Tag: Boylan Talks Farming
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Getting a fill up of hope from Longford’s finest
YouTube means many things to many people. Entertainment, education, a platform to promote themselves and/or their businesses. In my case, it’s probably a combination of all of the above. Except in my case, it is probably more therapy above all of possible uses listed up to now. Though even at that, it can be something…
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Workin’ on the Railroad – Harvest 2022
In this video, yours truly makes it 37 consecutive years with at least one day out Harvest Spotting. Here, the Castlefarm Partnership tackle a massive crop of wheat adjacent to Dunboyne Railway Station. Three generations of the Clarke family hard at it with a Claas Lexion 760TT, a Fendt 720, a Fendt 718, a Massey…
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Watch “Digging Early Crop Spuds – on wheels!” on YouTube
My first attempt at using a GoPro – well, a cheaper version of same, to be truthful – so please be kind! Here, you get a steering-eye view as I dig and wash two thirds of our Early Crop spuds. Sown on March 13th, harvested on July 14th, yielding 56 potatoes in total, with the…
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Wheelchair, Weeds And Different Types Of Work
Filming on location today. Waiting on new batteries for the wheelchair, but there’s still plenty of work to be done, both inside and out. Early crop spuds are nearly ready for harvesting, there are winter crops to go in and an ever increasing pile of weeds to be dealt with. On top of all that,…
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Upcycling A Calf Trough
To my utmost heartache, farming is off the agenda for the minute because I’m waiting on an upgrade to my wheelchair so can’t really venture too far. But with the weather half decent I want and need to be at something outdoors. Here’s step one. Power washing one of our calf feeding troughs as it…
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The unseen cost of Putin’s war relights my fire
What way do you view war? I don’t mean as in is it good or bad. Rather, what catches your attention first and/or holds onto it the longest. Not being old enough to remember the ins and outs of the original Gulf War in 1991, it was obvious oil was at the heart thereof. Aside…
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Snow ploughs at the ready…
There was a time, thankfully many moons ago now, that yours truly gave considerable consideration to seeing what the darker side of the tracks had to offer. No doubt a large cohort of people will be horrified by the mere thought. Now read on… Wheelchair or not, the desire to fit in with my peers…
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Sowing Early Crop Spuds
The first proper bit of outdoor work of 2022, two lots of early crop spuds gone in this week so far. Hopefully the first of a bagful of hands-on projects to come to fruition. Will they all happen? Who knows, but the day I can’t dream close the door and knock off the light on…
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Another job which can be done on wheels!
I added another piece of machinery to the fleet during the January sales and yesterday was my first time taking it for a test job. It will be a very useful bit of kit to have at hand. PS The duvet cover was only a means of keeping my legs dry – I haven’t gone…
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March Madness!
Seeing a combine at any time is never bad news but in March is highly unusual! A case of out with the old to make room for the new as the New Holland CX 8060 leaves Tara Farms, Dunboyne, for its new home in the hills of Donegal. A massive word of thanks to David…