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

NcdJd wrote: »

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.

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.