Whats the strangest thing you've found in an engine/machine?

Grouse

Member

• Oct 22, 2016

• #61

And then several years later in my teens whilst cutting hay by the beach after changing a mower blade I found a girl in a bikini in my Trattor !!!!!

 

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Gerbert

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Location

Dutch biblebelt

• Oct 22, 2016

• #62

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

Grouse

Member

• Oct 22, 2016

• #63

We didn't have mobile phones with cameras in those days !

 

simmy_bull

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Location

North Yorkshire

• Oct 22, 2016

• #64

Grouse said:

We didn't have mobile phones with cameras in those days !

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Assume you made the most of the situation in any case tho

 

Grouse

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• Oct 23, 2016

• #65

Couldn't possibly comment

 

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davedb

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Location

Staffordshire

• Oct 24, 2016

• #66

Lifted the lid on a David brown 1390 dash board to trace a wiring fault, great big rat sat there it had eaten about 6inches of the wiring loom

 

deere150

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Location

Cumbria

• Oct 25, 2016

• #67

Found a homemade spanner inside slurry tanker. Must have come off a contracting job. Ideal for jacks on grain dryer though

 

Red Fred

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Location

Hants/Dorset border

• Oct 25, 2016

• #68

I put this on before, but last year, I got up to see why the windscreen wiper wasn't wiping very well and discovered a wren had built her nest in the hole in the front of the cab. The thing was in use every day, too. On the old stockman special, I found a nest up under the cab around the front iso-mount, and again it was in daily use feeding the cows, etc.

 

Pheasant Surprise

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Location

Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Oct 28, 2016

• #69

davedb said:

Lifted the lid on a David brown 1390 dash board to trace a wiring fault, great big rat sat there it had eaten about 6inches of the wiring loom

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Many moons ago when I was young and foolish like junior Carlos Fandango I had a brand spanking Impreza WRX. Old mate ratty got stuck into the engine bay one night not too long after I got it. Took car out one morning and got a mile or two down the road, before giving it the welly, and wondered why all of a sudden there were billowing white clouds of steam coming out from under the bonnet. Ratty had done a 360 chew through around one of the radiator hoses and virtually an entire intercooler hose. He must have been hungry!

 

mf298

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Location

Ayton, Berwickshire

• Oct 29, 2016

• #70

Perkins 6354 engine on MF 525 combine had a knock - sounded like on one cylinder. took head off and found ball bearing embedded in piston on number 5. Removed it and rebuilt engine- combine went for another twenty years!

 

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stugordon321

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• Nov 5, 2016

• #71

Not tractor related but starting a old mower pulled the starter engine tryed to start pulled again & fired up at which point it threw a minced up toad out of the top cover. Obviously found a nice little home sat on the flywheel. Not a pretty sight.
Have had a few since but always jump out as dragging mower out of shed. Guess they like the shed

 

Roy_H

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• Nov 5, 2016

• #72

PostHarvest said:

Long time ago, I worked in the IH plant in Doncaster. Tractor transmissions were assembled and tested at one factory (Wheatley Hall) then taken across town to the Carr Hill assembly line. Tractors were driven off the line and parked in the yard. When one was being loaded, the driver couldn't get one gear. We stripped it down and found a Thor hide mallet laid in the bottom of the gearbox.

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Why does that not surprise me? We knew a chap that worked there on the assembly line there and listening to some of the tales he told us its a wonder any of them ran!