..

Bass Reeves

older by the day wrote: »

I would not like to be a contractor this evening. Rain Monday night thru to Friday

I do not think you are right showers yes but not rain. Predicted weather would at present would not stop me cutting and baling silage

Mooooo

Mon eve in to Tues has showers for west cork, if they could pick up mon morning I'd chance it. Ground conditions still the problem here with silage ground. Taking out another paddock alright but pit will have to wait. Did first cut may 15 last year

Say my name

Bass Reeves wrote: »

I do not think you are right showers yes but not rain. Predicted weather would at present would not stop me cutting and baling silage

There's a band of rain showing up on the Arpege shortrange rain model for Wednesday.
If I'm cutting it's always the one I look at. You'll get the general gist then if there's showers showing too.
Even tomorrow it's showing possibility of showers in this part of the country.

Bass Reeves

Say my name wrote: »

There's a band of rain showing up on the Arpege shortrange rain model for Wednesday.
If I'm cutting it's always the one I look at. You'll get the general gist then if there's showers showing too.
Even tomorrow it's showing possibility of showers in this part of the country.

BBC weather forecast
https://www.bbc.com/weather/2962943

Say my name

Bass Reeves wrote: »

BBC weather forecast
https://www.bbc.com/weather/2962943

Yea that's giving rain too.

A map is easier read tho.

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

GrasstoMilk

Mowed 2 paddocks yesterday, got a small bit of rain over night
Raked them at 1 pm and baled at 3
70 bales made here this week
Second cut is about 3 - 4 weeks away

Grass is gone bananas

Bass Reeves

Say my name wrote: »

Yea that's giving rain too.

A map is easier read tho.

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

Its not giving rain that would stop me making silage. Its showery weather. You are getting projected rainfalls of 1-2mm over 48 hours. That would not stop me from getting on with it. This type of weather could last for 2-3 weeks. I definately be looking at available windows of 48 hours and hope to get 68-72 hour windows

Say my name

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Its not giving rain that would stop me making silage. Its showery weather. You are getting projected rainfalls of 1-2mm over 48 hours. That would not stop me from getting on with it. This type of weather could last for 2-3 weeks. I definately be looking at available windows of 48 hours and hope to get 68-72 hour windows

Misty weather can give 1-2mm.
You wouldn't make silage in misty weather. And you know the south and west coast for misty weather.

At least I won't be blamed this time..

lab man

Say my name wrote: »

Misty weather can give 1-2mm.
You wouldn't make silage in misty weather. And you know the south and west coast for misty weather.

At least I won't be blamed this time..

River shannon looking better today I must keep a right look during the week but today looked good to get a good dry spell 10 days time on ward

Say my name

lab man wrote: »

River shannon looking better today I must keep a right look during the week but today looked good to get a good dry spell 10 days time on ward

The forecast is giving next weekend good.

GrasstoMilk

Say my name wrote: »

Misty weather can give 1-2mm.
You wouldn't make silage in misty weather. And you know the south and west coast for misty weather.

At least I won't be blamed this time..

I'd make silage in that weather, be fine

Say my name

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

I'd make silage in that weather, be fine

Ah there's no mist over there.

roosterman71

Home now. Hoor of a day. NOx sensor gone in the tractor. Doesn't know if its to add more or is adding too much adblu. Not at all impressed that me tractor is an environmentalist.

Limp mode went away after a break so I carried on. Eventually came back. Had roped in a friend of mine to start mowing with me. Thought about the Leyland but the lift is ****e in that. I'd be in worse humour now.

Not the end of the world. Fair play to atkins. Must have been 5 lads from there working together to try keep me going. In the end they got me a replacement while mine is out of action.

Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year.

green daries

roosterman71 wrote: »

Home now. Hoor of a day. NOx sensor gone in the tractor. Doesn't know if its to add more or is adding too much adblu. Not at all impressed that me tractor is an environmentalist.

Limp mode went away after a break so I carried on. Eventually came back. Had roped in a friend of mine to start mowing with me. Thought about the Leyland but the lift is ****e in that. I'd be in worse humour now.

Not the end of the world. Fair play to atkins. Must have been 5 lads from there working together to try keep me going. In the end they got me a replacement while mine is out of action.

Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year.

Ya its not fair on those that have to listen to it ...but it has been a hoore of a spring

Reggie.

Dunedin wrote: »

Same as that here (Offaly too). My land would be heavy enough and I baled on Tuesday and it was fine. That said it got 4 good days from Saturday to Tuesday.

I'm not talking balers. I'm talking 24ft broughan trailers

K.G.

