things that make you smile

[JeepJeep]

Male and Female Blackbirds bobbing about busy worming together and singing before light and after dark.

 

[JP1]

I hear pretty good things about Hants County Council.
They still have quite a lot of farms of all types; smallholding starter units, progression farms, dairies, mixed livestock, fruit & veg, arable.

Nice to know and it';s still a lovely County despite the development pressures

 

[DrWazzock]

Sitting in the hospital visiting the Mrs. Looking out the window as she drones on. Old girl patient having a smoke in the hospital garden. Heart sinks. How can people keep on smoking in that state. Anyway she stubs the fag out and starts weeding and tidying up the raised beds. Lesson to me there. Don’t be so damn judgemental.

 

[Old Tup]

Sitting in the hospital visiting the Mrs. Looking out the window as she drones on. Old girl patient having a smoke in the hospital garden. Heart sinks. How can people keep on smoking in that state. Anyway she stubs the fag out and starts weeding and tidying up the raised beds. Lesson to me there. Don’t be so damn judgemental.

More people with you....than you think..

 

[Av Gorritt]

The few times that I've been in ,or visited hospital , it's always been the case that cleaner ladies and , yes , nurses clutter up the doorways for a sneaky fag .

 

[JP1]

 

[JP1]

Local chap did a super job on the Step Son’s first shot woodcock for his 14th birthday

 

[JP1]

Got the whelping box set back up again for the second time for one of the GF’s Golden Retriever bitches

Paneltim the ideal product for the job

 

[Pan mixer]

Got the whelping box set back up again for the second time for one of the GF’s Golden Retriever bitches

Paneltim the ideal product for the job

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Those pups better be worth some money to pay for a panel trim whelping box - or were they just offcuts you found behind a shed at work?

 

[JP1]

Those pups better be worth some money to pay for a panel trim whelping box - or were they just offcuts you found behind a she at work?

Well that's a multi part answer

They were old offcuts and the 8-10 pups this time will have a good value as was the last litter of 9

 

[Paddington]

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Is this the UK's most abused traffic bollard?

Installed in a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, it has been repeatedly run over, bent, burned and, finally, stolen.

www.bbc.co.uk

What a load of bollards.

 

[Pan mixer]

First Sparrow grass of the season - should have looked yesterday really.

 

[Lowland1]

Saturday night I was combining a very wet field all of the sudden there was a pop and I lost power. I had no warning lights and I couldn't see any problem but the combine wouldn't rev. I didn't sleep well Saturday night. Sunday I looked but didn't see anything and I had spraying to do so again I didn't sleep well. Monday morning I struck it up but it was still the same. One of my blokes came to look and see and climbed up the back and said 'should that pipe be off' . The pipe from the air cleaner had popped off. To say I was relieved was an understatement. My mechanical ineptitude makes me smile at times.

 

[Pan mixer]

Saturday night I was combining a very wet field all of the sudden there was a pop and I lost power. I had no warning lights and I couldn't see any problem but the combine wouldn't rev. I didn't sleep well Saturday night. Sunday I looked but didn't see anything and I had spraying to do so again I didn't sleep well. Monday morning I struck it up but it was still the same. One of my blokes came to look and see and climbed up the back and said 'should that pipe be off' . The pipe from the air cleaner had popped off. To say I was relieved was an understatement. My mechanical ineptitude makes me smile at times.

That sounds like the good old 'Intercooler pipe falling off' thing, had it a couple of times, once on a NH combine, once on a Manitou, I worried a lot too and then an expert mended it in a minute with a jubilee clip

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I feel your pain.

I had a fitter here once and he forgot to tighten the clip on the intercooler pipe when I ran a horrendously unreliable and expensive Claas Xerion.

I was mightily relieved to find that!

 

[Muddyroads]

Saturday night I was combining a very wet field all of the sudden there was a pop and I lost power. I had no warning lights and I couldn't see any problem but the combine wouldn't rev. I didn't sleep well Saturday night. Sunday I looked but didn't see anything and I had spraying to do so again I didn't sleep well. Monday morning I struck it up but it was still the same. One of my blokes came to look and see and climbed up the back and said 'should that pipe be off' . The pipe from the air cleaner had popped off. To say I was relieved was an understatement. My mechanical ineptitude makes me smile at times.

Worked on an estate years ago with 2 TX 34’s. I drive one, a self employed guy was brought in to drive the other. Turned out he didn’t see the need to blow out the engine air filter which blocked, caused air to be sucked into the filter from the exhaust which caught on fire and blew the turbo. For some reason it took two of these events before he wasn’t asked back again. Oh yes, and forgetting to put the engine oil drain plug back in before attempting to refill with fresh oil.

 

[Lowland1]

That sounds like the good old 'Intercooler pipe falling off' thing, had it a couple of times, once on a NH combine, once on a Manitou, I worried a lot too and then an expert mended it in a minute with a jubilee clip

I feel your pain.

I had a fitter here once and he forgot to tighten the clip on the intercooler pipe when I ran a horrendously unreliable and expensive Claas Xerion.

I was mightily relieved to find that!

Worked on an estate years ago with 2 TX 34’s. I drive one, a self employed guy was brought in to drive the other. Turned out he didn’t see the need to blow out the engine air filter which blocked, caused air to be sucked into the filter from the exhaust which caught on fire and blew the turbo. For some reason it took two of these events before he wasn’t asked back again. Oh yes, and forgetting to put the engine oil drain plug back in before attempting to refill with fresh oil.

Yes you think you’ve blown the engine and you start thinking cost and down time etc and all the other bad things. Then you see the ‘bleeding obvious’ disconnected pipe and you wonder how stupid you could be not seeing it.
As for cleaning filter’s I’m now an expert having had my daughters Australian boyfriend whose father runs a compressor hire business give mye filter cleaning lessons. ( if there’s a wedding I’m not going as he seems to think filter cleaning is an art.)

 

[wherearethey]

The pleasure of letting the ladies out from lockdown Jail this morning

 

[Lowland1]

A couple of stray camels were wandering around the farm yesterday. They seemed fairly friendly and Mohammed and camel were pleased to pose for a picture.

 

[Gerbert]

Grammer airseat sprung a leak last year at the last cut of grass. Tractor does very little in winter so hey, I'll get to it when I get to it, meanwhile throw a piece of wood under the seat.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL SHOCK YOU.
Come spring, already did a fair bit of manure spreading with a solid seat and had weeks of the tractor standing idle, almost dry enough for the rest of the manure, you know what, I'll get to that seat. Ofcourse I am that cheap that I first need to know for super sure that the airbag is indeed the problem so I take it apart, yes the airbag is the culprit and boy are they expensive. Order it and completely by surprise (not) the land is fit for spreading. No aurbag turned up yet so well, I'll bolt the seat together again, throw the block of wood in between and off I go.
Next day airbag turns up, my back is shouting at me so I install it right away, dick of a job.
Alright then, off we go again. After a few loads my back shouts at me again as the ride isn't all that much better. Next load I find out I blocked the forwards/backwards damping on the seat, effing numbnuts.

I am now on the shitter not feeling so well having picked up some bug from my sisters family.
Smile on my face though thinking: I am a f**kkking idiot