Short video on cutting Turf in the midlands of Ireland. This is something I have done since I was a young boy growing up. I hope you enjoy and like it.
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@paulbergin80513 жыл бұрын
42 years old, on the bog as child at the age of 6, looking at my father and grandfather footing turf, so this year was 36 years on the bog, and please god 2021 will be 37 years, great video pal, from a true bog man from Co. Laois. 👍👍👍
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Ha Ha very good . You know the saying "You can take the man outa the bog but you cant take the bog outa the man" I look forward to next cut too.
@creekyknee8 ай бұрын
Please God..... you will cop yourself on and stop reminiscing about things that were not as rosy as your rose-tinted glasses trick you into believing. Our peat bogs need to be preserved not cut and burned.
@jopjop55332 жыл бұрын
Even Eamonn Ryan and the friends of the irish environment would appreciate this quality production.keep cutting show the clowns that ireland belongs to the people not to a bunch of economic terrorists trying to create hardship.
@andreweganphotography81562 жыл бұрын
Thank you I'm glad you liked it.
@creekyknee8 ай бұрын
Shut up you Muppet.
@lenoardcurry9703 жыл бұрын
It looks easy ,but it’s hard work , and like all harvest work you need good dry weather , or it’s twice as hard work , Leonard
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more Lenoard
@charlesharrison22484 жыл бұрын
Great videos ,well done on the drone footage,it looks like an island of virgin bog surrounded by commercial peat cutting, bord na mona,good to see the Massey drawing it home in bags,a dying tradition,yet it was a brilliant source of fuel,and when cut by hand ,it was just another task for rural families, hard work,but immense satisfaction for the man who could provide heating for the winter,now they want to ban it,whatcha shame,.
@andreweganphotography81564 жыл бұрын
Thank you Charles glad you liked it
@eointrill48582 жыл бұрын
Theyll never be able to stop it,if they try it wel hammer them at the ballot boxes next election.
@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын
@@eointrill4858 let the hammering begin... They have stopped it!!!!
@mary047photoblue4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that,It reminds of a time when I used to be a slave slogging it out on Carntogher mountain west of maghera,Sometimes I think If my back was up to it maybe maybe
@andreweganphotography81564 жыл бұрын
Thank you and your welcome
@richarddavis7124 Жыл бұрын
I just showed my first year Geography class this, they couldnt believe people footed all that turf.
@Kt-ro2fm4 жыл бұрын
Can't beat the bog for a good night's sleep 😉
@andreweganphotography81564 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more
@lareynadeluniverso5 жыл бұрын
Very good work if you have to clean some fields so you can grow new plantations.
@johnlawler1626 Жыл бұрын
Great video thanks for sharing 👍
@gustavthemagician3 жыл бұрын
Nice one. I lived in Shannonbridge for years and know that area well.
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Thanks Good to hear
@Treeman1963 жыл бұрын
My dad came from sligo he worked in the bogs in the 1930s at a place called edenderry he used to tell me about the hard work and very poor accomodation hard days for men then
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Very different times. The old slaine would be used and I know all about using it. Thanks for your comment
@hubertcharles65512 ай бұрын
Moi petit français de 71 ans qui sillonne l’Irlande depuis plus de 40 ans, je ne pourrais imaginer ce pays et ses habitants sans ce délicieux parfum de fumée de tourbe qui brule . . . Mais hélas comme toutes les énergies fossiles, cela libère aussi beaucoup de CO2 dans l’atmosphère . . .
@jam21903 жыл бұрын
Firewood? That is what is used for firewood? Seems to work rather well, I suppose
@dalyr323 жыл бұрын
Great video, only people that have to rely on the bog and understand the bog will appreciate it unfortunately green propaganda nowadays is destroying a way of life,and indigenous industries.
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that and I agree
@rickwestom58044 жыл бұрын
I have a friend in Ireland that her husband cuts turf for their home needs now the Irish gov wants them to switch to gas or coal more expensive
@COIcultist3 жыл бұрын
They banned bituminous coal too.
@kevinmcsweeney65602 жыл бұрын
Yeah that is the Irish government, the guy that made this decision is usually asleep at the time, his name is O Riardan and comes from a money community
@estebancorral51517 ай бұрын
Grass grows in Eire therefore produce biomethane from the grass.
@hubertcharles65512 ай бұрын
@@estebancorral5151Et vous croyez que le bio méthane est plus vertueux ?
@estebancorral51512 ай бұрын
@@hubertcharles6551 I do not ascribe the attribute of virtue to inanimate substance, but only towards living beings. Man is being virtuous when he burns biomethane instead of a fossil fuel like peat which took many years to create. Biomethane only takes 40 days to create, and it burns much cleaner than peat. As a literate francophone, and because you have broached the subject of virtue, you should read about Jean Baptiste de la Salle. His mind elevated the Kingdom of France, and illuminated the thought of mankind,
@lazycarper79254 жыл бұрын
hello, im moving to co mayo, next year, do people sell small peat bogs?, so i can dig my own?
