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Ploughing Championships

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  • 03-08-2014 11:16pm
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    Jurassic Cyclist 24
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    Anyone going or have been????
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    micraX
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    Jurassic Cyclist 24 wrote: »
    Anyone going or have been????

    Yes and yes. Never see much of the actual ploughing, and there has been a big reduction in the amount of free stuff since the economic downturn sadly.


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    Nekarsulm
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    Last time I went (2011) kid (6 y o) did a runner. Took 2 hours to find her. (no bother on her, and had blagged a bag of pop corn from a stall, some how, and made her way to the amusement park area) You can imagine the scene in the car on the way home. So after about an hour of me getting scolded, I declared that I would only return to the Ploughing, when she was old enough to drive me herself. So roll on Ploughing 2023! :)


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    Kovu
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    micraX wrote: »
    Yes and yes. Never see much of the actual ploughing, and there has been a big reduction in the amount of free stuff since the economic downturn sadly.

    Not just the economic downturn but the huge rise in the number of busloads with teenagers going up for the craic and pestering all the stands for free stuff. Actual interested parties/possible customers couldn't get a word in edgeways.


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    micraX
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not just the economic downturn but the huge rise in the number of busloads with teenagers going up for the craic and pestering all the stands for free stuff. Actual interested parties/possible customers couldn't get a word in edgeways.
    They are still going to go around looking. Haha


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    Kovu
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    micraX wrote: »
    They are still going to go around looking. Haha

    Don't I know! I was one of them once upon a time!:D


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    Jurassic Cyclist 24
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    Yeah not many go for the ploughing just the free stuff and food and drink but that's part of it :(:(:(:)


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    Reggie.
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Don't I know! I was one of them once upon a time!:D

    So your part of the problem then


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    We live about a ten min walk (through fields) to it, so well walk over since the traffic is mental and it'll take hours otherwise HA, was good Craic last year


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    Kovu
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    So your part of the problem then

    Was part of the problem. Sure haven't I grown up and got sense.....

    oh....carry on.


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    Jurassic Cyclist 24
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Was part of the problem. Sure haven't I grown up and got sense.....

    Ah but still wouldn't turn down something free :D


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    Reggie.
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Was part of the problem. Sure haven't I grown up and got sense.....

    oh....carry on.

    Sometimes I wonder


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    Lambofdave
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    The ploughing is nothing more then a money racket for the NPA(or certain people in it) and lost its true agricultural roots a long time ago, over priced admission first place and then chuggers hassling you as you walk the badly laid out site and don't get me started on the hawkers.

    The machinery companies would be better spending their budgets on running a working demo instead of paying through the nose for a few square metres.


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    Farrell
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    Haven't been since Wexford.
    Booked off 24th, herself wants to pester some stalls for quotes on home improvements.
    Guess I'll be carrying himself (must start training - be a long day).
    No interest in the main event, more the new gadgets (big child)


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    whelan2
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    Farrell wrote: »
    Haven't been since Wexford.
    Booked off 24th, herself wants to pester some stalls for quotes on home improvements.
    Guess I'll be carrying himself (must start training - be a long day).
    No interest in the main event, more the new gadgets (big child)
    dont bring a buggy anyway, i learnt the hard way:mad:


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    _Brian
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    We pop along for the crack.
    Would see a bit of the ploughing, specially of it's not too far from the main area. Like watching te horses ploughing.

    If the stupid bus loads of kids weren't there it would be a better day for all. Surely the schools know full well that they will make a nusience of themselves.

    Oh.
    And anyone bringing small kids is just crazy, as for those bringing toddlers/baby's in buggeys, that's just insaine!


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    whelan2
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    _Brian wrote: »
    We pop along for the crack.
    Would see a bit of the ploughing, specially of it's not too far from the main area. Like watching te horses ploughing.

    If the stupid bus loads of kids weren't there it would be a better day for all. Surely the schools know full well that they will make a nusience of themselves.

