Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

PoorFarmer · 10-12-2020 09:30PM

Finty Lemon wrote: »

Horns on the weanlings
No tags on the calves
Tractor left ready for the hill start
Green diesel in the jeep
Silage in September
Reseeding in October
Slurry in December
Pallets on the manholes
Netting in the tank
An old cow kept to feed a few calves
Cash only
Homeopathic cures
Homemade remedies
Has an invention that is really a contraption
Cattle left out too late in autumn
Cattle left in too late in spring
Feeds a lot of salt
Blames copper for everything
Small squares
Penstrep
Ringworm
Anti-vax
Keeps the PI's
Ignores the lame ones
Buys stock based on colour
Sells stock based on panic
Never washes the trailer
Still milking at 10 in the morning
Still milking at 10 at night
Asleep at the back of the meeting
First in line for the grant

No handles on the electric fence. Knot it instead.
When I was driving for a contractor I used to have a snips to get into certain farms

Jb1989 · 10-12-2020 09:44PM

PoorFarmer wrote: »

No handles on the electric fence. Knot it instead.
When I was driving for a contractor I used to have a snips to get into certain farms

Hopefully the power was off

DBK1 · 11-12-2020 12:05AM

Jb1989 wrote: »

I know in our household, there be no looking on Internet at 5,45. Phone is left alone till later in the day. Seldom need for technology at that time of the day.

Have to say I’d disagree completely with that. I’d use the technology either early in the morning or late at night a lot more than I would during the day. Just because we’re asleep during our night time doesn’t mean the whole world is asleep at the same time!! A lot of things happen all around the world when we’re asleep so I like to check the news websites in the mornings when I wake up to see what has happened. It gives you a few minutes to wake up before getting out of the bed too.

Plus any lad that’s busy shouldn’t have time to be looking at the technology during the day!

Jb1989 · 11-12-2020 12:36AM

DBK1 wrote: »

Have to say I’d disagree completely with that. I’d use the technology either early in the morning or late at night a lot more than I would during the day. Just because we’re asleep during our night time doesn’t mean the whole world is asleep at the same time!! A lot of things happen all around the world when we’re asleep so I like to check the news websites in the mornings when I wake up to see what has happened. It gives you a few minutes to wake up before getting out of the bed too.

Plus any lad that’s busy shouldn’t have time to be looking at the technology during the day!

Yea that suits you completely,
Here, the kids usually come in to bed first thing so I have craic with them firstly, as won't see them till late and they are all the news I need at that time of the morning.

I look at it at 10.00 tae, don't switch on Internet till then.

keepalive213 · 11-12-2020 01:13AM

Battery dead in everything

Machinery doors broken, farm gates hung with rope.

Get bogged in the same field every year without fail

A penny wise and a pound foolish...

donald trump supporter

DBK1 · 11-12-2020 01:51AM

Jb1989 wrote: »

Yea that suits you completely,
Here, the kids usually come in to bed first thing so I have craic with them firstly, as won't see them till late and they are all the news I need at that time of the morning.

I look at it at 10.00 tae, don't switch on Internet till then.

Fair play, and that suits you. That time with the kids is definitely more important than anything else but mine are a bit gone past coming into the bed in the mornings. Although I’d have been doing well to have them up by 5.45 no matter what age they were!

Birdnuts · 11-12-2020 02:53AM

A collector of old tractor and land rover parts for no obvious reason(luckily the chap I have in mind has no intention of ever joining the online community...);)

farawaygrass · 11-12-2020 05:09AM

Another thing I notice too is that most people I encounter who spent a good few years in America are great for the mornings snd always on time. One guy told me before that if you are 5 minutes early you are on time, if you are just on time you are late

whelan2 · 11-12-2020 07:00AM

farawaygrass wrote: »

Another thing I notice too is that most people I encounter who spent a good few years in America are great for the mornings snd always on time. One guy told me before that if you are 5 minutes early you are on time, if you are just on time you are late

People always being late really annoys me. Anyone can get delayed but when it's the same people all the time ....

_Brian · 11-12-2020 07:37AM

whelan2 wrote: »

People always being late really annoys me. Anyone can get delayed but when it's the same people all the time ....

