God bless the turf cutters. I'm sitting at home right this minute in front of a comfy warm fire thanks to guys like these. Ten big bags of turf delivered for €40. One bag will keep the fire blazing and the house warm for two days. This stuff has kept generations of Irish people warm through many a cold winter.
Crikey- £40 for a fifty kilo bag that’s gone in under two full days- crippling winter we just had- not seen peat here- across the water- greetings hello from Keiss 🌈🧡🏴👏🏻
@@caracopland710 Hello Cara, not sure if you're aware but your name actually means "friend" as Gaeilge. It's 10 bags for €40 and at 1 bag lasts for 2 days. So you actually get 20 or so days of good heat for €40 which is good value.
Pour avoir visité l’Irlande, en long et en large depuis au moins 40 ans, je ne me souviens pas avoir vu une aussi belle couche de tourbe ! Quelle dextérité chez ces deux hommes, mais aussi quel dur labeur pour produire une chaleur si douce et une fumée acre si agréable à mon cœur de breton d’adoption. J’adore l’Irlande et les irlandais et ses fameux musiciens. Nous y venons à nouveau en avril prochain du coté de Dungloe et nous en réjouissons d’avance. Merci pour cette belle vidéo.
At the age of 10 i went with my grandfather and 2 uncles to watch them cut turf. I sat on the back of the tractor having a great time travelling to the peat bog not realizing what was a head. When we got there my granda said here son here's a "treisgeir" or Turf Spade, he said start cutting if you want any breakfast lol he wasn't joking. This i mind being 5am in the morning and with in half an hour i was exhausted and not one turf was cut rite. Now 40yrs later I'm the turf cutter and it still knackers me lol
Many a fine summers day spent on the bog in my home county of Laois. I remember my father coming to the bog at lunch time with ham sandwiches, flasks of tea and sald n vinegar crisps. We woukd take a break, bite to eat sup of tea and back at it. We wouldn't leave until all the turf was all reared. Turf heated our house on many a cold damp winters night. How I wish I could go back to those nights when we were all kids and cosy and safe at home with our parents. If you still rear turf with your family remember those days they wont last forever and you wont always be together, and you will miss it when your not. Trust me. Love from Brisbane Australia ❤🇮🇪.
Thereafter the first time I was there to see the world through the eyes of the 6 season on the first page of search engines are not going anywhere 6 and I am so sorry to hear from 6 am to be the most of the first to comment on the blog is a great time
im from northern norway and my grandpa must have told me 100 times about how in the summer they cut peat, how they had to because there basically were little to no trees since livestock would eat everything so there were mostly grassland. he also said the inferior woodstoves would sometimes "backfire" when the wind hit right and it would fill the livingroom/kitchen with ash and sot, and my great grandmother would get pissed off haha.
Krestian Kvart ,it's mostly cut with machine now here in Ireland,but you still have to foot it,let it dry for a few weeks,then bring it home,still back breaking work,you no it's summer,when someone says I'm off to the bog.......great days.
Krestian Kvart im also from a fishing village in north of norway and old enough to remember both turf cutting + that the sheep ate everything, including seeweed and boild fish heads in the winter. hehe around 1975 the last sheep was slaughterd -people had started using electricity for heat and the food-meat came frozen by ship and the forest starting growing on the fields and old turf sites
Резка торфа по старому способу в болоте Дерримор, чтобы снабжать домашнее хозяйство горючим на зиму. Для обрезки торфа (иногда называемого торфом) используется кузнец и курган, чтобы вынуть его и выложить на берег, чтобы высохнуть. Песни, исполненные Пэдди Хайнсом, - это: - Рассказ, который я вам скажу, правда, моя Эйлин ждет меня, Лошади и плуг, и Сладкая забыть меня. Пэдди сопровождает Пэт МакГейн.
Hard to find people today willing to work that hard. I watched peat cutters in Scotland who said "Yeah, it's hard, but I've never paid a shilling for heat in my liife".
They are both wondering the whole time, when is she going to stop filming so that we can have a break! Neither one of them wanting to be the one that gives in and takes a breather on camera.
These are men, Taking breaks, smoke breaks "needing" 15 minutes off every hour is a new age modern idea. Look for a legit roofing crew and you will see the same workmanship. Breaks come when the jobs done. This is the definition of "old man strength", Which you will not have due to your need to take a break when one hasnt been earned!
