Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

the_pen_turner

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

That would definitely be a trait of an anti-rooter.

A rooter wouldn’t use gloves and would possess many black/missing finger nails with various cuts covered in oil and grease

Rooters wouldn’t be know for excellent health & safety standards

No these are those terrible chap gloves that you cant work in but can buy at the car boot. Only used by cheap guys that dont know what they are doing but can sure tell you how.
Good gloves would be a sign of an anti router, they are used to doing work and want to protect themselves properly. The rooster gloves are only for show

It's not just the gloves it's when they are used. Always put on for even the smallest and no risk jobs. Stuff you dont need gloves for and they only make more awkward

Nekarsulm

crackcrack30 wrote: »

Our school bus driver (old yellow long bus) used to move his calves and weaning's around in the bus after school/weekends...
Smelled of **** on a Monday, found a tag in it once.

Local bus driver always went straight from the morning school run to check the cattle, and do whatever messages needed doing with the full size bus.
Decided to nip across the border one morning 'cause dosing stuff and dehorning paste was cheaper in "Town & Country" in Lisneskea ( Fermanagh).
Doing some kind of a U turn manoeuvre in the carpark, he got the bus caught on a high bit of traffic island, and couldn't move.
Had to get a recovery truck to tow himself off it, took ages to get it organised, PSNI in attendance, the whole nine yards.. and by the skin of his teeth made it back into Cavan for the evening school run.
Never did that again.......

Anto_Meath

Sure isn't everything cheaper in Lisneskea, there was a boy beside us a good hour from there and no matter what he wanted he would go to Lisneskea to buy it, never put any value on his time or petrol in the car, now I would also class him as a rooter.. he would head off on a good fine Saturday to Clougher & buy stuff he didn't want at what my American neighbour calls the "flea market"...My American neighbour went with the other lad 1 time, he said it was a mixture of torture & entertainment watching the boy examine everything that was on sale & trying to haggle with the sellers.

kk.man

the_pen_turner wrote: »

see this in sites all the time. probably a sign of a rooter as well

always has to stop and put on gloves no matter how small or easy the job is. usually a sign that they care more about how soft their skin is that doing any work. bonus points if they are those leather ones that are sown together flat and you have no dexterity to do anything

I use gloves for many jobs. I can't go work with dirty nails or chapped hands... Would prefer not to but no choice.

the_pen_turner

kk.man wrote: »

I use gloves for many jobs. I can't go work with dirty nails or chapped hands... Would prefer not to but no choice.

im not saying dont wear gloves. i do loads of times. especially on wet or dirty timber or timber that is sharp or rough. good gloves are a must.

im talking about the guys that wont do small stuff where its not needed without putting them on. stuff like move the barrow a few feet or throw a few shovels of sand in the mixer or tieing a rope on the trailer etc or holding a sheet of plastic covering something

FintanMcluskey

kk.man wrote: »

I use gloves for many jobs. I can't go work with dirty nails or chapped hands... Would prefer not to but no choice.

We know which thread you belong in so

Finty Lemon

Using a 7up bottle as a welding mask. That's a rooter
Gloves, not so much

Lime Tree Farm

I wear 3 pairs these cold mornings, milking gloves over magic gloves, then the green work gloves.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/QKURT-Stretch-Gloves-Unisex-Finger/dp/B07YKM9QVK/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=LJ72FNDV98UX&dchild=1&keywords=magic+gloves+adult&qid=1611655740&sprefix=magic+gloves%2Caps%2C239&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFFSFlWWFJLS01SNUcmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA0OTI4NDMxMUc1MVlMU0FIWkM1JmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwMzkyMzkxRzU4UVNLU0pWN0cxJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

whisky_galore

Heard of a lad that repaired marine engines.
He used sandpaper to clean the engine oil off his hands, he had no fingerprints left.

keepalive213

A grade A rooter I mentioned here before. Welding with a big oil filled welder and the fuse kept blowing. Replaced fuse with a trimmed up bolt and away again, I saw the socket on the wall was melting after.
I don't know how he is still alive at this stage.
He got a new washing machine and never took the bolts out. Loaded and fired her up. Wrote her off first day.

blue5000

Finty Lemon wrote: »

Using a 7up bottle as a welding mask. That's a rooter
Gloves, not so much

I have to confess I drove a nail through the plastic top, cut the bottom of the bottle off, bent a piece of wire and passed it through the hole in the top and used it as an emergency electric fence gate handle:o

Lime Tree Farm

blue5000 wrote: »

I have to confess I drove a nail through the plastic top, cut the bottom of the bottle off, bent a piece of wire and passed it through the hole in the top and used it as an emergency electric fence gate handle:o

or a pair of forked dry sticks to force live el fence wire back onto an insulator on a rebar.

