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That's what I thought so I'm glad someone agrees.20 hours training @ £10 per hour!!!! - i'd bite their arm off, you will not regret it.
That's what I thought so I'm glad someone agrees.20 hours training @ £10 per hour!!!! - i'd bite their arm off, you will not regret it.
Go for it, be £200 well spent.My local tech offers an electric arc welding course, 10 weeks at 2hrs per week for 195 pounds. I am quite tempted by this. I have no experience at all so no bad habits.
That's farmer welding for ya! Just doesn't take the punishment of proper welding.View attachment 882056View attachment 882057
I *ahem* modified the yard scraper this morning. I suspect that in my new role as "breaker of things with telehandler" the ability to weld will become somewhat vital.
I'd spent hundreds of hours on a handler before I did my engineering career, and was pretty handy at it in my heyday. 10 years later, having been back on the farm for a year, I've hit our newest building three times, dented a stanchion our second newest shed, knocked the hyd fittings off the back twice, destroyed both numberplate lights and bent the PUH mirror irreparably. I've also bent the tilt compensating ram.your not alone. When I had my telehandler first I ran over the footbath, backed into the mower and modified the grain store door all in a month.
I'd spent hundreds of hours on a handler before I did my engineering career, and was pretty handy at it in my heyday. 10 years later, having been back on the farm for a year, I've hit our newest building three times, dented a stanchion our second newest shed, knocked the hyd fittings off the back twice, destroyed both numberplate lights and bent the PUH mirror irreparably. I've also bent the tilt compensating ram.
Surprised I've not been sacked yet TBH.
I remember doing the ATB welding courses in the 1980s, and they were worth every penny. In those days, there were day release ag. courses held in town every week and run by Sparsholt. They were very good, but I don't suppose the demand is there now.
Even worse. I'm still the boss' son really... ?We always used to tell the boss
"It's a good job you're the boss because no bugger would want to employ you!"
its good to know there is some one of my age group out there ,there are som who would say what the feks a churn they dont know about lifting milk pails over head to pour into surface coolersI remember learning how to roll a churn full of milk with one finger. The tutor was from Ayrshire where, alongwith Cheshire, milk churns were part of everyday life,
Go for it, be £200 well spent.
Did Mram at Warwickshire college years ago, learnt more in 4 months than 3 years at Agri college.
welding is easy once you learn the techniques, and learning will be easier if you’ve no self taught bad habits to start with.
Most of that list are things that move themselves/ jump out at you/ weren’t there a second before...........,,,,, but how the heck did you bend the tilt compensating ram?????I'd spent hundreds of hours on a handler before I did my engineering career, and was pretty handy at it in my heyday. 10 years later, having been back on the farm for a year, I've hit our newest building three times, dented a stanchion our second newest shed, knocked the hyd fittings off the back twice, destroyed both numberplate lights and bent the PUH mirror irreparably. I've also bent the tilt compensating ram.
Surprised I've not been sacked yet TBH.
If its one of those JCB with the engine in the back I ripped the mounts off a compensation ram , they not built for hard workMost of that list are things that move themselves/ jump out at you/ weren’t there a second before...........,,,,, but how the heck did you bend the tilt compensating ram?????
Safety first see. Put the boom prop on the ram while greasing round. Finish greasing round, blow out air filter, forget it's on there, boom down.Most of that list are things that move themselves/ jump out at you/ weren’t there a second before...........,,,,, but how the heck did you bend the tilt compensating ram?????
And skiing please don't forget thisSomething arable farmers have, they have little else to do in the winter than go shooting.
The knees and backi wish my legs were fit enough to go sking.