Signs you are dealing with an anti-rooter

Ubbquittious

I don't usually visit this forum but did notice the rooter thread and as such I was reminded of a lad up the road who would fit the criteria to be considered as an anti-rooter. Perhaps the farming community has a better name for these fellas, if a mod knows such a name feel free to change title.


*Ag. Science degree
*Shiny tractors and trailers with a plethora of speed limit signs on the rear
*Has a few trucks and vans on the road emblazoned with the logo he had someone design for his farm
*€100k+ per annum "grant haul"
*Fully paid up Fine Gael member
*Wife a well-to-do civil servant
*Kids enrolled in local gaelscoil many years before they're due to attend despite neither parent having much grá for the auld teanga
*Posh stonework entrance to the farm and gate plastered with safety notices and CCTV
*Air to water heatpump installed in the house
*Always attending trade shows and trying to rub shoulders with company owners
*Blames small farmers and "backward Irish" for any problems in the industry
*Rants about how people negatively affected by industry changes and regulation have "nobody to blame but themselves"
*Perma-hardon for anything 'tech', 'robot' or comes from the Netherlands
*Spouts sh1te about 'revolutionising farming in Ireland', takes on a few Woofers in order to have the pleasure of them listening to his bullsh1t
*Eagerly awaiting any new regulations that are arriving from d'EU
*Always on the go with some Teagasc project
*Picture of Phil Hogan hanging in his bedroom

NcdJd

Has a shiny John deere tractor mower for cutting the bit of lawn around house while the rest of us have to push a ****e 4 year old hand mower while praying you can get one last cut out of before the wheels fall off it

Doctors room ghost

NcdJd wrote: »

Has a shiny John deere tractor mower for cutting the bit of lawn around house while the rest of us have to push a ****e 4 year old hand mower while praying you can get one last cut out of before the wheels fall off it

The diesel kubota with the hydraulic grass box and front weighs is where it’s at.

bogman_bass

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

The diesel kubota with the hydraulic grass box and front weighs is where it’s at.

Circular backing gate/pen for the crush dispite only having 30 animals

Gawddawggonnit

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I don't usually visit this forum but did notice the rooter thread and as such I was reminded of a lad up the road who would fit the criteria to be considered as an anti-rooter. Perhaps the farming community has a better name for these fellas, if a mod knows such a name feel free to change title.


*Ag. Science degree
*Shiny tractors and trailers with a plethora of speed limit signs on the rear
*Has a few trucks and vans on the road emblazoned with the logo he had someone design for his farm
*€100k+ per annum "grant haul"
*Fully paid up Fine Gael member
*Wife a well-to-do civil servant
*Kids enrolled in local gaelscoil many years before they're due to attend despite neither parent having much grá for the auld teanga
*Posh stonework entrance to the farm and gate plastered with safety notices and CCTV
*Air to water heatpump installed in the house
*Always attending trade shows and trying to rub shoulders with company owners
*Blames small farmers and "backward Irish" for any problems in the industry
*Rants about how people negatively affected by industry changes and regulation have "nobody to blame but themselves"
*Perma-hardon for anything 'tech', 'robot' or comes from the Netherlands
*Spouts sh1te about 'revolutionising farming in Ireland', takes on a few Woofers in order to have the pleasure of them listening to his bullsh1t
*Eagerly awaiting any new regulations that are arriving from d'EU
*Always on the go with some Teagasc project
*Picture of Phil Hogan hanging in his bedroom

Lol excellent!

Maybe add...
* Positive dairy farmer conference attendee.
* Highly thought of at Irish grassland conferences (or whatever).
*Spends waaaay to much time pontificating about creating/managing wealth etc.

Lime Tree Farm

Is currently serving a prison term, CAB seeks a taker.

Dinzee Conlee

Dont tick ANY of those boxes...

I think this is a good thing...

I think...

Isnt it?

Say my name

Has pampas grass visible in front of their property.

NcdJd

Walks around the farm with a 5 iron rather than a stick from the hedge.

keepalive213

My closest neighbour, he farms around 100 ac.
Tars the roller every winter.
Puts oil in a spray gun and blasts all machinery every winter, he has 20 year old gear that would almost pass for new.
His 35 year old tractor never goes past half revs and gets paint every 3 years.
Has the same bale stacker with over 15 years.
To look at him working you'd wonder how he get anything done he's so steady, yet the next time you look its finished.

sheesh

Say my name wrote: »

Has pampas grass visible in front of their property.

doesn't that have certain significance :eek:

Say my name

sheesh wrote: »

doesn't that have certain significance :eek:

Apologies. Should be in the other thread!

Le shovelle

sheesh wrote: »

doesn't that have certain significance :eek:

Yeah, I think that's a different type of rooting 😂

Say my name

Drives fendt and case and prints their own calendar probably should be in here too.