I remember taking the ride to the bog for the turf cutting. I am not sure how this gentleman placed in the All Ireland but they outworked me. I do want to go to cut some peat now after seeing these masters.
I don't know the first thing about what they are doing, but I have moved literally 1000's of loads of gravel and concrete with a wheelbarrow, and I've never seen one with a car tire on it, that wheelbarrow by itself would be a job to push, it takes a real man to do that all day.
My English teacher was talking about aunt julia(a poem) and it mentions peatscrapes, and she finds it satisfying so for a joke I searched it up. I'm not disappointed
Jeez 2.8M views for a turf cutting video is amazing. Well done usually turf cutting videos only get a couple thousands views but 2.8M is a great mile stone for views
I'd only ever heard peat mentioned in relation to whiskey and I had never heard it called turf in English, but it's called turf in Dutch too, or "djerk" in our local dialect. There used to be a lot of turf cutting where I live and you can still feel yourself walking on turf in certain spots of the nature reserve near here where most of the turfing took place.
So lovely to see turf cutting in the way I recall. There was one small difference in that the sods would be caught by the"spreader"directly. It was so nice to relive the memories of cutting the turf, sun beaming down, chatting with those that had turf near by and having tea made on an open fire with the best of home baked bread. Pure pleasure!
Gran trabajo .. incesante de dos personas mayores ... y que lo haven sicronizadamente... entiendo que esa labor debe ser necesaria de realizar constantemente.. como al algo tradicional y una costumbre que resuelve algún problema del terreno y su drenaje talvés ... en fin es cansador y sin fin ... pero ellos al parecer lo superan a un ritmo increíble.. y paso a paso...con paciencia...es interesante esa herramienta de corte para bloques de tierra húmeda... los aplaudo.. y ...esa labor me pareció una curiosidad ...por que ellos prescinden de alguna maquinaria moderna y pienso que conservan una costumbre arraigada.. Saludos desde la ciudad de Concepción Bio bío ...en Chile.
Hola amigo. Esto lo ponen a secar luego y lo utilizan para calefaccionar sus casas, pues en esas tierras no hay muchos arboles para producir leña. Usted puede ver como lo ponen al fuego en este video: ruclips.net/video/G73oRv60Qlg/видео.html Saludos!
As a young one on holiday in west cork I remember the men cutting and we all throwing sods left right and centre and a few weeks later come back and stack the sods to dry fabulous days in cork so grateful am I to have a family in that place just loved that
I doubt if they need a break after 15 minutes they're fit in away thats as much a state of mind as body you just keep at it abit at time your body adopts it just becomes second nature and they didnt get that much work done taking breaks and worrying about a camera on them
A spit on the hands to give better grip on the handles of the barrow, the barrow placed just where it needs to be and pointing in the right direction, just enough force with the fork to get on the right spot on the barrow, I could go on - those boys know what they are doing.
You never had a showel in your hands? Spitting in hands only give you blisters and torn skin. Only rookies and idiots spit in hands before lifting heavy whellbarrow or showel
That's some coincidence, at the same time as you were posting your comment, I was in my garden planting four tomato plants, using my #2 square mouth Bulldog shovel which I bought new well over 40 years ago now. That shovel has dug and trimmed footings, trenches for drains, postholes for fences, planting holes for shrubs and trees, mixed and moved countless amounts of concrete and mortar, been used to dig and cut tree roots................I could continue with what that lovely tool has done for me over the years, but suffice to say it's gone from full size and new to well worn and better suited to what I have just used it for - all in my hands and all with my spit!
kentucky fried its mixed with dead trees and plants over the years and during summer we make the bricks of peat or sods of turf as we call it and stack it in the summer to dry out,then during the colder months it will burn like wood in the fire
Barring turf , as a young fellow that was my job. Tough work for a full grown man, at 11 or 12 brutal hard work. No choice but do it ,or else go cold and no way to cook food. Nothing romantic about turf cutting.
firstly a great big thanks to thersa for that lovely video. my name is Michael Broderick born ballina many years ago but immigrated late 1950.i had relatives in leeds but never met them as I settled in London I wondered if Vincent & I were related.?
what surprised me is, how soft the land is, it's like a cake and doesn't have any stone. it's good job i'm engineer but really enjoy physical work it healthy and keeps you fit. i used to do similar job when i was younger.
