A PUZZLING Discovery! How Did It get In That Very Spot? The Day Before The Ban

In this video we are battling to get the last of our slurry out the day before the ban comes in. We also find a very odd tool stuck in our dribble bar macerator! That one still has us puzzled....
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[@brendanbell8301]

ws it a left or right handed screwdriver 🤣🤣

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Love it 😂😂😂

[@JamesJohnson-ul9ox]

You can buy reversible ones now, just cost a bob or two more 👍

[@brendanbell8301]

@@JamesJohnson-ul9ox screw the last penny out of ya

[@paddymickiemickie8221]

@@JamesJohnson-ul9ox. Snap on have been making them for years

[@clairedowd3791]

​@@brendanbell8301😂

[@paulineheaney6945]

I always put up ur channel for my hubby, sadly he passed away 7th Sept suddenly, life has changed so much since he's not here anymore.. Rest in peace dear loved one. 😢

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I’m so sorry to hear that Pauline! Our sincere condolences. Can’t begin to imagine what your going through but will have you in our thoughts 😢

[@bernardcasey1500]

Rip 😢

[@TOPtee34]

In our thoughts and prayers

[@jrsf222]

So water and cow manure = slurry‼️ I’m old now and only had 9 years on the farm as a child in USA Idaho. I love watching your efficiently run farming experience‼️

[@eddiemcauley3112]

Well done on Radio one this morning. Great interview and you represent farming extremely well.

[@unaoconnor3628]

What time was that please?

[@eddiemcauley3112]

It was Morning Ireland I think after 9 am which was Oliver Callan. From memory around 9.30 ish

[@robert22801]

That’s a sparks screwdriver.. probably floating around in the slats. Copper grease is a great in the tanker

[@James_Smith715]

Adrian you shouldn’t feel the need to explain things a second time as you did with the screwdriver as I like many more wouldn’t question it for a second .Your honestly shines through in all your videos, it’s one of the main things that drew me here in the first place. Did you get much rain today up north as we are getting washed out of it here in Tralee

[@Dubhain82]

Listening to you on the radio right now. Just as good on the radio. Good stuff.

[@neutonrenda2303]

Always amazed by how much you do, and how easy you make it look.👍❤

[@ciaranconeely8579]

JCB 535-140. She is around 2014; She can lift 3.5 tonne at a distance of 14 metres. She's worth about €35,000.

[@kieranmcgroary5426]

Well Adrian, winter here, ground very wet great job to keep everything clean & Well oiled long night getting, great video, chat soon kieran from Laghey donegal town

[@noelcorroon9092]

The screwdriver has to be from the electrician or security camera lads you had on the farm a few years back

[@homey3051]

I agree it look like a electricians screwdriver with the plastic coating on the shaft

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Could of been but you think that it would of nearly been black sitting in slurry since then 🤔.

[@dyl5518]

I say u done it in your sleep 😂

[@jimgardner9044]

yep, it looks like it used to belong to a sparkey! yourse now.

[@radharcanna]

@@IFarmWeFarm ‘could have nearly’!

[@FlyingFergyMan]

Very enjoyable video again Adrian. It amazes me how these things end up in awkward places. Hydraulic oil and diesel is a good tip. 👍

[@sandymcghee3328]

Another great video Adrian you look after all your machines Adrian 👍👍👍

[@jeanetteblowen8315]

Lovely video again, Adrian. Thank you muchly. Take care. 😊

[@georgemorrison6689]

Good to see you honesty again Adrian, very enjoyable video, screw driver is a real mystery, things like that are always happening to me I can never work out how things like that happen either, have you started a weekday video I only look for you on Sundays, any way good luck to you and all the family

[@farmerslife2612]

That was great work with it all

[@donalfinn4205]

Well done!☘️👍

[@Gearoid35]

Your a great man for the maintenance well done

[@NerineTaylor]