Jjameson

Jjameson wrote: »

A rooter wouldn’t be familiar with such a concept, the wire opening is a elaborate system involving twine and and twisting, involving mild shock if there’s actually a shock in the wire 50:50 chance of this.

You guys have wire!


I remember working on a farm on saturdays and being sent out to cut furze to block gaps along an old railway.....some of which were 30 ft wide

blue5000

Heard of a lad who couldn't figure out why there was no power in the fence. So he went walking and found where the brother had 'fixed' a broken wire with baler twine......;)

farawaygrass

whisky_galore wrote: »

Heard of a lad that repaired marine engines.
He used sandpaper to clean the engine oil off his hands, he had no fingerprints left.

A few travelling salesmen painted the roof of a shed of a fella I know. When they were finished they had paint all over there hands and face, and to get it off the washed themselves in diesel

J.O. Farmer

farawaygrass wrote: »

A few travelling salesmen painted the roof of a shed of a fella I know. When they were finished they had paint all over there hands and face, and to get it off the washed themselves in diesel

Rooters - Everyone knows petrol is far more effective and dries off quicker.

theaceofspies

keepalive213 wrote: »

A grade A rooter I mentioned here before. Welding with a big oil filled welder and the fuse kept blowing. Replaced fuse with a trimmed up bolt and away again, I saw the socket on the wall was melting after.
I don't know how he is still alive at this stage.
He got a new washing machine and never took the bolts out. Loaded and fired her up. Wrote her off first day.

Manuals not required

Mad_maxx

my uncle didnt believe in using insulators on his fencing posts , instead he used to cut strips of fertilizer bags and wrap them around the posts

Kevhog1988

Mad_maxx wrote: »

my uncle didnt believe in using insulators on his fencing posts , instead he used to cut strips of fertilizer bags and wrap them around the posts

Have seen lumps of hose used

Kevhog1988

New one from me: Either having no batterys charged in a drill or the battery has been left charging so long that its fcuked. Happens on the regular here that id go for my drill and dad has used both batteries and never recharged.

kerryjack

A lot on here reminds of my farming days. Ye guys probably don't know what a cock lifter is, no nothing on pornhub, it was for bringing in cocks of hay and had about 6 large teeth in it, the ould lad used one of them as a crowbar and a steel pipe welded on to sledge harmer mad stuff.

Green farmer

Ive a uncle that borrowed a chainsaw to cut down a tree in his garden years ago. When we went to get it back off him a few weeks later, we found the chainsaw wedged half ways through the bark of the tree. Uncle had got it struck whilst cutting , lost interest and left it there. Thing was gone rusty from being left out. Haven't lent him a chainsaw since.

Mad_maxx

Green farmer wrote: »

Ive a uncle that borrowed a chainsaw to cut down a tree in his garden years ago. When we went to get it back off him a few weeks later, we found the chainsaw wedged half ways through the bark of the tree. Uncle had got it struck whilst cutting , lost interest and left it there. Thing was gone rusty from being left out. Haven't lent him a chainsaw since.

there are most likely people who would pay good money to take a picture of that and stick it in a gallery in the " Avant Garde " section

enricoh

keepalive213 wrote: »

A grade A rooter I mentioned here before. Welding with a big oil filled welder and the fuse kept blowing. Replaced fuse with a trimmed up bolt and away again, I saw the socket on the wall was melting after.
I don't know how he is still alive at this stage.
He got a new washing machine and never took the bolts out. Loaded and fired her up. Wrote her off first day.

A lad i know needed oil for his welder, it's pricey enough apparently. He told me he got the .22 rifle n shot a hole in a esb transformer up a pole. Tun dish and a few 5 gallon drums n job done.

Dunno if true but he told me he had loads if I needed any for mine. And he's not the kind of guy that ever has extra of anything!

tanko

kerryjack wrote: »

A lot on here reminds of my farming days. Ye guys probably don't know what a cock lifter is, no nothing on pornhub, it was for bringing in cocks of hay and had about 6 large teeth in it, the ould lad used one of them as a crowbar and a steel pipe welded on to sledge harmer mad stuff.