Mooooo wrote: »

Mon eve in to Tues has showers for west cork, if they could pick up mon morning I'd chance it. Ground conditions still the problem here with silage ground. Taking out another paddock alright but pit will have to wait. Did first cut may 15 last year

Knocking another 1 /3rd of it tomorrow and hopefully we ll get it off the ground monday before evening.as an old fella said to me one time"if youre waiting for the perfect time to do everything you ll get nothing done"

Bass Reeves

K.G. wrote: »

Knocking another 1 /3rd of it tomorrow and hopefully we ll get it off the ground monday before evening.as an old fella said to me one time"if youre waiting for the perfect time to do everything you ll get nothing done"

Time can slip very fast tomorroe is the 6th, if people think next week is out you are heading fast to the 15th of june

K.G.

older by the day wrote: »

Well feck it anyway the forecast down here in west cork is bad for next. Is there any point ringing the contractor for tomorrow. Bad time for the weather to be mixed

Id be getting my name on the list anyway.

Grueller

Mooooo wrote: »

Mon eve in to Tues has showers for west cork, if they could pick up mon morning I'd chance it. Ground conditions still the problem here with silage ground. Taking out another paddock alright but pit will have to wait. Did first cut may 15 last year

Same here Mooooo. Only difference is that I have got my first cut in the pit today. Super crop although starting to head out. On that point, does anyone else think grass is a week behind on shooting out this year due to the cold dry weather earlier?
Will cover tomorrow and slurry out Monday hopefully on 10 acres that I baled at 6 bales to the acre, growing 4 1/2 weeks, on Wednesday

Cavanjack

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

I'd make silage in that weather, be fine

Can’t beat a bit of blazing sunshine all the same and a good wilt.

Bass Reeves

K.G. wrote: »

Id be getting my name on the list anyway.

When I am watching for a window I ring him and let him know. I rang him about the 25th saying would be cutting if we got a window, on Thursday I booked him for Sunday 30th as it looked like it would be a good week, Friday the forecast changed and rang him early expecting him to be booked out. He had only had one lad cutting, I changed to Saturday evening, I was the second farm cut and was one of the last baled my own choice

Bass Reeves

Grueller wrote: »

Same here Mooooo. Only difference is that I have got my first cut in the pit today. Super crop although starting to head out. On that point, does anyone else think grass is a week behind on shooting out this year due to the cold dry weather earlier?
Will cover tomorrow and slurry out Monday hopefully on 10 acres that I baled at 6 bales to the acre, growing 4 1/2 weeks, on Wednesday

How often did you see whitethorn still in flower in June. Ya grass is a couple of days later IMO

Mooooo

K.G. wrote: »

Knocking another 1 /3rd of it tomorrow and hopefully we ll get it off the ground monday before evening.as an old fella said to me one time"if youre waiting for the perfect time to do everything you ll get nothing done"

First trailer got stuck last year, mower would get stuck if I sent him in there now lol. Good point all the same

Danzy

Bass Reeves wrote: »

How often did you see whitethorn still in flower in June. Ya grass is a couple of days later IMO

Honey bees are a month to 6 weeks behind on last year.

Wasp Queens scouting locations during the week.

End times.

DBK1

leoch wrote: »

U 2 offaly guys anywhere near tullamore killeigh or geashill direction nice part of the world some nice farmland

I’m kind of mid-west Offaly, at the foot of the slieve blooms. We’ve plenty of good land around but there’s as much bog as there is good land.

I was actively looking over ditches today into silage fields checking for damage! The only field I saw a trace of damage in was one that was picked in the rain Wednesday and it was the trailers on standard lorry tyres that done the damage. But the scarcely broke the sod and not enough to even bring anything into the road.

older by the day

"Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year."

It's the most normal relationship for a father and son to have. It is the father getting frustrated because he's not as able as he was and the son gets it. When my father was the boss, I could do nothing right. He would give out to me when cleaning calving houses that I would break the handle of the pike. I went away to an off farm job and after that he was glad of the help evening and weekends. But I reckon it's frustrating not to be able to be a tearing worker like he was

memorystick

green daries wrote: »

Ya its not fair on those that have to listen to it ...but it has been a hoore of a spring

Some fathers are pricks. Fighting and being awkward the whole time. A belt of a nursing home wouldn’t go astray for a few weeks. He’d appreciate you then.

whelan2

A good few of them are just doing what their fathers did

K.G.

older by the day wrote: »

"Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year."

It's the most normal relationship for a father and son to have. It is the father getting frustrated because he's not as able as he was and the son gets it. When my father was the boss, I could do nothing right. He would give out to me when cleaning calving houses that I would break the handle of the pike. I went away to an off farm job and after that he was glad of the help evening and weekends. But I reckon it's frustrating not to be able to be a tearing worker like he was

In a strange way its showing he cares,as a parent the only thing you want is that you give them the skills and attitude to make their way in the world.

Mooooo

If your parents are fit and able be grateful for it, when their gone the line of thinking will change fast

I says

older by the day wrote: »

"Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year."

