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Top 10 worst ever farm inventions.
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simmy_bull
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- North Yorkshire
Courier
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- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
We still do it, one of the first things I was taught when I started helping on the farm was... cut the string by the knot on the short side, grab the knots and pull, less string to pull round the bale. Every string was hung over the rail the large double doors of the barn were latched to, and carefully tied up when there was an amount like in my picture, which incidentally I only took a couple of weeks ago.
I remember his comment when he saw big round bales for the first time. "They'll never catch on, how can you handle um"
I remember being marked down at Askham Bryan College in 1970 ? by machinery lecturer Sartain for suggesting that hay and straw would one day all be handled in half ton packages [emoji23]
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Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
Since when did that matter to a power hungry egotist?
Roy_H
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Well he was soon proved wrong! Our Howard Bigbaler arrived on the farm in March 1975 and l think they first came onto the market at least 18 months before then ( But it was a devil of a job to get hold of one) and the first big round balers arrived on the scene about the same time (e.g. Farmhand Vermeer, Hesston and The IH 241 ).
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- Mendips Somerset
lol i have a neighbour who got one a few years ago with a flail , cover almost gone with rust , speaking just after hed done his hedges , fordson major no cab reckoned it was bit sharp on a cold morning bits pinging out the flail and smacking his knuckles on the steering wheel , HSE would have had a field day
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- Cumbria
No 1 - MF Finger bar mower. Always stopped in the same position (cutter bar fully extended). As you lifted the bar up into transport, the cutter bar slipped down, many farmers lost a finger doing this.
No 2 - Multispreaders (SKH/Abbey/Kidd/Shelbourne etal) Did not like fibrous material, anyone who has cleaned up round ring feeders that have been out all winter will have spent many an hour inside one cutting old silage off the rotor.
No 3 - Haybob. Wrecked more foragers and cost more time and money than any other piece of kit. I'm surprised the Insurance Companies didn't ban them !
No 4 - Cattle Crush, simply for the name, who is crushing cattle and why No wonder the public think we are a bunch of cruel bxxxrds...
No 5 - Castraters, again for no other reason than they make your eyes water every-time you use them. And the image of your mid-menopause wife keeps popping into your head
I'll think of another 5 I'm sure
No 2 - Multispreaders (SKH/Abbey/Kidd/Shelbourne etal) Did not like fibrous material, anyone who has cleaned up round ring feeders that have been out all winter will have spent many an hour inside one cutting old silage off the rotor.
No 3 - Haybob. Wrecked more foragers and cost more time and money than any other piece of kit. I'm surprised the Insurance Companies didn't ban them !
No 4 - Cattle Crush, simply for the name, who is crushing cattle and why
No wonder the public think we are a bunch of cruel bxxxrds...No 5 - Castraters, again for no other reason than they make your eyes water every-time you use them. And the image of your mid-menopause wife keeps popping into your head
I'll think of another 5 I'm sure
rc mx110
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rc mx110
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Tractor ones wasn't much better
Roy_H
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My dad met a guy who sawed off an electricity pole with one of those! He approached it carefully enough but what happened was he kept both eyes on the pole but just as he got level with it one of his tractor rear wheels dropped into a rabbit hole and that was that! Apparently there was a loud bang and plenty of blue flashes !
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- Ceredigion, wales
How much time have you got? REALLY sharp clutch, to the point that when you wanted to hitch on an impliment and needed to go back an inch or two it would sometimes go back a couple of yards. Terrible brakes, cramped cab which was also too hot in summer (lots of glass, no air con
), very very unreliable and very very uncomfortable.- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
I was marked down at Reaseheath for suggesting that they put in a feed barrier, stop feeding in the parlour, buy a diet feeder and go to complete diet feeding instead of the Brinkmanship system, f**k me went back several years later and they were doing just that, never did get my marks back.
Worst invention, Brinkmanship, labour intensive for very little if any gain.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Fairly certain by then Hesston were making a machine which put the hay together in a mini 1/2 ton stack which could be moved witha special lifter. Remember seeing American pictures of a field littered with mini hay stacks
My old man cut halfway through a telegraph pole outside our farm when his front wheel dropped off the kerb, gpo put some tape round it and its still there nearly 50 years later
Roy_H
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A chap near us had a Bonhill combine (Forschritt) made in East Germany and in the first season he had to replace ALL the drive belts as they were such poor quality
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
Got that badge too, and the skinless knuckles when changing the blades
Got a teagle after loved it except for hand loading the square bales of straw !
Couldn't get straw this year, so have moved onto powderdust off Derrek, cows are much cleaner, costs less, zero application cost should have changed years ago !
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- Cornwall
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Father in law has one for sale if you are feeling nostalgic!
How much time have you got? REALLY sharp clutch, to the point that when you wanted to hitch on an impliment and needed to go back an inch or two it would sometimes go back a couple of yards. Terrible brakes, cramped cab which was also too hot in summer (lots of glass, no air con
Father in law has one for sale if you are feeling nostalgic!
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- Ceredigion, wales
Thanks bit no thanks.O
Father in law has one for sale if you are feeling nostalgic!
not very intelgent using haybob for forager was it nowNo 1 - MF Finger bar mower. Always stopped in the same position (cutter bar fully extended). As you lifted the bar up into transport, the cutter bar slipped down, many farmers lost a finger doing this.
No 2 - Multispreaders (SKH/Abbey/Kidd/Shelbourne etal) Did not like fibrous material, anyone who has cleaned up round ring feeders that have been out all winter will have spent many an hour inside one cutting old silage off the rotor.
No 3 - Haybob. Wrecked more foragers and cost more time and money than any other piece of kit. I'm surprised the Insurance Companies didn't ban them !
No 4 - Cattle Crush, simply for the name, who is crushing cattle and why
No 5 - Castraters, again for no other reason than they make your eyes water every-time you use them. And the image of your mid-menopause wife keeps popping into your head
I'll think of another 5 I'm sure
thats what mower conditioners were invented for ....
how brilliant the wonderful foreign design that was the haybob
could then consign the bomford wuffler and the nicholson side rake to the nettles.
Roy_H
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Or in our case the f..........g Lely Cock Pheasant!not very intelgent using haybob for forager was it now
thats what mower conditioners were invented for ....
how brilliant the wonderful foreign design that was the haybob