Turf-Cutting and Stacking - Ireland - Same Action!

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Great video, thanks for filming it and uploading..

[@balmesh]

Thank you very much.

[@Nwmike97]

Very good and interesting video,Alan!!!

[@brownecontractor]

Great video. Their called 'sausgage machines' because the turf takes the bended shape of a sausage after the machine.

[@fukinwhurinjasussake]

Nice video, that turf looks a bit brown in parts, the blacker the better because black turf give out more heat.

[@MrRichie185]

I'm from sligo, not sure where that's done but the sausage method actually damaged a lot a banks- water actually lies in the slots and turf banks become uneven. The hopper machine is a better method.

[@balmesh]

Thanks for writing. This was Co. Roscommon and previous workings don't appear to have done any damage?

[@ferguson20diesel49]

I'm Roscommon aswell.never seen a yoke like that before.

[@jordankeeps]

Wow never ever seen that before! Thanks alan for explaining what it was. 3 wheels! Rare to see that! Looks like u need to check out a lot of vids recommended in the comments haha

[@balmesh]

Thank you Martin. Thought you might approve the change to Same!

[@aidankeogh8426]

Good man often done this myself in Longford

[@balmesh]

I have never seen triple wheels before, either. Must be quite a load - perhaps that's why they use Fiats?

[@georgedoorley5628]

triple is for very soft bogs , also any sinking at all would allow the water to lie and the turf would never dry , ......sank a same explorer 90 in a bog bringing out dry turf one day , had to get out the back window as could not open the doors !!!!!! pulled it out with a track digger , brought the rest of the plot out in a wheel barrow !!!!!!....with single wheel !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@balmesh]

Thanks very much

[@balmesh]

I was planning to, but they won't be wildly popular so they go down the list a bit!

[@urbansnipe]

when i was about 10 i went to see my relatives in ireland around Port Laoise and when i wasnt on my great aunts chicken farm collecting eggs i was turning turf "down at the bog" by hand to help it dry faster :D (SUPER HARD WORK) the stuff is super heavy when its still wet and i remember having a massive nose bleed from the straining and having to use my uncles t shirt to stop the blood getting all over his car on the way home. this stuff is great it burns for hours and burns hot. the best part is the trailers used to be stacked so high when they transported it that bricks of turf used to simply fall off with a simple jolt in the road so just walking along the road you could gather enough turf to keep your home warm for quite a while basically free heating :D

[@balmesh]

Thanks for all that - fascinating!

[@balmesh]

Thanks Mike.

[@balmesh]

Yes, we all have some learning to do, I learnt a lot.

[@MrT79shakeshake]

Just pulling you up on your terminology they're called 'Footings' but no doubt the accent of the guy was the cause confusion. Great video, nice to see you filming something a bit different.

[@balmesh]

The machine has a digger (like a mini drainage digger) that pulls up peat from the ground and a cross-auger takes it to the extruding part which you can see.

[@shelleywilson8476]

What is peat?

[@shelleywilson8476]

Is it like mud?

[@AgriSpec4370]

if u ask me i wish we had never discovered that turf burns because every year we have to go up the bog, break our backs and get bit by flies but good vid.

[@Monopodmansdad]

Hi Alan. Interesting video. Never seen anything like this. The wheel arrangement on the tractor was the same as those doing the moorland restoration in the Pennines. I wonder if the bearings can take a triple wheel? regards Mark

[@balmesh]

Well and busy, thank you. Rain forecast so maybe I'll be able to relax a bit?

[@balmesh]

Sounds like double care is needed - plus a back-up?

[@07lthorne]

Ahh right, I was just wondering really. Don't feel you need to put them on if you weren't planning to :)

[@Martin-Coleman]

lovely same there !!!

[@07lthorne]

Nice video there. Will you be uploading the process that happens after this? It's just I've been quite curious :)

[@edgey8D]

ive never seen anything like this before.... is it getting a few inches of the clay from the pan and bringing it to the surface? if not can you explain what is happening and why??? very interesting though.

[@chris10001z]

I live in co fermanagh which is not that far down the road from co sligo

[@kroneharvester]

What's the point of this cutting?? Always been wandering what you do it for?? Thanks

[@balmesh]

They do it for fuel - it burns like a soft coal.

[@RayzerSharpe]

+kroneharvester . As balmesh says its for heating. And for those on about renewable you have a point but you gotta relaise that a person can spend €500 or less and have heating for the year. Thats the reason its kept up because its cheaper. By the way the turf at the bottom of some bog (10-15ft down) can rival coal.. This guy is cutting off the top layers ans these type don't tend to be as good unless they are in a low bog...

[@rickz7657]

whole new meaning to " cranking a loaf "

[@balmesh]

After this it's largely manual, but I have some clips of it.

[@balmesh]

The turf is burnt for heat. It's cheaper than coal and there's very little coal in Ireland, anyway. Double wheels stop the tractor from sinking out of sight - that surely is obvious?

[@heyheyguesswho]

So 'turf' is peat? In Australia turf is grass.

[@balmesh]

Turf is peat in Ireland. (Only)

[@scottishwildwanderer8335]

Scotland too

[@InternationalOperators]

Whats surf and turf?

[@ceannscriteach81]

International Operators a bog by the shore

[@mrdguinan]

i have some truf videos. round my area they cut it differently. if i find them i'll put them up

[@balmesh]

Yes, we were told the same.

[@balmesh]

The driver was unwilling to appear so I had to be careful. But thanks, because I now watched it again and realised I'd got mixed up and this is the Same one! Sorry.

[@harerimanainnocent7940]

how we can get those tractors,,,,???

[@balmesh]

D.I.Y.

[@tomjdpick9931]

what id the point in this and what is the poing of the double wheels

[@balmesh]

I have no idea - perhaps someone else can help?

[@Agri957]

what is he do?? why??

[@ernststeenberg7226]

It is basically clay....how can it burn?

[@balmesh]

It's not clay. Peat! Organic matter

[@balmesh]

Most probably!

[@balmesh]

Oh, I thought it was the way they squirted out!

[@balmesh]

Yes, do that.

[@Georgeconna32]

Hopefully this practice will end soon...

[@balmesh]

And put a lot of harmless country folk without fuel? No, I don't hope it at all.

[@ktoszkads]

what is that ?! O.o

[@balmesh]

I'll try but I have a mountain of mail first!

[@DanielSantos-lf5ql]

¿Eso para que es?

[@balmesh]

For fuel.

[@conordelaney1746]

lads turf is the best fireing u could ever get especially black turf it will burn for ages wen we draw our turf i sit on trailer with full load of turf on it

[@balmesh]

Sounds good!

[@chris10001z]

sligo your not that far down the road

[@balmesh]

Bit of real work do you good!

[@fiatmad]

wheres the fiats, i beleave i was promised fiat action in title... tut tut watched the hole thing 4 nutin

[@fionnbarrboggs6204]

This is sausage only not round turf hopper the best

[@balmesh]

Look it up on Google.

[@mrz6393]

They destroy the bog

[@balmesh]

Maybe but it's better than shivering through the Winter!

[@mrz6393]

@@balmesh buy a chainsaw

[@01Autentic]

Talmesh- balmesh.

[@balmesh]

Down the swanee with all the other doddering old git's mistakes! My other turf video has a Fiat (one of Martin's friends) but this has the Same. Explorer. 95? Have to be careful with these because of the big brothers looking over the hedge.

[@stro1962]

Very interesting video Alan. Never seen that done. Check my new one Alan,you'll like it. Hendrik

[@thomasfinucane9442]

Machine destroyed bogs

[@balmesh]

Cheers!