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.

Ive stumbled onto this Part of RU-vid again

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

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

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 ❤🇮🇪.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

These guys are Beasts!!! You better not give your Great Great Grandpa any crap! He'll bust you to pieces!!!

Fit men! Poetry in motion. Excellent video!

One of the many treasures of Ireland...the smell of a real peat fire cannot be beat.

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".

поражаюсь аккуратности технологичности ручного процесса добытчиков торфа

This is really satisfying to watch.

reminds me of my grandad,thats a lovely song at the beginning

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.

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.

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.

Loved your video. Thanks for showing this traditional aspect of Irish life.

There is something very comforting about this video and his singing makes me want to visit my ancestors home

So cool love the music too very soothing.

This is how i feel when i wash dishes by hand instead of using a dishwasher.

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

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.

Bless you for sharing this!

Very very good, thanks for the history.

tidy bit of cutting,spreading,good video.

How many BTUs does one of those slices put off on average?

This song tho!! Im adding it to my play list its so lit!!

"Honey before you break up with me I'm taking my turf." "How you gonna do that?" Show vid

Que hacen con eso? Para que hacen tanto hueco?

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.

The old guy on the pitch fork works faster than most 20 year olds.

Great keeping the traditional way of turf cutting going in Ireland

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.

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

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"

I could not work at this blistering pace! I ache all over just watching. l am going to take some IBProfin now...

Traditional turd cutting is way better than modern turd cutting that’s for sure!

What Beautiful songs. delightful to listen to.

what are they doing with that clay ?

is this chocolate dessert? can I eat it ?

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.

Молодцы пахари! Готовый стройматериалы! Это лучше чем на диван охранять!

they do that in order to? could some one explain me?

Turf is still used and let me tell you the smell is incredible...I ache for my Ireland.

32 peats on the barrow, tight lift.

What is the song

qual a utilização ?

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.

Do they burn the soil to keep warm on winter?

Hi can someone tell me what this is for? What is turf?

Holy Shit! My cap off to you fellas! That's an ass load of work! Looks amazing

I would guess you hope you own enough land to supply fuel for many years to come right?

I can smell it from here

Can someone please explain to me how those blocks of mud act as fuel?

Very educational, thanks for sharing. Cheers.👀✌

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.

Não entendi, o que está sendo cultivado ?

Great idea but what to do with the spent logs. Landfill? Or is it usefull

Disculpen es para que sirve? Es para el agua ?

I have no idea what they are doing, but I'm glad I found this

What is this !!!! 🤔

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

How mucj do you need for 1 year you can cut 4 treas down and you set maby 2

Interesting. I wonder how many years it took for that turf to grow that thick.

Awesome song in the background does anybody know if there's a dubstep version 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Quick question, how did that super quality soil was made ???

What will this turf be used for. I'm just wondering

Made the ground look like cheese

У нас наверное это еще и уголовно наказуемо

This is so amazing, yes a comment said show to all the kids, I do agree people in the states need to see this.

It’s lovely skill and done neatly. What is this process. And what is it for?

This stuff actually burns? Looks like dirt

the music......

If nothing else the songs are awesome!!

Back again years later just to listen to the song. Anyone have any info on the song?

what you make with it?

Music

Paul Cotter is a machine!! Much respect.

What are they doing and why and what do they use those blocks of Dirt for

turf steken, half Nederland is built that way. burning up fuel and making canals, dry land..

И так целый день !?? Акуеть

How long does a couple stick burn in the stove?

Can someone please tell me why they do this?? Like making a swimming pool or what?

I wanna Job like this.

Que esta pasando?

So does anyone know what the agricultural purpose of turf cutting is ?

How did they get that ground into pieces like that

What is this peat? What is this used for?

That looks like hard yakka, kiwi slang for hard work.

how does this work as fuel?... thanks

Can i ask someone what is made out of this?