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Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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    #332
    Jjameson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Jjameson


    enricoh wrote: »
    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!

    Winner winner chicken dinner!


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    #333
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    kerryjack wrote: »
    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.

    A farmer hear me would rake his silage into the biggest rows/piles he could with a vicon acrobat rake. Then he'd bring the silage into the "silage pit" with a cocklifter. It was a slow process:D


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    #334
    _Brian
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    tanko wrote: »
    A farmer hear me would rake his silage into the biggest rows/piles he could with a vicon acrobat rake. Then he'd bring the silage into the "silage pit" with a cocklifter. It was a slow process:D

    Definitely remember lots of that happening in 85/86 when the weather was pants amd it was obvious hay was lost.
    Lads would open a clay pit, bring in the grass on cocklifters and tramp it in, cover and pray.

    Much was rubbish, but it saved allot of stock from starving.


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    #335
    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    _Brian wrote: »
    Definitely remember lots of that happening in 85/86 when the weather was pants amd it was obvious hay was lost.
    Lads would open a clay pit, bring in the grass on cocklifters and tramp it in, cover and pray.

    Much was rubbish, but it saved allot of stock from starving.
    Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.


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    #336
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.

    Why didn't ye tie a load of cavity blocks onto the front axle with baler twine??;)


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    #337
    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    tanko wrote: »
    Why didn't ye tie a load of cavity blocks onto the front axle with baler twine??;)
    Not at all the cavity blocks were tied to the dog to stop him from chasing the car


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    #338
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,792 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Not at all the cavity blocks were tied to the dog to stop him from chasing the car

    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.
    Got fed up with their dog. Bang.
    Too many kittens. Trip to the river in a bag.
    A barn owl nesting. Bang.


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    #339
    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    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.
    Got fed up with their dog. Bang.
    Too many kittens. Trip to the river in a bag.
    A barn owl nesting. Bang.
    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.


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    #340
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Ya remember it well I was a heavy set young lad and my job was sitting on the bonnet of the 35 holding on to the 2 lamps for fear life.

    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.


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    #341
    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭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.


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    #342
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭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.


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    #343
    PoorFarmer
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Have seen lumps of hose used

    Old bicycle tubes too


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    #344
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,131 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #345
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭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


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    #346
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,792 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #347
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,846 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #348
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭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


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    #349
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,846 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #350
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #351
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,131 ✭✭✭✭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


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    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭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....


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    #353
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,777 ✭✭✭✭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!!


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    #354
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,792 ✭✭✭✭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?


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    #355
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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    #356
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,638 ✭✭✭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:


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    #357
    Stihl waters
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭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


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    #358
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,698 ✭✭✭✭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. :D

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #359
    Blowheads
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭Blowheads


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


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    #360
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,866 ✭✭✭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


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    #361
    memorystick
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    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.


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