Growing up in upstate NY in the Appalachian Mountains I'm amazed at the fact there's not a single rock in all that soil. If I understand it properly, this is vegetation matter turned into soil over millenia and so how can rocks really get in there...but still....amazing. So easy to work! You can't dig anything around here without a big digging bar and sledge hammer. Horrible place, both climate wise and political wise.
@Cracka. Peat accumulates quite slowly (in human terms). The depth of peat they are cutting would have required several thousand years to be deposited. Due to the rate at which it harvested, peat is considered a non-renewable energy source.
When you're burning something, its carbon, hence the name "carbon footprint". In this case what you're seeing is actually soggy plant material, specifically peat moss that builds up over time. When dried, you're left with just dried plant material to burn.
burns slow and crappily - doesn't put out much heat, but if you haven't got anything else (timber was too valuable to burn) then it's better than freezing to death
@@xaiano794 this country used to belong to native Americans, we Mexican are primos de ellos we Mexican are more Americans than people from Europe. That's it. Viva Mexico cabrones jajajai. Truth hurts.
Samuel Hu In a sense, its peat which is arguably early formed COAL. So you dry it and burn it and its very much like an earthy charcoal. Stinks though.
The chances are they don't live in the bog and have indeed seen what an excavator can do (Tractor and Hopper actually) but choose to do it this way for old times sake plus its cheaper, just your own labour involved.
A great & efficent way of securing a winters fire. Sadly Bord na Mona is finished with peat production with the loss of over a thousand jobs in the Midlands. The day of cutting turf with a slean is gone forever like a lot of the other great skills of years gone by.
Please dont take australian slang and claim it as your own, just because there is more of you coconuts living here than sheep land doesnt mean our culture is yours.
Hey you convicts, dont badmouth us just cause you was dragged up. I know just how racist you bums are, and these commenst show everyone just how much you are. You will be saying shite over my Irish blood next.
God bless the turf cutters. I'm sitting at home right this minute in front of a comfy warm fire thanks to guys like these. Ten big bags of turf delivered for €40. One bag will keep the fire blazing and the house warm for two days. This stuff has kept generations of Irish people warm through many a cold winter.
And now Eamon Ryan is going to stop it.
@@docastrov9013 He will have to come down from Dublin and forensically sift through the ashes himself.
Wondered what this stuff was used for. Thank you.
Crikey- £40 for a fifty kilo bag that’s gone in under two full days- crippling winter we just had- not seen peat here- across the water- greetings hello from Keiss 🌈🧡🏴👏🏻
@@caracopland710 Hello Cara, not sure if you're aware but your name actually means "friend" as Gaeilge. It's 10 bags for €40 and at 1 bag lasts for 2 days. So you actually get 20 or so days of good heat for €40 which is good value.
The man working the shovel has unbelievable upper body strength and work ethic. 💪Great job!
He's actually got the easy job. Cutting through peat is like slicing through butter. It's the moving it in the barrow that's the hard part.
@@johnsloan79 Was gonna say the same thing. The barrow work looks much more physically demanding.
@@johnsloan79 yip. The Barrow work is the tougher one here. I'm speaking from experience.
Wonderful seeing traditional working men ❤ big hug from Portugal
I may be brown but this brings a tear to my eye. Nothing's more fulfilling than an honest days work. Beautiful song, thank you.
Is that because brown people are lazy?
That guy really has some stamina! I think I would be done in about 10 minutes!
Ive stumbled onto this Part of RUclips again
Not sure which is worse, stumbling upon it, or having it come up in your recommended videos.
The good part?
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@@dashcamdriving5631 H I'll
Bizarrely, I ended up here by looking for a turf-cutting tutorial.
The work of these two can be watched endlessly.
Pour avoir visité l’Irlande, en long et en large depuis au moins 40 ans, je ne me souviens pas avoir vu une aussi belle couche de tourbe ! Quelle dextérité chez ces deux hommes, mais aussi quel dur labeur pour produire une chaleur si douce et une fumée acre si agréable à mon cœur de breton d’adoption. J’adore l’Irlande et les irlandais et ses fameux musiciens. Nous y venons à nouveau en avril prochain du coté de Dungloe et nous en réjouissons d’avance. Merci pour cette belle vidéo.
