Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

Thepillowman

ruwithme wrote: »

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)

Putting things in the fire to get the handle out makes a bollix of the temper in the steel as well.

Kevhog1988

Thepillowman wrote: »

Putting things in the fire to get the handle out makes a bollix of the temper in the steel as well.

Id say that fork is here 20 yrs . If the work its had here hasn't killed it a turf fire won't.

AckwelFoley

Worked in a hardware store for over a decade.

I've seen many the rooter.

One lad came for a pallet of blocks

6 x 4 trailer.

The best way to describe the condition and design of this trailer is that the tail board was made from a household radiator and everything else was rotton

I point blank refused to load him. Told him to go home and get a proper trailer.

I'd never live with myself if some innocent person was killed because I loaded him.

Irish people and trailers, I've seen some whoppers on the road that aren't suitable to be in a scrapyard let alone behind a vehicle. We have a better standard on tje road in the last decade but there are still yokes on the road.

kerryjack

Same here only difference I would load them to the hilt, blocks seemed to be the killer and used love to load them onto a dodgy trailer and see them disengrate and the look of horror on the owners face priceless, the place was like a grave yard for car trainers.

AckwelFoley

kerryjack wrote: »

Same here only difference I would load them to the hilt, blocks seemed to be the killer and used love to load them onto a dodgy trailer and see them disengrate and the look of horror on the owners face priceless, the place was like a grave yard for car trainers.

I understand that, but i know of a man that was killed..pinned to a wall by a trailer that decoupled.

I'm imagining this fool head out the gate and shedding the load and injuring a child or something horrific like that.

My satisfaction was letting him know his trailer was a piece of **** and shouldn't be on the road.

I works for a well know trailer component manufacturer. I come across incidences of trailer decoupling at least once a week, never mind wheels flying off into ditches.

I remember last year one "know it all" clown told me the brakes were very poorly designed. He was using a chain around the hitch on a 3.5 tonne trailer pulling a 3 tonne digger.

He was significantly overloaded with that weight in the trailer, and by using the chain he prevents the brakes on the trailer working if it decoupled.
I pointed this out to him
He proceeds to to tell me that he doesn't trust the brakes to work. They're unreliable.


Really, when did you service your trailer past I asked?
Never.

When did you service your jeep which is half the weight of the trailer last? A few months ago.

Trailer brakes are not unreliable if they're maintained

You'll service the jeep but not the trailer. If the brakes don't work on the jeep would you drive it?

Of course not.
Best you fix the brakes before a tuned in RSA checkpoint spots you're illegal on the road

Jb1989

AckwelFoley wrote: »

I understand that, but i know of a man that was killed..pinned to a wall by a trailer that decoupled.

I'm imagining this fool head out the gate and shedding the load and injuring a child or something horrific like that.

My satisfaction was letting him know his trailer was a piece of **** and shouldn't be on the road.

I works for a well know trailer component manufacturer. I come across incidences of trailer decoupling at least once a week, never mind wheels flying off into ditches.

I remember last year one "know it all" clown told me the brakes were very poorly designed. He was using a chain around the hitch on a 3.5 tonne trailer pulling a 3 tonne digger.

He was significantly overloaded with that weight in the trailer, and by using the chain he prevents the brakes on the trailer working if it decoupled.
I pointed this out to him
He proceeds to to tell me that he doesn't trust the brakes to work. They're unreliable.


Really, when did you service your trailer past I asked?
Never.

When did you service your jeep which is half the weight of the trailer last? A few months ago.

Trailer brakes are not unreliable if they're maintained

You'll service the jeep but not the trailer. If the brakes don't work on the jeep would you drive it?

Of course not.
Best you fix the brakes before a tuned in RSA checkpoint spots you're illegal on the road

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_Brian

Jb1989 wrote: »

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Saw that.
Badly abused trailer.

Albert Johnson

AckwelFoley wrote: »

Worked in a hardware store for over a decade.

I've seen many the rooter.

One lad came for a pallet of blocks

6 x 4 trailer.

The best way to describe the condition and design of this trailer is that the tail board was made from a household radiator and everything else was rotton

I point blank refused to load him. Told him to go home and get a proper trailer.

I'd never live with myself if some innocent person was killed because I loaded him.

Irish people and trailers, I've seen some whoppers on the road that aren't suitable to be in a scrapyard let alone behind a vehicle. We have a better standard on tje road in the last decade but there are still yokes on the road.

