Busy fools!

caveman

Member
Location
East Sussex.
I know of a chap that spent all day at a sale, waiting for something but didn't get it as it was only £10 less than a new one. They then drove a 110 mile round-trip to another sale, all day, to buy another because it was £30[!] less than the item at the first sale but required a full day's work to make operational. They also paid somebody £20 to get it home.

Two days gone, one lost to work, parts and consumables to make the things operational plus 110 miles worth of fuel (not including fuel to travel to the first sale) to save £10. For £20 they could have had new.

I mean, come on!
And how much time and money spent on the burger vans and on the khazi with the shites for the rest of the week?
 

Alf

Member
Location
Scotland
Best way to attend a farm sale is stick a tenner in your pocket for the coffee and bacon roll and leave your wallet and cheque book at home ;)
unless it was that one at Darlington ( pikey central ) on sat you would have needed at least £12,50 . A very expencive tea van
 

kneedeep

Member
Location
S W Lancashire
Hammering bent nails, that sounds like my old man.......

Try so hard to work smarter not harder....
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But I fear I am slowly but surely turning into him, or so my wife says:D
Still can't wean the old fella off 'inspecting ' bonfires the day after.
We've got bucketfuls of hinges, nails and screws that'll never be used in a million years.

Still can't chuck owt away though..


That nagging irrational fear that some day that'll. ...........
 

Banana Bar

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Trimming sheeps feet. Do it once and then cull would be my motto, old man seems to get pleasure from endlessly tipping sheep over to have another go. Mind you sheep are going after the lambs have been sold this year.
 

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