Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

carrollsno1 · 07-03-2021 10:54pm

What does taking a kettle out of the house everytime its needsd on the farm (150M+) away instead of buying a second kettle and boiling the water on farm when required count as? My kettles been taken by the auld fella on three occasions this weekend alone already.

08-03-2021 1:37am

foxy farmer wrote: »

Would putting 15W40 engine oil into the backend of a tractor just to get the feeding work done after bursting a hydraulic hose on a Sunday morning be classed as rooting?
I just witnessed this about an hour ago. He couldn't source 20 litres of suitable oil. He used a screw on hose joiner on a fairly shook pipe to get him going but says he'll drain the oil and get new hose tomorrow.

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

Kevhog1988 · 08-03-2021 1:40am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

A friendly neighbour

08-03-2021 1:45am

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

A friendly neighbour

If you are like me you won't want to be on the receiving end of a good samaritan as you will never hear the end of it.

Say if the main tractor is a good four wheel drive with a power loader, maybe a good secondary is an old 2wd with a back spike? Wouldnt you be looking at 4 grand there lying around all year? Maybe it would be handy for fencing or other small jobs

whelan2 · 08-03-2021 7:25am

carrollsno1 wrote: »

What does taking a kettle out of the house everytime its needsd on the farm (150M+) away instead of buying a second kettle and boiling the water on farm when required count as? My kettles been taken by the auld fella on three occasions this weekend alone already.

What's he using it for? You can buy a cheap electric kettle in tesco for around 15 euro

Bullocks · 08-03-2021 8:23am

whelan2 wrote: »

What's he using it for? You can buy a cheap electric kettle in tesco for around 15 euro

A chippie that used work with us years ago used buy over a 100 calves every spring. If he had a sick lad he would bring him to work and leave him in the trailer going out every now and then to give him a drink or whatever he needed, would run out a lead for a heat lamp and all.
We went down to see his setup one Saturday morning for the craic. He had an 18' plank on top of a few blocks with a garden hose one end and a rake of extension leads hanging over it with a blast of old kettles on the boil for making the milk replacer. No shortage of money but he wouldn't pay for a water heater!

Lime Tree Farm · 08-03-2021 8:27am

Bullocks wrote: »

A chippie that used work with us years ago used buy over a 100 calves every spring. If he had a sick lad he would bring him to work and leave him in the trailer going out every now and then to give him a drink or whatever he needed, would run out a lead for a heat lamp and all.
We went down to see his setup one Saturday morning for the craic. He had an 18' plank on top of a few blocks with a garden hose one end and a rake of extension leads hanging over it with a blast of old kettles on the boil for making the milk replacer. No shortage of money but he wouldn't pay for a water heater!

Love that, take the calf , heat lamp and trailer to work, giving me ideas.

carrollsno1 · 08-03-2021 2:24pm

whelan2 wrote: »

What's he using it for? You can buy a cheap electric kettle in tesco for around 15 euro

Heating the odd drop of milk or beastings is all.

AckwelFoley · 08-03-2021 2:35pm

Guy came into me to buy axles for his trailer.

Unbraked stub axles for under 750kg are cheap.. Next option up isn't, more than double the price

I told him he needs larger than 750kg but he said that too dear. "I mostly carry no more than 5 orn6 hundred kilos"

That should be fine I said

He then said, "what if I was to put a tone and a half onto it just once a year for a short journey"

My answer was simple, they're designed for 750kg

How much can you lift? I said

About 100kg he said.

I said could you lift an elephant, once a year, for a short journey?

He bought the heavier axles

funkey_monkey · 08-03-2021 4:05pm

AckwelFoley wrote: »

How much can you lift? I said

About 100kg he said.

I said could you lift an elephant, once a year, for a short journey?

He bought the heavier axles

Bottle nose dolphin or a red deer weigh 200kg and would be a better comparison

For your comparison to match back to him, he'd be wanting to put 45 tonnes onto the axle given that the average adult elephant weighs 6,000kg.

Guess who is 'working from home'

Lime Tree Farm · 08-03-2021 5:04pm

The Sales commission goes to Ackwell

Kevhog1988 · 08-03-2021 5:41pm

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Heating the odd drop of milk or beastings is all.

A rooter would heat the beastings in your kettle and drop it back into the house unwashed lol

carrollsno1 · 08-03-2021 8:07pm

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

A rooter would heat the beastings in your kettle and drop it back into the house unwashed lol

Ah Jaysus! I suppose it would be make a good hearty start to the day then

Figerty · 08-03-2021 9:35pm

Deleted User wrote: »

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

Mini digger a great thing to have. Not great for feeding bales though.

08-03-2021 10:12pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On a serious note, a lot of small/mid sized farmers, and I include myself, would only have one tractor.

Are you better off having a second small tractor or digger that you could feed with if this happens?

Perhaps a few bags / buckets of meal with a bit of straw would get you over the hump if you have no tractor.

