admit i caught the barn stantion while backing out of the barn and turning so to avoid another machine, had the loader bucket high up, and as backing out and turning just caught the stantion high up with the side of the bucket made it flex abit a noise but no permanent damage done i hope ? driving machines with attachments around a tight livestock yard, one has to have ones wits about you looking everywhere and up, easy to say ?
HIT A BARN STANTION WITH THE LOADER BUCKET?
- Thread starter bluebell
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davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Did you bend it?
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
Don't worry about it, now you've told us no one else need know, if falls down someone else did it.
Pistonbroke
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Everyday occurrence here. Bent a dutch barn post about two foot out of line so I hit it again the other way to straighten it but it bent in a different place into an S. Still standing 
- Location
- Ceredigion
Poor design of loaders . They not built for farm use. Things sticking out that are asking to get hit by girders
- Location
- Somerset UK
You're merely an amateur, pulling the front off the grain shed by driving out with the trailer raised then reversing into your father's car all on the same day is the mark of a true professional.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Not to does . Go up the road with a full bucket of stone with bucket up and hit the brakes . Should have taken a picture , but the opposite of this. Unless I'm the donkey that is [emoji23]
The handler course does tell you to keep weight low to the ground
The handler course does tell you to keep weight low to the ground
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Don't stress about it, every farmer eventually reaches a certain age where we can't so much as turn a key in an ignition without smashing the place up
- Location
- Ceredigion
Thats ageist. I've always been a wrecker
when i was a lot younger and my father helped me, i showed him how to do the muckspreading with the lid down, i loadeded him up with muck and watched him over the far field going along with the muckspreaders lid up ? now years later i have to confess that ive done the same a few times ?
- Location
- Somerset UK
Fathers car was revenge for him wrapping an electric pole stay wire around the tractor steps, had to get the generator and grinder to cut the steps off, the pole stayed up some how.
Pistonbroke
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Or dropping a silage trailer off and taking off with the pipe still in and ripping it off
- Location
- South Molton
Hit a crash barrier edge with scraper tractor tubeless tyre rim. Sledged it back and inflated tyre before son even knew about it!
- Location
- Sedgefield
I went to deliver husbands tea in the field while he was ploughing. Parked behind him on the headrig
Got in the tractor to have a time around
This was before comfy spare seats so I sat on the back window ledge
Obscuring the back window
Imagine the scene
Hubby raised the plough and backed up
The plough carved open the range rover roof like a sardine can
Then when we realised what had happened a jerk reaction started to turn the plough over with the car attached !!!!!!
I was pregnant at the time and although hubby must have been furious with me he just patted my knee and said not to worry myself
new roof and the range rover got fixed
Got in the tractor to have a time around
This was before comfy spare seats so I sat on the back window ledge
Obscuring the back window
Imagine the scene
Hubby raised the plough and backed up
The plough carved open the range rover roof like a sardine can
Then when we realised what had happened a jerk reaction started to turn the plough over with the car attached !!!!!!
I was pregnant at the time and although hubby must have been furious with me he just patted my knee and said not to worry myself
new roof and the range rover got fixed
10 out of 10 to your husband for his self control.
If you havent cracked the roof sheets your ok. I remember reversing a telehandler with boom up and boomed a fair way out at speed and forgot about the d100 bale of hay i had put on the yard earlier, i ended up going on two wheels for what seemed like ages and then had to sit tight while she bounced from side to side with wheels coming off the ground until she levelled off! It wasnt my machine either
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
did you have plenty of green parlour paper to hand
If i had opened my mouth my heart would have fell outdid you have plenty of green parlour paper to hand
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
i bet if you had lifted your rear of the seat yer arse would have fell out too