what grinds your gears

[smcapstick]

How old are you? Everyone in Britain used to pronounce it "Keenya" - I always thought that "Ken - ya" was a politically correct form? So, needless to say, I always use the old way

33.

 

[pycoed]

33.

Ah - that would explain it then

 

[bigg6480]

The start of the yearly TB rodeo tomorrow one job I really hate.

 

[lim x]

33.

You're too young to be such a grumpy git.....wtf will you be in another twenty years

Funny, you get a picture in your mind of what you think someone looks like on here and then illusion is shattered when they say they are only 33....I'd have put you in mid fifties bracket.

 

[smcapstick]

You're too young to be such a grumpy git.....wtf will you be in another twenty years

Funny, you get a picture in your mind of what you think someone looks like on here and then illusion is shattered when they say they are only 33....I'd have put you in mid fifties bracket.

My mother was pregnant for 249 months.

 

[Henarar]

You're too young to be such a grumpy git.....wtf will you be in another twenty years

Funny, you get a picture in your mind of what you think someone looks like on here and then illusion is shattered when they say they are only 33....I'd have put you in mid fifties bracket.

he looks older in the pic

 

[smcapstick]

Dear Lord... where's that firing squad when you need it?

 

[Sharpy]

Dear Lord... where's that firing squad when you need it?

Cheese grater and a blowtorch would be a more fitting end for the perpetrator of that crime.

 

[simmy_bull]

Today I have been mostly falling out with bags of Lithan fertiliser. I had 84 ton delivered, and was concerned that they didn't take up too much room in the shed. So I made the bold decision to stack them 3 high. I must admit, I was pretty pleased with the result. A lovely neat stack, all squarely placed and tightly packed. Non of them were leaning, and it didn't take up too much room.
How wrong could I have been. Upon entering the building this morning, the hole stack looked like it had been flattened by a giant. They were everywhere. Pushed up to a tractor, all over some workshop shelving, but miraculously non had split. What sh#ty things they are to stack. May as well as try and plie up shopping bags full of water. Has anybody else experienced this? Or am I just crap on a telehandler.

Did you cross them like you do with bales?

The fella I work with is an artist he stacks them three high straight on top of each other and they never move. He says it works better that way than crossing the joins.

I stacked two loads a couple of weeks ago. Took my time and they still weren’t perfect.

 

[Deerefarmer]

My mother was pregnant for 249 months.

And let me get this straight ,that grinds your gears?

 

[CornishTone]

Dear Lord... where's that firing squad when you need it?

Aaargghhh! My eyes!!!

Firing squad is too good for the perpetrator of this abomination! He should hanged, drawn and quartered for that. No point wasting time on a trial either!

 

[smcapstick]

And let me get this straight ,that grinds your gears?

No - it was in reference to an earlier comment

 

[DrWazzock]

Refitted the weld mesh guard over the grain tank filling cross auger inside the combine grain tank. Doing my bit for health and safety, I thought, even though it is nigh on impossible that you would actually be in the tank with it running.

Had to do some work in the tank so folded the guard up to get in then caught my knee on it and one of the razor sharp ends on the weld mesh sank deeply into my knee.

Why is it most guards and safety devices are so poorly designed and usually result in a cut, a slipped disc or skinned knuckles when trying to deal with them?

I find the combination of a braked PTO on the tractor, a huge great cumbersome guard round it with sharp edges, and trying to hitch up a heavy double jointed implement PTO that cannot be rotated to be one of the most dangerous jobs I do on a weekly basis for my back in particular. Guarding against one hazard seems to create several others.

The people who design these things should be forced to hitch up such an implement 28 times.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Refitted the weld mesh guard over the grain tank filling cross auger inside the combine grain tank. Doing my bit for health and safety, I thought, even though it is nigh on impossible that you would actually be in the tank with it running.

Had to do some work in the tank so folded the guard up to get in then caught my knee on it and one of the razor sharp ends on the weld mesh sank deeply into my knee.