SuperTortoise

bogman_bass wrote: »

Circular backing gate/pen for the crush dispite only having 30 animals

Well ****e! i was planning putting in one of these this year

1373

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I don't usually visit this forum but did notice the rooter thread and as such I was reminded of a lad up the road who would fit the criteria to be considered as an anti-rooter. Perhaps the farming community has a better name for these fellas, if a mod knows such a name feel free to change title.


*Ag. Science degree
*Shiny tractors and trailers with a plethora of speed limit signs on the rear
*Has a few trucks and vans on the road emblazoned with the logo he had someone design for his farm
*€100k+ per annum "grant haul"
*Fully paid up Fine Gael member
*Wife a well-to-do civil servant
*Kids enrolled in local gaelscoil many years before they're due to attend despite neither parent having much grá for the auld teanga
*Posh stonework entrance to the farm and gate plastered with safety notices and CCTV
*Air to water heatpump installed in the house
*Always attending trade shows and trying to rub shoulders with company owners
*Blames small farmers and "backward Irish" for any problems in the industry
*Rants about how people negatively affected by industry changes and regulation have "nobody to blame but themselves"
*Perma-hardon for anything 'tech', 'robot' or comes from the Netherlands
*Spouts sh1te about 'revolutionising farming in Ireland', takes on a few Woofers in order to have the pleasure of them listening to his bullsh1t
*Eagerly awaiting any new regulations that are arriving from d'EU
*Always on the go with some Teagasc project
*Picture of Phil Hogan hanging in his bedroom

I know that guy , except his wife inherited a large farm and I never got into their bedroom to check the big Phil photo

J.O. Farmer

Say my name wrote: »

Has pampas grass visible in front of their property.

sheesh wrote: »

doesn't that have certain significance :eek:

Didn't know that, I had to Google it. Wouldn't want to make the mistake of planting that, the wife might not be pleased.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/pampas-grass-sales-swinging-sex-connotations-seventies-houses-front-garden-a7764796.html%3famp

_Brian

There’s also the kind of lad with a wee bit of land like ourselves.

He’s a tradesman or self employed and continues to pour massive wad of his wages into the farm having the best of everything way beyond what would be normal or viable for a farm that size.

davidk1394

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

The diesel kubota with the hydraulic grass box and front weighs is where it’s at.

Thought it would be an auto mower at this stage.

Albert Johnson

bogman_bass wrote: »

Circular backing gate/pen for the crush dispite only having 30 animals

The same sort of lad that has a newish land cruiser, 14 foot cattle trailer, baler, wrapper and slurry tanker despite having 50 rushy acres and 10 cow's.

Is outraged the Farming & Forestry forum isn't in the Business category.



:pac:

foxy farmer

Has GPS on the tractor and uses it for slurry spreading.:rolleyes:
Changes the official merchandise overalls if they get dirty during the day.
Volume washer hoses everywhere around the yard
The wife has scented candles lighting when he comes in after slurry.
The whole yard is under one roof.

Tileman

I half fit this category and half fit the other category. 😂 not sure what that says

amacca

Tileman wrote: »

I half fit this category and half fit the other category. �� not sure what that says

Then you my friend are probably a looter.

ruwithme

Always has the mobile phone to ear, "was just on the phone there to my accountant,bank manager,solicitor,investment manager.

BENDYBINN

_Brian wrote: »

There’s also the kind of lad with a wee bit of land like ourselves.

He’s a tradesman or self employed and continues to pour massive wad of his wages into the farm having the best of everything way beyond what would be normal or viable for a farm that size.

...and the neighbors hate him which is the most satisfying part....

kk.man

Some of the above could be myself. However I don't rub pppl up about what I do or how I do it.

I like a neath and tidy set up or I'd go cracked if it wasn't. I put in the hours and don't care what the general populace think. I wish everyone well except crooks.

the_pen_turner

has a wash bay set up with powerwashers and large hole for washing the jeep and box. often with its own tank and the concrete falling into it.

has all machinery in sheds ready to go without moving a heap of crap to get it out

amacca

kk.man wrote: »

Some of the above could be myself. However I don't rub pppl up about what I do or how I do it.

I like a neath and tidy set up or I'd go cracked if it wasn't. I put in the hours and don't care what the general populace think. I wish everyone well except crooks.

I'm trying to work towards that so there's not something going wrong every time I turn around to try scratch myself.

Who2

Damned if you do and damned if you dont. Maybe its the lad peeping in over the hedge we should set up a thread about.
Theres all sorts out there with all sorts of ways of doing things. Let them at it they are all right in their own way.

mayota

Who2 wrote: »

Damned if you do and damned if you dont. Maybe its the lad peeping in over the hedge we should set up a thread about.
Theres all sorts out there with all sorts of ways of doing things. Let them at it they are all right in their own way.

Well said.

patsy_mccabe

Is there anything worst than a begrudger taking notes?

whisky_galore

Used be a big wheel in Macra.
Has a farming blog.
Made front page of newspaper farming supplement.
Appeared on Ear to the Ground.

foxy farmer

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is there anything worst than a begrudger taking notes?

Yeah. Could start another thread. Signs you're dealing with an obsessive compulsive. Fcuk me now there's a bunch of headmelters. Cop on and common sense out the window.

