Top 10 worst ever farm inventions.

melted welly

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No one owning up to this creation I found round the back of the yard.......fore hammer head welded to 3ft of steel pipe with a plastic shovel handle jammed inside for good measure. Shaft must measure bout 5 ft! One can only wonder at the circumstances surrounding its inception.
 

Larel

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Sounds great idea. Is it possible to have a picture and simple instructions for non-tech people please? I would be very grateful as I always seem to land up with footspray all over the inside of my coat pockets.

Pics as above, trial and error required to get the correct size of hole for the spray to exit, always surprising how big it needs to be. Always think once you have one lid it will do for the next can, but sometimes it gets broken before the can is finished. Do you think think it's worthy of the Quick fixes Bodges and Creations thread?
 

Sharpy

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Pics as above, trial and error required to get the correct size of hole for the spray to exit, always surprising how big it needs to be. Always think once you have one lid it will do for the next can, but sometimes it gets broken before the can is finished. Do you think think it's worthy of the Quick fixes Bodges and Creations thread?
They will fail you for.
A. A clean bit of Floor
B. No evidence of an axe used to create the holes
C. Lovely tidy job with no rough edges
D. No baler twine
 

Nearly

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Pics as above, trial and error required to get the correct size of hole for the spray to exit, always surprising how big it needs to be. Always think once you have one lid it will do for the next can, but sometimes it gets broken before the can is finished. Do you think think it's worthy of the Quick fixes Bodges and Creations thread?
Gaffer tape around the lid then redrill the holes. It should be much stronger?
 

Paddington

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Soggy Shropshire
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Pics as above, trial and error required to get the correct size of hole for the spray to exit, always surprising how big it needs to be. Always think once you have one lid it will do for the next can, but sometimes it gets broken before the can is finished. Do you think think it's worthy of the Quick fixes Bodges and Creations thread?
Have tried this but with only a hole in the top (which means you can't use gloves), think I'll need to cut down the side as well.
 
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 !
Snap on the knuckle
Snap on the teagle
Snap on the loading. I use pallet forks now. Works well
Snap (hopefully next yr) on the saw dust
 
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 !
With a bucket by hand you spread it? I may splash out for a walk along dispenser
 

glasshouse

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lothians
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
A haybob will only wreck a forager if the field wasnt rolled or it lacks a metal detector
 

DeeGee

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North East Wales
I seem to remember the only redeeming quality of The Lely Cock Pheasant as opposed to The Bamford Wuffler was that the Lely machine was twice as wide as The Bamford.

Yep, for,all it’s faults and the hassle changing from transport to work position, it took two 5’ rows instead of one. We really thought we were steaming on through the work in the 1960’s and 70’s doing two rows at a time!
You could make lovely hay with a Pheasant if the weather was reasonable, it left fluffy windrows that the air could flow through. But it could often tangle on headlands etc. and there is no way on earth I would ever want to go back to those days of grass tedding.
 

Roy_H

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Yep, for,all it’s faults and the hassle changing from transport to work position, it took two 5’ rows instead of one. We really thought we were steaming on through the work in the 1960’s and 70’s doing two rows at a time!
You could make lovely hay with a Pheasant if the weather was reasonable, it left fluffy windrows that the air could flow through. But it could often tangle on headlands etc. and there is no way on earth I would ever want to go back to those days of grass tedding.
Ours was a lot better when we put 10 ply tyres on it. The original "wheelbarrow" tyres punctured like nobody's business!
 

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