Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

NcdJd

whelan2 wrote: »

I wonder how many actually use a 4 grain fork now? All work done by machinery now.

I've got three of them here. One has the most useless prongs imaginable. They bend in the ground. But keeping in case I ever need it for something. I've galband around the other one and another with the wrong handle on it.

I'll try and get some real rooting photos tomorrow if I think about it. One I'm really chuffed with and had an element of alcohol involved in it.

whelan2

NcdJd wrote: »

I've got three of them here. One has the most useless prongs imaginable. They bend in the ground. But keeping in case I ever need it for something. I've galband around the other one and another with the wrong handle on it.

I'll try and get some real rooting photos tomorrow if I think about it. One I'm really chuffed with and had an element of alcohol involved in it.

What's galband?

NcdJd

whelan2 wrote: »

What's galband?

Fierce handy to have about the place.

jimini0

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

4 prong pike still used here...

I actually cracked the handle the other day and used a bit of duck tape to put it back together...

Got a new handle in the co-op, but not going to bother putting it on til the duck tape leaves me down at the worst possible moment...

I have accepted the rootin lifestyle

I cracked a shovel handle yesterday. 1 + 1/2 inch waste pipe fits perfectly down over the cracked timber handle . Might replace the handle sometime.

Stihl waters

jimini0 wrote: »

I cracked a shovel handle yesterday. 1 + 1/2 inch waste pipe fits perfectly down over the cracked timber handle . Might replace the handle sometime.

Weld an inch and a half steel tube to the shovel, a lifetime job

whelan2

jimini0 wrote: »

I cracked a shovel handle yesterday. 1 + 1/2 inch waste pipe fits perfectly down over the cracked timber handle . Might replace the handle sometime.

Its nearly cheaper to buy a new shovel than to buy a handle

jimini0

whelan2 wrote: »

Its nearly cheaper to buy a new shovel than to buy a handle

Ya but I have had that shovel 20 years. I only ever had to replace the head twice and the handle 8 times.

Grueller

I hope to never wear out my shovel. Have it 15 years and it's still fairly immaculate.

lab man

jimini0 wrote: »

Ya but I have had that shovel 20 years. I only ever had to replace the head twice and the handle 8 times.

That u trigger

J.O. Farmer

Grueller wrote: »

I hope to never wear out my shovel. Have it 15 years and it's still fairly immaculate.

Don't use it and it'll last forever.

cute geoge

Grueller wrote: »

I hope to never wear out my shovel. Have it 15 years and it's still fairly immaculate.

That shovel surely has a big smile on its face

Grueller

cute geoge wrote: »

That shovel surely has a big smile on its face

Not as big as mine

NcdJd

Anyone here take the point off the shovel ? One of our neighbours used to do it. Easier to use.

StevenToast

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone here take the point off the shovel ? One of our neighbours used to do it. Easier to use.

I just bought a snow shovel instead...much better job for shoveling sh1te....

farawaygrass

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone here take the point off the shovel ? One of our neighbours used to do it. Easier to use.

Ya dad and uncles used to here. If they got a new shovel they might give it to us while they used the old one. Sure we though we were the bees knees, little did we know!

kk.man

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone here take the point off the shovel ? One of our neighbours used to do it. Easier to use.

I bought one a few years ago in aldi or somewhere not a grain shovel. Its got a straight 'point'.. Great job far better than the pointed ones.

PoorFarmer

kk.man wrote: »

I bought one a few years ago in aldi or somewhere not a grain shovel. Its got a straight 'point'.. Great job far better than the pointed ones.

Try digging a hole with it though

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

I wonder how many actually use a 4 grain fork now? All work done by machinery now.

I use one every night for forking up the diet feed.

I still have the first 4 grain fork that I bought in 1983 albeit with new handles added over the years. The first 2 grains on the left hand side are well worn down compared too the other two. I gave it to my sister (who is left handed) years ago and she uses it to fork dung into the vegetable patch. Recycling at it's best

visatorro

whelan2 wrote:

I wonder how many actually use a 4 grain fork now? All work done by machinery now.

All my calf sheds have to be bedded and cleaned out by hand. Tractor won't fit into sheds. That's rooting at it's best!

Hard Knocks

visatorro wrote: »

All my calf sheds have to be bedded and cleaned out by hand. Tractor won't fit into sheds. That's rooting at it's best!

Think how healthy you are after the exercise
Some people pay gym membership to do same

whelan2

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Think how healthy you are after the exercise
Some people pay gym membership to do same

No, it only makes you realise how unhealthy you are

_Brian

visatorro wrote: »

All my calf sheds have to be bedded and cleaned out by hand. Tractor won't fit into sheds. That's rooting at it's best!

I usually use barrow and grape even where the tractor fits.
Ya have to be doing some exercise.

whelan2

Stihl waters wrote: »

Weld an inch and a half steel tube to the shovel, a lifetime job

Does it not vibrate when you use it? Put a steel handle on a fork here and on a sledge hammer. The sledge hammer is hard work tbh. You'll never lose them as no one will use them

Stihl waters

whelan2 wrote: »

Does it not vibrate when you use it? Put a steel handle on a fork here and on a sledge hammer. The sledge hammer is hard work tbh. You'll never lose them as no one will use them

Shovel is grand, no vibration at all, the sledgehammer is hard work with a steel handle tho

Kevhog1988

Using the stove to burn out the remainder of the timber shaft in a fork today. Herself wasn't impressed

https://flic.kr/p/2kzaQUe

Reggie.

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Using the stove to burn out the remainder of the timber shaft in a fork today. Herself wasn't impressed

https://flic.kr/p/2kzaQUe

You should be ashamed of yourself

FintanMcluskey

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Using the stove to burn out the remainder of the timber shaft in a fork today. Herself wasn't impressed

https://flic.kr/p/2kzaQUe

A wife is perhaps the biggest motivation not to be a rooter

Or maybe rooters don’t get married usually

Dickie10

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

A wife is perhaps the biggest motivation not to be a rooter

Or maybe rooters don’t get married usually

oh sociological study there.should be interesting comments!

Good loser

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

A wife is perhaps the biggest motivation not to be a rooter

Or maybe rooters don’t get married usually

You're implying there are no female (lady) rooters?

ruwithme

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Using the stove to burn out the remainder of the timber shaft in a fork today. Herself wasn't impressed

https://flic.kr/p/2kzaQUe

Brave fire their. On the stub left in the fork.i asked that here some weeks back & someone suggested instead of the fire, next time get a big long screw & screw it into the wooden stub & then put the head of the screw in the vice & tap/hammer the fork out away from the broken stub.

It worked a treat,so much so that I've used that method on a couple of broken stubs since.
(Don't forget to take out the metal pin that the maker puts through the handle first)