During the fodder crisis in 2013 some of the local marts started sourcing and distributing imported fodder to those in need. Towards the end of the crisis the fodder situation locally was getting critical and I decided I was better avail of some for my own stock. On the day of the next delivery I was queued in the mart yard along with other local men awaiting our fair share. There was a tractor with a front loader available to load anyone with a jeep/car and trailer as needed.

Eventually it was my turn and having loaded the bale I stood around chatting with different lad's about the weather, cattle trade ect. Just as the last bales were being divided up in lands a local rooter with a battered Caddy van and an ancient 6x4 single axle cattle trailer. He managed to secure a bale for himself and the tractor driver set about loading the badly needed fodder. The bales were 8x4 and well packed although of poor quality. I only did ordinary maths in school but it was plain for everyone to see that this was going to be a tight squeeze.

Our man instructed the tractor driver to force the bale into the trailer while he sat in the van with the brake pedal to the floor as the handbrake wasn't working. The tractor driver duly obliged and by the time he'd pushed the van and trailer from one side of the yard to the other the bale was about halfway inside. After a quick inspection the general consensus was that it was wedged tight and it wouldn't stir for the short trip out the road. Someone remarked as to how the bale would be extracted from the trailer at the end of the journey. Our man would have kept lots of stock and all of them badly in need of sustenance at the time. He informed the worried bystander that there was 20 cows in a yard at the house and they could "eat it out of it". Sure enough a neighbour of the rooter told me that a few hours later there was nothing but an empty trailer and a pile of orange twines surrounded by 20 unimpressed cow's.

arctictree

You'd want to see some of the yolks in the Mart. Mostly aul lads with one or two sheep in it. How they get through a checkpoint is a mystery...

Albert Johnson

arctictree wrote: »

You'd want to see some of the yolks in the Mart. Mostly aul lads with one or two sheep in it. How they get through a checkpoint is a mystery...

The real rooter's only bother with a trailer for the decent sized loads. The small numbers go in the back of the van or fettered in the boot of the car.

jimini0

Albert Johnson wrote: »

The real rooter's only bother with a trailer for the decent sized loads. The small numbers go in the back of the van or fettered in the boot of the car.

Guilty again. I brought 2 calves home in the back of the van on Friday. Bought them for another man. Emptied the tools and fired in a bit of straw. Now I only had to bring them 6km but they were happy out in the back.

Albert Johnson

jimini0 wrote: »

Guilty again. I brought 2 calves home in the back of the van on Friday. Bought them for another man. Emptied the tools and fired in a bit of straw. Now I only had to bring them 6km but they were happy out in the back.

If you don't possess some amount of rooter like qualities then simple job's can often be very complicated in my experience. I remember bringing home 4 weanlings from the mart years back with a car and 8×5 trailer. Another man asked me to carry a ewe and 2 small lambs for him and I didn't want to refuse him.

The boot of the car was full of meal bags and other junk so I got a pallet and tied it inside the side access door on the trailer and put the ewe behind it and loaded the weanlings. The 2 lambs went into the passenger footwell on top of a few empty meal bags. I like to think I done my bit for the environment by reducing the journey's needed to transport the stock.

mayota

Jb1989 wrote: »

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Two out of three tyres ripped !

Lime Tree Farm

Albert Johnson wrote: »

During the fodder crisis in 2013 some of the local marts started sourcing and distributing imported fodder to those in need. Towards the end of the crisis the fodder situation locally was getting critical and I decided I was better avail of some for my own stock. On the day of the next delivery I was queued in the mart yard along with other local men awaiting our fair share. There was a tractor with a front loader available to load anyone with a jeep/car and trailer as needed.

Eventually it was my turn and having loaded the bale I stood around chatting with different lad's about the weather, cattle trade ect. Just as the last bales were being divided up in lands a local rooter with a battered Caddy van and an ancient 6x4 single axle cattle trailer. He managed to secure a bale for himself and the tractor driver set about loading the badly needed fodder. The bales were 8x4 and well packed although of poor quality. I only did ordinary maths in school but it was plain for everyone to see that this was going to be a tight squeeze.

Our man instructed the tractor driver to force the bale into the trailer while he sat in the van with the brake pedal to the floor as the handbrake wasn't working. The tractor driver duly obliged and by the time he'd pushed the van and trailer from one side of the yard to the other the bale was about halfway inside. After a quick inspection the general consensus was that it was wedged tight and it wouldn't stir for the short trip out the road. Someone remarked as to how the bale would be extracted from the trailer at the end of the journey. Our man would have kept lots of stock and all of them badly in need of sustenance at the time. He informed the worried bystander that there was 20 cows in a yard at the house and they could "eat it out of it". Sure enough a neighbour of the rooter told me that a few hours later there was nothing but an empty trailer and a pile of orange twines surrounded by 20 unimpressed cow's.