At the age of 10 i went with my grandfather and 2 uncles to watch them cut turf. I sat on the back of the tractor having a great time travelling to the peat bog not realizing what was a head. When we got there my granda said here son here's a "treisgeir" or Turf Spade, he said start cutting if you want any breakfast lol he wasn't joking. This i mind being 5am in the morning and with in half an hour i was exhausted and not one turf was cut rite. Now 40yrs later I'm the turf cutter and it still knackers me lol
Many a fine summers day spent on the bog in my home county of Laois. I remember my father coming to the bog at lunch time with ham sandwiches, flasks of tea and sald n vinegar crisps. We woukd take a break, bite to eat sup of tea and back at it. We wouldn't leave until all the turf was all reared. Turf heated our house on many a cold damp winters night. How I wish I could go back to those nights when we were all kids and cosy and safe at home with our parents. If you still rear turf with your family remember those days they wont last forever and you wont always be together, and you will miss it when your not. Trust me. Love from Brisbane Australia ❤🇮🇪.
minecraft at its finest
SimpleDude hahah
The Sustainable Texan It’s a joke ..
Minecraft is real
He has to go 8 steps down for diamonds he's at three watch out for the lava.
Thereafter the first time I was there to see the world through the eyes of the 6 season on the first page of search engines are not going anywhere 6 and I am so sorry to hear from 6 am to be the most of the first to comment on the blog is a great time
4 years after watching this, I came back for the music. Truly something marvelous and magic.
im from northern norway and my grandpa must have told me 100 times about how in the summer they cut peat, how they had to because there basically were little to no trees since livestock would eat everything so there were mostly grassland. he also said the inferior woodstoves would sometimes "backfire" when the wind hit right and it would fill the livingroom/kitchen with ash and sot, and my great grandmother would get pissed off haha.
Krestian Kvart ,it's mostly cut with machine now here in Ireland,but you still have to foot it,let it dry for a few weeks,then bring it home,still back breaking work,you no it's summer,when someone says I'm off to the bog.......great days.
Nordmann
And people today think have it hard. Ha
Still happens
Krestian Kvart im also from a fishing village in north of norway and old enough to remember both turf cutting + that the sheep ate everything, including seeweed and boild fish heads in the winter. hehe
around 1975 the last sheep was slaughterd -people had started using electricity for heat and the food-meat came frozen by ship and the forest starting growing on the fields and old turf sites
What a lovely set of songs. I totally enjoy them.
Резка торфа по старому способу в болоте Дерримор, чтобы снабжать домашнее хозяйство горючим на зиму. Для обрезки торфа (иногда называемого торфом) используется кузнец и курган, чтобы вынуть его и выложить на берег, чтобы высохнуть. Песни, исполненные Пэдди Хайнсом, - это: - Рассказ, который я вам скажу, правда, моя Эйлин ждет меня, Лошади и плуг, и Сладкая забыть меня. Пэдди сопровождает Пэт МакГейн.
Спасибо что объяснили , а то смотрю и не пойму для чего они это делают . Я думал кирпичи ))
Спасибо за объяснение))
так что этот торф горит
саня глотов Как дрова горит торф?
Зачем я смотрю это в 1:50
An invaluable testament to the basics of life.
No matter how much money you have; you won't buy a barrow in a store that works as good as that one.
Hard to find people today willing to work that hard. I watched peat cutters in Scotland who said "Yeah, it's hard, but I've never paid a shilling for heat in my liife".
They’re hard to find because they’re busy working mate 👍
These guys are Beasts!!! You better not give your Great Great Grandpa any crap! He'll bust you to pieces!!!
@Hello How are you doing dear
They are both wondering the whole time, when is she going to stop filming so that we can have a break! Neither one of them wanting to be the one that gives in and takes a breather on camera.
YeChewB O XT bu
Pirkol
that is because we dont stop ....welcome to real farmers
These are men, Taking breaks, smoke breaks "needing" 15 minutes off every hour is a new age modern idea. Look for a legit roofing crew and you will see the same workmanship. Breaks come when the jobs done. This is the definition of "old man strength", Which you will not have due to your need to take a break when one hasnt been earned!
breaks come when the job is done lol
Spoken like a true city boy
A man easily works all day, stopping for lunch if he has time
After dinner there is work to be done too ya know
поражаюсь аккуратности технологичности ручного процесса добытчиков торфа
This is how i feel when i wash dishes by hand instead of using a dishwasher.
Not everyone uses a dishwasher and even if you do, you have to wash it before you put it in the dishwasher.