Hi Adrian. I am an Aussie viewer with no background in farming but love your channel. Hooked on your hard working ethic, moral compass, honesty and candor. If you have a minute in your busy life could you explain the "ban" (or timeframe) on getting the slurry out. Why does the govt restrict when you can put out slurry??? Many thanks, Regards Nez

[@alanhall9114]

the screwdriver you did have a couple of englishmen on the farm the other week

[@robdixon945]

Thanks for the show Adrian, hope everyone is well 🍻🇦🇺

[@randybutler4772]

Wow Adrian! Strange to see the screwdriver as you say. Could it have been left in the collection pit wham it was built? ? Thank you for sharing.🐄

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Adrian that was strange finding a screwdriver in there 🤔🤣🤣👌

[@jimbyrne6761]

Farmer P has screwdrivers just like that one 😂

[@jimpolk]

Thats really weird.😅 Love how you maintain your equipment though. Good stuff

[@icryostorm3727]

looks like a sparkies screw driver - anyone doing wiring on poles near your cutting fields? good work on the preventative maintanance.

[@peadar7911]

Great vid 👍🏻

[@DaireFerry-y3x]

Nice to see they oil webs day video but won’t sleep eating on the next video

[@jamesjohnston1007]

Great video Adrian

[@earlepriest2544]

Got yourself a new screwdriver and it’s a hard wearing one 😂

[@amybr19x]

Always amazed by how much you do but fantastic video

[@everestyeti]

Your definitely a hard working man, a bit wierd that screwdriver being in that spot am surprised it was still in one piece and usable. Am sure that Noah has been out many times this year, definitely where I live in the UK have thought about changing my car for a hovercraft. 😂

[@michaelstaunton1632]

Always enjoy the videos on your channel keep up the good work 👍👍👍

[@colmmcfarland8148]

Dont worry we can hear u

[@patriciamccormack7626Teashee]

Thank you Adrian, that was so interesting 👍❤ as for the screwdriver, was it the wee leprechaun's😳 or Mr Nobody,🤔 he use to hang around our house when the kids were wee 😂🤣😂❤

[@MossbrookLims]

Spray outside of the tanker with used hydraulic oil/diesel. Keeps the paint good and prevents rust. She'll look like a new tank!

[@IanFaulkner-d4o]

Hi adrain. Great videos as usual. Why dont you put your double gate up where the wooden ranch fence is beside the round bales so your coming out onto the concrete yard instead of mucking up the lane

[@IFarmWeFarm]

That’s a very wet spot unfortunately, but a will do so in the future and add a gravel pass up the side on the hill just to make access a little easier

[@gerryoconnor8751]

I always grease my machines when I'm finished working them for the year Adrian. As you say, it keeps the water out and stops frost getting in. Its also a good idea to spray the whole machine with oil and diesel mix. I use 2 to 1 oil and diesel , it keeps it like new for next year.

[@gerryoconnor8751]

That's 2 of diesel and 1 of oil.

[@janetdupree6353]

That was quite a lot of 💩. I am glad that hitchhiking screw driver did no harm-so weird🙄

[@martinmorris8862]

I suppose it’s feasible it could have been sat somewhere and dislodged and I know the brand & does look discoloured They are a cheapish brand and usually come in sets. When a house brick can get sucked up and get stuck in the macerator then a screwdriver is a possibility. Definitely an odd find. Another great vid as always.

[@CB-xr1eg]

I have a suggestion as to who put it there, was it Phillips?🤔

[@mikeysky8917]

You are lucky. We still needed a good 100k Gallon to go out to make us safe till February. We will have to shutter a tank which will cost a fortune or pay someone to take it.🙁

[@barrykeogh1482]

Screwdriver has to be from the spark that wired the shed Adrian

[@IFarmWeFarm]

That could be, he’s not getting it back anyhow 😉

[@jamieleeprendergast5818]

What we do when sitting at winter is we open the massorator we fill with diesel n close it up again so it not rust n it perfect comeFebruary

[@liammcelhone5572]

