Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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

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 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.

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

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

Same as that - spent some time in the Orthopaedic in Cork about 25 years ago...

Ward full of ould lads and nearly everyone smoked. At night, after lights out - you’d hear the popping of caps off beer bottles
All the nurses were hard cases.... It was all small old buildings - I had to have an operation, so you went into a trolley kinda bed yoke - and they put a waterproof kinda tin foil blanket over you and you were wheeled out and down the road to the operating building
It was a fcuking strange place too...

Lad across the way from me came off a motorbike and broke half the bones in his body, was in a coma for ages apparently... his face and head was still so swollen you had to roar at him as his ears were barely open to let any sound in... Not sure the broken bones were the worst of his injuries the poor hoore...

Lad next to me had lost his leg in the PTO, putting out slurry - he was old to me at the time, but looking back I’d say he couldn’t have been 30... poor lad, he had it very tough... big adjustment for anyone I imagine... Think he was from up Clare way...

Was a very strange place, glad I wasn’t there too long...

BENDYBINN wrote: »

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

I've never given a fiddlers feck about what anyone thinks of me

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Some boyo, you wouldn't think he owned a big house done to the absolute last with marble every where

You would when ya see all the near priceless twincam bits used as props in his "cottage"

PopZiggy wrote: »

7 or 70, get a proper crush

Was putting in first cattle into shed last week and had the 4 old tractors attached to trailers/implements to funnel them from field to crush and then to shed:cool:
Getting a bit old for all that : rooting is a young mans game!
Hope nobody took offence to me calling vintage tractors " Yokes" earlier, meant in lighthearted way, mine haven't lights, windows, doors, brakes, tax nor insurance so applies to myself only

Dunedin wrote: »

A roll of white tape and a few temporary stakes will do the job a lot easier and quicker.

Make sure to put the power to it
The first time at least

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.

I think your living the dream!!!

duffysfarm wrote: »

I think your living the dream!!!

I treat the body like I would any machine I have, no need to put up any unnecessary hours. People looking in might think I am a bit work shy but sure who cares.

squinn2912 wrote: »

I hate the term work shy. As though you owe it to the world to have bleeding hands at the end of a day. There’s more to life than slogging. Fair play to you for managing your time to enable your lifestyle.

The heartbeat rule/theory..Is everybody gets the same amount of heartbeats in a lifetime.
Some people go through theirs longer than others.

squinn2912 wrote: »

Wow! That is a sobering thought!

If you sleep your whole life you'll make 200..

_Brian wrote: »

I saw that theory discussed in relation to animals some time ago.
Whales amd large mammals have slow heartbeat amd so live long periods where mice for example have rapid heartbeats amd live comparatively shorter lives.

Didn’t I see recently that a whale was found alive amd estimated to be about 450years old.

There's a little truth to it.

Yep the slower heart beating creatures live longer.

I know of a lad hes a good handy man. One day the sewage in the house was blocked, so he yoked the compressor up to the pipe, it didnt end well lol. Lads could write books about rooters around here

was scanning ewes last saturday, the guy said he would be here at 5:30 , drove into the yard at:5:33am , 105 ewes scanned at 6:35 gone to next job by 6:45am, i finshed up that evening at 6pm, got 3 days work done in 1

On about everyone only having so many heartbeats. I heard someone on the radio talking about that before they were asked is exercise wasting up heartbeats. She answered that The heartbeats from high intensity training are deducted from your heartbeat count to date

whelan2 wrote: »

People always being late really annoys me.

Funny though, people who are late always seem happier than those waiting for them.

squinn2912 wrote: »

Bit of an aside but I used to go to a physio. His work was very good and I had no complaints. One time I slept in and arrived ten mins late. I went anyhow and apologised and he told me it’s ok but your session will still have to finish at ‘half’ I said that was no bother and paid the full price. A few weeks later he arrived ten mins late and my session finished... at half! That finished me with him.

I too would have said, it's Ok, but your fee has finished at half.