Ideas

[Alternativedairy]

Evening chaps, I'm in need of picking your brains.

I'm tired. Like, ridiculously tired. And I find the only way to get round it is to work and push myself, or I stop and I sieze up and flag and am useless for days.

I need some ideas of things to do.

Remap work is great, and immensely satisfying. However I'm getting a lot of flack from some people. And business is difficult enough without competition sabotage.

I'm a decent welder, engineer and can turn my hand to most things.

Set up a half decent workshop, but I'm just... Bumbling. I need ideas.

So, hit me with them. Got all the Remap and diag gear, welders (mig, tig, arc, brazing) tools etc, electrical bits and pieces.

Give me a message, all ideas wanted [emoji23]

 

[spin cycle]

classic car repairs?

 

[Chae1]

Make those fancy front boxes/weights for tractors.

Seem to be a must have fashion accessory. Guess there's a good margin in them in you've skills to build them.

 

[40 series]

I know a lad making digger buckets seems to be flying

 

[som farmer]

making a box, on the side of a loader, to put all silage wrap/net in, instead of chucking it in the cab, idea I saw on u tube, sounds neat.

 

[Dukes Fit]

@Alternativedairy What flack are you getting?

 

[RhysT]

Tractor renovations? Not old classics, but work horses that need straightening out putting them back to full work.

 

[8100]

Stabilizers for Fendt's

 

[TripleSix]

Stabilizers for Fendt's

Anti roll bars!

 

[Alternativedairy]

@Alternativedairy What flack are you getting?

A fair bit for "fight club" removals. It seems someone has gathered up a load of people and directed them to me to prove a point [emoji849]

As well as a fair few people who are in the trade and attempt to pick fault with my work as I haven't been in it as long as them, even though I've had no problems and nothing but positivity from customers.

 

[Alternativedairy]

Tractor renovations? Not old classics, but work horses that need straightening out putting them back to full work.

I did think about it. Having a workshop based in carmarthen now, it's diffi ult getting customers as I now can't drive [emoji849]

 

[40 series]

The tidying up modern classics. As the squeeze comes on people will wise up and tidy what they have rather than change. The way the quarry industry does. I think anyway

 

[quavers]

Have you got any artistic flair , look at the guy who started on here doing fireballs and now seeing him on facebook doing very well , know a guy who started doing metal work and stone work out of his garden shed and his very happy , look up barclays stone & metal on face book for pictures of his work very talented , i would get away from agri work not worth the hassle .

 

[quavers]

http://barclaysstoneandmetal.co.uk/ he has got a page here but more pictures on face book , does not want to go big scale but is happy what he is doing .

 

[daveydiesel1]

A fair bit for "fight club" removals. It seems someone has gathered up a load of people and directed them to me to prove a point [emoji849]

As well as a fair few people who are in the trade and attempt to pick fault with my work as I haven't been in it as long as them, even though I've had no problems and nothing but positivity from customers.

What do u mean fight club removals? Wouldnt let them bother me if i was u. Long time ago i stopped carin what others thought. I try to not offend ppl but if they wanna be cross,jealous or offended sure thats ther problem. Id say call them out. When we were bankrupt lota locals were doin plenty o talkin and exaggeratin stories but when we rang them up or arrived in ther yard they wernt so big and apologisein all over the show. The man that shouts the most is usually a big coward. Thats my advice anyway

 

[Chae1]

A fair bit for "fight club" removals. It seems someone has gathered up a load of people and directed them to me to prove a point [emoji849]

As well as a fair few people who are in the trade and attempt to pick fault with my work as I haven't been in it as long as them, even though I've had no problems and nothing but positivity from customers.

People from the forum?

Perhaps they ought to go to China/Eastern Europe if they want to save the world and get them to start fitting emission controls to machines. When I was at claas factory more than half the combines, foragers coming down the line had no ad blue.

 

[Dry Rot]

Get your name in print. Nobody on here knows who you are and only that you are from "South Wales". Quite a few on here seem to use a business name as a screen name. Get your local newspaper and radio to do a profile (but you'll need to be doing something unusual and interesting and write most of it for them!).

 

[Dukes Fit]

A fair bit for "fight club" removals. It seems someone has gathered up a load of people and directed them to me to prove a point [emoji849]

As well as a fair few people who are in the trade and attempt to pick fault with my work as I haven't been in it as long as them, even though I've had no problems and nothing but positivity from customers.

Usually a good sign that you are doing a good job if established people start getting nervous about your work.
As has been said before, fight club removals are legal in the applications in which you do them, if anybody has any "moral" hang up then it's purely an excuse to stand on a soap box and spout fake moralities.

Crack on what you are doing

 

[AJR75]

I'll second what @Dukes Fit has said. I don't know the first thing about remaps but generally if your competition is putting you down then it's a sign they're nervous- you've got 'em rattled! Don't let self doubt creep in and keep going.

 

[br jones]

Round here the other side of wales close to england ,a man of your calibre wouldnt have a minute to breathe wuth your skills,one lad who does similar ecu type repairs ,have to wait 6 weeks for him