On the JCB, not sure what the first 5 stands for, the 35 meant 3.5 ton weight limit and the 140 means 14 metre reach. It's construction spec. Most agri don't go higher than 7metre reach as far as I'm aware, though I could be wrong

[@retrorevolution6534]

Aye I think you're right there, I thought the 140 was maybe horsepower but apparantly it's 108hp (had to google out of curiosity tbh!). I've used a few telehandlers over the years myself, mainly loadalls but manitous and various different loaders on farms and I also worked for a skip hire company as a machine driver. They had a 535 on hire once for a week or so and I'm sure it was a 140 as it had the legs on the front, tripple extending boom with the ram on the top and massive back end and tbh, compared to the CAT TH62s that we used at the time it was as numb as!! Visibility was terrible and it was a gutless thing for shifting material about (soil and rubble mainly), Don't get me wrong though, it was just not the right machine for the job, god knows why they even hired it in the first place, it should have been pottering about on a building site lifting materials up to the second or third floor of a new build which is what they're made for and bloody good at too. A JCB 531 70 on the other hand, Which I spent a lot of time on, lovely machine, would give the old CATs a run for their money (though I would probably rather have a TH62 in all honesty) just loads more visability, way more nimble and manouverable and enough power to do the job. It would be way more suited to farm work for someone like Adrian compared to a 535. Another thing to add, the 531 I used to drive was a two lever instead of a joystick, never used to like them, hated it at first but once I got the hang of it, loved it, I probably like using them more than the loadalls with a joystick now! I would be interested to hear other people's opinions on that! The 5? I think is Telehandler/ type of machine, 4 are loading shovels I guess, 436, 435, 414 etc. Not sure about the rest.

[@liammcelhone5572]

@retrorevolution6534 drove a 531-70 and 526S at my last job. Good machines but wouldn't recommend to anyone. Not that there was anything wrong with them but these days if a shovel isn't hydrostatic, long term your just asking for transmission trouble. We had to strip the whole machine down and put a new transmission into the 531-70 at the last spot and she only had 5.5/6k hours on it. New spot im at has a 741 Class scorpion. Hydrostatic transmission takes a bit of getting used to but when you are they are just as easy worked. The construction spec shovels never have as much horse. No need for it. The 531-70 at my last spot was an agri super at 145 hp. Not sure what the 741 im working with now is but id say around the same. Easiest way to tell the difference between construction and agri spec is that agri never have more than 1 boom

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Never knew that, makes sense though when you break it down like that, 👌

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos 👍😊👍

[@mrvanahead]

Most of the times i grease up after im done using a machine, so it's ready to go the next time. And als before AND after cleaning it, like you said, to get the water out.

[@bryanbuckley9264]

Well Adrian on the bright side you're up a screwdriver 😂😂😂

[@peadarnugent3521]

Where is all the slurry that was spread with the last couple of weeks now .valuable nutrients washed into the rivers and sea .we had similar rain in Oct and Nov 2002 .I spread the slurry in December that year in excellent dry conditions .I also saw straw being baled just before Christmas .this crazy stuff about deadlines didn't exist back then .

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Very true Peadar, we had a dry December/January on by and could drive on any field but had to wait for the same reasoning . Was pouring by then. I’m not against the ban but common sense needs to be added

[@rossnolan2883]

True 😊😊😊

[@ciaranconeely8579]

How does the hydraulic oil and diesel stop things rusting ??., does it keep the water out or how does it work ??.

[@julianhawker7672]

Electricians driver and a quality one at that. Had any wiring done in your sheds ?

[@IFarmWeFarm]

No not in over 10 years, unless it belongs my cctv camera guy 🤔.

[@julianhawker7672]

@@IFarmWeFarm 15 euro pro driver, defo a tradesmans tool.

[@marketmalc]

On the positive side.... it's another screwdriver!! Is it any good?

[@StubbyPhillips]

Perhaps the screwdriver passed through a cow on the way into your macerator.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

She’d be well screwed if that’s the case 😉

[@AneyStokes771]

Any tea ned 😂

[@shelly2527]

Why do they ban when you can put your slurry out?