It's the most normal relationship for a father and son to have. It is the father getting frustrated because he's not as able as he was and the son gets it. When my father was the boss, I could do nothing right. He would give out to me when cleaning calving houses that I would break the handle of the pike. I went away to an off farm job and after that he was glad of the help evening and weekends. But I reckon it's frustrating not to be able to be a tearing worker like he was

You’ll miss him when he’s gone.

green daries

memorystick wrote: »

Some fathers are pricks. Fighting and being awkward the whole time. A belt of a nursing home wouldn’t go astray for a few weeks. He’d appreciate you then.

Ya but I don't know if that's the situation here or if its just a man under pressure 🀔 some very valid points either side of the spectrum about it
It makes an uneasy working partnership either way when someone is giving out a lot

charolais0153

memorystick wrote: »

Some fathers are pricks. Fighting and being awkward the whole time. A belt of a nursing home wouldn’t go astray for a few weeks. He’d appreciate you then.

Some sons are pricks. Fighting and being awkward the whole time. If your not happy ,f*ck off, simple as, if your sticking around for his land then that's your problem

Dinzee Conlee

Breeding lads, breeding...

If you find yourself saying ‘the father is an awkward Bollox, who is never happy’ - chances are, you’re half an awkward bollox who is happy half the time

Albert Johnson

roosterman71 wrote: »

Father had a serious rant and rave. He's in horsing form for the last few months. Nothing ever is right or good enough. Takes serious mental strength to be listening to him. I'd say though he's sick of machinery and silage and I wouldn't be surprised if he leased the place next year.

I don't know anything about you or your father's situation Rooster but I could see his reasons for being generally pissed off yesterday. If I'd spent a large sum of my hard earned cash on a new machine that was intended to make life easier and it broke down the day it was wanted then I'd go off the head too tbh. I understand that those things happen but it's still hugely annoying that it gave up on one of the few days it was wanted in what's an already tough year. Granted that's not a license to take it out on everyone else and when your pissed off about something different every day then it's a different story.

memorystick

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Breeding lads, breeding...

If you find yourself saying ‘the father is an awkward Bollox, who is never happy’ - chances are, you’re half an awkward bollox who is happy half the time

Sometimes the biggest obstacle a lad has is proving that he’s very different from the oul lad. The farming family is a very unique institution.

charolais0153

memorystick wrote: »

Sometimes the biggest obstacle a lad has is proving that he’s very different from the oul lad. The farming family is a very unique institution.

Who are you proving

Danzy

People's experiences are different. I can think of several lads I know whose fathers would be the biggest thugs and blaggards I have ever met to their families.

Violent and emotionally savage. Real jaw dropping stuff. It's not the norm but every Parish has plenty.

My own fella was a good man, good provider hardworking, but clean impossible to work with. Hours of screaming, roaring from the first day I remember as a child. No rhyme or reason, boiling over with anger from his own childhood, frothing at the mouth anger.

People were often dragged up in previous years, in a country where self respect had been beaten out of people.

We are all bringing our own past in to this topic but that varies from house to house and shouldn't be taken as related to ones own life.

Within a mile of me, there is one father who has never spoken to his sons since they were babies. Another who used lock the family in Rooms, that ended with a dead child one evening all the way to normal tension and the rarer happy and highly functional.

memorystick

charolais0153 wrote: »

Who are you proving

Yerself.

green daries

Danzy wrote: »

People's experiences are different. I can think of several lads I know whose fathers would be the biggest thugs and blaggards I have ever met to their families.

Violent and emotionally savage. Real jaw dropping stuff. It's not the norm but every Parish has plenty.

My own fella was a good man, good provider hardworking, but clean impossible to work with. Hours of screaming, roaring from the first day I remember as a child. No rhyme or reason, boiling over with anger from his own childhood, frothing at the mouth anger.

People were often dragged up in previous years, in a country where self respect had been beaten out of people.

We are all bringing our own past in to this topic but that varies from house to house and shouldn't be taken as related to ones own life.

Within a mile of me, there is one father who has never spoken to his sons since they were babies. Another who used lock the family in Rooms, that ended with a dead child one evening all the way to normal tension and the rarer happy and highly functional.

Christ that's unreal be a bit of giving off round here but nothing real rough to kids and family was blessed with a gentleman here in the home place
And actually as i think of it one real rough fella and a blaggard a distance away from here was notorious for abusing the family
But luckily not too many more in the area maybe there was more in previous generations

Dunedin

Mooooo wrote: »

If your parents are fit and able be grateful for it, when their gone the line of thinking will change fast

Absolutely. Appreciate them while you have them.

greenfield21

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I don't know anything about you or your father's situation Rooster but I could see his reasons for being generally pissed off yesterday. If I'd spent a large sum of my hard earned cash on a new machine that was intended to make life easier and it broke down the day it was wanted then I'd go off the head too tbh. I understand that those things happen but it's still hugely annoying that it gave up on one of the few days it was wanted in what's an already tough year. Granted that's not a license to take it out on everyone else and when your pissed off about something different every day then it's a different story.

Must be three years old at this stage? I wouldn't call it new.