DeeGee
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
Don’t use my old 12m Hardi sprayer much these days, but for odds and ends it stays on my Massey 265 so that I can boast on The Farm Forum that I have a self propelled sprayer.
Anyway, I had somehow managed to knock off a nozzle holder last autumn and forgot about it until I rocked up into a field of spring barley and opened up the booms to reveal zero pressure and a lot of water pouring out of a broken nozzle holder.
Luckily my friendly contractor was due to call anyway so he got me out of the proverbial: and I then rummaged around for the phone number of the sprayer parts supplier. I needed a nozzle body and thought it expedient to get a spare as well. I also splashed out (no pun intended) on a few ‘O’ ring seals that might come in handy.
So with the debit card dusted off I expected to be relieved of about twenty or thirty quid; but what the hell: you only live once and you can’t take it with you. Well not during lock down anyway, unless you happen to run the government.
Anyway, the pleasant guy on the phone spent some time on his calculator, quite a long time actually, and eventually he told me that with VAT and post and packaging my bank account was about to be raided for £72.68.
Now, despite what some may say, I am not a mean person. Careful perhaps yes, and at times cautious about spending money if it is not absolutely necessary, on such frivolities as heating oil and food. But basically I believe that money is for spending, if you are lucky enough one day to have any. But as I recoiled in shock at this bill for two nozzle holders and a few tiny rubber rings it occurred to me that nett of VAT I had just spent the equivalent of half a tonne of feed barley for a couple of tiny parts to make good a sprayer from the pre Ordovician era that I hardly use but cannot really do without.
All donations will be gratefully received and treated in the strictest confidence. Preferably money: no baked beans, pasta or crisps thanks.
Anyway, I had somehow managed to knock off a nozzle holder last autumn and forgot about it until I rocked up into a field of spring barley and opened up the booms to reveal zero pressure and a lot of water pouring out of a broken nozzle holder.
Luckily my friendly contractor was due to call anyway so he got me out of the proverbial: and I then rummaged around for the phone number of the sprayer parts supplier. I needed a nozzle body and thought it expedient to get a spare as well. I also splashed out (no pun intended) on a few ‘O’ ring seals that might come in handy.
So with the debit card dusted off I expected to be relieved of about twenty or thirty quid; but what the hell: you only live once and you can’t take it with you. Well not during lock down anyway, unless you happen to run the government.
Anyway, the pleasant guy on the phone spent some time on his calculator, quite a long time actually, and eventually he told me that with VAT and post and packaging my bank account was about to be raided for £72.68.
Now, despite what some may say, I am not a mean person. Careful perhaps yes, and at times cautious about spending money if it is not absolutely necessary, on such frivolities as heating oil and food. But basically I believe that money is for spending, if you are lucky enough one day to have any. But as I recoiled in shock at this bill for two nozzle holders and a few tiny rubber rings it occurred to me that nett of VAT I had just spent the equivalent of half a tonne of feed barley for a couple of tiny parts to make good a sprayer from the pre Ordovician era that I hardly use but cannot really do without.
All donations will be gratefully received and treated in the strictest confidence. Preferably money: no baked beans, pasta or crisps thanks.
