Good job it didn't get sold

[Slippery Slope]

Ever been grateful to find something in the back of the barn that should really have been sold / scrapped / thrown out??

Last weekend we dragged out an old set of pig scales from the back of the barn which haven't been used for decades. Chucked on a 25 kg bag of feed to check they were still fairly accurate ( had to convert lbs to kgs with phone!) and ideal, we were able to weigh my childrens first ever fat lambs!

So what junk are you grateful for that never got sold?

 

[Kidds]

Pretty much everything I use.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I'm the opposite. I hate old crap lying around, because its extremely rare once its gone you regret it.

Old warped toplinks, bits of hydraulic pipe that broke, filters for tractors we don't own - get it gone!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Ever been grateful to find something in the back of the barn that should really have been sold / scrapped / thrown out??

Last weekend we dragged out an old set of pig scales from the back of the barn which haven't been used for decades. Chucked on a 25 kg bag of feed to check they were still fairly accurate ( had to convert lbs to kgs with phone!) and ideal, we were able to weigh my childrens first ever fat lambs!

So what junk are you grateful for that never got sold?

90 lb is what we always aimed for (lamb) ...... before metrification ...and even, actually.... for several years after

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Dad had some lamb weigh scales that the needle on the gauge had snapped off.

The hub for the needle still went round and we managed to cobble a piece of wire on to it but I’m not sure they were too accurate.

I seem to remember lots of comments like “The scales say 88lb but he looks heavier than that. Put a mark on him!”

 

[Yale]

I had a pair of old Massey combine 28 inch wheel rims from a machine which was scrapped.

They hung around for years and should have gone in the scrap however I needed to erect two gate posts to be clad in stone for the house entrance.

The centres were perfect to weld the heavy angle iron to then drop them into the footing to set up for the gates,keeping the angles upright.

I then mixed some concrete in the electric mixer to set the centres in place solid then mass filled the holes and wall footings in one,leaving the angle irons in the right place for the gates.

 

[smcapstick]

My Linde forklift.

I use it every single day and I would never have found one as good for anywhere near the selling price.

 

[Tim G]

Im generally grateful for everyone else selling there junk as it seems to end up living its days out here.

 

[Campbell]

No dought I've seen it here, it's just remembering where..............