Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

J.O. Farmer · 25-02-2021 09:43AM

Grueller wrote: »

I have a diesel gauge. No airlock in years either.

You mean a piece of wavin pipe to dip into the tank before starting the days work.

Grueller · 25-02-2021 10:04AM

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

You mean a piece of wavin pipe to dip into the tank before starting the days work.

No actually have a 4000 here that is 48 years old and feck all else works, but the diesel gauge does.

vincenzolorenzo · 25-02-2021 11:02AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

I'd love to know the answer to that. Wrecks my head

Say my name · 25-02-2021 01:22PM

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

I'd love to know the answer to that. Wrecks my head

I've heard a professor call chopped straw - stubble.
So I wouldn't get too head wrecked. :pac:

Figerty · 25-02-2021 04:48PM

Grueller wrote: »

No actually have a 4000 here that is 48 years old and feck all else works, but the diesel gauge does.

They are great gauges.. mine still works as well.. No lights etc..

20silkcut · 26-02-2021 12:53PM

Grueller wrote: »

I have a diesel gauge. No airlock in years either.

To me the Diesel gauge is only advisory. I can and do ,more often than I should , stay going long after it says empty. I suppose this is my inner rooter coming out.
Definitely don’t recommend it.

foxy farmer · 26-02-2021 08:41PM

When you're spreading slurry for a rooter every load will have an object that causes a blockage. Today I've seen beet, pieces of car tyres, timber posts, plastic shoes for cows, balls of silage wrap and big lumps of strawy dung.

mr.stonewall · 26-02-2021 08:50PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

When you're spreading slurry for a rooter every load will have an object that causes a blockage. Today I've seen beet, pieces of car tyres, timber posts, plastic shoes for cows, balls of silage wrap and big lumps of strawy dung.

Wait for the day the rooter will have to use a macerator

whelan2 · 26-02-2021 08:53PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

When you're spreading slurry for a rooter every load will have an object that causes a blockage. Today I've seen beet, pieces of car tyres, timber posts, plastic shoes for cows, balls of silage wrap and big lumps of strawy dung.

My dad was telling me years ago he was one of the first farmers in the area to get a slurry tanker. It was 700 gallons or something. These farmers asked him to come over to spread for them. When he got there the cows were knee deep in crap eating at the silage pit. He asked where the tank was. They pointed at the silage pit. They said it was explained to them that a vacuum tanker was like a Hoover and would suck up all the muck. He got them to push it all into a corner and he slowly took a few loads out of it.

Danzy · 26-02-2021 09:25PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

When you're spreading slurry for a rooter every load will have an object that causes a blockage. Today I've seen beet, pieces of car tyres, timber posts, plastic shoes for cows, balls of silage wrap and big lumps of strawy dung.

I'd like it noted that it was only one load and it was my library card that blocked the out pipe.

On the plus I figured out Where my wallet went the previous year.

kerryjack · 01-03-2021 05:39PM

We have a new rooter, horse trainer Gordon Elliott sitting on a dead horse and talking a call. I don't see the big fuss in it myself.

blue5000 · 01-03-2021 05:43PM

Rooters have gone international, but this one is more deserving of a Darwin award;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india

01-03-2021 10:06PM

whelan2 wrote: »

My dad was telling me years ago he was one of the first farmers in the area to get a slurry tanker. It was 700 gallons or something. These farmers asked him to come over to spread for them. When he got there the cows were knee deep in crap eating at the silage pit. He asked where the tank was. They pointed at the silage pit. They said it was explained to them that a vacuum tanker was like a Hoover and would suck up all the muck. He got them to push it all into a corner and he slowly took a few loads out of it.

Perhaps it was easier to get away with being a rooter years ago when stock and produce was worth more?

I think the best cure / way back for a rooter is some class of a daily planner or whiteboard or something like that.

How many jobs can I actually do in a day and get a few things sorted each day that way.

whisky_galore · 01-03-2021 10:07PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Rooters have gone international, but this one is more deserving of a Darwin award;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india

Chicken Karma.

