Traditional turf cutting
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- čas přidán 5. 03. 2016
- Cutting turf in the old fashioned way in Derrymore bog to supply the household with fuel for the winter. A slean is used to cut the turf (sometimes called peat) and a barrow to take it out and spread it on the bank to dry. The songs sung by Paddy Hynes are:- The story I tell you is true, My Eileen is waiting for me, Horses and plough and Sweet forget-me-not. Paddy is accompanied by Pat McGuane.
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.
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!
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
Ive stumbled onto this Part of CZcams again
Not sure which is worse, stumbling upon it, or having it come up in your recommended videos.
The good part?
Ti
@@dashcamdriving5631 H I'll
Bizarrely, I ended up here by looking for a turf-cutting tutorial.
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
The work of these two can be watched endlessly.
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
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.
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
wot a lovely vid takes me down memory lane many a year ago working with the old hands on the bog digging peat and taking it home with my little ferguson tvo tractor great little tractors you could take anywhere i learned a lot from the old hands when i was young thanks for putting this on
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
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.
What a lovely set of songs. I totally enjoy them.
This is really satisfying to watch.
4 years after watching this, I came back for the music. Truly something marvelous and magic.
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 👍
Fit men! Poetry in motion.
Excellent video!
Spit on the hand for a better grip. Wouldn't be allowed now with covid
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.
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
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.
Loved your video. Thanks for showing this traditional aspect of Irish life.
reminds me of my grandad,thats a lovely song at the beginning
There is something very comforting about this video and his singing makes me want to visit my ancestors home
поражаюсь аккуратности технологичности ручного процесса добытчиков торфа
Very very good, thanks for the history.
So cool love the music too very soothing.
Bless you for sharing this!
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 ❤🇮🇪.
tidy bit of cutting,spreading,good video.
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 CZcams 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
Молодцы пахари! Готовый стройматериалы! Это лучше чем на диван охранять!
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.
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
This song tho!! Im adding it to my play list its so lit!!
This is so amazing, yes a comment said show to all the kids, I do agree people in the states need to see this.
What Beautiful songs. delightful to listen to.
Great keeping the traditional way of turf cutting going in Ireland
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?
Work fascinates me I can sit and watch it all day.......
Paul Cotter is a machine!! Much respect.
@Hello Rob how are you doing
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 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!
The old guy on the pitch fork works faster than most 20 year olds.
If nothing else the songs are awesome!!
I could not work at this blistering pace! I ache all over just watching. l am going to take some IBProfin now...
John Moses Browning I know I be doin shit like that for work I hate it
Rub some Volterol on it lol
That shit will destroy your liver
unapologetic truth no u r
Your muscles get used to it in a week or two!
"Honey before you break up with me I'm taking my turf."
"How you gonna do that?"
Show vid
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
This video helped me fall asleep ☺
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.
Traditional turd cutting is way better than modern turd cutting that’s for sure!
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
Fair play lads, great job!
Turf is still used and let me tell you the smell is incredible...I ache for my Ireland.
Que hacen con eso? Para que hacen tanto hueco?
Very educational, thanks for sharing. Cheers.👀✌
Old school graft. Very satisfying to watch.
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
@@budocrem5784 how does mud make a fire. I thought it's not flammable.
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
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
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 just love this song
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.
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:
czcams.com/video/G73oRv60Qlg/video.html
Saludos!
@@Ramiro-Agarra-Luquivengaporque es Turba de cienega. Se seca y sirve de combustible.
Holy Shit! My cap off to you fellas! That's an ass load of work! Looks amazing
nice to see other real workers out there still good on ya men
I can smell it from here
I have no idea what they are doing, but I'm glad I found this
Dinner for Africans
Graveyard. He’s digging his grave
Wow now that's a strong spine 💪 thanks for sharing
no other smell in the world like burning turf . just magical.
I wanna Job like this.
No you don't No one does! There's a reason heavy equipment was invented in the first place!
the music......
Nice song, relaxing.
Nice video, like !!!
И так целый день !?? Акуеть
Кладоискатель . Путешествия в мир предков . А что он делает и для чего
Made the ground look like cheese
This was oddly calming
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.
turf steken, half Nederland is built that way. burning up fuel and making canals, dry land..
Hemaworstje zekers
У нас наверное это еще и уголовно наказуемо
Естественно, не законное добыча печного топливо
So great work of a cameraman )
Нетерпеливые !!! Надо подождать 4-5 тысяч лет и будет у вас нормальный уголь .
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.
Awesome song in the background does anybody know if there's a dubstep version 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Sorry, Im not gay
you must be old lol
Arynews
These men work as good as a machine
เห็นถึงความพยายาม และความใจเย็น...สบายๆ . น่าชื่นชมครับ.
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.
Bu ney
Harbi bu ne yahu.:)
Daha komurlesememis bitki katmanlari. Birkac yuzbin yil daha gecse komur olacak. Kurutup tezek gibi yakiyorlar. Viski’ in tutsulenmis kokusu “peat” atesinde imbiklendiginden geliyor.
Çok aydınlatıcı oldu teşekkür ederim.:)
Yeni dünya Organik gübre Ltd şirketi bide müzik çok hoşuma gitti beyler gariplik bendemi aceba
Bir yasima daha girdim cok ilginc
Молодцы мужики . физика хорошая и плюс все ровно и аккуратно.
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"
Now this needs to be shown to all the kids now days. Show how it was actually done and not by some fancy machine. Spend a Shit load of money and be lazy or hard work and make a man out of ya. Very nice video.
Hilham 89 shut the fuck up
Jerome Simpsomite why?
mwnciboo if that's the way you are it. You have your opinion as do everyone else.
This kind of work makes the body strong, and the mind weak.
LSC how does it make the mind weak?
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.
mwnciboo 7moo
I'm American and this process is alien to me. I'm assuming this wouldn't be something that could be efficiently cultivated.
Man I like the songs 😀
I love the song....
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.
Hi everyone!👋🏻
Had to pause here to the comments @ 5:08 just to take a break and say thank God I gotta good buzz while watching this!🤪
I do have a funny feeling tho that I'm gonna end up watching the whole 14:22 and its gonna end up being the same 2 guys doin the same thing the whole time😒😖
I gotta count another wheelbarrow load too.
🤔I think he's putting 32 to a load.
Back to the video.......
bye 👋🏻
I'm back! I knew I would watch the entire thing and it would be the same thing throughout!!🙁
Paul, you're gonna wear your joints out sooner than you should! Speaking of joints, yes.....I'd need one before starting that day! I'd need Paddy and Pat there too, just to sing for me while I hurled slabs of peat up!
Love the smell of the turf
so satisfying to watch.
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!
Interesting. I wonder how many years it took for that turf to grow that thick.
good few thousand years there at least
The bog grows about one foot per century. The layer that the turf cutter is standing on probably last saw daylight seven or eight hundred years ago. The peat at the bottom of the trench is heaviest and most compacted. It is in the beginning stages of forming coal.
About 3.
@crossman20. Peat generally accumulates at a rate of about 1mm/year, or about four inches per century. The turf cutter is likely standing on peat that is a couple thousand years old. Saying the bottom layer is "the beginning stages of coal formation" is rather optimistic. Relatively speaking, it's as close to coal as the grass the burrow man is standing on. It takes a few hundred million years and a significant overburden of sedimentary rock to form coal. Cheers.
It was laid down over a short period of time, possibly hours, as a massive deposit of organic matter from the great flood of Noah.
that man cutting is an absolute animal thats one tough ass Job.
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