Picture from my tractor seat in Northern Ireland

samn40 · Jul 14, 2013

Some more pictures from last week when I was all over our area trimming hedges for the landowners.....
Irish longhorns grazing

Our local stream. The farmer who owns this section has turned it into a duck pond

complete with foot bridge...

some lammas grazing....

I had a hedge to trim behind a posh estate, the gardens are quite overgrown for privacy, but you can maybe get an idea of the class of estate it is from my view over the hedge!

some pics just looking out across the countryside....

jm. · Jul 14, 2013

Sam nice photos.. Is your hedge cutter head powered by the tractor hydraulics or do you have a tank and PTO operated pump. Do you know how many gallons per minute the head requires?

samn40 · Jul 14, 2013

The cutter is fitted with a piggy-back or tandem pump. the large main pump does something like 25 imperial gallons(gallon=8pints) per minute. This pump drives the 65horse power head motor through 1 inch hoses. The smaller pump runs the hydraulic rams through an electrically controlled spool block. The tank holds about 40 gallons and there is an electric, thermostatically controlled, fan on the oil cooler radiator.

AzPeapicker · Jul 14, 2013

I was wondering who has to clean up after cutting the hedge rows ? With all the clippings or do you just leave them to rot on the ground?

John in Arizona

samn40 · Jul 14, 2013

Not my problem....most people sweep up the debris some leave them to rot....best thing is a very fast articulated lorry (semi-trailer) It sure blows everything away!

fixerupper · Jul 14, 2013

Sam I always enjoy your pictures and narrations. Jim

JD John · Jul 14, 2013

Nice pictures sam. Is that longhorn fixin to take a bath or just thirsty! HaHa John

karl f · Jul 14, 2013

Looks like a beautiful place. I can see how Harry Ferguson got so severely homesick! (I just read "Tractor Pioneer.")

Karl f

Texasmark1 · Jul 14, 2013

Nice pics. Your Longhorns are quite a bit thicker bodied than ours
here in Texas. Coloring the same and horns, at least the one
broadside to us in the front center look the same.

Mark

Royse · Jul 14, 2013

Great pics again Sam, thanks for sharing!

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 15, 2013

Looks like a MF 4355 or one of the 6 pots, 4270?

Erik Ks farmer · Jul 15, 2013

I enjoy the pics Sam. Pretty neat to see how it's done around the world from my kitchen table.

Ultradog MN · Jul 15, 2013

Thanks you Sam.
Great photos.

8N'r--WI · Jul 15, 2013

Great Photos----been to the North of Ireland before, plan on going back in the next 5 years...

Great G.Father was from down by Cty.Cork, where were these pics taken..??

Thanks for sharing..

Tim

Tech 7 · Jul 15, 2013

Thanks for the pic Samn...Cattle are similar looking to what we call Shorthorns here (Canada). N. Ireland? Family left Larne during the Famine....We eat well and regularly now but don't live in an estate like in your photos. Keep them coming,I use them to fuel my desire to see the Emeald Isle firsthand sometime.

mb58 · Jul 15, 2013

Just curious. What is land selling for there? And what is the usual size of a "family farm"?

samn40 · Jul 15, 2013

Massey Ferguson 4270

samn40 · Jul 15, 2013

Farms are generaly under 100 acres but most of us rent land and farm around 300 acres. The fields are all small, average size is about 3 acres. A farm next door to me sold recently ....45 acres £500, 000.
Sam

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