Lots of silage down your way and further south, I passed through your neighbourhood and further south today and there were hundreds of acres awaiting the harvester around Wellingtonbridge. Well off country down there I must say, more cows there than crows up here.
Lots of competition to pick up all that silage down there tooLots of silage down your way and further south, I passed through your neighbourhood and further south today and there were hundreds of acres awaiting the harvester around Wellingtonbridge. Well off country down there I must say, more cows there than crows up here.
Couldn’t see any in action but I’d say there’s plenty alright.
Lots of silage down your way and further south, I passed through your neighbourhood and further south today and there were hundreds of acres awaiting the harvester around Wellingtonbridge. Well off country down there I must say, more cows there than crows up here.
And the red boxes on wheels have just got fewer! Was dry but overcast in your area, raining in Wellingtonbridge, sunny in Waterford and damp in Kilkenny...too windy here to spray. Such a mix of weather...Local contractors are busy alright. You are spending a lot of time down this way lately
Cows are multiplying down there.
There are probably more young lads with little experience on the roads this year with secondary schools and colleges closed, on the W licence (the one that lets a16 yr old drive a tractor on the road) I thought he was limited in what he could drive until he did a W test and even if he passed the test had to show N plates for 2 years, great escape route for an insurance company in the event of a fatal accident a contractor using an untested 16 yr old could loose everything.
If a fella had a few hundred acres of silage to cut next week you’d get a really good deal, the acres picked up in the last 10 days are phenomenal, brother was talking to a large contractor west of here that picked up over 200 acres a day for the last 4 days in a row.
You'd have to wonder are they pushing the design of what started off as a single ram 10X6 past its safe limits, there's only so much oil reserve in the back of a 200hp tractor to push up a ram yet they are getting 26ft 3 axle extra deep trailers to tip, are they being engineered with the bare essentials of ram capacity as only so much oil is available so the rams are able to tip the load but structurally not well enough above the job, we are only on dry grass ATM and weight is down compared to what it would be if it was a difficult year weatherwise, Some trailers don't even have grease points on the ram pivots or don't get greased regularly with the obvious wear on pins. Get a driver that will chuck a load that isn't freely leaving the trailer after a bit of road travel and its a recipe for breaking a ram.
tony o mahony wasnt it?
Is it the weather that has everyone cutting earlier this year or what? My own contractor started with us Saturday 9 days ago and harvester has been out all but 2 days since. He's never picked so much this early. We still have half of ours to pit some day soon
the weather is one and that labour is plentiful as schools and colleges are out earlier this year due to the kung-flu. a good amount of contractors wait until the colleges have finished before going full steam ahead but they didnt have to do that this year
the reason that i assumed that is that colleges usually end at around the 20th may give or take a few days and usually the last week of may 1st week of june is when its typically the busiest hence my assumption
im not that bright sometimes. didnt think that far
They need a bigger field!
