Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

whelan2 wrote: »

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.

lakill Farm wrote: »

my 2.8t will handle a bale no problem , and split it up with a 2ft digging bucket and push it along a few pens. not used a fork/graipe here in 3 years when feeding

When their idea of buffer feeding is a single ring feeder in the collecting yard to serve 50+ cows. Then they ring you at 7.45 in the morning asking for a hand to free 2 cows stuck in the same headspace. I'm nursing a sore elbow after such an experience this morning. Of course one cow had a fine set of horns just to complicate matters 😒. Anyway managed to free one after a bit but the one with the horns was still collared and she lost the plot trying to free herself. A ring feeder tied to an excited animal is a dangerous weapon. She was like a bulldozer going around the yard and 2 lads trying to hold the feeder.

Good one today.

My father and uncle both have caravans. Uncle was over this evening and i presumed it was just a visit. I got home from training at 8.30 and they were still inside drinking tea. At 9.30 when it got dark they made a great burst to fix an issue with the uncles caravan. The great burst meant them holding a torch as i rewired stuff in the dark.....

See a lad with round bales of straw stacked in the corner of a field. Over the weekend he put a bull and calves in the same field. Straw everywhere.

It's expensive enough without that carry on

A lad with a power shaft seized, tied it onto a tree and pulled the back PTO off the tractor done a few k damage.

And the bull and calves were cursed to hell and back.

Everytime I drive by I wonder how far the bales will be moved this time. I nearly want to go into him and say wtf

Just in from pulling and dragging a cattle scales out of a ditch, its been returned in the morning and the auld lad was away today so he didnt want it to be stolen this afternoon. I cant understand why he wont just set aside a shed with some security about it is beyond me, welder hidden under the mower, socket set hidden in the bales and other bits and pieces hidden in the nuts tipped in an old dwelling house. Awful hard to deal with after working on LEAN farms.

Yea definitly extreme to be fair, no such thing as a fence in the place but everything is strip grazed and strip grazed very well at that too sometimesbeing moved twice a day sometimes as well as working off farm too. Martyr for hardship. Mowed a field for him a few weeks back told him i was up at half two that morning ill do it if ye have everything set to go ill be back at half five that evening and ill start into it then, it was nearly half 7 when i got going as he wanted to change the blades on it as he had the day off but didnt pick up the blades till 5pm that evening 🙄 in fairness he went to pick them up in the morning in a spot i told him to avoid as they were unreiiable in the past and if he had to just drive 3 miles further up the road he would have had them that morning. Things just couldnt be straightforward around here at all.

Father be at the same crack, in fairness its clever compared to leaving everything together. Think I'm becoming the same, hiding lawnmower etc behind trees last time I was on holidays.

It's ok if you've a small number of tools but becomes less practical the more you have. It will hardly lead to efficient workflow if you have to uncover hidden tools from all over the yard for every task.

Wil admit thats an issue. Often spent a hour on a Saturday . Now where did i leave the socket set.... Now leave note in phone. But agree. Not practical for everything in workshop. But chainsaws and socket spanner easy to hide

Tree fell down. Brought 3 posts to fix fence. Needed 4...

Do they have to do so much cursing. My type of fencing..

Where did the door of the Massey disappear to?

We’ve one of them close to here too! He rang me around the 20th of October to mow his second cut silage. I’d to wait a day or 2 before going to him to give him time to move the hay baled in July out of the way first! He moved them all to one side of each field, so he has 2 bundles of hay in each field now, 2020’s hay and 2021’s! About 500 round bales in total and it’ll all rot there.

It would make you wonder what goes on alright.

I told him I’d stack them in the shed for him and all if he brought them into the yard with the bale lifter. I told him I didn’t want anything for it and he didn’t even have to contact me, that when I’d be passing the road and see some of them in the yard I’d just pull in and whatever’s there id put them in. He still never even carried one into the yard and the fields are all around the yard.

The same man wouldn’t be short of a few pound but that wasn’t always the case. Things would have been poor enough there for a long number of years so it makes it even harder to understand why you’d waste such money.

Up to about 20 years or so ago he used to do all his silage on his own with a double chop. He’d fill 2 trailers, then draw them to the pit and push them up with a 135. It wouldn’t be unusual for this to be happening in December and that’d be first cut!

There’d still be regular enough reference made of the Christmas about 30 - 35 years ago when he spent all of the Christmas at his silage in the snow!!

That's the worst I've ever heard

Did you ask him what the plan was? Would he not be better off letting it out for a bit of grazing or sell it out of the field if he's not going to use it?

This is very true, guilty of it myself if being honest