Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
That's what I thought so I'm glad someone agrees.
The what I f^cked up today thread...
- Thread starter Danllan
- Start date
- Location
- DD9.
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.
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
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.
That's farmer welding for ya! Just doesn't take the punishment of proper welding.
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.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
We always used to tell the boss
"It's a good job you're the boss because no bugger would want to employ you!"
I 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,
Even worse. I'm still the boss' son really... ?
Thankfully we've managed to recruit a good new member of the team recently, so I'm moving back to a more desk-based role. I'm also chief repairer of stuff, so if I ever get light on work, I just need to hop back on the Manitou.
- Location
- pembrokeshire
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 coolers
I learnt a damn site more usefull stuff on that MRAM course than any other course I ever did at college. Timmy Morgan and his gang should all have had awards for their contribution to mechanical empathy. There was also the work hard play hard element as well, some very great memories, even if a little alcoholically hazy, of the four months in the mid 80's
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
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?????
- Location
- Ceredigion
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 work
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.
To be fair, it's only slightly bent. We didn't notice for a month.
SimonThePieman
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- Location
- Worcestershire
I like this thread. One of the first times I drove a tractor I managed to mangle a fairly new gate and post with the loader. A couple of days later I put a lovely deep scratch in the paint of a brand new van with a tiny piece of steel that sticks out an inch further than everything else. 
I have to say my employer was very patient and understanding!
These days I'm much better!
But I do suffer from a strange condition where I immediately lose my ability to drive or operate any tool or machine as soon as somebody is watching me.
I have to say my employer was very patient and understanding!
These days I'm much better!
But I do suffer from a strange condition where I immediately lose my ability to drive or operate any tool or machine as soon as somebody is watching me.
- Location
- Portsmouth
Decided to cut for hay, could not get mower to leave a clean cut, kept adjusting things but no improvement. Not untill the end of the day when I was still moaning that dad noticed half the blades were on the wrong way round.....he serviced mower this year so took full responsibility and I left him changing them round to sort kids tea out
Hopefully it cuts tidier next time.
Hopefully it cuts tidier next time.
And skiing please don't forget this
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I am eternally grateful to my father that he taught me to weld. Probably one of the most useful things I have learned. I am no craftsman but it has got me out of many a repair problem. I also did a short course at Riseholme College which was invaluable. It included oxy acetylene cutting which was also very useful.
I'd recommend any farmer to learn welding. Its not difficult and a pleasant hobby and distraction from the farming itself and well as a useful skill.
I'd recommend any farmer to learn welding. Its not difficult and a pleasant hobby and distraction from the farming itself and well as a useful skill.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I remember one night the combine rear walker shaft snapped in two about 5 acres from finishing harvest. Got it back to yard. Chucked a few buckets of water onto the walkers, mother turned the drum slowly, while I welded the break in the shaft. Still good today. £750 saved and got going again for a few pence of electricity and a few feet of MIG wire.
The knees and back