As a slightly post, looking back to sum of my mishaps with farm buildings? that i care to admit to? many years ago before concrete panels were in wide spread use as walls, we used to, as many did build walls for cattle sheds out of concrete blocks, trouble was? a few times at mucking out we pushed them out? soon learnt on that one to rebuild with rebar in the spaces of the blocks, tied in at the footing, filled up with concrete, all other more recent buildings have concrete panels now? Another mishap years ago was trying to put the top stack of bales in the barn with a flat eight and catching the top wood main purlan the one that has the gutter attached, broke that? Another mishap was driving the loader tractor with its bucket up high, in a tight cattle yard and catching a barn stantion with the bucket? im sure its got a slight banana bend in it now, looked at it yesterday sure has? Any one else dare to admit to any similar mishaps?
Farm Building Mishaps Over The Years?
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rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Drawing tractor into machine shed doorway to fill up from diesel tank just in the door. I had forgotten about the mounted sprayer on the back with the booms that fold up the side of the cab. It knocked the doorway lintel off which hit the tractor bonnet and cracked the radiator header tank.
Dad had demolished the ends of all our sheds over the years. Sometimes 2 or 3 times......
Rebuilt with whatever materials were at hand at the time. Never look the same again.
Actually, rented one out to a neighbour, and he demolished one end.
Then there's " professional " lorry drivers.
Rebuilt with whatever materials were at hand at the time. Never look the same again.
Actually, rented one out to a neighbour, and he demolished one end.
Then there's " professional " lorry drivers.
Using a twin bale spike with a back support bar for big square bales, lifted a round bale of straw up, and back bar went through asbestos roof sheet!
Forgot the postknocker was as high as it is when lifted on the 3pt. That's a gable end timber that needed mending....
Late Uncle had a lot of problems with buildings that moved when he was driving the telhandler... I seem to be having the same issues now... wearing glasses knackers the visuals.
Forgot the postknocker was as high as it is when lifted on the 3pt. That's a gable end timber that needed mending....
Late Uncle had a lot of problems with buildings that moved when he was driving the telhandler... I seem to be having the same issues now... wearing glasses knackers the visuals.
- Location
- South wales
Bit of grip fill sort that right out @7610 super q 
76masseyman
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- Location
- Lincolncestershire
A friends industrial forklift was replaced recently with a nice, newer second hand one. No one thought about that the mast was slightly taller on the new one, and took out a concrete lintel above an internal doorway.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
I've backed a trailer into the phenolic plywood wall of a potato shed and made some rather marvellous holes with the rear door ram and it's brackets.
Dented the side cladding of a shed stacking round bales inside the shed adjoining it
Dented the side cladding of a shed stacking round bales inside the shed adjoining it
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
Not building related but tying tractor doors back to the loader arms on a hot summer's day, came to do a tight turn in the field so raised the arms...which lifted both doors off, before I ran over them.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Backed a silage trailer into a indoor clamp bit close to the girder in the doorway took the top coat of paint off a bit of side of trailer left undercoat intact
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
managed to hit every shed at least once!
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Reversed a trailer around the outside of Dutch barn, or at least I thought I was.
There was another bay and I hit the stanchion a bit hard!
There was another bay and I hit the stanchion a bit hard!
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Has anyone else driven under a low bough with a high roll over bar and wondered why the nose was suddenly pointing skyward? Then panicked and put the clutch down so the fuel tank (on the front of a Nuffield) kept heading downwards when the wheels touched the ground.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
In 1979 my dad had a new dairy building put up is 135ft square so a reasonable building in it’s day. they put the steelwork up into wet concrete and were working on it at the time and a gust of wind caught it and took the lot down bent every piece of steel in it, Mum had to take the two men that were working on it to hospital with quite bad but not life threatening injuries I guess they were lucky I don’t know how high up they were but it’s 20ft to the eves one side so it’s reasonable high in the middle
- Location
- DD9.
Back in the day we had a decidedly used caterpillar 3t industrial forklift, had the worst brakes ever. It was a twin stage mast so 2nd stage raised as soon as you lifted the tines.