Wheelbarrow and sprong......we fed out last 20 bales one year when the old engine blew its self up and hadnt time to go about a new tractor mid winter

Aravo · 08-03-2021 10:40pm

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Love that, take the calf , heat lamp and trailer to work, giving me ideas.

And the person where he was working was paying for ESB. Rooters are never to be under estimated.

Dickie10 · 08-03-2021 10:40pm

Bullocks wrote: »

A chippie that used work with us years ago used buy over a 100 calves every spring. If he had a sick lad he would bring him to work and leave him in the trailer going out every now and then to give him a drink or whatever he needed, would run out a lead for a heat lamp and all.
We went down to see his setup one Saturday morning for the craic. He had an 18' plank on top of a few blocks with a garden hose one end and a rake of extension leads hanging over it with a blast of old kettles on the boil for making the milk replacer. No shortage of money but he wouldn't pay for a water heater!

we have a sink and electric kettle in the garage, the brother has talked me into putting up a new kitchen and toilet in a nice corner of yard with two existing walls already there, getting water heater etc in, central location in yard. makes perfect sense i must boil the kettle20 times a day the last 3 weeks.

More anti rooting from me tonight , i bought an automatic lamb feeder, have 9 pets now so cant be messing with milk all day and night.

Kevhog1988 · 08-03-2021 11:16pm

Dickie10 wrote: »

we have a sink and electric kettle in the garage, the brother has talked me into putting up a new kitchen and toilet in a nice corner of yard with two existing walls already there, getting water heater etc in, central location in yard. makes perfect sense i must boil the kettle20 times a day the last 3 weeks.

More anti rooting from me tonight , i bought an automatic lamb feeder, have 9 pets now so cant be messing with milk all day and night.

Theyre making €30 on donedeal. I'll be selling any pets straight away this year.

Dickie10 · 08-03-2021 11:47pm

I’ll probably just rear them from now on on this. It’s probably more profitable than rearing suck calves per kg

older by the day · 09-03-2021 1:42am

Figerty wrote: »

Mini digger a great thing to have. Not great for feeding bales though.

Neighbour feeds his cattle with an 8 ton. round Feeder is near the bales.

09-03-2021 2:04am

Deleted User wrote: »

Wheelbarrow and sprong......we fed out last 20 bales one year when the old engine blew its self up and hadnt time to go about a new tractor mid winter

Thats back breaking work. The bales we have are hard enough to break up with a loader

I am thinking have the plastic stripped off a few extra bales near the sheds just in case so at least they are nearby

Dickie10 · 09-03-2021 11:53am

sureky could have even hired out a tractor with a loader til u got one.that was madness

09-03-2021 8:38pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Thats back breaking work. The bales we have are hard enough to break up with a loader

I am thinking have the plastic stripped off a few extra bales near the sheds just in case so at least they are nearby

I was young then,used do it after school!

Made even more difficult by fact,bales were stored in a field......though youd be suprised,how quick yous would get through it....

Good bit of hardship as lying down,is alot harder to pike than standing up!

popa smurf · 09-03-2021 8:56pm

Great tread lads and brings me back to when I was a young buck at home on the the small family farm in south kerry in the early 80s. Milking 30 cows in stalls with a 4 unit bucket plant no need for the gym or sleeping tablets back than. I remember going off with ould lad looking at the first round bales being made and the ould lad saying that those lucky bags will never take off just another fad he said. They weren't enough hardship in them for him.

Figerty · 09-03-2021 9:24pm

older by the day wrote: »

Neighbour feeds his cattle with an 8 ton. round Feeder is near the bales.

I've done it with a 3 ton...not a great idea,, but in a pinch it's plan C

whelan2 · 10-03-2021 10:37am

Dickie10 wrote: »

sureky could have even hired out a tractor with a loader til u got one.that was madness

He wouldn't be a rooter then

theaceofspies · 10-03-2021 10:50am

Deleted User wrote: »

Thats back breaking work. The bales we have are hard enough to break up with a loader

I am thinking have the plastic stripped off a few extra bales near the sheds just in case so at least they are nearby

Rooting and tearing

10-03-2021 7:15pm

theaceofspies wrote: »

Rooting and tearing

I suppose everybody has to do a bit of rooting.

If all you do is rooting then you are a rooter.

NcdJd · 10-03-2021 11:17pm

I was doing a job for my neighbour on Sunday morning in his yard and noticed he's got 20 gallon drums, buckets and old milk churns strategically placed capturing water coming from various run off / drip points around the sheds... they're everywhere and not a drop of water seems to go to waste even through he has a well pump and a backup petrol pump which I somehow have stored in one of my sheds, its a bit like offsite backup recovery rooter style.. the disaster recovery lads in the data centres would be impressed by this man.

whelan2 · 29-03-2021 7:34pm

We were at our outfarm today. There's a fair hill in the yard. I parked my dads jeep on the hill as normal. He was driving the digger with a bale of silage on the front of it. I went on to open a gate, next thing I see the jeep coming down the hill. He drove into the back of it with the bale, he was looking at something else. No damage, old landcruiser, newer yolk would have been damaged.

Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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