[@ronaldlucas5360]

That screwdriver is bizarre.

[@chrisoconnor5880]

Looks like an electricians screwdriver

[@Eamo-21]

Fairies working on the tank while you're asleep. They just forgot to bring their screwdriver with them.

[@michaelcusacksmith9565]

Michael Cusack Smith yes

[@paddy294]

The mystery of the screw driver. Cracking video as always

[@colmmcfarland8148]

Can I have lend off it🎉

[@charlesdoogan6285]

What about the t20 tractor

[@ericwatt1447]

Strange not even bent

[@douglasmorton6121]

Hi Adrian! Could you explain what a slurry ban is? I understand what slurry is for… by why would there be a ban on it at times? I use a form of slurry on quite a bit smaller scale on my lawn. (Rabbit turds steeped in 40 gallons of water like a tea). Let is steep for a week or so in an old pillow case, and you have a potent “Bunny Brew” to fertilize your lawn with. I spread it with the garbage barrel sitting in my tractor cart with a “T” pipe drilled with holes. I’ve never heard of a slurry ban on farms in the U.S.A., but I could be wrong. Love your channel!!! Thank you, and Stay Safe!!!

[@eileenoconnor7480]

slurry spreading and especially in spring when growth and weather conditions are typically favourable for utilising nutrients and limit run-off .

[@eileenoconnor7480]

Slurry is prohibited from being spread over the winter in Ireland so as to comply with the European Union’s Nitrates Directive. The aim is to protect ground and surface water, including drinking water. The regulations also prohibit such application at any time of the year when the ground is frozen, waterlogged or heavy rain is forecast

[@douglasmorton6121]

@@eileenoconnor7480 Thank you! I was naïve enough to wonder if it was because it attracted insects. Lol... And now I know. :)

[@eileenoconnor7480]

@@douglasmorton6121 👍

[@markh5433]

How far from Donamana are you? My cousin lives there.

[@welllads]

Well

[@PeggyStentzCasey]

I watch several farmers, Pemberton and Funky Farmer, and they all speak of the slurry ban after a certain date. Why is that? What is the purpose of only permitting slurry spreading at certain times?

[@MuddyPigg]

I think it's to protect the water supply from contamination from the slurry. Farmers have to be careful about how much they spread and where. Not within 10m of waterways or 50m for wells. Maybe October is traditionally a wet time in Ireland and it will give the ground time to soak it up before the rain hits?

[@chucklesx]

The main reason is to not spread nitrogen during the winter months when the plants are not growing so it doesn't get used and can leach in waterways

[@MuddyPigg]

@@chucklesx You said it better.

[@chucklesx]

​@@MuddyPigg... nothing wrong with your answer either 😊

[@IFarmWeFarm]

The other answers explained it well, it’s all to protect water quality which is a good thing. But we also need to do it when ground and weather conditions are suitable.

[@ericdineen4842]

Adrian you are correct about all the pressure lorraine done the same video its crazy best of luck

[@richardparkinson8651]

These slurry bans with changing weather patterns don't work

[@haggielady]

How do clean out the maserator to get the diesel out of the lines? Does transferring the slurry clean it out or do you use something else? That screwdriver being there is worrying to me. Can't see it being in the tank, like you said, it's too clean. I see the branches are up now in the shed. Hope they work as well as last year.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Diesel will evaporate away in a couple of months, the oil will dry up and never be noticed when it comes time to use it again next spring 👍

[@haggielady]

@@IFarmWeFarm Thank you.

[@michaelodonoghue7464]

Why is there a Ban on what a Farmer can do on his own property?