A farmer hear me would rake his silage into the biggest rows/piles he could with a vicon acrobat rake. Then he'd bring the silage into the "silage pit" with a cocklifter. It was a slow process:D

_Brian

tanko wrote: »

A farmer hear me would rake his silage into the biggest rows/piles he could with a vicon acrobat rake. Then he'd bring the silage into the "silage pit" with a cocklifter. It was a slow process:D

Definitely remember lots of that happening in 85/86 when the weather was pants amd it was obvious hay was lost.
Lads would open a clay pit, bring in the grass on cocklifters and tramp it in, cover and pray.

Much was rubbish, but it saved allot of stock from starving.

kerryjack

_Brian wrote: »

Definitely remember lots of that happening in 85/86 when the weather was pants amd it was obvious hay was lost.
Lads would open a clay pit, bring in the grass on cocklifters and tramp it in, cover and pray.

Much was rubbish, but it saved allot of stock from starving.

Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.

tanko

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.

Why didn't ye tie a load of cavity blocks onto the front axle with baler twine??;)

kerryjack

tanko wrote: »

Why didn't ye tie a load of cavity blocks onto the front axle with baler twine??;)

Not at all the cavity blocks were tied to the dog to stop him from chasing the car

whisky_galore

kerryjack wrote: »

Not at all the cavity blocks were tied to the dog to stop him from chasing the car

I haven't seen a dog with a piece of lumber tied onto his collar to stop car chasing for years, thankfully.

They go on about animal cruelty now, but the sh1t some of the older generation got up to wouldn't be tolerated these days but par for the course then.
Got fed up with their dog. Bang.
Too many kittens. Trip to the river in a bag.
A barn owl nesting. Bang.

kerryjack

whisky_galore wrote: »

I haven't seen a dog with a piece of lumber tied onto his collar to stop car chasing for years, thankfully.

They go on about animal cruelty now, but the sh1t some of the older generation got up to wouldn't be tolerated these days but par for the course then.
Got fed up with their dog. Bang.
Too many kittens. Trip to the river in a bag.
A barn owl nesting. Bang.

They also knocked down some lovely old buildings, a lovely old cottage here striped and turned in to a calf house and a bad calf house at that.

Lime Tree Farm

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.

My sister did similar, sitting on the weight tray for fun, got thrown off when they hit a furrow in the field. Front and back wheel rolled over her chest. She was 14, my brother 16. She suffered a collapsed lung, I remember the 24 hour tense waiting time to know if she would survive. She lived to tell the tale.

kerryjack

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

My sister did similar, sitting on the weight tray for fun, got thrown off when they hit a furrow in the field. Front and back wheel rolled over her chest. She was 14, my brother 16. She suffered a collapsed lung, I remember the 24 hour tense waiting time to know if she would survive. She lived to tell the tale.

Jesus she was lucky, did she make a full recovery.

Lime Tree Farm

kerryjack wrote: »

Jesus she was lucky, did she make a full recovery.

She did with just a small scar. If my brother had been quicker to react and applied the brakes she would have been mangled under the back wheel.

PoorFarmer

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Have seen lumps of hose used

Old bicycle tubes too

whelan2

Think we all have memories of terrible things we witnessed on the farm when we were young. I remember my mother wading through a quarry we had with a stick looking for my brother who went missing. He had fallen asleep in a field. Never so happy to see him. He was 3 and you'd need eyes in the back of your head to watch him

farawaygrass

whelan2 wrote: »

Think we all have memories of terrible things we witnessed on the farm when we were young. I remember my mother wading through a quarry we had with a stick looking for my brother who went missing. He had fallen asleep in a field. Never so happy to see him. He was 3 and you'd need eyes in the back of your head to watch him

The fear she must have been feeling can’t be understood. I’m sure the feeling of relief was something she never experienced again

whisky_galore

kerryjack wrote: »

They also knocked down some lovely old buildings, a lovely old cottage here striped and turned in to a calf house and a bad calf house at that.

They're still being knocked to this day.
People generally in this country don't like old and esp small and old houses.

Quazzie

whisky_galore wrote: »

I haven't seen a dog with a piece of lumber tied onto his collar to stop car chasing for years, thankfully.

They go on about animal cruelty now, but the sh1t some of the older generation got up to wouldn't be tolerated these days but par for the course then.

There's a story of a guy I know had a dog that was tied up near the gate of a yard to stop people entering. In 1 day the dog bit, and burst 7 tyres. Sick of paying for new tyres, the guy took a grinder to the dogs teeth, and there were no more burst tyres after that.

