scoffcruddle
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Expensive but needs must.
Not too far from here that video was taken. I wouldn't be sure of the costs but it must be €100 an hour plus vat at least?Expensive but needs must.
Rivers as far as I know but I haven’t actually seen anyone at it just heard about it. Only a few rivers big enough to do it around here. I’m not so sure how impressed the county council or regional fisheries would be thoI've a premier league training ground over the way and they have been irrigating for the last six weeks,they use a rain gun,I'd be looking at something similar onto the spreadbar at least you could reduce wheelings.
@Blackwater boy where are they getting the water from?
Looks to be from a river.https://www.agriland.ie/farming-new...-per-acre-in-an-effort-to-boost-grass-growth/I've a premier league training ground over the way and they have been irrigating for the last six weeks,they use a rain gun,I'd be looking at something similar onto the spreadbar at least you could reduce wheelings.
@Blackwater boy where are they getting the water from?
we have a new parlour to put up for him in three weeks time, 180ft x 130ft
130' wide building?
Single span?
Is it a rotary?No he was originally going to go single span but the due to the layout he didn’t need to so saved quite a bit by putting in the supporting posts. I must try to remember to take plenty of pictures of this one, it’s something I always forget to do.
On the irrigator, it has been running 24/7 Nearly constantly since the first warm spell a while back, maybe only stopped for a week at the most.
Is it a rotary?
The video you had up scoff a picture of those lads made the front of the Irish farmers version of the sun tabloid paper, no mention of who they were spreading for yet again, the farmers doing it must be afraid of getting in trouble with fisheries or council etc
A big river flows through our home place, it’s full of fishermen, fisheries authorities, department of wildlife and many more authorities that I’m not sure what they do or how they even put down the day really so we wouldn’t get away with it eitherIf I was pumping out of the river I wouldn't be making a video,only have to fart near the river and the local fishing club will report you.
Is it illegal take water out of a river
Don't think it is exactly illegal but a lot of land by big rivers is special area of conservation so you could draw fierce hardship on yourselfIs it illegal take water out of a river
I think it's frowned on. As far as I know the fisheries crowd take a very dim view of it.Is it illegal take water out of a river
You need an abstraction licence as far as I know. But can take up to 20k litres a day withoutDon't think it is exactly illegal but a lot of land by big rivers is special area of conservation so you could draw fierce hardship on yourself
You need an abstraction licence as far as I know. But can take up to 20k litres a day without
But don't hold me to that!
You do indeed need an abstraction ticket to take water from a river or indeed use a stream divert say to fill an existing irrigation pond,
Our irrigation lake is filled from our beef yards winter run off , goes through three reed beds/settling ponds,
We're putting on 15mm of water a day on the spuds, the gun is running all day and half the night, 7 days a week, tiz "expensive" but hey needs must, it helps yeild and certainly helps skin finish,
Have you lots of water left in the lake?
I was surprised to see our local reservoir that feeds the local villages and town is only 1.7m below this time last year,it is 194ha though.
So was talking to the neighbour who is at the irrigating, his milking herd is just about holding its own, they are putting an inch of rain per acre per day onto the grazing ground, plus he has also got the local umbilical slurry outfit dumping water on ground for him.
His own irrigation costs him £100 a day in diesel alone, never mind any other costs and contractor on top of that.
He is really worried about the rest of the animals though that he is carrying, young stock etc, they are not irrigating their feed as it is all out farms and they are fast running out, he is buying anything that can be considered feed, hay, bales, wholecrop, anything. He also would be considered one of the best dairy farmers around. His neighbours are feeding away at this years first cut taken 7 weeks ago and not that bothered.
We are starting the new parlour on Monday.