Most every rental center has at least one sod cutter and some have a whole fleet, standing ready to clear space for a flower garden, a walkway, or just to harvest sod from one area for transplant to ...

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been meeting with turf-cutters to compensate them for having to cease cutting turf on protected bogs. However it has come to light that turf-cutters ...

The now perennial summer bother on Ireland’s raised bogs between turf-cutters and conservationists, which has flared up again in east Galway and Roscommon in recent weeks, is often presented as a ...

Turf cutters from South Sligo setting off for the protest at the Dáil last week. TURF CUTTERS, farmers and home owners in south rural Sligo decided to join a nationwide protest outised Dàil Eireann ...

Turf cutting contractors in the midlands and the west have said they will defy an order by Bord na Móna, and proceed with plans to supply winter heating fuel to 4,000 families, unless the company ...

Which sod cutter is best? Your lawn gets tired and worn out for many reasons. Sometimes invasive weeds take over and choke out your grasses. Ugly bare spots are caused by animal urine, fungal diseases ...

The safest way to use a sod cutter is to wear work gloves and a good pair of work boots. The safest way to use a sod cutter is to wear work gloves and a good pair of work boots. Read Less Your lawn ...

Sir, The Turf Cutters and Contractors Association believes that small scale domestic turf cutting and active raised bog habitat conservation can co-exist and that the Government's compensation package ...

The Government has spent almost €9 million to date on compensation payments to turf-cutters affected by the designation of 53 bogs as special areas of conservation. Almost 3,000 applications for ...

Irish state broadcaster RTE reported that more than 100 cutters gathered in Monivea, County Galway, on Saturday and machinery was brought in to cut turf. The broadcaster said more than 30 people also ...