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Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Does anyone else turn the radio down in the car when looking for where you are going? I dont know what difference it makes but I always do it

    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 446 ✭✭SCOL


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:

    You pay for parking not me, I'd walk into town before I'd pay


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,640 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    me too but I can go one better , when driving through those multi story car parks in towns and cities , i often dip my head where there is a height limit despite being inside the SUV , makes zero sense

    :eek:

    Reminds me of the time when my father hit his head on the 'Mind your head ' sign in Aillwee cave.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them


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  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them

    Sounds like Ireland's fittest family


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sounds like Ireland's fittest family
    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    A cousin of mine,used work on a farm,where to save cutting up fields with a tractor,

    They used to use,2-3 pallets and roll round bales of hay out to feed animals across the field on them

    Stop, you giving me ideas now :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw

    Pitching round bales of silage lol


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

    They should bring in piking out dung as a round in Irelands fittest family or rolling a wet bale of straw
    In a shed of bulls:pac:

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



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    blue5000 wrote: »
    [/B]In a shed of bulls:pac:
    Yes getting kicked by the feckers when trying to put in a bit of bedding

    Pairing rams would be a good season finale


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,603 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps

    Tis classic all right - have some on the fathers side that use scrap vans etc. as Hen Houses, Kennels etc.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,912 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Yes getting kicked by the feckers when trying to put in a bit of bedding

    Pairing rams would be a good season finale

    Kick them back and break your toe in the process


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    Worked in local mart years ago and you would see calves coming in on all sort of trailers. The back of a ford escort van cut off and a draw bar welded on was very common calf transportation back in 80s, haven't seen one with years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,630 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Hoarding of old cars and machinery is a classic rooter move.

    Old broken down cars or old broken machinery

    old cars blocking gaps

    And won't sell any of them even if there's trees growing up through them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I called to a rooter today and yes, he was still milking at 10am


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,085 ✭✭✭Grueller


    20silkcut wrote: »
    I’d agree with that. When I’m mowing silage or doing anything pto related I never have the radio on much and all as I’d like to. I know a truck driver who says the very same . Your ears are very important with machinery.
    I have become an expert at stopping my tractor dead at the first sound of chugging when the diesel gets low. Have not had air lock in years. Touch wood. Couldn’t do that with a radio blaring.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,232 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Grueller wrote: »
    I have a diesel gauge. No airlock in years either.

    Wouldn’t like relying on using the chugging method crossing the main Dublin road


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,085 ✭✭✭Grueller


    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Barktastic wrote: »
    Why do they call straw bales hay bales on that program?

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,938 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


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

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Figerty


    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..


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,521 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭mr.stonewall


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,912 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,096 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    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.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    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

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



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