jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Have to say, I love working on the bog. Atb j 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,740 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) 32 minutes ago, jetro said: Have to say, I love working on the bog. Atb j You sir, are mentally ill !! Lol I rope the kids in every year to turn, stack and get it home......and everyone bar none fecking hates it ! Lol I can’t face stacking it at home too, I just get it tipped in the shed off the trailer......but by f**k, I’m glad of it this time of year. Edited February 3, 2020 by WILF 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 13 minutes ago, WILF said: You sir, are mentally ill !! Lol I rope the kids in every year to turn, stack and get it home......and everyone bar none fecking hates it ! Lol I can’t face stacking it at home too, I just get it tipped in the shed off the trailer......but by f**k, I’m glad of it this time of year. I love it, out on the bog, first light. Slan sharpened, and sods up on the bank. Can't beat it. When I was taught to cut turf by hand it was learning experience that has stayed with me. Bog had to scrawed straight as a die, and cut clean and level. If you didn't do it right the first time, you certainly did the second time. It's mostly machines now that cut the turf. Not for much longer, going to be banned in two years. It's alright if it's in a shed, id still make a reek out of it though if it was me. Would work seven day a week on the bog, than one day with hay. Hated the bloody thing lol. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Probably a silly question, but do the cut turf in the UK. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 I remember when I was about 13,i got a job footing turf I loved it, if was only for a couple of weeks though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,740 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 11 minutes ago, jetro said: I love it, out on the bog, first light. Slan sharpened, and sods up on the bank. Can't beat it. When I was taught to cut turf by hand it was learning experience that has stayed with me. Bog had to scrawed straight as a die, and cut clean and level. If you didn't do it right the first time, you certainly did the second time. It's mostly machines now that cut the turf. Not for much longer, going to be banned in two years. It's alright if it's in a shed, id still make a reek out of it though if it was me. Would work seven day a week on the bog, than one day with hay. Hated the bloody thing lol. Atb j I have mine done by machine mate, lad up the road does mine. I think the ban is for the big users, power stations and commercial enterprises......I think the private user is still ok Be a pain in the arse if not because I had my oil stripped out when I moved here, I only use turf . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,740 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 11 minutes ago, jetro said: Probably a silly question, but do the cut turf in the UK. Atb j Not that I know of, you say turf to someone round my old area and think you mean the lawn ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 1 minute ago, WILF said: I have mine done by machine mate, lad up the road does mine. I think the ban is for the big users, power stations and commercial enterprises......I think the private user is still ok Be a pain in the arse if not because I had my oil stripped out when I moved here, I only use turf . I don't know whats happening. A lot of talk saying it's going to be an out right ban. A lot of people will be hit hard if it is. It all this bloody climate change nonsense. Turf burning has been there for God knows how long. My niece bulit a house last year, and she wasn't even about a chimney on it. No even a fake one. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 4 minutes ago, WILF said: Not that I know of, you say turf to someone round my old area and think you mean the lawn ! Strange that, considering all the moor land over there. Isn't funny how close the two countries are, yet so differant in a lot of ways. Atb j 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,740 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 1 minute ago, jetro said: I don't know whats happening. A lot of talk saying it's going to be an out right ban. A lot of people will be hit hard if it is. It all this bloody climate change nonsense. Turf burning has been there for God knows how long. My niece bulit a house last year, and she wasn't even about a chimney on it. No even a fake one. Atb j I own two bits of bog, the one I cut is two mile up the road. So my heating for the whole year is about 6 buckets of a digger and it gets moved 2 miles......and, all be it in a very long time, it will grow back ! To my mind that as environmentally friendly as it gets......nice drink for the politicians from some oil company there I bet ! I can’t see they will swallow a turf ban in the west of Ireland mate, everyone uses it.......that will go the same way as the water charges ! They can buy me a new heating system if they want me to stop, f**k em ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 You might like this Wilf. It's how turf was transported around here back in the day. Atb j 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,740 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, jetro said: Strange that, considering all the moor land over there. Isn't funny how close the two countries are, yet so differant in a lot of ways. Atb j Mate, in many ways we may as well be living in different centuries a million miles away. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 1 minute ago, WILF said: I own two bits of bog, the one I cut is two mile up the road. So my heating for the whole year is about 6 buckets of a digger and it gets moved 2 miles......and, all be it in a very long time, it will grow back ! To my mind that as environmentally friendly as it gets......nice drink for the politicians from some oil company there I bet ! I can’t see they will swallow a turf ban in the west of Ireland mate, everyone uses it.......that will go the same way as the water charges ! They can buy me a new heating system if they want me to stop, f**k em ! We have the biggest blank bog in Europe right here in the west. Turf cutting never had an impact on it. As you said it grows back. Yes it's all down to what money the government can make on you If you have to buy oil or coal, their happy. Their loosening a small fortune on the turf, and they know it. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 5 hours ago, WILF said: Not that I know of, you say turf to someone round my old area and think you mean the lawn ! Funny you should say that, mate. I was talking to a couple of lads in Las Vegas and they thought I was talking about gang territory! The evolution of language! 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 5,057 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 6 hours ago, jetro said: Probably a silly question, but do the cut turf in the UK. Atb j Called peat in Scotland.., turf is something else (turf) In more recent years I’d guess it was only cut on the islands, where it was more difficult/expensive to buy coal. Not sure of the legality of cutting it now but I know it’s frowned upon now as it’s a niche ecosystem and captures carbon etc. etc. Just as well our ancestors didn’t know that years ago or they’d have froze to death. https://youtu.be/sfzH_WTLulM 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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