Top 10 worst ever farm inventions.

[Suffolk Serf]

Can remember my dad having a McConnell swing over finger bar hedge cutter.that was crap too.knife kept stalling and would not cut anything thicker than about half an inch and then had lots of clearing up and burning to do.probably a revelation at the time as were flail mowers
Nick...

My dad's still got one. Uses it on his 35x to cut a couple of hedges on his smallholding.

 

[2wheels]

Definitely.

I’ve brought mine into a shed and I’m having the usual battle feeding them. Why do they insist on following you round the shed trampling the food you’ve put down instead of stopping and putting there heads down

if you are feeding rolls just chuck them over the sheep.

 

[rc mx110]

Am i allowed to add sheep to this thread?

Yes, please do

 

[Right-arm fast]

Do you want one??? I've got one sat in my yard. Complete, was barn stored for about 30 years, but has been sat outside for the last few years since I ran out of space to keep it under cover. Free to good home!!View attachment 638514

Thanks Goweresque. I'll bear it in mind !. I don't know if I want one with a hinge in the middle, that would make doing a tidy job of cutting the hedges far too easy!

 

[Goweresque]

Thanks Goweresque. I'll bear it in mind !. I don't know if I want one with a hinge in the middle, that would make doing a tidy job of cutting the hedges far too easy!

Go on you know you want it really

 

[Roy_H]

Found this picture of one
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And some other heaps of crap too
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What we soon found out was don't even think about trying to follow the machine featured on the second picture with the machine featured on the first picture!

 

[Agrivator]

The technical manuals provided with foreign machines. Most have been written by imbeciles who think they have a perfect grasp of English.

 

[farmer92]

JCB Fastrac

 

[nick...]

JCB Fastrac

Care to elaborate
Nick...

 

[davieh3350]

Daylight saving, clock adjustments.
We maybe never invented it, but we get the blame for its existence.

 

[Pilgrimmick]

 

[Courier]

The technical manuals provided with foreign machines. Most have been written by imbeciles who think they have a perfect grasp of English.

With the exception of the Zetor rur 55.

Every single part is described by its generic engineering detail down to screws, bearing and seal sizes [emoji6]

 

[Wombat]

Depends which end of the blanket you like to be under

 

[Johnny Deere]

I Googled them but could never find them they were on the brain bell classic farm machinery films.
My memory of it is vauge but it was either big or small square baler they were pulled behind and they stacked 4 bales i think in a tower and left them off.
It looked fairly complex and i never saw one in the flesh surely some on of ye guys know the machine im on about i thought id come across it here

 

[Johnny Deere]

Found it at 8.42

 

[mixed breed]

Found it at 8.42

No actual footage of the mf 1455E (13mins 40) doing some baling. I wonder why see my earlier post

 

[Roy_H]

Found it at 8.42

The Lely "Cube Eight". No wonder it never caught on. You still had to sort and stack the bales on the trailer anyway ( Unlike a flat 8) .

 

[Selectamatic]

The Lely "Cube Eight". No wonder it never caught on. You still had to sort and stack the bales on the trailer anyway ( Unlike a flat 8) .

Did you? I have a brochure here somewhere for a Lely Cube 8 stacker, similar to a Bale Slave, that would lift the stack onto the trailer.

Thinking of it, did they make a 56 bale style trailer for them too?

 

[Roy_H]

Did you? I have a brochure here somewhere for a Lely Cube 8 stacker, similar to a Bale Slave, that would lift the stack onto the trailer.

Thinking of it, did they make a 56 bale style trailer for them too?

I think at the time The McConnel Balepacker would have been the better option ( Until it pulled your baler in half, apparently it wasn't unknown!) Not only that the mid 1970's saw the advent of the first generation of big balers.

 

[Ley253]

Thats the beast I mentioned earlier. In order to test the thing, we had a trailer with a stepped back end. The front carried the bales, and some poor man from the prototype shop stood on the stepped area pretending to be a baler and fed the thing with bales as it was towed around! Not the most popular job! There were two in a field just outside Wootton Bassett for years.