You should play them songs and make a RUclips video next time :)
T Wayland underrated comment, i died of laughter
My women can out wash me ten to one. The dishwasher we just put in will wash 2.5 or 5 hours
@Bad Goy
It's human nature
Men working outside
Women working inside
But nowadays things got more complicated
I remember taking the ride to the bog for the turf cutting. I am not sure how this gentleman placed in the All Ireland but they outworked me. I do want to go to cut some peat now after seeing these masters.
This is really satisfying to watch.
These 2 guys make it look easy,,
One of the many treasures of Ireland...the smell of a real peat fire cannot be beat.
Would smell putrid i imagine
Adam Carr nope
A peat fire burning is one of the most wonderful smells in the Whole Wide World.
Jamie Shannon, it smells good when burning!! isn't it??
peet can be found almost all over the world... its rotten matter.
There is something very comforting about this video and his singing makes me want to visit my ancestors home
I don't know the first thing about what they are doing, but I have moved literally 1000's of loads of gravel and concrete with a wheelbarrow, and I've never seen one with a car tire on it, that wheelbarrow by itself would be a job to push, it takes a real man to do that all day.
My English teacher was talking about aunt julia(a poem) and it mentions peatscrapes, and she finds it satisfying so for a joke I searched it up. I'm not disappointed
reminds me of my grandad,thats a lovely song at the beginning
Jeez 2.8M views for a turf cutting video is amazing. Well done usually turf cutting videos only get a couple thousands views but 2.8M is a great mile stone for views
Fit men! Poetry in motion.
Excellent video!
Spit on the hand for a better grip. Wouldn't be allowed now with covid
Work fascinates me I can sit and watch it all day.......
Loved your video. Thanks for showing this traditional aspect of Irish life.
Thanks lass and lads I've been trying to look at videos that bring me closer to me home. Ireland culture and ways live on.even to the whiskey.
"Honey before you break up with me I'm taking my turf."
"How you gonna do that?"
Show vid
What Beautiful songs. delightful to listen to.
Traditional turd cutting is way better than modern turd cutting that’s for sure!
The old guy on the pitch fork works faster than most 20 year olds.
Turf is still used and let me tell you the smell is incredible...I ache for my Ireland.
Thanks for the video. Didn’t realise the turf went down so deep, an cut in a manner to allow natural drainage for future harvest.
I'd only ever heard peat mentioned in relation to whiskey and I had never heard it called turf in English, but it's called turf in Dutch too, or "djerk" in our local dialect. There used to be a lot of turf cutting where I live and you can still feel yourself walking on turf in certain spots of the nature reserve near here where most of the turfing took place.
So lovely to see turf cutting in the way I recall. There was one small difference in that the sods would be caught by the"spreader"directly. It was so nice to relive the memories of cutting the turf, sun beaming down, chatting with those that had turf near by and having tea made on an open fire with the best of home baked bread. Pure pleasure!
@@Fazer_600 Burning Green Party?
Молодцы пахари! Готовый стройматериалы! Это лучше чем на диван охранять!
Gran trabajo .. incesante de dos personas mayores ... y que lo haven sicronizadamente... entiendo que esa labor debe ser necesaria de realizar constantemente.. como al algo tradicional y una costumbre que resuelve algún problema del terreno y su drenaje talvés ... en fin es cansador y sin fin ... pero ellos al parecer lo superan a un ritmo increíble.. y paso a paso...con paciencia...es interesante esa herramienta de corte para bloques de tierra húmeda... los aplaudo.. y ...esa labor me pareció una curiosidad ...por que ellos prescinden de alguna maquinaria moderna y pienso que conservan una costumbre arraigada..
Saludos desde la ciudad de Concepción Bio bío ...en Chile.
Hola amigo. Esto lo ponen a secar luego y lo utilizan para calefaccionar sus casas, pues en esas tierras no hay muchos arboles para producir leña. Usted puede ver como lo ponen al fuego en este video:
ruclips.net/video/G73oRv60Qlg/видео.html
Saludos!
@@Ramiro-Agarra-Luquivengaporque es Turba de cienega. Se seca y sirve de combustible.
Bless you for sharing this!
So cool love the music too very soothing.
As a young one on holiday in west cork I remember the men cutting and we all throwing sods left right and centre and a few weeks later come back and stack the sods to dry fabulous days in cork so grateful am I to have a family in that place just loved that
Great keeping the traditional way of turf cutting going in Ireland
my respect to those two old mens , even if they took a nice break after the camera went off, they managed 15 min of real work.