That shows a general disrespect for everyone, like one has anything better to do but wait on them.

whelan2 · 11-12-2020 09:59AM

_Brian wrote: »

That shows a general disrespect for everyone, like one has anything better to do but wait on them.

And then they think it's all a joke

eastie17 · 11-12-2020 10:17AM

very true, it shows a complete lack of respect for others, coming around the corner on 2 wheels, roaring at people coz their late and under pressure.
Well its not the worlds fault, its your own, plan your **** better and it wouldnt happen, but deep down they dont really care. The world is there to serve them, very selfish trait.

whelan2 · 11-12-2020 10:23AM

One of the teams one of my kids is on they are told if you are not at least 10 minutes early it's a strike against you getting picked for the team. With covid restrictions now the protocols have to be done before training can start. If someone is late a coach has to leave the team and go and sign the kid in.

whelan2 · 11-12-2020 10:40AM

Jjameson wrote: »

So why not call the real time 10 minutes early?

Because then people would still be late. Look if I can be up, cows milked etc and be 45 minutes away for say 8.45am surely the rest of the team can also be there on time?

Limestone Cowboy · 11-12-2020 10:43AM

farawaygrass wrote: »

Another thing I notice too is that most people I encounter who spent a good few years in America are great for the mornings snd always on time. One guy told me before that if you are 5 minutes early you are on time, if you are just on time you are late

Ya, the fella I am at the shuttering with was in America for a few years and he is the same. We used to start at 7 most mornings during the summer and finish at 4 or earlier if we had everything ready for the following day because we are both farming aswell. Worked well, always try to have concrete coming first run in the morning too.

minerleague · 11-12-2020 03:50PM

So finally have a name for it ! I am a " rooter" left out a few signs :
bales left in corner of meadow in summer for rootin in winter
more vicegrips than spanners
4 or 5 " vintage " yokes instead of 1 fresh one
nice flighty lim/saler sucklers
forms filled last possible second

_Brian · 11-12-2020 04:07PM

minerleague wrote: »

So finally have a name for it ! I am a " rooter" left out a few signs :
bales left in corner of meadow in summer for rootin in winter
more vicegrips than spanners
4 or 5 " vintage " yokes instead of 1 fresh one
nice flighty lim/saler sucklers
forms filled last possible second

The shame of it
We’ve square bales in a shed for handiness and feeding round bales with a mid 70’s tractor

Base price · 11-12-2020 04:48PM

_Brian wrote: »

The shame of it
We’ve square bales in a shed for handiness and feeding round bales with a mid 70’s tractor

+1
The youngest tractor on this farm is 1986. The lad with the auld tractors doesn't have to worry about meeting repayments and the dashboard lighting up like a Christmas tree with electronic faults and they get the same job done.

older by the day · 11-12-2020 07:07PM

Base price wrote: »

+1
The youngest tractor on this farm is 1986. The lad with the auld tractors doesn't have to worry about meeting repayments and the dashboard lighting up like a Christmas tree with electronic faults and they get the same job done.

And feeling not guilty when you jump in with dirty wet oil skins and s nd slurry dripping off your Wellingtons. Or scrapping it off a big white thorn Bush going out narrow gaps

BENDYBINN · 12-12-2020 01:31PM

Base price wrote: »

+1
The youngest tractor on this farm is 1986. The lad with the auld tractors doesn't have to worry about meeting repayments and the dashboard lighting up like a Christmas tree with electronic faults and they get the same job done.

Yea,and all the neighbors laughing at you sayin your backward as fucck, stuck in the dark ages!!

kerryjack · 12-12-2020 01:52PM

Do all the hard work here 7 to 1,very little done after dinner only fun stuff maybe the odd nap as well, up at 6 every morning including weekends head out for a few pints at 6 in evening friday and Saturday home at 9 bed by 10 when everyone else is going out, love early morning in summer great peace in place, non farming neighbour not 2 happy with me flat out in morning but sure what can you do.

farawaygrass · 12-12-2020 02:00PM

kerryjack wrote: »

Do all the hard work here 7 to 1,very little done after dinner only fun stuff maybe the odd nap as well, up at 6 every morning including weekends head out for a few pints at 6 in evening friday and Saturday home at 9 bed by 10 when everyone else is going out, love early morning in summer great peace in place, non farming neighbour not 2 happy with me flat out in morning but sure what can you do.

