what grinds your gears

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Every parish has to have a dick head . It's the law.o_O
Our dick head has destroyed at least 6 ant-dog-fouling notices at the toddlers swing area, this is despite the upgrade from laminated card (which had lasted years) through several incarnations ending with a 6mm metal plate bolted on with 10 mm bolts - he didn't have a spanner even, just metal-fatigued it off.:banghead:
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
Lambing. I prefer machinery and plants but have to do half night shifts. All that slime and gloop and you are kneeling in it. And then it's stuck or something and it won't cooperate. And it's not like you can get the gas axe or the big hammer and go for a cuppa to think about it. And mothers and children come to watch. They think it's awesome but at any moment it can turn into a horrific medical emergency that hasn't been seen by ordinary people since medieval times, usually because a sheep is so stupid it will stand at the ring feeder and eat and eat until its arse blows out.


Had a ewe have a proper epic uterine prolapse the other night!

It was a right fight to get it back in......glad no observers were around........ many swear words would have offended little ears :eek:
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
Our dick head has destroyed at least 6 ant-dog-fouling notices at the toddlers swing area, this is despite the upgrade from laminated card (which had lasted years) through several incarnations ending with a 6mm metal plate bolted on with 10 mm bolts - he didn't have a spanner even, just metal-fatigued it off.:banghead:


You can't back down!

Next step, 20mm plate, take the genny, weld everything in place,
If stuff needs concreting, do it.

Maybe rig it up to a leccy fencer for good measure :sneaky:


The satisfaction with be priceless :D
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Our dick head has destroyed at least 6 ant-dog-fouling notices at the toddlers swing area, this is despite the upgrade from laminated card (which had lasted years) through several incarnations ending with a 6mm metal plate bolted on with 10 mm bolts - he didn't have a spanner even, just metal-fatigued it off.:banghead:
Yeah, I've posted my battle on here many times. Started with "posh" no dogs signs when we had hens, these got torn off, then moved onto posh signs protected with a perspex sandwich. In the end I just used bits of tin and 6" nails. Duckegg then turns up with a spraycan. I turn up with a paintpot and brush......and so the war continues.:cool::ROFLMAO:

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roscoe erf

Member
Livestock Farmer

clbarclay

Member
Location
Worcestershire
Sounds like producing profile cut signs from steel plate could be a good business.

I put up some paper signs in plastic wallets last year for the animals riding horses, which didn't get vandalized, but haven't survived the weather and debris from hedge cutting.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Yeah, I've posted my battle on here many times. Started with "posh" no dogs signs when we had hens, these got torn off, then moved onto posh signs protected with a perspex sandwich. In the end I just used bits of tin and 6" nails. Duckegg then turns up with a spraycan. I turn up with a paintpot and brush......and so the war continues.:cool::ROFLMAO:

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Covert wildlife camera then post video of them doing it....
 

smcapstick

Member
Location
Kirkby Lonsdale

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
OH wants some carpentry work done in the kitchen. I can put up battens and shelving but this job needs a better finish so get carpenter in for a quote. He has lots of ideas, takes photos and will get back to us with a price. Weeks go by and we leave a couple of messages and eventually he comes back and says he can't handle the job but has a mate who can. Get mates phone number, give him a ring and a week later he comes round, lots of ideas, takes photos and will get back to us with a quote and again disappears off the face of the earth. Perhaps aliens are landing in south Shropshire and after scouring the local papers for people who profess to be builders, sparkies, chippies etc are taking them away to a distant planet for a big construction job.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
OH wants some carpentry work done in the kitchen. I can put up battens and shelving but this job needs a better finish so get carpenter in for a quote. He has lots of ideas, takes photos and will get back to us with a price. Weeks go by and we leave a couple of messages and eventually he comes back and says he can't handle the job but has a mate who can. Get mates phone number, give him a ring and a week later he comes round, lots of ideas, takes photos and will get back to us with a quote and again disappears off the face of the earth. Perhaps aliens are landing in south Shropshire and after scouring the local papers for people who profess to be builders, sparkies, chippies etc are taking them away to a distant planet for a big construction job.
As far as I can see they spend 90% of their time twiddling with mobile phones. Local building company has spent 4 years renovating a cottage down the road. 4 f**king years !!!
 

itsalwaysme

Member
Location
Cheshire
As far as I can see they spend 90% of their time twiddling with mobile phones. Local building company has spent 4 years renovating a cottage down the road. 4 fudgeing years !!!
I was thinking about this the other day I wonder what effect mobile phones (especially smart phones) and the smoking ban (everybody now takes a "smoking break" and stands outside for 5/10 mins) has had on productivity of employees
When I left school and started work there were no mobiles and you had to have a real good reason (emergency) to use the works phone
 

Rossymons

Member
Location
Cornwall
Worker and I in a shed the other day. I can't see him so shout out where is he?

"I'm here!" He said. WHERE IS THAT?! How hard is it to say "behind the wall" or whatever!
 

Sussex Martin

Member
Location
Burham Kent
Worker and I in a shed the other day. I can't see him so shout out where is he?

"I'm here!" He said. WHERE IS THAT?! How hard is it to say "behind the wall" or whatever!
It's the same on here, people with no location in their profile say 'peeing down here' or '8ft of snow overnight here'. Any sentence with here in it is no fudging use if we don't know where 'HERE' is, and breath :).
 

Gator

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Lancashire
Seeing an old mate yesterday who has cancer.he is only 67 and ive worked with him on and off for 30 years.speak to him pretty regularly but called in yesterday as i was working nearby.not seen him fir 3/4 weeks but he has gone down hill really fast.there is nothing of him and he can no longer walk.really sad to see him like that.god bless you Merv
Nick...
Very sad, just watch my mate do the same, he just wasted away . He at piece now .R.I.P Graham
Sadly missed
 

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