I doubt if they need a break after 15 minutes they're fit in away thats as much a state of mind as body you just keep at it abit at time your body adopts it just becomes second nature and they didnt get that much work done taking breaks and worrying about a camera on them
A spit on the hands to give better grip on the handles of the barrow, the barrow placed just where it needs to be and pointing in the right direction, just enough force with the fork to get on the right spot on the barrow, I could go on - those boys know what they are doing.
economy of motion , your man in the hole with the Tusker is just a machine .
You never had a showel in your hands?
Spitting in hands only give you blisters and torn skin. Only rookies and idiots spit in hands before lifting heavy whellbarrow or showel
That's some coincidence, at the same time as you were posting your comment, I was in my garden planting four tomato plants, using my #2 square mouth Bulldog shovel which I bought new well over 40 years ago now. That shovel has dug and trimmed footings, trenches for drains, postholes for fences, planting holes for shrubs and trees, mixed and moved countless amounts of concrete and mortar, been used to dig and cut tree roots................I could continue with what that lovely tool has done for me over the years, but suffice to say it's gone from full size and new to well worn and better suited to what I have just used it for - all in my hands and all with my spit!
The Potterer i broke and worned about 20 as construction worker. Wet hands and showel is a no no..
You've either got some very poor quality tools or your abusing them - neither is anything to be proud of.
ive always wondered how early man discovered that peat would burn. "thats a good looking wad of mud, i think i'll try to light it on fire"
32 peats on the barrow, tight lift.
Liamautomechanic being from the Midwest of America. I have no idea what is going on , and what they use this for.
@@dougyankunas3104 me too.... I want to understand
We burn it in fires in our home to heat the place
kentucky fried its mixed with dead trees and plants over the years and during summer we make the bricks of peat or sods of turf as we call it and stack it in the summer to dry out,then during the colder months it will burn like wood in the fire
Kudmond alot of bogs near me use tractors to make it faster and get more sods from it
Barring turf , as a young fellow that was my job. Tough work for a full grown man, at 11 or 12 brutal hard work.
No choice but do it ,or else go cold and no way to cook food. Nothing romantic about turf cutting.
This song tho!! Im adding it to my play list its so lit!!
Mighty fine turf.
I have no idea what they are doing, but I'm glad I found this
Dinner for Africans
Graveyard. He’s digging his grave
Some people work a job for a week and quite, these men now let me tell ya they work very hard, props to y'all. Hats off to ya.
They don't do this all the time.
Very very good, thanks for the history.
no other smell in the world like burning turf . just magical.
У нас наверное это еще и уголовно наказуемо
Естественно, не законное добыча печного топливо
This is so amazing, yes a comment said show to all the kids, I do agree people in the states need to see this.
Definitely not their first time doing that
Old school graft. Very satisfying to watch.
is this chocolate dessert? can I eat it ?
Open your mouth, I have a chocolate desert for you. Don't mind the corn bits.
mmmmm tasty
its actually shit biscuits
Yes you can
r/forbiddensnacks
Нетерпеливые !!! Надо подождать 4-5 тысяч лет и будет у вас нормальный уголь .
tidy bit of cutting,spreading,good video.
เห็นถึงความพยายาม และความใจเย็น...สบายๆ . น่าชื่นชมครับ.
Reminds me of many a happy holiday in Mayo , visiting from Manchester UK. We used a donkey and cart to take it home after a long day footing.
firstly a great big thanks to thersa for that lovely video. my name is Michael Broderick born ballina many years ago but immigrated late 1950.i had relatives in leeds but never met them as I settled in London I wondered if Vincent & I were related.?
I remember Derrymore Bog and turf cutting like it was yesterday and I FN hated every second of it. Such hard work for us as kids!
This reminds me of the time I ate way to much. I was cutting some turf of my own that night, if you know what I mean!
Made the ground look like cheese
that man cutting is an absolute animal thats one tough ass Job.
I can smell it from here
This video helped me fall asleep ☺
Que hacen con eso? Para que hacen tanto hueco?
Paul Cotter is a machine!! Much respect.
@Hello Rob how are you doing
turf steken, half Nederland is built that way. burning up fuel and making canals, dry land..
Hemaworstje zekers
what surprised me is, how soft the land is, it's like a cake and doesn't have any stone. it's good job i'm engineer but really enjoy physical work it healthy and keeps you fit. i used to do similar job when i was younger.
