Top 10 worst ever farm inventions.

[chickens and wheat]

Howard baler tailgate with a small drum

 

[Straw1107]

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

Is the Howard big baler still sat in your yard, I would be interested in it if possible.

 

[Goweresque]

Is the Howard big baler still sat in your yard, I would be interested in it if possible.

It was an old Fisher Humphreys hedge cutter I have, not a Howard baler, sorry!

 

[Petethefarmer]

farm assurance

this made me laugh more than it should! ha

 

[Av Gorritt]

Briggs and Stratton engined elevators.

ALL Briggs and Stratton engines on Anything . I've pulled the rope starter on too many of those till I was almost blue in the face . (To no avail mostly )

 

[ridger]

ALL Briggs and Stratton engines on Anything . I've pulled the rope starter on too many of those till I was almost blue in the face . (To no avail mostly )

62 pulls it took used to take our neighbour to start his bale elevator, he used to get whoever was standing around to keep count and it spluttered into life on the 62nd pull every time

 

[Roy_H]

62 pulls it took used to take our neighbour to start his bale elevator, he used to get whoever was standing around to keep count and it spluttered into life on the 62nd pull every time

Lucky ours had The Villiers then! ( Which on the whole was a very good starter).

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Farm support

 

[Ploughteringindubs]

Push on plastic drench tube fittings even with small jubilees added.

Mf525s

Tight barstewards who used tree planting grants to plant trees and fence fields all within 1.5m of burns.

 

[tr250]

Kilworth post knocker got to be up there

 

[FonterraFarmer]

ALL Briggs and Stratton engines on Anything . I've pulled the rope starter on too many of those till I was almost blue in the face . (To no avail mostly )

62 pulls it took used to take our neighbour to start his bale elevator, he used to get whoever was standing around to keep count and it spluttered into life on the 62nd pull every time

Drain the carb after last use, refill with fresh petrol when you use it the next time.

 

[nick...]

ALL Briggs and Stratton engines on Anything . I've pulled the rope starter on too many of those till I was almost blue in the face . (To no avail mostly )

I agree.people think they are brilliant but I’ve allwYs thought the opposite
Nick...

 

[Dry Rot]

Bureaucrats and red tape.

 

[michael N123]

Kilworth post knocker got to be up there

That’s pathetic

 

[Ley253]

That’s pathetic

Had to be early April! May have worked if Cam and roller operated, but otherwise!

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Sucker blowers.

 

[Flat 10]

Browns c tine cultivators. Just left ridges and trenches. Not enough tines for the depth they worked.

 

[Bloders]

That’s pathetic

Better than a sledgehammer...

 

[glasshouse]

Browns c tine cultivators. Just left ridges and trenches. Not enough tines for the depth they worked.

I loved them

 

[Flat 10]

I loved them

For what? I much prefer my superflow, flexitine or wil rich cultivators