@andreweganphotography81564 жыл бұрын
You might be able to rent a plot but I doubt you be able to buy one.
@adamlaw26453 жыл бұрын
Why would you want to propagate the destruction of an ecosystem?
@lazycarper79253 жыл бұрын
@@adamlaw2645 you will have used more bad stuff concreat, co2 , energy etc, living in your modern home and typing on your latest gizmo,while eating your plastic wrapped meal, than a small old irish cottage made from stuff locally, thatch ,stone etc, digging a bit of turf for his winter,
@adamlaw26453 жыл бұрын
@@lazycarper7925 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pc1_m6qdyLC3pYU.html A good proportion of the animals, plants and insects you see in this video will be gone in the next 30 years if nothing is done. Once you drain an area of bogland for peat harvesting it dies.
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
I heard all that said 40 years ago and theres more trees, birds, insects now in that section than back then.
@brunford22443 жыл бұрын
Need to build a machine to flip them over, that looks painful to be bending over like that all day
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
There is a machine but it can do more harm then good sometimes so best do it by hand and yes PAINFUL lol
@deadpoolkoa71083 жыл бұрын
The machine can't turn a lot of them, so by hand it's better.
@FirstLast-gk6lg3 жыл бұрын
WOW I cannot believe they still do that by hand hahaha it's 2020 there is absolutely no way that you cant find a way to do that without sacrificing your back.
@jamesdaly68854 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video is this near bloomhill
@andreweganphotography81564 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@plantaodesatualizado88033 жыл бұрын
whats the purpose of cutting turf? what is the use of this?
@snarlsbarkley50833 жыл бұрын
It’s used as fuel like wood and burned in fireplaces and stoves.
@johnsometimeswrong87422 жыл бұрын
We cut the turf and destroy the natural bogland so cheap ignorant hicks can burn it in their fires in winter.....
@mikekavanagh89528 ай бұрын
Another Tradition sold out,
@Bahador_R3 жыл бұрын
OooooOOOOOOooooo! I get it now, it's for fire! I thought our grass here in America was made in Ireland for a second....
@mulletman17053 жыл бұрын
"how dare you"
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Very good I like Ha Ha
@JohnSmith-yv6eq3 жыл бұрын
A greta reply...I mean great reply....
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Ha Ha Very good
@tomcatserkan3 жыл бұрын
i dont know so i am asking.. is this soil infertile?
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Very fertile
@tomcatserkan3 жыл бұрын
@@andreweganphotography8156 so why?
@dalyr323 жыл бұрын
@@tomcatserkan no its not fertile its a peat deposit call a bog the peat is used mainly as a fuel to generate electricity.some peat can be used as growing medium to help plants and crops grow its usally a lighter peat found on the top of bogs.
@galoglaich32813 жыл бұрын
serkan Mustafa avci Yes and no.The soil in the bog is waterlogged and acidic the refore organic matter never fully decomposes ,but when its taken off the bogs mostly the topsoil its very good growing medium.
@estebancorral51517 ай бұрын
@@tomcatserkanTurf a.k.a peat burns. It burns so it is a fuel.
@indiana1462 жыл бұрын
Not easy to get irish peat in uk
@seamusreddington67773 жыл бұрын
Bringing it home is the worst ya probably will get stuck and then you have to put it in the shed
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that Seamus and yes it happens, hard work anyway you look at it Ha Ha
@deadpoolkoa71083 жыл бұрын
Bringing them home is my favourite am like thank god its finished till next year and we go again 😂
@ajrwilde143 жыл бұрын
dramatic music kind of unnecessary
@andreweganphotography81563 жыл бұрын
Not near as much as your comment
@ajrwilde143 жыл бұрын
@@andreweganphotography8156 you put a video on the internet for people to comment, make up your mind
@1981MJD3 жыл бұрын
@@ajrwilde14 Alice probably puts all her videos on Onlyfans... :-)
@deadpoolkoa71083 жыл бұрын
@@1981MJD 😂😂😂
@user-fm1zi1oy9j4 жыл бұрын
Дак вот как делают гашиш в промышленных масштабах)))
@stasimierz692 жыл бұрын
Greta doesn't like it.
@johnaustin66733 жыл бұрын
tragic
@jamesdaly14013 жыл бұрын
Why?humans have always exploited the land.its how we survive.
@johnaustin66733 жыл бұрын
@@jamesdaly1401 tragic that the government has to tell us how to live. They have been trying to end wood heat where I live. Now they say you can't install a wood burning stove if your home has electric and/or gas.
@johnaustin66733 жыл бұрын
@@jamesdaly1401 I am sure they are getting kickbacks from big energy to end cheap heat.
@jamesdaly14013 жыл бұрын
@@johnaustin6673 they are trying stop turf cutting in ireland,mean while Germany is continuing to mine brown coal lignite.have you ever seen the bagger machines used to mine it,petty much a sky scraper with a bucket wheel attached.