    Oh.
    And anyone bringing small kids is just crazy, as for those bringing toddlers/baby's in buggeys, that's just insaine!
    i think the school kids are only there to get the numbers up, if they where not there the attendance figures would be alot smaller


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    Sam Kade
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    Glebee wrote: »
    Where is it in this year???
    Same location as last year.
    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not just the economic downturn but the huge rise in the number of busloads with teenagers going up for the craic and pestering all the stands for free stuff. Actual interested parties/possible customers couldn't get a word in edgeways.
    Teenagers are annoying when the ploughing comes around they act as if they were locked in a small room all year and then let loose :mad:

    Fully grown adults act like vultures with any bit of free food :mad: Last year I was in a super valu tent with 4 others when the man behind the counter put brown bread out the vultures came from every angle and devoured the lot. The thing about it was there was only a small door in the tent how did the vultures know the food was coming at that moment?

    My wife got a free burger at one tent and a vulture asked where she got it she said in there but you have to pay for it :D the vulture went on her way looking for any free food :D


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    frazzledhome
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Same location as last year.

    Teenagers are annoying when the ploughing comes around they act as if they were locked in a small room all year and then let loose :mad:

    Fully grown adults act like vultures with any bit of free food :mad: Last year I was in a super valu tent with 4 others when the man behind the counter put brown bread out the vultures came from every angle and devoured the lot. The thing about it was there was only a small door in the tent how did the vultures know the food was coming at that moment?

    My wife got a free burger at one tent and a vulture asked where she got it she said in there but you have to pay for it :D the vulture went on her way looking for any free food :D

    Lol, brilliant answer. I hate the freeloaders really let themselves down with bad manners.

    I go to meet people. Love going on my own. I only go if its close by.


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    Reggie.
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Lol, brilliant answer. I hate the freeloaders really let themselves down with bad manners.

    I go to meet people. Love going on my own. I only go if its close by.

    I always go on my own one day and go with the wife on another


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    Greengrass1
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    I always go on my own one day and go with the wife on another

    One day is enough for me. Only show we go to now or tullamore. Want to get a quote for a crush and meal bin. Our old wooden crush isn't going to last much longer


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    Reggie.
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    One day is enough for me. Only show we go to now or tullamore. Want to get a quote for a crush and meal bin. Our old wooden crush isn't going to last much longer

    Tullamore is grand for that as the crowds do be smaller but might not be the same amount of companies at it tho


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    frazzledhome
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    One day is enough for me. Only show we go to now or tullamore. Want to get a quote for a crush and meal bin. Our old wooden crush isn't going to last much longer

    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch


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    Reggie.
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch

    Ah he's just looking for an excuse to go :D


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    whelan2
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch
    last time i went to ploughing i wanted to look at 2 things, i had great intentions of getting prices from different stands etc, didnt work that way andas frazzled said it would have been better to email/ring around for a few quotes, drove for the guts of 5 hours and was none the wiser. Also found alot of reps at stands very ignorant , you would be half way through getting prices off them and they would go on to someone else.


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    Greengrass1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch

    Nice to see the product there and ye come across other company's too


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    rangler1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch

    We're simple people......we count the 'ploughing' as a day out


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    whelan2
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I don't understand this at all. If you picked up the phone this morning you'd get a quote for both by lunch
    not this morning its a bank holiday:p


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    Sam Kade
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    I always go on my own one day and go with the wife on another

    One day with the wife on board is plenty all they want to do is go into every tent with clothes or jewellery :mad: except Whelan of course she would be more farming orientated :D


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    whelan2
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    the best bit of any year i went to the ploughing was the lads putting the fergie 20 together and being timed. Was brilliant to see


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    Reggie.
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    One day with the wife on board is plenty all they want to do is go into every tent with clothes or jewellery :mad: except Whelan of course she would be more farming orientated :D

    We divide and conquer. Sent her on her way and meet up at a certain time


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