SuperTortoise · 01-03-2021 10:35PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Rooters have gone international, but this one is more deserving of a Darwin award;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india

Leading contender for the Darwin award 2021 for sure!

mr.stonewall · 01-03-2021 10:50PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Rooters have gone international, but this one is more deserving of a Darwin award;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india

A major cock up

Figerty · 02-03-2021 12:35AM

blue5000 wrote: »

Rooters have gone international, but this one is more deserving of a Darwin award;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india

Rooster,,, not Rooter....wrong thread...

blue5000 · 02-03-2021 11:29AM

Figerty wrote: »

Rooster,,, not Rooter....wrong thread...

Only 1 extra 'S':rolleyes:

tractorporn · 03-03-2021 09:54PM

I got sent a video this eve of an auld lad shovelling sand in the passenger door of a 02 Fiesta and its a strong contender for rooter of the year. I can't figure out how to upload it tho

Bullocks · 03-03-2021 09:55PM

tractorporn wrote: »

I got sent a video this eve of an auld lad shovelling sand in the passenger door of a 02 Fiesta and its a strong contender for rooter of the year. I can't figure out how to upload it tho

Easy to shovel it in but it's would be a hoor to get it all out again

03-03-2021 09:57PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Easy to shovel it in but it's would be a hoor to get it all out again

Not.....if you have shovelled it,onto an opened out fertilizer bag....just lift corners and pour it out

Ive said too much :-/

SuperTortoise · 03-03-2021 09:59PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Easy to shovel it in but it's would be a hoor to get it all out again

Circular saw! The bonus being it would leave in in a nice neat pile on top of a steel plate for further transportation purposes

mayota · 03-03-2021 11:23PM

tractorporn wrote: »

I got sent a video this eve of an auld lad shovelling sand in the passenger door of a 02 Fiesta and its a strong contender for rooter of the year. I can't figure out how to upload it tho

Just saw it there now on TikTok.

foxy farmer · 07-03-2021 05:24PM

Would putting 15W40 engine oil into the backend of a tractor just to get the feeding work done after bursting a hydraulic hose on a Sunday morning be classed as rooting?
I just witnessed this about an hour ago. He couldn't source 20 litres of suitable oil. He used a screw on hose joiner on a fairly shook pipe to get him going but says he'll drain the oil and get new hose tomorrow.

amacca · 07-03-2021 06:38PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Would putting 15W40 engine oil into the backend of a tractor just to get the feeding work done after bursting a hydraulic hose on a Sunday morning be classed as rooting?
I just witnessed this about an hour ago. He couldn't source 20 litres of suitable oil. He used a screw on hose joiner on a fairly shook pipe to get him going but says he'll drain the oil and get new hose tomorrow.

If he does nothing tomorrow and continues to work away then he's a probably a rooter

If you drop back in a couple of years and you see a load more hose joiners then he's definitely a rooter

maidhc · 07-03-2021 10:30PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Would putting 15W40 engine oil into the backend of a tractor just to get the feeding work done after bursting a hydraulic hose on a Sunday morning be classed as rooting?
I just witnessed this about an hour ago. He couldn't source 20 litres of suitable oil. He used a screw on hose joiner on a fairly shook pipe to get him going but says he'll drain the oil and get new hose tomorrow.

If it’s a ford you can put more or less anything in.

older by the day · 07-03-2021 10:43PM

maidhc wrote: »

If it’s a ford you can put more or less anything in.

Ya an old Ford or Massey would be fine. I changed the oil in a mf35 one time. She was letting in water in the backend for years. It was pure yellow ****e. How it ran I don't know. I had a Ford 66, and the oil got so thick it wouldn't come out the plug hole. But the modern tractor, I'd walk a hundred miles for a jug of proper oil before I would put in the wrong stuff

carrollsno1 · 07-03-2021 10:54PM

What does taking a kettle out of the house everytime its needsd on the farm (150M+) away instead of buying a second kettle and boiling the water on farm when required count as? My kettles been taken by the auld fella on three occasions this weekend alone already.

08-03-2021 01:37AM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Would putting 15W40 engine oil into the backend of a tractor just to get the feeding work done after bursting a hydraulic hose on a Sunday morning be classed as rooting?
I just witnessed this about an hour ago. He couldn't source 20 litres of suitable oil. He used a screw on hose joiner on a fairly shook pipe to get him going but says he'll drain the oil and get new hose tomorrow.

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

Kevhog1988 · 08-03-2021 01:40AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

A friendly neighbour

Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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