The what I f^cked up today thread...

Red Fred · May 26, 2020

More senility. I sent off some calf details for their passports but managed to put the wrong numbers on a mother, so BCMS sent me a covering letter and form to send back with the amended details. I immediately found an envelope and posted it off....only to discover I had sent them back their own covering letter rather than the form.
I think it's time i was quietly "sent to Holnest"* as Mrs Fred puts it.
*ie where I take our pigs when they are ready...

Danllan · May 26, 2020

DKnD said:
This is the kind of thread that makes me really nervous for the rest of the day...

You have nothing to worry about, really, unless you have been daft enough to say you have nothing to worry about.

JP1 · May 26, 2020

DKnD said:
This is the kind of thread that makes me really nervous for the rest of the day...

Or grateful it's not just you and me in a sort of Schadenfreude sort of way!!
I think this one is guaranteed to run longer than the dead horse thread !!

unlacedgecko · May 26, 2020

JP1 said:
He's a stockman like me, neither of us could probably find a grease gun even with a Cummings eye test assessment behind us

What's a grease gun?

As an aside, anyone know a mobile ag fitter Market Rasen area of Lincolnshire?

Danllan · May 26, 2020

Dragon said:
Just got in from front retrieving milking herd from the neighbouring woods... I now know the woods have access onto the estate house gardens. Best go round a survey the damage tomorrow ??

What's the conclusion, did the herd go horticultural or were you lucky? ?

betweenthelines · May 26, 2020

Made a big mistake today. OH said "Have you got time to nip up to the garden centre with me" and I said Yes

I put it down to the heat.

2wheels · May 26, 2020

Red Fred said:
More senility. I sent off some calf details for their passports but managed to put the wrong numbers on a mother, so BCMS sent me a covering letter and form to send back with the amended details. I immediately found an envelope and posted it off....only to discover I had sent them back their own covering letter rather than the form.
I think it's time i was quietly "sent to Holnest"* as Mrs Fred puts it.
*ie where I take our pigs when they are ready...

no holnest up here but have been threatened with douglasbrae.in fact i think it will be a douglasbrae pickup instead of a hearse.

2wheels · May 26, 2020

betweenthelines said:
Made a big mistake today. OH said "Have you got time to nip up to the garden centre with me" and I said Yes

I put it down to the heat.

who is in heat??

betweenthelines · May 26, 2020

That was the one compensation of visiting the garden centre-lots of hot (see what I did there?) ladies in minimal clothing.

Bet as soon as @Bald Rick see's this, he'll be off to get a few blooms for himself

Yale · May 26, 2020

Father managed this backing out of a 15 foot bay.

Kidds · May 26, 2020

Yale said:
Father managed this backing out of a 15 foot bay.

Not today but I reversed my pickup around the outside of our Dutch barn only to discover there was one more bay than I thought.

neilo · May 26, 2020

Yale said:
Father managed this backing out of a 15 foot bay.

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Had someone moved the staunchions?

ollie989898 · May 26, 2020

DKnD said:
This is the kind of thread that makes me really nervous for the rest of the day...

Only if you write something like: 'you silly fudge, how did you manage that?'.....

thorpe · May 26, 2020

unlacedgecko said:
What's a grease gun?

As an aside, anyone know a mobile ag fitter Market Rasen area of Lincolnshire?

early 60s chap near here had a brand new mf 35 the fitter came out to service it, he told him you need to get a grease gun ! he told a neighbor what he had been told and asked him what do you shoot with one of those?

Robert K · May 26, 2020

Yale said:
Father managed this backing out of a 15 foot bay.

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That'll buff out no worries

Goweresque · May 26, 2020

I lost my pocket mini adjustable spanner. Placed it on the tracks of the excavator while fiddling with the battery terminals, got in the cab to try starting it, it fired up OK and I drove straight off without thinking. Had a good look on the ground when I realised but no sign of it

Also forgot I left my drain rods in the bucket of the 3CX yesterday evening, got in this morning and started loading soil straight away. Luckily the soil is so dry at the moment it runs like sand, so when I tipped the load they appeared none the worse for wear

Tarw Coch · May 26, 2020

unlacedgecko said:
What's a grease gun?

Something arable farmers have, they have little else to do in the winter than go shooting.

Hfd Cattle · May 26, 2020

Yale said:
Father managed this backing out of a 15 foot bay.

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Are you really blaming your father ?

Hfd Cattle · May 26, 2020

DKnD said:
This is the kind of thread that makes me really nervous for the rest of the day...

It makes me feel better.....

Chopsy Varmint · May 26, 2020

Kidds said:
Not today but I reversed my pickup around the outside of our Dutch barn only to discover there was one more bay than I thought.

Again not today but once I spent an afternoon towing a flat-bed trailer about a field peppered with large trees and telegraph poles. The trailer was laden with riding club jumping competition paraphernalia. All afternoon I bimbled about dropping off jump poles, wings etc, forwards and backwards around trees, jumps and whatnot. Not a problem.

End of the day I unhitched the trailer, drove home and somehow managed to reverse straight into a big solid wall at the back of my usual parking spot. Not much damage done as I wasn't going fast although the towbar punched out a large chunk of brick.

However my friends who had been helping and returned home with me found it highly entertaining for quite a long time thereafter.

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