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[@michaelcollins1552]

The crowbar was a pin on a hay stack lifter back in the day

[@merrilynwalker1935]

“Brought the kitchen sink but I forgot the taps.” Love it Adrian. 🤣😂. I hope the weather is kind to you this year. ❤️ from the land of Oz.

[@scottsorby7966]

What a fantastic expression, I brought the kitchen sink but forgot the taps, another great video Thanks Adrian

[@James_Smith715]

This channel is awesome, down to earth everyday jobs and struggles that’s very enjoyable to watch. I like the fact you don’t be asking for likes or subs in return either. How many heifer calves did you have this year Adrain ?

[@IFarmWeFarm]

21 heifer calves this year James, only keeping around 15 👍

[@michaelodonoghue7464]

Fencing Pliers always remind Me of My Father, because he had the same set for as long as I can remember.

[@PVAglue-fi4kc]

Good crop of Irish sun flowers (dandelion) in the field Adrian . Cows eat them to the clay. They're high in calcium and may lower cell counts due to antimicrobial properties. Bees feed off them as they are one of the first plants to flower in the year. The best sort of multi species sward.

[@AD-hs2bq]

You are prepared for anything, it seems. 👍your farmlands are beautiful.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

It only looks that way on camera lad, I’m as vulnerable as anyone else. Yes we’re blessed with this country side 👍

[@forexguy]

You are a 'work-horse'. Not a lazy bone in your body. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

[@ZipperHead76]

Great panoramic view of the hills of Ireland. Even in overcast it is beautiful. 15:42

[@gregphillips24]

Having lived in Germany for a few years with the british military I enjoyed that little play on words.The wire has been tightened to german standard Goodantight.

[@freogael6557]

Great video, Adrian. It's an auld buck rake tine. I remember the neighbour lifting the corn ricks with one of these.

[@keithmckenna7447]

Handy use of a spike off a haystack lifter. Nice video Adrian 👏🏻

[@AndrewBrown-pn1do]

We make our tape Gates with about 50cm (doubled) electric bungie cord and the rest with 40mm tape. Cattle can see the gate and the bungie helps to protect the spring in the handle.

[@paulineheaney6945]

Another great video Adrian, i enjoyed the craic about the crowbar question.. it kept them going. My God be careful on the quads.. too many fatalities of late, it worries me..😢😢 cheers from Omagh

[@marctunney3743]

Wow the energy you have real paddy

[@rickywest57]

All round jobs that need doing 👍🏻. Till the next one I watch you then

[@adinacatalinaoprea5015]

Hello, Adrian! I like you chanel and all contents❤ Keep going 😘

[@sandymcghee3328]

Another great video Adrian 👍👍

[@tomboland7497]

for moving trams of hay backed under a few in a massey 35 back in the day

[@padraiggeaney3167]

Brilliant video adrian a quad is invaluable when u have one 👍👍👍

[@stephenross1581]

That’s a cracking little tool you have for putting the electric fence wire holders into the post with, first time I have seen one of them. Posts normally crack like that when they have been to dry before treatment 👍🏻

[@ronaldlucas5360]

I always enjoy your videos 👌

[@jeffreygeorge3942]

Patterson buckrake Tyne ,still use ours 55 yrs later after I bent the buckrake frame .Can remember a late wet spring 1981 ,didn’t do 1st cut until June that year (two cuts in one)

[@stephenscott4107]

Adrian why don’t you cut the ivy at the bottom of trees I know it’s time consuming, but it’ll benefit the tree long term. Keep up your good work. Well done.

[@johnlydon533]

Great video Adrian. Enjoyed watching. 👍🏼

[@christymarlow9539]

That's what the slurry does grows docks

[@homey3051]

This is where a mobile 5 gallon bucket tool organizer comes in handy, where you grab one bucket with all the basic tools one would use on daily farm work You have your shop tools and a mobile tool kit ready to go, drop in your Dewalt and some battery's and away you go

[@O_K_Agri_Videos]

Great video Adrian.Great sight to see the cattle out

[@samuelrobinson9012]

Ye need Evenflow up the road to show ye how to drive a post..lol. The crowbar is from an old 5 prong rick lifter.. sadly im old now and remember.😅

[@john67654]

That Famous bar Adrian was used for A tram lifter

[@JACK11168]

Great video

[@SEPK09]

Beautiful landscape.