[@paulmurphy9317]

First

[@robmarshall5100]

You stuck it up from the slurry think it's an electrician screwdriver

[@ninjanana1272]

👍👍❤

[@gerrybrown]

You would be wrecked some days farming to be fair easy for mind to slip for even a minute

[@jameshussey4900]

Almost first

[@WhataTry]

How is Ireland allowed spray waste on land, surely injection is the safest option, unbelievable 🤯

[@jackoflaherty495]

7:32 you spelled minute wrong 🤣🤣🤣😂😂

[@IFarmWeFarm]

If you seen the place where I edited that you’d understand 🙈, it’ll do well 😂

[@jackoflaherty495]

@@IFarmWeFarm 🤣🤣🤣

[@greggroome2791]

👍👍🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@johnhayes4110]

2nd😅

[@neutonrenda2303]

The screwdriver is very suspect, would anyone not want you to spread the sludge? Someone had to have put it in there.😕

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Highly doubt it, just one of those things. No harm done anyhow thankfully

[@CB-xr1eg]

I'm blaming Worzel Gummidge from Scatterbrook Farm. Sounds like one of his tricks.

[@neutonrenda2303]

How skilled are your cows?😕

[@neutonrenda2303]

Seriously, I agree. No way of knowing now. 👍

[@FuckThisStupidHandleBullShit]

It looked like a sparky type driver to me very weird

[@RonanCollins-b2h]

Would a mirror in the cab of your tractor be useful? Just wondering if it would help prevent you having to look over your shoulder at whatever you have on the hitch.

[@ianhaggart1438]

was that Philips screwdriver?😅 . Slats can swallow a lot of things especially when things fall and bounce into them 😮🤨😁.. cracking vid glad you got your slurry done with.. stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@williammurphy3296]

Tom pemberton pulled half a brick out of his. And better I got a glow plug through my wheel threads an all on the inside and only had a very slow puncture

[@PVAglue-fi4kc]

You can spread soiled water up to the 1st of December. So don't panic

[@kevinmcg5496]

Great video as always suck a bit of diesel into the exhaust of the pump as well to keep the pump veins working

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Yes a great idea Kevin 👌

[@phil6465]

I use old oil, but for some reason thought it should be on suction!! 🙈🤣

[@mf-yz4qn]

Diesel not a gud idea. Just turn up de pump oil and let it flow into de pump and run pump while doen dis far better job.

[@paulmiller8886]

20 USD for that screwdriver.

[@michaelkeogh9238]

Your not emptying that stone trap right Adrian … dig up into the stone trap until u see a bit of slurry flowing then it’s empty

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I put the hand up it was clear Michael, when I took the bottom plate off at the beginning a lot of water ran out. I just edited it out to save time.

[@CB-xr1eg]

The fact that you had to hit the macerator cover with a hammer to open it, suggests that if someone had put the screwdriver in there, it must have been a while ago.

[@baxterboy23]

Screwdriver from the builders sorting the shed out maybe, dropped and flushed into the slurry tank somehow. It's definitely an electricians screwdriver.

[@Anderzander]

I just love the way you care for and maintain your equipment. It’s to be admired without a doubt.

[@johnlydon533]

Great video Adrian. Strange finding a screwdriver 🧐. Enjoyed watching. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@davidcroy3206]

Blame them two naughty England farmers you had visit lol

[@stephennutkin2477]

Screw driver mystery. Unless the screwdriver was lying somewhere else and dropped into its final position once you had finished spraying the only other alternative is sabotage. 🤔

[@oisinkierancoyle5518]

Maybe the screwdriver 🪛 was put into the masterator by a ghost 👻 or robotic lawnmower or machine.

[@shirleysousa1133]

I’m not a farmer but I was wondering why there is a cut of date to put slurry out

[@buff2497]

That’s how I fill my tractor tool box with those sort of finds🤣

[@phil2114]

Screwdriver left over from the manufacturer?

[@CB-xr1eg]

Pretty sure Adrian has had the macerator cover off before so he would have seen it.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Looks to fresh to be in there very long, that was fitted two years ago nearly now I think

[@john67654]

A big hello from Thurles

[@theblueknight5679]

Kiladangan winning senior