Castlekeeper

Washes out the sheds the same week the stock are turned out, sometimes does it a few times of a bad spring.
White paint, (not whitewash now) and round up everywhere in the spring.
All remaining hedges scalped every winter, and the roads done during the summer too.
Beacons always going on the tractor.
Every possible square meter of scrub is "reclaimed", roadside trees are going these years now for "safety".
The house has to be getting bigger, and more visible from the road.
Wears a mid length quilted/wax jacket.

Dinzee Conlee

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is there anything worst than a begrudger taking notes?

You’d wonder are some lads just jealous all right Patsy...

But sure, tis a lockdown, lads could be doing worse than ranting away in here too

Now, where is that thread about a cover for 3ft square hole, must ask has he tried a pallet...

Kevhog1988

This fella yere all describing has a setup I want 😂😂

minerleague

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

You’d wonder are some lads just jealous all right Patsy...

But sure, tis a lockdown, lads could be doing worse than ranting away in here too

Now, where is that thread about a cover for 3ft square hole, must ask has he tried a pallet...

beat u to that one, anyway these types of threads are surely not to be taken too seriously, like the best comedy an element of truth is often the most biting, thats how I see it and I know i,d be seen as a rooter but couldnt care less

Limestone Cowboy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is there anything worst than a begrudger taking notes?

Spot on there, I nearly left the discussion group on Facebook lately over the same carry on. A local fella taking snipes at "grant farmers" and his family living off the farm assist. Lads would want to start looking at themselves before they start pointing fingers. The irony is unreal.

cjpm

Has taken 2 additional farms complete with their herds of cows. Has a top NZ farm manager employed on one and a Nuffield Scholar running the other. Both on 80k a year.

Sacrolyte

He’s the worst type of CU#T to deal with when your rooter cattle break into his lawn.

FintanMcluskey

Sacrolyte wrote: »

He’s the worst type of CU#T to deal with when your rooter cattle break into his lawn.

That reminded me of this chap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFsoQ7GJh2I

MrMusician18

I don't really understand this thread tbh. The lad we are poking fun of here seems to be the type that most should aspire to: running a farm efficiently actually like a business, investing and maintaining equipment and taking safety seriously.

FintanMcluskey

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I don't really understand this thread tbh. The lad we are poking fun of here seems to be the type that most should aspire to: running a farm efficiently actually like a business, investing and maintaining equipment and taking safety seriously.

I think it’s just meant as light hearted fun.

Don’t think the OP meant any offence

893bet

I think the definition of an anti rooter is misplaced by the OP. Seems to be more a “for show” farmer.

If being a Rooter is seen as a negative (largely). Then being an anti rooter should be seen as a positive then?

Examples would be to me would represent a more “organised” type of lad.....which is not easy be sometimes...

1) properly segregating waste plastic for recycling
2) keeping a spreadsheet to track polling of calves
3) gates are hung/rehung in a timely fashion
4) pallets are used on the horizontal to store things rather than vertically to block things.
5) Chains are used with carbine hooks instead of baking twine everywhere

Etc.

Sacrolyte

893bet wrote: »

I think the definition of an anti rooter is misplaced by the OP. Seems to be more a “for show” farmer.

If being a Rooter is seen as a negative (largely). Then being an anti rooter should be seen as a positive then?

Examples would be to me would represent a more “organised” type of lad.....which is not easy be sometimes...

1) properly segregating waste plastic for recycling
2) keeping a spreadsheet to track polling of calves
3) gates are hung/rehung in a timely fashion
4) pallets are used on the horizontal to store things rather than vertically to block things.
5) Chains are used with carbine hooks instead of baking twine everywhere

Etc.

Getting all pedantic when your just trying to have a bit of craic on a thread.

893bet

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Getting all pedantic when your just trying to have a bit of craic on a thread.

Exactly.

Or sniping from the ditch with out adding value could be another one.

endainoz

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Spot on there, I nearly left the discussion group on Facebook lately over the same carry on. A local fella taking snipes at "grant farmers" and his family living off the farm assist. Lads would want to start looking at themselves before they start pointing fingers. The irony is unreal.

Would that be the same lad who was ranting about cow schemes before!? I got out of those facebook groups, way too much whinging and giving out. All that negativity isn't good for the head!

Limestone Cowboy

endainoz wrote: »

Would that be the same lad who was ranting about cow schemes before!? I got out of those facebook groups, way too much whinging and giving out. All that negativity isn't good for the head!

You know the man alright

Castlekeeper

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I don't really understand this thread tbh. The lad we are poking fun of here seems to be the type that most should aspire to: running a farm efficiently actually like a business, investing and maintaining equipment and taking safety seriously.

They're also a hungry, unscrupulous blowhard.

French Toast

A new-ish 140hp tractor to roll, spread fert, top rushes and feed out bales :P

In all seriousness, if being anti-rooter is the opposite of what was mentioned in the rooter thread, we should all be aiming for it.