[@randybutler4772]

Such a beautiful place to work. Good explanation of fencing practices. We are having wet weather on this side of the pond too. Forecast for rain all week here on Eastern Seaboard. Thank you for sharing.🐄

[@elwynphillips3327]

Great video,your bar for making holes for posts,I would guess (a tine of a bug rake ).

[@matthewbohan6304]

German torque 🤣🤣👌👌 class

[@bernardcasey1500]

Great job 👏 and great video as always 👍

[@caffrey9762]

Nice Crowbar for this weather 😂. I had ta fire my Sledge from most post driving jobs, 9 times out a 10, post is 💩 after it. Good manual post pounder, with flat smooth bottom, so can use both ends 👌

[@Adrian-tj6ye]

Ya wouldn’t want evenflow driving them stakes 😂👍

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Must ask him up, cottage to match and all 😂

[@Johndonvan861]

Hi Adrian it's not that ivy makes the tree top heavy , it smothers the tree it can't get leafing then it can't take in feed so it does

[@haggielady]

I retracked my question since you already answered it! Should have read the comments first. You can send the rain to Central Florida, please. We're still in a drought.

[@annmcwilliams1230]

Copper nails nailed into the roots of ivy kills it some one gardening in France swore by it. No proof of it myself but maybe worth a shot.

[@AdrianWalsh-es1st]

Hearing of haystacks makes you feel old

[@patrickcormack7637]

Great video. The crowd bars a great tool to have in she's. We have 2 long and short bars. My father got them 50 our more years ago of my grant aints

[@paddy294]

Cracking video as always. Did you change your quad

[@edwardoutthere3189]

Great stuff Adrian, where you get grips on front of quad

[@Gearoid35]

Good video Adrian hope weather picks up

[@everestyeti]

The weather is definitely doing mad things, in Scotland they have a shortage parts of England that nearly always have a dry March have had twice there annual rain fall. Like you say the camera doesn't really show us, from our end the grass looks green and lush all over the farms. 👍

[@jamesjohnston1007]

Great video Adrian place looking great

[@martinmccormack4784]

Would u ever do a farm tour

[@churchparkfarm3178]

As the ould fella would say the tine of a buckrake

[@earlepriest2544]

Would it not pay to mole drain the other fields. We used to do the fields every few yrs and it was very heavy clay soil and we were able to get on the land with a slurry tanker in winter time so it does help. Just a thought

[@patsykeown9057]

That's a tooth out of an old old buckrake. I have one myself. Great crowbar.

[@rhona5823]

A cock lifter pin for lifting cocks of hay years ago. We use one ourselves here for fencing as well.

[@finbarrhegarty3802]

Cut the ivy around the tree it helps 👍

[@kierancooney5663]

A good auld cock lifter pin which has 5 pins great for drawing in the square bales of hay and then was the gathering the bushes of a hedge that was cut no wonder the pins got bent . Very hard to see one now adays . Manys time i tried to straighted them before my father would see it as you'd get a good telling off. They were the days .😂

[@IFarmWeFarm]

They’re fierce hard to bend, I’ve a neighbour still uses them lifters as he’s full old school with cocks of hay and even a trasher. Might give do a video on it one day

[@Farmer_scoobs]

The work load starts building up every year at the same time 😂 great video

[@greggroome2791]

It's off a Book Rick

[@terrytipperarythwaite112]

Sure an old pike lifter tine will come handy for lots of jobs, if ye know ye know !!

[@shanemcguire5885]

Get a fence mallet won't bust posts like the sledge u use

[@wendyrowland7787]

You can do something about the ivy. Cut the stems near the base and the ivy up the trees will die and in time fall off as it dies. We had some stems so big they made good firewood which produced interestingly,h. a blue flame. Having done this, no further trees on our farm were felled by the winter storms.