Can’t beat heading to the pub early like that when you are in a routine of early mornings. I used to dread the thought Of getting ready and heading out at 930 or so, would be half wrecked. I know a lot of people who wouldn’t leave their house to go out till 11 or so. I wouldn’t enjoy that at all

Dunedin · 12-12-2020 02:10PM

kerryjack wrote: »

Do all the hard work here 7 to 1,very little done after dinner only fun stuff maybe the odd nap as well, up at 6 every morning including weekends head out for a few pints at 6 in evening friday and Saturday home at 9 bed by 10 when everyone else is going out, love early morning in summer great peace in place, non farming neighbour not 2 happy with me flat out in morning but sure what can you do.

That’s me without the pub bit. In younger days often done 7 nights a week in the pub, now it’s hardly 7 nights a year.

Love getting out early too. Record is out topping at 4.30am (probably a contender for the lads in the white coats to bring me off!!)

SmartinMartin · 12-12-2020 02:12PM

Base price wrote: »

+1
The youngest tractor on this farm is 1986. The lad with the auld tractors doesn't have to worry about meeting repayments and the dashboard lighting up like a Christmas tree with electronic faults and they get the same job done.

My youngest one is 1967. I have a 57 and a 56 after that.

Dunedin · 12-12-2020 02:15PM

Base price wrote: »

+1
The youngest tractor on this farm is 1986. The lad with the auld tractors doesn't have to worry about meeting repayments and the dashboard lighting up like a Christmas tree with electronic faults and they get the same job done.

Bought new tractor 5 years ago. Never regret it as I have serious comfort and safe for the kids to come too (seat and seat belt for them). Often it’s 8-9pm before I get to the yard during the week and need reliable yoke. Paid for last year so no repayments either!!!

But everyone to their own.

kerryjack · 12-12-2020 02:30PM

Dunedin wrote: »

That’s me without the pub bit. In younger days often done 7 nights a week in the pub, now it’s hardly 7 nights a year.

Love getting out early too. Record is out topping at 4.30am (probably a contender for the lads in the white coats to bring me off!!)

My ould lad was well know for being an early riser but it was the fags, he was a 80 or 100 goldflake a day man and you would heir him in the morning around 6 coughing it was like trying to start an ould diesel engine. He would wake the whole house Tea and fags for breakfast like he won't buy a pack it was by the carton he used buy them. Looking back now I would say more cigurate ash went to the creamery than milk. Mad times looking back.

SmartinMartin · 12-12-2020 02:40PM

I was only saying to a neighbour yesterday I remember smoking in the hospital when I had a broken leg. Mad stuff. Thank God I gave them up years ago.

Dunedin · 12-12-2020 02:49PM

Thankfully never smoked but remember well coming home from the pub and yer eyes would be burning from the smoking and not to mention the smell of yer clothes the next day.

Nekarsulm · 12-12-2020 04:05PM

SmartinMartin wrote: »

I was only saying to a neighbour yesterday I remember smoking in the hospital when I had a broken leg. Mad stuff. Thank God I gave them up years ago.

It's only about 20 years ago that you could smoke in the hospital ward.
Spent 4 days in Navan getting pin in a bone I broke, and the lads in our little ward smoked.
The Matron/Nurse in charge was from a Religeous Order, and must have had polio, as she had a caliper on one leg.
She also hated smoking with a vengeance.
When we heard her coming tap, tapping down the corridor, three lads would fly to the window and throw their half smoked fags out the window.....
Be back in the chair or bed by the time she got to the door, and a cloud of Carrolls or Rothmans up at the ceiling

farawaygrass · 12-12-2020 05:57PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

It's only about 20 years ago that you could smoke in the hospital ward.
Spent 4 days in Navan getting pin in a bone I broke, and the lads in our little ward smoked.
The Matron/Nurse in charge was from a Religeous Order, and must have had polio, as she had a caliper on one leg.
She also hated smoking with a vengeance.
When we heard her coming tap, tapping down the corridor, three lads would fly to the window and throw their half smoked fags out the window.....
Be back in the chair or bed by the time she got to the door, and a cloud of Carrolls or Rothmans up at the ceiling

I know a woman who was in hospital lately and lit up in bed. When the nurse came round and gave out she pretended she thought she was at home and got all flustered as though

Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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