Photos from my workplace

samn40 · Oct 23, 2012

Just took the camera with me yesterday when I was hedgecutting over here in Northern Ireland. We had heavy rain for two days (last monday and tuesday) so I am only just getting back into fields to cut, but not everyone will allow me on to their farm just yet. I managed to get on quite well on this 60 acre farm, but it has some scary steep gateways and fields...made a bit of a mess along the top of one steep field where cattle had sheltered last week, but the rest was OK. The gateway pictured is at the top of the steep field in the following pics, so you see it was time to tighten the nipper valve before going through it! We never get the fall colours you guys get, our leaves turn brown or just fall off!. You can see the mark of a gas mains pipe that went through a few years back in some of the fields...takes a long time to cure the damage! You may notice the lack of livestock, they are all housed until mid April at least...All except for the mare donkey and her twins..... Hope you enjoy....
Sam

Bruce from Can. · Oct 23, 2012

Hedgecutting! Never would have thought of that ever having to be done. We don't go in for hedge rows here, fence lines get over growen with trees. Almost no one pastures cattle in my neck of the woods, so fence rows are disapering via the excavator. Never to return. Intresting post, I would have thought law there would require livstock to have outdoor time every day. Bruce

samn40 · Oct 23, 2012

Too wet to let cattle out, Bruce. The hedges I am cutting are one years growth, After 3 years we have to saw them! A lot of work and expense, so I go chopping them down annually for about 85 farms. We are only allowed to cut from 1st Sept to last day of Feb...something to do with birds nesting. In the last pic you will see wheat stubble that is farmed by a BTO. He has his own hedgecutter but no time to use it, so 5 yrs later the hedges are overgrown and need to be sawed down. For that we use a circular saw blade on a 13 tonne track digger.
Sam

Dblair · Oct 23, 2012

beautiful place , thanks for showing it to us.

larry@stinescorners · Oct 23, 2012

very nice,, thanks for posting

Spook · Oct 23, 2012

Beautiful pics! One question, do you do this as a business or are you employed by the county or town? I"v thought about a hedgerow to divide my little fields.

samn40 · Oct 23, 2012

I do custom work for individual farmers. Quite a lot of hedgecutters over here as the hedges grow so fast.
Sam

Trac1 · Oct 23, 2012

Thought from seeing the 2nd photo you were maybe doing right of way cutting, but as I scrolled on down saw what was going on. Do any of the cutters over there use the Menzi Muck or a like machine. I've always thought something along that kind of work would be interesting.

Tony in Mass. · Oct 23, 2012

I heard that Irish American nnalert leave Massachusetts to retire in Ireland... didn't put any faith in it.....but I see 3 in you pasture right there...

Ultradog MN · Oct 23, 2012

Thank you Sam. Great photos and post.
I'm always glad to see and hear how folks live in other parts of the world.
Your tractor is a nice one. I suppose in this global economy that machine - or a close derivative - can be found mostly around the world.

JerryS · Oct 23, 2012

Is there a flat spot anywhere over there?

Wife and daughter are headed your way week after next for an Irish "holiday". Kinda wish I was going too. Beautiful country.

JMOR · Oct 23, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:59:24 10/23/12) Is there a flat spot anywhere over there?

Wife and daughter are headed your way week after next for an Irish "holiday". Kinda wish I was going too. Beautiful country.

robably not. The hedge rows are probably doing double duty as fences & erosion control.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 23, 2012

Well, just looking at the photos, I would have never guessed whee they were taken. Of course the hedgerows did indicate somewhere other than the States. Nice country, I enjoy seeing photos of other parts of the world. Thanks for posting.
A few years ago, one of my daughters worked for a plastics molding company, they had a subsidiary in Ireland, I can't remember which town. She had to make a couple of trips to that facility, and quite enjoyed her stay.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 23, 2012

Sam, just out of curiosity, is there any particular variety of plant used for the hedgerows?

samn40 · Oct 24, 2012

Hedges have a lot of natural plants in them, probably from seeds $h!t out of birds! Most are a mix of hawthorn, ash blackthorn,sycamore,holly,some oak, some willow and filled out with bramble. They make pretty good fences, but are sometimes reinforced with wire. We ocassionally get cattle breaking, especially if they have horns, then we face the hedge right in close to the old heavy wood and fix in some wire, usually sheep wire now as we have lots of sheep over here as there is a big market to the middle east for lamb.
Sam

samn40 · Oct 24, 2012

Never heard of a Menzi Muck....We mostly use British made machines....mainly McConnel, followed by Spearhead and then Bamford, McConnel is the best secondhand market, but all 3 companies are owned by Alamo, the car rental company! There are other makes out there, I would like to try a Kuhn but they are not proven yet and there is no secondhand market.I have seen side mounted cutters in America, but they are cumbersome looking and do look very unstable, even saw many tractors in salvage yards that had overturned! These rear 5 point mounted machines and even the 3 point mounted versions are real stable and manoeuverable, they cut right into the width of the tractor, which is useful on our narrow laneways.
Sam

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2012

(quoted from post at 00:42:46 10/24/12)we have lots of sheep over here as there is a big market to the middle east for lamb.
Sam

Nice pics..... It ain't any wonder them folks can't behave themselves :roll:
Do you folks that raise/sell them sheep and lambs ever eat them???
Is it an acquired taste, or is there a secret to makin em taste good???

SweetFeet · Oct 24, 2012

Samm,
I like your workplace much better than mine! I have four walls, a floor, a ceiling and a computer.

JDseller · Oct 24, 2012

Sam I have sold several of these Servis-Rhino boom mowers. They where used to mow around manure lagoons. This picture is of a model 1900 it has a 48 inch wide cutting head.

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