Traditional turf cutting

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.

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.

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 ❤🇮🇪.

The man working the shovel has unbelievable upper body strength and work ethic. 💪Great job!

The work of these two can be watched endlessly.

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

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.

4 years after watching this, I came back for the music. Truly something marvelous and magic.

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.

Ive stumbled onto this Part of YouTube again

What a lovely set of songs. I totally enjoy them.

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.

minecraft at its finest

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!!!

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".

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.

поражаюсь аккуратности технологичности ручного процесса добытчиков торфа

What Beautiful songs. delightful to listen to.

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.