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Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

Finty Lemon

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

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Nekarsulm

Borrowed a trailer from a lad once ( good big Hamilton, much bigger than my own trailer)
Instead of the safety clip on the hitch handle, he had the grains of a well worn graipe put through the cross hole on the hitch and tied in with baler twine.
Stepping across the draw bar I caught my nice Purofort welly on the fringing graipe head and sliced it open...

_Brian

Gave Loan of trailer to a lad to do some timber. Never returned. I went to pick it up and he still had it half full of rings beside his garage.

I got thick, pushed it across the yard and threw the rings out at the back door of his house where you’d have to cross them before getting in the door. Apparently his Mrs was furious

Never asked to borrow it again.

He was just splitting them out of the trailer as he needed them.

carrollsno1

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I know of this guy who would be messy enough with drink in. Barred from pubs, the whole lot. A fella was telling me he was in his house one day and he opened the press where he kept the dog food. All different gourmet stuff. He said he kept a few different types as his dogs liked different stuff.

One of the lads was saying he was drinking tea with his uncle one day who is an absolute rooter and he was after getting a new pup recently. While drinking the tea he copped him putting dog biscuits into his mourh a few times and gave it to the new pup theb, he thought he was imagining it but he called the uncle out on it and the uncle replied "ah sure he cant handle the hard stuff and i feel sorry for the poor b@stard so i soften it up a bit for him to help him out a bit".

Had a long drive to site yesterday with a dub and he was saying how such a fella is an old bachelor stink with money and neither chick nor child and an awful hungry begrudging fella. I said to him i can see it myself with lads my own age turning the same way he didnt believe it until i told him some of the stories about a few lads i used to knock arounx with. One evening last summer we were having a few drinks in a house (permitted at the time) 8 o clock was the time to be there which is late in my opinion but anyway it comes to 850pm and this fella rings and asks does he need to have a shower before landing on or what way ks it there. Another fella said to me one day "sure yed know the way yed be in the summer flat out and wouldnt shower for five days in a row like?"

whelan2

the_pen_turner wrote: »

completly missing a wheel from the trailer

A lad left his cattle trailer in my yard about 8 months ago as a wheel came off up the road. It's still here

patsy_mccabe

I know of this guy who would be messy enough with drink in. Barred from pubs, the whole lot. A fella was telling me he was in his house one day and he opened the press where he kept the dog food. All different gourmet stuff. He said he kept a few different types as his dogs liked different stuff.

Good loser

In the late fifties when visiting the uncle I was entrusted (and honoured), for a few days, to get the job of driving the ass and cart to the creamery with the three churns.
One of the days when he removed the in-churn rotating cooler he started running the hose around the rim of the churn - on the inside. I urgently advised him of what he was doing - he calmly assured me he was merely washing the milk off the sides of the churn.
There were of course no springs on the cart and the two mile trip to the creamery was my introduction to rock and rolling!

the_pen_turner

completly missing a wheel from the trailer

lab man

Know a fella that I worked with yrs ago we were coming home in the work van he says I need to go to the butcher so I went in too there was 2 wemmin in there he asked the butcher for scraps for da dog, the wemmin asked wat type of dog he had? he said she was looking at him !

Skipduke

-Has 2 to 6 dogs chained up. Rarely ever see the light of day. Fed sparingly on scraps. Miserable. Buttttt he’s on the lookout for a “well bred” pup.

The cycle continues

memorystick

My neighbour used to let the dogs lick the frying pan clean. Fairly hardy.
My father was a rooter. Always loved pulling beet the day before the factory closed. Had to have beer to pull over Christmas. A nuisance of a man if I’m honest.

Dickie10

Stihl waters wrote: »

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

I know a few like that round here, in early 30s and bitter and twisted already, i know one lad who used to take the piss out of me going to college and always jibing. would never try to educate himself on anything always knows everything about everything and nearly everyone is a cnut.

Last i heard he was chawing the ear off someone about price of having 2 kids etc etc. toxic

Blowheads

Cocklifter = buckrake.
Things didn't end well if you caught and bent or broke one of the teeth

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.

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

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:

_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.

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?

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!!

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....

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

PoorFarmer

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Have seen lumps of hose used

Old bicycle tubes too

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.

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.