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Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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    #302
    Kevhog1988
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    #303
    crackcrack30
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    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.


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    #304
    Mac Taylor
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    There's a lad comes here for calves and he ties their legs together some way and puts them in a sack leaving just their head sticking out and puts them in the boot of the car. He was here before Christmas and had his wife's car. Was driving about 40 minutes away. He has a trailer , but does this messing. Has been getting calves here about 20years.

    I remember the auld lad buying calves at the Ennis market and doing the same thing minus the bag:D

    As we moved up the ladder, the dealer started calling to us on a Saturday evening with whatever was left even if we did or didn’t want them. There would be a note in the shed....pay me when you see me. No mobiles and we didn’t have a house phone. Simpler times:D


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    #305
    the_pen_turner
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    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


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    #306
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,286 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    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

    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


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    #307
    the_pen_turner
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    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


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    Nekarsulm
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    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....... :D


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    #309
    Anto_Meath
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    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.


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    kk.man
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    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.


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    #311
    the_pen_turner
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    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


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    FintanMcluskey
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    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 ;)


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


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    #314
    Lime Tree Farm
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    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==


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    #315
    whisky_galore
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    Heard of a lad that repaired marine engines.
    He used sandpaper to clean the engine oil off his hands, he had no fingerprints left.


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    keepalive213
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    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.


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    #317
    blue5000
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    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

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭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.


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    Jjameson
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    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

    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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


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    #321
    blue5000
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    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......;)

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    farawaygrass
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    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


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    J.O. Farmer
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    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.


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    theaceofspies
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    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


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    #325
    Mad_maxx
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    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


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    #326
    Kevhog1988
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    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


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    #327
    Kevhog1988
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    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.


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    #328
    kerryjack
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    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.


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    Green farmer
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    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.


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    Mad_maxx
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    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 :D


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    enricoh
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    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!


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