[@wendyrowland7787]

Oh, forgot the crowbar was a tine from a buckrake.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

We do that regularly but it’s impossible to do them all as there’s so many and access can be difficult. Unfortunately though it comes back extremely quickly

[@karolschulz48]

Adrian I just love to watch your channel , it is so inviting. What days do you publish? Oh yea, you are the neatest farmer I have ever seen. I would love to come to Ireland to see the farms and scenery it looks so beautiful.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Thank you Karol Every Sunday morning and the odd mid week if I get time 👍

[@thatsme218]

Well another great video. Is your crow bar a tine off an old hay rick lifter.

[@patrickjordan7670]

That's a tooth of a buck rake I learn how to drive on the little great ferguson I remember drawing in hay with the buckracke after school I was about 14 or 15 years old I used to go round topping with the finger bar mower I remember my father saying I was doing it two cheep so I uped the price the following year I could go on and on but when I realised how much money I could make I went to England at 17 and the rest is history

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

Great video 😁👍👍

[@michaelminers2612]

Crikey that made me jump when you sped up the chainsaw bit 😂

[@kevingovier5090]

Another interesting video Adrian, thinking there must be few of us using old buck rake tines 40/50 yrs back, dame shame all this wet weather for dairy farmers, good chuckle about the sink 😂 wondering if you might see funky farmer? He’s going over to Ireland to bring back some more rain for us in uk 🤪 🍻

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Ya I think there going to the ploughing, Farmer p did pm me about meeting up and I hope we do so. I normally only go to the ploughing every third year or so but I’ll have 2 pints of Guinness ready for them in our local if they stop by

[@paulroche1487]

Buck rack tooth from Paul Roche

[@gerryryan2142]

Hi, use forefront t for the docks. If it's only docks your trying to kill, a bottle will do 5 acres. If you are trying to kill a cocktail of weeds then a bottle will only do 2.5 acres.

[@hughcarrigan7824]

Expensive but without doubt its the best product on the market

[@gerryryan2142]

@hughcarrigan7824 true, but for a few years we were told to use a bottle for 2.5 acres. At least when a bottle does 5 acres of docks its not that expensive. Probably cheaper than any of them as you get a few years from it

[@hughcarrigan7824]

Fair point its does a great job and at least its very effective and repeat spraying is not required.

[@LTeppler]

Goodness do I hear you about being behind. The rain and hail ruined my plans.

[@iangrennan2677]

What have you got for holding the stakes on front of the quad. Where could I get them

[@aaronsmyth53]

I see you already have same problem as me a lovely sea of wild flowers IE dreaded dandelion what an awful weed. Nice to see a farmer we can relate to who still can use a sledge and a crow bar good man another enjoyable video from you Adrian

[@kieranosullivan02]

Heap of dandelions in a couple fields round here too

[@aaronsmyth53]

@@kieranosullivan02 I have used product called thrust does five acres per bottle. Apply when their out in bloom

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Very dry sandy ground that, dandelions seem to love it.

[@aaronsmyth53]

@@IFarmWeFarm I guess we could say we are doing our bit for the the environment and leave it to the bees. My dad says to me one day that's how you get that nice spread easy butter

[@farmerslife2612]

That's serious Green Grass

[@farmerjack5324]

Great video as always Adrian. sad to see the land so wet coming into may. what's your thoughts about liquid fertiliser including the stuff from digesters.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Don’t know anything about it in short lad, Gerry6420 Channel uses it now to following to see what he thinks of it

[@themayorofdipshittery3646]

Get that sledge hammer thrown into the retirement bin at the back of the workshop. Not the job it’s meant for. We always used a “Stab Mell” big flat faced hammer, ideal for the job, either that or a proper post knocker.

[@paulf2529]

Agree, the wider head doesn't split the posts. My one has a cast-iron head and takes a normal pickaxe handle I think it is about 14lbs.

