what grinds your gears

Nearly

Member
Location
North of York
Bought a couple of refurbed hands free headsets as soneone's over zealous washing machine binge had washed both of mine.
They arrived to one of them talking to me in Danish! Half an hour to download an app, read the settings and upload 'English (Yorkshire)' as default tongue!
:(
 

melted welly

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
“Is there anything you’re needing done?”

no, fine thanks, I’m just gonna pop into town for an air connector to get this tractor back together.

“well, I’ll do that”

its fine, I’m leaving now

“well I’ll go now”

ok, fine………..

back to workshop 45mins later as his vehicle is sat outside it, so can get pipes back together……..
…..no, he’s still pricking about hunting through everything that’s already been looked thru for this elusive connector, standing with a handful of broken shite and ideas of “just welding it together”, and then great offence is taken at temper being lost, and to top it off, now he’s away for his fecking lunch before he goes.

FFS. 😡
 

JJT

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Cumbria
“Is there anything you’re needing done?”

no, fine thanks, I’m just gonna pop into town for an air connector to get this tractor back together.

“well, I’ll do that”

its fine, I’m leaving now

“well I’ll go now”

ok, fine………..

back to workshop 45mins later as his vehicle is sat outside it, so can get pipes back together……..
…..no, he’s still pricking about hunting through everything that’s already been looked thru for this elusive connector, standing with a handful of broken shite and ideas of “just welding it together”, and then great offence is taken at temper being lost, and to top it off, now he’s away for his fecking lunch before he goes.

FFS. 😡
been there got that T shirt! It's usually "I've some jobs to do In town so I'll go" hour and a half later,
"have you got those bits?"
"no I was just having a coffee before I went"
What he also negates to tell me is his "jobs" in town take up the entire day having crack with folk at every spot he goes to do he finally gets back home about half 5. When I could have been and got back by about half 9.
 

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
Missed a phone call
Got a text
Then a WhatsApp
Then an email
Another phone call
Answer phone message
Voice message on WhatsApp

I’m post knocking so I won’t stop to answer or reply, turns out it’s somebody wanting a over grown hedge cut back off the road as the council has complained, they want/demand it gets cut today!
It’s only been like that for about 5 years but now it needs doing NOW!
they can wait
 

Sharpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Missed a phone call
Got a text
Then a WhatsApp
Then an email
Another phone call
Answer phone message
Voice message on WhatsApp

I’m post knocking so I won’t stop to answer or reply, turns out it’s somebody wanting a over grown hedge cut back off the road as the council has complained, they want/demand it gets cut today!
It’s only been like that for about 5 years but now it needs doing NOW!
they can wait
Wrong answer. Usual fee plus £500 callout, paid in cleared funds before work commences.
 

Gerbert

Member
Location
Dutch biblebelt
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These snips of twine on a bale. If I made big bales myself I would ban any contractor that has a baler that does this.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
Dropped Mrs PSQ and daughter off for a domestic flight, and was charged £4 for the privilege.

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When I went to pick them up 3 days later I thought I'd choke their machine with some old bags of coppers, but the payment machine in the 'pick up' zone is card only, the robbing bar stewards!

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melted welly

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
“Is there anything you’re needing done?”

no, fine thanks, I’m just gonna pop into town for an air connector to get this tractor back together.

“well, I’ll do that”

its fine, I’m leaving now

“well I’ll go now”

ok, fine………..

back to workshop 45mins later as his vehicle is sat outside it, so can get pipes back together……..
…..no, he’s still pricking about hunting through everything that’s already been looked thru for this elusive connector, standing with a handful of broken shite and ideas of “just welding it together”, and then great offence is taken at temper being lost, and to top it off, now he’s away for his fecking lunch before he goes.

FFS. 😡
So we got the repair done…….. after 3 hrs 🙄, it was all just a big ball of thread tape and glue come the end.

Does it seal?

“yes”

was there no connectors?

“Nobody has these bits you’re looking for”

Didn’t press the issue any further as the will to live was slipping away

refitted the seat, fired up the compressor and sat down……..

pssssssssssssssss

😡

on further questioning, the 3 hrs had not (as intimated) been spent valiantly hunting round the local motor factors and ag dealers, no no, Apparently he just knows that no one in the county has any means of joining 4mm air pipe to a male m10 coupling, (I must’ve dreamt seeing them on eBay for £2.50) so he had spent the time fecking about in the workshop making something even less use than it was before.
I’ve no idea how the geniuses at Sears seating must have managed this black magic when constructing this seat.

on a positive note, the extreme rage gave me the strength to force a massive steel coil spring between seat and base plate.
 
Location
southwest
Phone rings

"Can I speak to Mrs xxxxxx?"

"No, she died 9 months ago."

"Well I'm calling from zzzzz Ltd, can I talk to you about"

Me interrupting "Can you stop calling for her please, update your database or whatever?"

"There's no need to be rude, Sir, Can we talk about......"

I hang up.

FFS, They ring asking to speak to a deceased person, they make out it's MY fault when I ask them to not call again!
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
One of today’s sales leads:

‘I am very interested in your [machine for sale]. Serious buyer - no messing. I’d like to offer you £1,000 CASH’

The machine in question is £1,880 including the VAT.

Just how dazzling do these people think the word ‘cash’ is?

Ghastly oiks.
Do you even bother replying!?
 

marcot

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
One of today’s sales leads:

‘I am very interested in your [machine for sale]. Serious buyer - no messing. I’d like to offer you £1,000 CASH’

The machine in question is £1,880 including the VAT.

Just how dazzling do these people think the word ‘cash’ is?

Ghastly oiks.
What grinds your gears thread hasn't been the same since you went AWOL 😂
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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