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We were all Dewalt but the same issue arose.... the Milwaukee was about half the price and came with a battery and charger. Good tool, and now having a battery and charger has meant if a dealer has a tool we need at a good price but the wrong colour, it doesn't matter anymore.

That seems bloody expensive. Last time I bought a barrel I think it was around £300, but it's a while back now and since we currently have around 6 different types of oil in use we've been buying it by the 5 gallon again for a while now. Some of the higher grades are pretty expensive, the most...

One Massey dealer asked me how old my tractor was, and finding it was way out of warranty told me to use Super Universal instead of the Massey stuff for Dyna4. Actually I have an oil sheet for the thing for territories where MF spec oil might not be available, and nearly every manufacturer had...

My father's a bugger for driving off with his door flapping around too. I understand in summer... but just today, 0 deg C, he's driving down the yard for a bale, door wagging, neither clicked back or shut. WHY?! He drove past me and I slammed it shut for him as he went.

Flap disc if they are damaged from chomping down on a bit of concrete or a stray buckrake tine... What? That doesn't happen to anyone else?! I usually use a file or a sharpening stone otherwise. Properly sharp makes a lovely clean job even with very dry long chopped forage wagon silage. Dull...

I don't know whether all inverter welders are the same, but the comparison to our old AC portable welder which was anything but portable really, (needed a wheelbarrow to move it) the little inverter sparks up easier and maintains a much nicer arc than the old box ever did. Maybe it is just the...

I have a little 130 GYS inverter. Bought it with the intention of using it on long extensions for repairs, but it welds so nice I wish I had bought a bigger one for in the workshop. I have several other welders in the workshop, and thought any bigger than 130 would be redundant on a long...

I mentioned them to someone a few years ago and he scoffed the second hand value of them was nothing compared to the other brands. The newer models seem to be keeping a lot more value than the older styles though, but that's just where the used car market is these days anyway. I ain't going to...

So if I find a Case Maxxum with a genuine 6000 hours on I can buy it with the potential for another 12k hours?

I'll have to think about that as we don't use it normally, and one year the spray man sent some out for us... but I never actually used it because it was just too dry if I remember rightly. The spray man took it back without it ever being recorded in our book or getting an invoice for it.

Whitworth had standard sized bolt heads for the sizes of the threads, and the spanners were labelled for the thread sizes of the bolts they worked on. So a 1/4ww might be something like a 13mm spanner for an M8 thread. BSF was pretty much the same thing but with finer thread pitches.

I find it really irritating when the press convert acres into hectares, and when someone writing informally states he can cover 7 acre an hour and they change it to 2.8 hectare an hour it just looses meaning to most people. Fair enough if they insert (2.8h) afterwards, but replacing units...

Someone once told me if you see a 205 being driven quickly it was either an exceptionally talented driver or it was someone about to end up going through a hedge backwards. Lift-off oversteer I think was the problem if I remember correctly. The suspension would compress to one side then pop back...

From Cumbria, I assume Preston is easier to reach. MRS Heat Transfer Limited, Motor Radiator Specialist. Shelly House, Pechell Street, Preston PR2 2RN. 01772 736500. They'll rebuild you a new radiator from your end tanks, or as happened last time we went just replace it with a new one if that's...

Because all the methods and chemicals that made the stuff any good in the past have been banned by H&S and environmentalists. The guys who used to paint cars and machinery for a living rarely did it until retirement and were pretty much f**ked by their forties.

No, but that looks like it would be great for maize!

The hardest bit is the expense of another charger and battery, but when one tool I really wanted from another brand was cheaper with a new battery and a charger than the baretool was with my normal brand, I now have the option to buy two colours bare tools.

The sort of tractor a mere rollover and you wouldn't be able to tell much? I wonder if writing off a vehicle you don't want to drive has been the tactic of the Russian troops... "Aw man, they gave us this crappy old Soviet T-72 crud heap...." "It's okay... just go park it over there and...

Put them into something too old and crappy and they will write it off for you and in their head they did you a favour by forcing you to buy something a bit newer to replace it.

You got an umbrella?! Ha! Luxury! We'd have killed for an umbrella in my day. I bet you had a duffle coat for the winter too.... utter extravagance! We were so hard done to we only ever had hessian sacks. Wrapped one round each leg with baling string and a bunch up top to keep us warm... We had...