When stacking boxes in a shed with a low lintel one of the old boys caught it with the mast. The brakes didn’t work so he jammed it in fwd and put the tines thru the box he just set down, then jammed it back in reverse and ripped the lintel clean out, fell between mast and cab.
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and not strictly a mishap to a building, but one of the drivers was at a farm with a load of fert a few years ago. Young lad met him and nipped off to get the loader, came tearing out the shed and an almighty bang followed. Turned out the combine header on its trolley was hitched on the back, he hadn’t noticed and it hadn’t made it safely out past the door
When stacking boxes in a shed with a low lintel one of the old boys caught it with the mast. The brakes didn’t work so he jammed it in fwd and put the tines thru the box he just set down, then jammed it back in reverse and ripped the lintel clean out, fell between mast and cab.
.and not strictly a mishap to a building, but one of the drivers was at a farm with a load of fert a few years ago. Young lad met him and nipped off to get the loader, came tearing out the shed and an almighty bang followed. Turned out the combine header on its trolley was hitched on the back, he hadn’t noticed and it hadn’t made it safely out past the door
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Various shed doors redesigned with grain trailers being driven out sheds with hydraulic back door fully up.
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Barn door was slightly out of shape long before my time - made it difficult to get the hasp on... then one day I caught it with the tractor wheel because I was focusing on not hitting something the other side. It straightened the door up enough that the hasp was almost perfect... right up until the next time I reversed out with the mini digger & hit the slew as I turned to look over my shoulder! I don't dare risk hitting it again to try correcting it.
Then there was the day when dad was keen to have a bonfire to clear some brushwood, I was reluctant as there was a bit of a breeze & I had to go out in the afternoon, but eventually caved in. It was down to embers by lunch time so dad didn't bother going back that afternoon... unfortunately some embers blew into the dry grass and stack of pallets next to an old building. I arrived home just as another farmer was delivering the news about the shed being on fire. Fortunately there wasn't much of any significance inside & it did spur me on to build something more useful.
I don't dare risk hitting it again to try correcting it. Then there was the day when dad was keen to have a bonfire to clear some brushwood, I was reluctant as there was a bit of a breeze & I had to go out in the afternoon, but eventually caved in. It was down to embers by lunch time so dad didn't bother going back that afternoon... unfortunately some embers blew into the dry grass and stack of pallets next to an old building. I arrived home just as another farmer was delivering the news about the shed being on fire. Fortunately there wasn't much of any significance inside & it did spur me on to build something more useful.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No me or not there but saw the aftermath of a tipping trailer going through a shed roof after it began tipping silage on a shed floor. Driver hadn't retracted the hitch and had driven 8 miles with the weight of the trailer holding it down. When the weight of silage began sliding backwards taking the weight off of the hitch the trailer sailed merrily upwards. Apparently the driver was 'giving the load a dunt' in reverse at the time as he didn't have quite enough shed height to fully elevate the trailer and the trailer tongue went just over the drivers head as it punched through the rear window.
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
At work, a hoop on a fertilizerbag broke so I put the stuff in a big bag. Come time to use it up I hung it on the pallet tines of the industrial forklift and found out that the big bag had a hole in it. The fertilizer spreader was only just outside the shed so I made a quick run through the doorway, taking the doorframe and part of the shed with me as the mast was slided out.
While I sat in the seat in the middle of a fair mess contemplating life the boss just walked past. On the upside it saved time explaining.
That was my only big mishap in 5 and a half years being the forkliftdriver so hey. A few years later someone took out an insulated wall in a chilled box store by sliding through it with said forklift. It took a year to fix as alot of boxes had to come out on two sides of the wall.
While I sat in the seat in the middle of a fair mess contemplating life the boss just walked past. On the upside it saved time explaining.
That was my only big mishap in 5 and a half years being the forkliftdriver so hey. A few years later someone took out an insulated wall in a chilled box store by sliding through it with said forklift. It took a year to fix as alot of boxes had to come out on two sides of the wall.