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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

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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 ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

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.

endainoz

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

You know the man alright

Ah yeah, it must be awful tough for him to look down his nose at the rest of us.

cal naughton

Think's Larry is a great Businessman.

the_pen_turner

on the concrete theme.
orders enough to easily do the job and maybe a small side job like hanging a post or similar
not only that but the hole is dug and the post left there beside it so there isnt a mad rush to not waste the concrete
i do work for one farmer like this and is a great pleasure. he always has screeds down around something incase he get the opertunity to use the concrete. simple things like a footpath between sheds so he isnt walking in muck, or a square under each of the dozen taps in the yard

minerleague

Sacrolyte wrote: »

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

long time since I laughed so much. Big thanks

lakill Farm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

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

sussssh I put in a washbay last year but the yard is still full of scrap and very little put away

the_pen_turner

lakill Farm wrote: »

sussssh I put in a washbay last year but the yard is still full of scrap and very little put away

do you use it.

small steps anyway

Sacrolyte

893bet wrote: »

Exactly.

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

Ah now. You gone slightly off topic there Ted.

laoch na mona

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is there anything worst than a begrudger taking notes?

yes the lads looking down their noses at people

patsy_mccabe

laoch na mona wrote: »

yes the lads looking down their noses at people

Much of the same, if you ask me.

blue5000

Don't forget the electric gates, one for the house and the other for the farm entrance beside it. With an intercom.

I could add applied to go on Ireland's fittest family......