Signs you are dealing with a 'Rooter'

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

Baled a bit for this man again today. He was telling me about another local man that he’d be friendly with rang him about a week ago and asked him if he’d sell some of the hay out of the ditches. He told him he would sell some hay but he’d sell him the hay he baled this year as it’d be better than what’s been out for a few years now. The other man told him he didn’t mind taking the old stuff from the ditches as he’d used it for bedding. My man got very offended, told him that hay was far too good for bedding and to go and buy straw somewhere if he wanted bedding!

All I could think of when he was telling me the story was your comment from a while back where you said “it’s his world really and the rest of us only live in it”

I know the second man that wanted to buy the hay reasonably well, it’ll be interesting to hear his side of the story.

While to me, and probably everyone else that hear’s the story, it seems like lunacy not to be doing something with the feed you’ve saved, I think the world is a better place having characters like that in it, life would be dull if we were all the same!

I hate the kind of idiots leaving cars and machinery outside hoping it'll make a packet when it's rotting and falling apart and only fit for scrap in the end. Only themselves they're fooling.

When my neighbour changes the oil in anything, he pours the waste oil into the slats.

Handy for what though? if tractors are serviced regularly there will be a lot of waste oil which should be disposed of responsibly. The most common suggestions on handy uses of "burnt oil" fit well with the thread title.