Remembering the big freeze - one year on

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Indeed. Hay/straw is a lot of work too. I suppose I'd rather do turkeys than that. Lifting heavy things and carting them about would be fairly low down on my list of enjoyable things.

I just push stuff around with a tractor. Not as accurate but much easier.
Anyway, gritting machines are out? We don't bother with that till there's about 4 foot of snow. Interesting.

[Cruimh]

I just push stuff around with a tractor. Not as accurate but much easier.
Anyway, gritting machines are out? We don't bother with that till there's about 4 foot of snow. Interesting.

Dairy farming is the real thing.

[Tedkins]

I just push stuff around with a tractor. Not as accurate but much easier.
Anyway, gritting machines are out? We don't bother with that till there's about 4 foot of snow. Interesting.

If only I got to do that. No. I have to lift bales and then walk and put them on a trailer. If I'm really lucky then I get to be on the trailer and lift things and walk about and stack them. At least the weather is normally good though.

Yeah, they were out in Belfast. They must have got word from the Met Office that we were in for a snowy/frosty night. They tend to be proactive rather than reactive, up here anyway.

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We don't bother with the proactive stuff. Forecasters are totally useless anyway.
Last year you'd need a bulldozer to drive on the motorways even.

[Tedkins]

Our motorways were fine. A and B roads generally ok too. My parents road was nuts though, not that it stopped me! My heart sinks when I hear people phoning in for "snow days" actually, feel like grabbing them by the collars and lecturing them on Magheragall.