Goitay its a bog so there won’t be any rock there
Growing up in upstate NY in the Appalachian Mountains I'm amazed at the fact there's not a single rock in all that soil. If I understand it properly, this is vegetation matter turned into soil over millenia and so how can rocks really get in there...but still....amazing. So easy to work! You can't dig anything around here without a big digging bar and sledge hammer. Horrible place, both climate wise and political wise.
Yes me too.
@@summertimesunshine2444 If you can, come to Missouri. It's like paradise.....if you like being around 20 years behind the rest of the country.
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I would guess you hope you own enough land to supply fuel for many years to come right?
It grows back after about 100yrs but I guess you still have a point
@Cracka. Peat accumulates quite slowly (in human terms). The depth of peat they are cutting would have required several thousand years to be deposited. Due to the rate at which it harvested, peat is considered a non-renewable energy source.
If nothing else the songs are awesome!!
Awesome song in the background does anybody know if there's a dubstep version 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Sorry, Im not gay
you must be old lol
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These two blokes doing more physical labour in 14 minute than most of the people viewing this video will do in their lives
Eat taters and beef every day and you can do this for hours.
nice to see other real workers out there still good on ya men
Born when men were men.
generalising with all the other generalisers
Fair play lads, great job!
This stuff actually burns? Looks like dirt
When you're burning something, its carbon, hence the name "carbon footprint". In this case what you're seeing is actually soggy plant material, specifically peat moss that builds up over time. When dried, you're left with just dried plant material to burn.
That's a peat bog, it's heavy in plant matter
Doesn't smell as good as burning oak, that's for sure.
burns slow and crappily - doesn't put out much heat, but if you haven't got anything else (timber was too valuable to burn) then it's better than freezing to death
@@xaiano794 It's good for a stove or a range. Most traditional farming houses have a great big range burning in the kitchen all day.
Holy Shit! My cap off to you fellas! That's an ass load of work! Looks amazing
Let's see 2 older white gentlemen working in a field with no minorities or illegal immigrants must be Ireland.......my people......👍👍👍💪💪💪
a brexiteer would never work that hard
@@fritonay5349 trump approves of white illegal immigrants, that's why he didn't mind melanias parents chain migrating to the US
@@xaiano794 this country used to belong to native Americans, we Mexican are primos de ellos we Mexican are more Americans than people from Europe. That's it. Viva Mexico cabrones jajajai. Truth hurts.
@@fritonay5349 truth doesn't matter to them
Blacks wont work like that nowadays, they get it all free in America!
These guys outwork most 19 year olds I see these days
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I saw this complete video more because of the song.... Song of the old man reminds of the hard working days of man ....
Do they burn the soil to keep warm on winter?
Samuel Hu In a sense, its peat which is arguably early formed COAL. So you dry it and burn it and its very much like an earthy charcoal. Stinks though.
mwnciboo fuck ye can’t beat the smell of a turf fire. Beautiful smell
Diesel 8290 I should Google it.
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I'm American and this process is alien to me. I'm assuming this wouldn't be something that could be efficiently cultivated.
I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY DOING BUT I STAY UNTIL THE END BECAUSE OF THAT SONG.
Cuttin turf
I bet these guys would shit themselves if they seen what an excavator can do 😂
Do you even know what an excavator is?
Haiden G duhhhhh 😂 do you even get the joke?
Haiden G you prolly know it as a backhoe
@@haidengeary8277 Excavator Backhoe pretty much same thing
The chances are they don't live in the bog and have indeed seen what an excavator can do (Tractor and Hopper actually) but choose to do it this way for old times sake plus its cheaper, just your own labour involved.
These men work as good as a machine
I wanna Job like this.
No you don't No one does! There's a reason heavy equipment was invented in the first place!
A great & efficent way of securing a winters fire. Sadly Bord na Mona is finished with peat production with the loss of over a thousand jobs in the Midlands. The day of cutting turf with a slean is gone forever like a lot of the other great skills of years gone by.
the music......
Damn! I thought that was dirt you were piling up. Woah, you burn that stuff?! 'Learn something every day!
That looks like hard yakka, kiwi slang for hard work.
yellowboy1866 and Aussie
Please dont take australian slang and claim it as your own, just because there is more of you coconuts living here than sheep land doesnt mean our culture is yours.
piss off noddy
Hey you convicts, dont badmouth us just cause you was dragged up. I know just how racist you bums are, and these commenst show everyone just how much you are. You will be saying shite over my Irish blood next.
Spent 10 years in Galway and sometimes i miss IIreland gretings for Irish people