[@themayorofdipshittery3646]

@@paulf2529 that’s the very chap for the job, sorts the men from the boys on a days fencing 😳

[@davidcummins1108]

Was going to say the same lads. Ditch the sledge hammer Adrian! Does more harm than good splitting posts. A post knocker / driver the only job for driving 3-4 inch diameter posts.

[@MuddyPigg]

The thumbnail makes him look like he's been made the king of Ireland, pulling a sword out of the ground. I mean, the English got one out a lake so in a field isn't that much of a stretch.

[@markfenner7005]

I think that tool you use as a crow bar is a tine of an old buck rake. I myself have a steering column off a old lorry for a crow bar Adrain I am sorry to say this but sledges are for smashing things. The top of the post would be less damage with a post thumper

[@raybrady964]

👍

[@Massey5400]

If you cut the ivy off at the bottom of the tree it dies off and stops the tree from Being so top heavy.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Yes we do that regularly but it always comes back, it’s a never ending task unfortunately

[@Massey5400]

Great to see all the videos you make and the great content looking forward to the next one 👍

[@tipperarymick5337]

It has been a hell of a difficult spring all round. Grazing conditions are terrible, and the tillage boys are having a hell of a time getting planting or spraying done! That's a very handy tool for driving the insulators, haven't seen one of those before.

[@terrytipperarythwaite112]

If ye get the box of insulators inside in Tipperary Coop the tool is inside the box

[@tipperarymick5337]

@@terrytipperarythwaite112 Thanks, never knew that. Usually buy the bags of them 👍

[@greenacres1086]

@@tipperarymick5337 you can also buy one of them on their own without the insulators . they are available in different brands. thats an ako brand he is using

[@joanbaker3710]

Not being from Ireland can someone tell me what is the weed that is coming up in the fields please? Ive never heard of the name he is calling it.

[@andrewdougal2262]

What are you doing about the cottage not seen any videos lately 😕

[@jimmy.....9446]

Way behind l know the feeling 🙈🙈

[@Workshop-of-Allsorts]

@canningfarms used the clipex post system, id say its an expensive fence but long term id say it would pay... quick way of splitting ground. Wooden Posts nowadays are pure 💩

[@johncooney9332]

It took a few minutes to remember where the crowbar came from. It's off an old cocklifter 😊

[@Aulanefarmkerry]

where did u purchase the clamps for the front off your quad Adrain ? There a savage job for fencing pegs

[@eddieglasgow6055]

Hi Adrian, is the spike off a Buck rake ? I remember we had one when I was a young lad many years ago

[@garethbryson]

is that a long bar off a hay hut lifter??

[@andrewcolbourne5124]

The crowbar is off an old buckrake

[@barrytipton1179]

Hope you left gate open to dry field out better

[@donnaml8776]

lol 😜 I was thinking the same thing, lol.

[@jamesbartley3106]

Should leave meal bin for calves in paddock besides where they are

[@dylangriffin3539]

Can you do a video of you teaching Nicole how to drive the 54

[@willyfindlay4398]

Great stuff as usual. I think you need a mal or Mel fencing hammer.😊

[@tadhgobrien7786]

What spray do you use for the docs

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Dockstar pro usually lad

[@vernonlloyd1388]

Is that bungee string You used got electric running through it ?

[@welllads]

Well

[@claetuswoodroofe1854]

Those brittle posts won’t shatter if you use the 2 handled post thumper or the (Sam Maguire) we call it or man killer.. The last of the good posts

[@gerrybroderick233]

Good video Adrian. How do you monitor the heifers bulling in shed?

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I check them twice a day and also have a camera above them so it works a treat

[@shaneprior]

Great stuff Adrian, your crowbar, is the pin of a buckrake, it was hard to find a straight one, keep at her Lad!

[@wildcat22]

Buckrake spike.

[@jerryfields4837]

dont catch an electric fence with your hand like that Adrian, its better to touch it with the back of your hand when checking, that way if it was on your hand wont clasp shut on it