Why is it most guards and safety devices are so poorly designed and usually result in a cut, a slipped disc or skinned knuckles when trying to deal with them?

I find the combination of a braked PTO on the tractor, a huge great cumbersome guard round it with sharp edges, and trying to hitch up a heavy double jointed implement PTO that cannot be rotated to be one of the most dangerous jobs I do on a weekly basis for my back in particular. Guarding against one hazard seems to create several others.

The people who design these things should be forced to hitch up such an implement 28 times.

You'd think by now PTO's would be automatically connected

 

[Ley253]

You'd think by now PTO's would be automatically connected

Completely obsolete, replaced by hyd motors with ,as you say auto connect.

 

[Oat]

Refitted the weld mesh guard over the grain tank filling cross auger inside the combine grain tank. Doing my bit for health and safety, I thought, even though it is nigh on impossible that you would actually be in the tank with it running.

Had to do some work in the tank so folded the guard up to get in then caught my knee on it and one of the razor sharp ends on the weld mesh sank deeply into my knee.

Why is it most guards and safety devices are so poorly designed and usually result in a cut, a slipped disc or skinned knuckles when trying to deal with them?

I find the combination of a braked PTO on the tractor, a huge great cumbersome guard round it with sharp edges, and trying to hitch up a heavy double jointed implement PTO that cannot be rotated to be one of the most dangerous jobs I do on a weekly basis for my back in particular. Guarding against one hazard seems to create several others.

The people who design these things should be forced to hitch up such an implement 28 times.

I was once cleaning the inside of a grain tank on an old combine. I accidentally touched the flights on the cross auger with the side of my thumb and almost cut my thumb completely off . Several decades of use has sharpened the edges of the flights like a razor

 

[exmoor dave]

Apparently got to have a loader inspection on a few machines for insurance purposes.

Ok fine

Msg on the answer machine today from inspecting company to say "we're coming to do the inspection tomorrow"..... err No!
We've never even spoken to them let alone book a inspection in.

Then to make it worse, I've been away for the day. Back at 9pm.
Both my work colleagues have listened to the msg.....Neither did anything about it or even text me to deal with it!

 

[DrWazzock]

Banks. It used to be so simple. You went in to see the local bank manager and sorted it all out over a cup of tea in half an hour.

Now the local branch has gone and it's a 50 mile round trip to see the regional business manager who doesn't know us from Adam. We sort things out with him and all seems fine, then we get a letter from the head office saying it isn't fine. We phone the required number and they don't know what the regional manager has done or what our history is. So you have to start from scratch again. Repeat over and over. Months of appointments and letters and still the simplest of tasks cannot be achieved. All we need to do is take one sadly deceased partner off the mandate list, but they really know how to stretch these things out. God only knows how long it would take them to something really complicated. They have wasted hours of my time and fuel and achieved absolutely nothing.

Rant over.

 

[DrWazzock]

I was once cleaning the inside of a grain tank on an old combine. I accidentally touched the flights on the cross auger with the side of my thumb and almost cut my thumb completely off . Several decades of use has sharpened the edges of the flights like a razor

They can get razor sharp. Need to be particularly careful when hoovering the tank out on ours.

 

[RushesToo]

Banks. It used to be so simple. You went in to see the local bank manager and sorted it all out over a cup of tea in half an hour.

Now the local branch has gone and it's a 50 mile round trip to see the regional business manager who doesn't know us from Adam. We sort things out with him and all seems fine, then we get a letter from the head office saying it isn't fine. We phone the required number and they don't know what the regional manager has done or what our history is. So you have to start from scratch again. Repeat over and over. Months of appointments and letters and still the simplest of tasks cannot be achieved. All we need to do is take one sadly deceased partner off the mandate list, but they really know how to stretch these things out. God only knows how long it would take them to something really complicated. They have wasted hours of my time and fuel and achieved absolutely nothing.

Rant over.

@DrWazzock Handlesbanken have a reputation of not being total arses. A long round trip might be worth it, but they probably do Skype so it won't be needed. Downside is you need to make your own coffee.