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

PSQ said:

Posted the above on another thread last week, so by rights it didn’t ‘fvck up today’. But you know it’s not going to end well when the dealer calls you in for a word, shows you the gearbox in about 450 bits, and says that it’s much worse than they thought. It wasn’t the clutch packs but a disintegrating bearing that caused widespread damage, and the short of it is it needs a factory reconditioned gearbox. All in, it looks like it will cost iro £20,000 to fix. Long out of warranty, but only 3,500 hours. The kind of news that stings like a bitch, but it’s a machine failure and not a terminal human health diagnosis. Chin up, and mindful that it will reduce the income tax bill


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Tomtrac said:

Bad news and hard look
Similar happened to myself i ended up doing a deal on a new tractor and lost the repair bill in trade in and in the HP/ lease on new one. trouble is it may happen to new tractor after 3-4000 hrs
Or poss get on to manufacture. I have heard of people getting 50% off new vario gearboxes etc when out off warranty
Happen name and shame tractor make etc
These things happen to often with modern machines just out off warranty
You pay nr or over 100k for a tractor expecting to pay £10-14 pluss every hour used to replace it and then you get a huge bill to mend it

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betweenthelines said:

Put an ad on Tinder

"Tractor with broken gearbox seeks similar with cracked block for mutual work sharing experiences"

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PSQ said:

Looking at NH’s price for the remanufactured box on its own, I’d say that an ad on Grinder would be more appropriate

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PSQ said:

Power command.
As for value, with good 710 Xeobibs, sidewinder / intelliview, 50k, 3500 hours, I would have pitched it nearer £40k as a private sale. regardless, It’s going to have to stay here for a long time to see some value back from the repair cost.

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PSQ said:

Posted the above on another thread last week, so by rights it didn’t ‘fvck up today’. But you know it’s not going to end well when the dealer calls you in for a word, shows you the gearbox in about 450 bits, and says that it’s much worse than they thought. It wasn’t the clutch packs but a disintegrating bearing that caused widespread damage, and the short of it is it needs a factory reconditioned gearbox. All in, it looks like it will cost iro £20,000 to fix. Long out of warranty, but only 3,500 hours. The kind of news that stings like a bitch, but it’s a machine failure and not a terminal human health diagnosis. Chin up, and mindful that it will reduce the income tax bill


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Ptk44 said:

Was it the 50k bearing that went or a different one?

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PSQ said:

Normally you’d put the hydraulics in float before you disconnect the trailer pipes, right enough.
Here’s junior learning why you don’t put the tailgate in float, when the trailer is full.
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dudders said:

Up on the cherry-picker today, cutting branches. It's a 2-arm, 30ft model, powered by deep-cycle batteries. All stabilising legs have to be firmly down, or the electrics won't function. Guess I didn't think about the fact that the ground I was on was softer than usual.

Got the cage up and out to maximum reach and felt a very slight lurch. One of the jack-legs my side had sunk in a bit, which raised the opposite one just enough to cut the power off. Had to get out of the cage, slide down the top arm to the joint, then slide down the other. Not for the first time, either...

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Sharpy said:

Rope ladder in the basket?

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Sausage said:

My old boss left the tipping spool in float, on the road it then flicked into pump, the one he had the trailer piped into, it tipped up as he was coming under the A48 bridge by the heath hospital, wedging it between the bridge and road. Luckily for him the trailer came off the PUH, otherwise he would have been through the windscreen

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dudders said:

I seem to be more cock-up prone than most, but at least it makes life interesting. Today I had to replace two rusty side-members in a trailer. Cut out the first one and used it as a template to cut the replacement. Forgot to add on a bit for the width of the disc cutter...

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Always in too much of a hurry. Got the second one perfect though.

My old dad used to tell me "Slow down, get more done."

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dudders said:

I seem to be more cock-up prone than most, but at least it makes life interesting. Today I had to replace two rusty side-members in a trailer. Cut out the first one and used it as a template to cut the replacement. Forgot to add on a bit for the width of the disc cutter...

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Always in too much of a hurry. Got the second one perfect though.

My old dad used to tell me "Slow down, get more done."

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dudders said:

I seem to be more cock-up prone than most, but at least it makes life interesting. Today I had to replace two rusty side-members in a trailer. Cut out the first one and used it as a template to cut the replacement. Forgot to add on a bit for the width of the disc cutter...

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Always in too much of a hurry. Got the second one perfect though.

My old dad used to tell me "Slow down, get more done."

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dudders said:

I seem to be more cock-up prone than most, but at least it makes life interesting. Today I had to replace two rusty side-members in a trailer. Cut out the first one and used it as a template to cut the replacement. Forgot to add on a bit for the width of the disc cutter...

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Always in too much of a hurry. Got the second one perfect though.

My old dad used to tell me "Slow down, get more done."

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