Kevhog1988

Quazzie wrote: »

There's a story of a guy I know had a dog that was tied up near the gate of a yard to stop people entering. In 1 day the dog bit, and burst 7 tyres. Sick of paying for new tyres, the guy took a grinder to the dogs teeth, and there were no more burst tyres after that.

Thats horrendous. Some horrible people out there

Quazzie

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Thats horrendous. Some horrible people out there

Same guy used to buy dead calves from local farmers, and cut them up himself using a hacksaw to feed the dogs.

Reggie.

Quazzie wrote: »

Same guy used to buy dead calves from local farmers, and cut them up himself using a hacksaw to feed the dogs.

Jaysus

whelan2

Quazzie wrote: »

Same guy used to buy dead calves from local farmers, and cut them up himself using a hacksaw to feed the dogs.

Sounds like fran out of love hate

Oops!

Quazzie wrote: »

There's a story of a guy I know had a dog that was tied up near the gate of a yard to stop people entering. In 1 day the dog bit, and burst 7 tyres. Sick of paying for new tyres, the guy took a grinder to the dogs teeth, and there were no more burst tyres after that.

Used to work on An Post vans nearly 20 year ago... It was a full time job replacing wings, bumpers and tyres from dog damage.

Fella near me used to have a massive Alsation around the workshop yard at night, during the day he'd be locked into a run. If he was out you wouldn't be too quick to get out of the car.

Said workshop was robbed one night, few days later the workshop owner was showing me the damage where they broke in.... No sign of the dog either so i asked... "Did they kill the dog too?" He replied... "No but the useless ****er did nothing... He had to go."

Me in my innocence just thought he had given the dog away.... Dog got a bullet for punishment....

mfceiling

Great thread lads.

I grew up in the country with 2 brothers and the 3 of us were used as extra free help to any local farmer that needed it.
Some ran a great show and even 35 years ago would have been concerned enough with safety and the "proper" way of doing things. These lads were also the ones that made sure there was a few bob for you at the end of the day and dinner before you went home.

Except for one...now you got the dinner alright but by Jesus he was a rooter.
He used to buy seconds of fertiliser and one of us had to stand on top of the sower and break the lumps through a mesh plate.
Nothing and I mean nothing was thrown out.

Socket sets = Vice grips and pliers.

Baler twine was used for everything.

When the wife died my dad's friend went to the house. He brought him down to see her in the coffin in the "good" room. Dad's mate gives it the usual "sorry for your troubles Willy, she was a great woman".

Silence.

"By jaysus she could rear calves" he says!!

whisky_galore

Quazzie wrote: »

Same guy used to buy dead calves from local farmers, and cut them up himself using a hacksaw to feed the dogs.

Christ.

Any bodies buried by him?

_Brian

Quazzie wrote: »

Same guy used to buy dead calves from local farmers, and cut them up himself using a hacksaw to feed the dogs.

I used to service a milking machine on a farm down near the border, they sold Alsatians, there would be cows heads in various states of flesh lying with the dogs.. rough place.

Birdnuts

whisky_galore wrote: »

They're still being knocked to this day.
People generally in this country don't like old and esp small and old houses.

Yeah -don't really get that mentality. Give me a cosy traditional cottage any day over some of the monuments to peoples egos you see being thrown up all over rural Ireland these days:rolleyes:

Stihl waters

Oops! wrote: »

. No sign of the dog either so i asked... "Did they kill the dog too?" He replied... "No but the useless ****er did nothing... He had to go."

Me in my innocence just thought he had given the dog away.... Dog got a bullet....

I did a job for a lad a while back, it was my second job there in about 2 years, the previous time I was down with him he had a lovely Springer pup and he used jump in the cab with me and all, a right dotey little pup, the last time I was below i asked about the dog "ah that cnut wouldn't catch a cold, I gave him the lead injection he wasn't worth feeding" I called him a hungry miserable cnut which he didn't take too kindly too but life is too short to be entertaining them sort of animals, I hope he dies roaring after it, hes an all round rooter as well and still in his early 30s

patsy_mccabe

mfceiling wrote: »

..............When the wife died my dad's friend went to the house. He brought him down to see her in the coffin in the "good" room. Dad's mate gives it the usual "sorry for your troubles Willy, she was a great woman".

Silence.

"By jaysus she could rear calves" he says!!

Thats hilarious.