jf 850
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Have you your name down on the waiting list for one of those exclusive vehicles ???
I didn't realise that there was a company with such a skilled workforce there.
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Have you your name down on the waiting list for one of those exclusive vehicles ???
I didn't realise that there was a company with such a skilled workforce there.
Eddie Hickey Started off as an apprentice Tool Maker in Lapple in carlow . when he qualified he went to Canada and worked for a big tool making company over there . They were looking for workers so he persuaded loads of tool makers from Carlow to go out there . He ended up giving Tool making contracts to Lapple and when Lapple started to downsize and eventually close he started Autolaunch . The panels for the Rolls Royce are made using a very modern technique which uses air in the dies to bash out the panels
His father and family dug out the site and had Massey 1200,s pulling the dumpers They would be from around Shillelagh in Wicklow .
The panels for the Delorean car were made in Lapple in Carlow and it is rumoured that Maggie Thatcher ordered the Dies be melted when Delorean went bankrupt .
Tool making dies are large lumps of Iron weighing several tons that have to be shaped so the top die is a mirror of the bottom die with huge dowels to keep them aligned . There is a separate die for every panel in a car .
mixed fleet
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Went to Co Roscommon ploughing match. Nice country around Creggs. Nice soil but a bit sticky. Stone wall country, and good strong one's at that.
Local plant hire and Civils contractors new Cat
and something smaller
More diggers.
vintage log cutting.
Local plant hire and Civils contractors new Cat
and something smaller
More diggers.
vintage log cutting.
mixed fleet
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Something for @ithastopay or @jd-baz , just needs a rub of an oily rag.:eek3:
More modern gear
Good Farm ,was in tillage but the black and white plague seems to have spread :sweat:
More modern gear
Good Farm ,was in tillage but the black and white plague seems to have spread :sweat:
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diesel power
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From cattle shit this morning to this
and back to the farm this evening. Lovely spot Curracloe and isn't commercialised to hell unlike Tramore. Came home via Ballon where one could only look out at the vast barley barons plains that a poor midlander like myself could only dream of
and back to the farm this evening. Lovely spot Curracloe and isn't commercialised to hell unlike Tramore. Came home via Ballon where one could only look out at the vast barley barons plains that a poor midlander like myself could only dream of
jf 850
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There was a somewhat similar saw to that in the last picture , here. It was a Wade . Like a crosscut saw mounted on a wheelbarrow worked by a single cylinder engine . Think it was American. It never worked here to the best of my knowledge. Sold it to a vintage man from Offaly for small money , who probably would restore it .
diesel power
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No thanks, I've got plenty of my own here. Sure if yourself and @gone ever feel the need to come to mans land and pick a few ton of stones your very welcome
jf 850
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No thanks, I've got plenty of my own here. Sure if yourself and @gone ever feel the need to come to mans land and pick a few ton of stones your very welcome
Whatever about you having enough stones if your own , I could start an export trade in them. You would make a sundial of your arse here , you'd.be bent over so long picking them .
The field in my avatar used to have 6 acres In it . Ploughed it once . 36 transport boxes and a 12 x 7 trailer worth of them. And not a barrow load on maybe 2 acres of it .
gone
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Ourselves and our neighbours built proper stone walls between us in Thornhill, they now reside in Courtown harbour.
https://www.visitwexford.ie/directory/courtown-beach/
https://www.visitwexford.ie/directory/courtown-beach/
diesel power
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The brother has a field under winter barley and years ago when the father ploughed it we picked 34 loads with a 12x7 kp trailer piled every time. The barley was up when we finally got the job done. The following year we picked 22 loads. It was tilled for about 10 years before been let out. A wheel barrow would do for the few stones that come out of it now. We picked that many stones off that cursed field that we lowered it. 12 acre field.
jf 850
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That's the worst of becoming middle-aged :rolleyes2:
We would have similar type stone here.
Knickam
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Must be nipping on there :Thumbp2::Thumbp2:
headcase
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who needs dd or mintill
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headcase
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Lost gps today:Whistle2:Auto steer needs a tweek there
These boats are built very close to here. The factory is about 100km from the sea and all are transported by road by special trailers. They’re a pain because they’re constantly blocking up the roads and followed by a herd of cops to boot!
I’ve no idea how many they build each year but there’s 6 and a half thousand people working there.
I could never figure out why they didn’t have a factory with direct access to the sea...
I’ve no idea how many they build each year but there’s 6 and a half thousand people working there.
I could never figure out why they didn’t have a factory with direct access to the sea...
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Word on the street is that invoice has been sent to Carlow. Soon to be seen moored near Kelly’s Resort @Bog Man
Mf240
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That's the worst of becoming middle-aged :rolleyes2:
We would have similar type stone here.
jay gatsby
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There is some shine off that beast. Is your father still horsing milk into her??