Best one I've read in a long time, you should write a book, you have the makings of a great author.

carrollsno1

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Best one I've read in a long time, you should write a book, you have the makings of a great author.

We could start our own podcast between us all......
The rooting and bolloxing hour, different host each week 🙄🀔😂

Suckler

If anyone follows Farmer Phil on youtube/Insta, they had a post last week that reminded me of this thread. He was looking at restoring or scrapping an old Nuffield tractor. It was stuck in the middle of the field where I'm guessing it died. It wasn't today nor yesterday it stopped there. Could never figure out lads leaving machinery stuck in the middle of the field.

Odelay

Jb1989 wrote: »

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But there’s still plenty of thread on that tyre!!

Thargor

What?

orm0nd

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

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

We were digging a grave and it was tough going, sticky mud. Guy in the hole was getting it butty with a newish shovel.

There was a council worker leaning on a half worn shovel and your man asked him for it.

With the different shovel he was going hammer and thongs at the digging.

The cc worker shouts down to him.

" Take it easy for God's sake you are giving the shovel bad habits"

laoch na mona

I was throwing some tools into the car to go put some guttering on a shed and was confronted by both my rooter and non rooter traits.

I've a reel of extension lead thats about the same age as myself thats been driven over at least once (before I ever got it) which was in the boot next to my safety goggles and gloves. a bit f an od duality I might blow a fuse but my eyes and hands will be well minded

carrollsno1

laoch na mona wrote: »

I was throwing some tools into the car to go put some guttering on a shed and was confronted by both my rooter and non rooter traits.

I've a reel of extension lead thats about the same age as myself thats been driven over at least once (before I ever got it) which was in the boot next to my safety goggles and gloves. a bit f an od duality I might blow a fuse but my eyes and hands will be well minded

Long pants, long sleeve and all anti static when working around gas. If theres an explosion were up **** creek regardless of what were wearing.

whelan2

Was going over the road to outfarm around 10AM, neighbouring farmer flashed me . Bit of small chat, then was it raining earlier? It was raining from 8am to half 9. Would be great to be getting up at 9.30am. Me up since 5.30

trg

whelan2 wrote: »

Was going over the road to outfarm around 10AM, neighbouring farmer flashed me . Bit of small chat, then was it raining earlier? It was raining from 8am to half 9. Would be great to be getting up at 9.30am. Me up since 5.30

Makes you look more like a rooter than him/her though!

whelan2

trg wrote: »

Makes you look more like a rooter than him/her though!

He was heading to the shop for fags

Aravo

Suckler wrote: »

If anyone follows Farmer Phil on youtube/Insta, they had a post last week that reminded me of this thread. He was looking at restoring or scrapping an old Nuffield tractor. It was stuck in the middle of the field where I'm guessing it died. It wasn't today nor yesterday it stopped there. Could never figure out lads leaving machinery stuck in the middle of the field.

Seen they were doing slurry recently in taughmaconnell in Roscommon. They said it was a 1hr drive in jeep and 2hr drive in tractor. To me that length of drive is pure madness. Can't see how that pays.

Figerty

Aravo wrote: »

Seen they were doing slurry recently in taughmaconnell in Roscommon. They said it was a 1hr drive in jeep and 2hr drive in tractor. To me that length of drive is pure madness. Can't see how that pays.

Fixed the seat in the mini digger last week.. I have the machine 15 years and decided to bite the bullet and sort it..
I discovered the last fella didn't replace the gas spring... nooo....... just cut a hole with an angle grinder.. then stuffed is wooly hat in the hole to stop the seat bouncing up and down..
The gas spring cost 65 Euros. Not a great picture but you get the rooters idea...

whelan2

Ha, we've a football under the seat of our tractor

Figerty

whelan2 wrote: »

Ha, we've a football under the seat of our tractor

That's a pneumatic air cushion.. great idea.. proportional shape top the weight. You could be on a winner there...

Butcher Boy

whelan2 wrote: »

Ha, we've a football under the seat of our tractor

So have we in the TM 125.

Sheep breeder

Suckler wrote: »

If anyone follows Farmer Phil on youtube/Insta, they had a post last week that reminded me of this thread. He was looking at restoring or scrapping an old Nuffield tractor. It was stuck in the middle of the field where I'm guessing it died. It wasn't today nor yesterday it stopped there. Could never figure out lads leaving machinery stuck in the middle of the field.

Now there is rooters for you, doing everything in the dark and would break an anvil. The kids get a great laugh out of how rough the place is and his great jersey calves.