what grinds your gears

[Hooby Farmer]

The barley gets a herbicide and one fungicide, so not much scope for savings there.
I paid over the odds for fert this year, part load, bought at the wrong time. Lesson learnt...I hope.
Running 30 year old gear, so no savings to be made there.
Only 2 more options left to cut costs, more 30 year old gear to replace contractors, and FSS. Where to go after that......

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I saved on fert and blew a turbo on the tractor. After ploughing next year it will be a contractor putting in my cereals, more cost efficient for me at present.

 

[icanshootwell]

Hooked up to disks this morning to start getting ground ready for grass seeds. Flat tyre. tyre is shagged.
So decided to go topping instead and burnt the belts out .

 

[DrWazzock]

Hydraulic quick connector leaking when I plugged the hedge cutter in. Got the tin out that holds lots of different sizes. Pulled the o ring out of the connector to find a match. It's a square section one. None of those in the tin. But a round section one seems to be doing the job.

Why are there so many different sizes and variations of what should be a standard hydraulic coupling?

FItted the hedge cutter up to the Case IH 4240 for the first time as the PTO clutch has sheared it's rivets for the eight millionth time in the MF565. Cab pillar on the 4240 is exactly where it perfectly obscures the view of the cutting head. So have to sit forward in the seat and look round the pillar to see it. Never had that problem with any other tractor. Why did they move the pillar so far forward and then fit curved glass round the back corner of the cab where nobody would ever look out? Oh well, at least I am getting some hedging done even my neck is now permanently looking left.

 

[michael N123]

Idiots on Facebook

I like the old car groups but 50% of the people on them will happily rob you given The chance

 

[Landrover]

New T fitting to go on the old black Imperial water pipe that feeds half the village, "dad" i say "is that 100% the right size fitting before I cut the pipe ?" "Yes" he says " I measured it !" Ok then I'll cut the pipe ! Fitting wrong size ?‍[emoji566]

 

[melted welly]

Some bellend been minkin about the rape stubbles in a van last night, either having a run about or looking for somewhere to dump more rubbish. Unfortunately he decided to exit the field through some subsoiling and became stuck. So I this morning we have a new van.

Boxed it in with fallen tree trunks and await the return of the owner.

 

[daithi]

Eircom, or Eir as we are meant to call them nowdays. It's been nearly three months since we switched to them as internet providers and they still haven't got it right despite many hours waiting on the phone and being passed from pillar to post when they actually do deign to talk to us. Yesterday we got a customer satisfaction survey request, and then a reminder, despite us making it quite clear how we viewed their customer service all along. Do they ever listen to the calls that 'May be recordeed for training and quality purposes'? Nope, far easier to just email some stupid form and pretend they care.

Get onto comreg. I had a problem with eir, nobody would answer the phone or emails. Comreg sorted it within a few days

 

[Lincs Lass]

Switching bank accounts is supposed to be easy ,,who ever said that is deluded ,,still ended up contacting companies to get the details sorted

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Some bellend been minkin about the rape stubbles in a van last night, either having a run about or looking for somewhere to dump more rubbish. Unfortunately he decided to exit the field through some subsoiling and became stuck. So I this morning we have a new van.

Boxed it in with fallen tree trunks and await the return of the owner.

Put a photo of it up on Facebook a d anywhere else you can !

 

[primmiemoo]

Why aren't brake calipers designed and made so that they cannot seize up!

 

[DrWazzock]

Why aren't brake calipers designed and made so that they cannot seize up!

Some never seem to give bother. Others on peugeots for example, seem to be a pain. I don't know why.

 

[DrWazzock]

I remember now. It's not the calipers, it's the hoses. They corrode internally and block if you don't change the brake fluid so they don't let the brake fluid back so the pressure stays on the brakes and they overheat. Change your brake fluid every 2 years and you won't get seized caliphers.

 

[Sharpy]

I remember now. It's not the calipers, it's the hoses. They corrode internally and block if you don't change the brake fluid so they don't let the brake fluid back so the pressure stays on the brakes and they overheat. Change your brake fluid every 2 years and you won't get seized caliphers.

Really? Every day a school day!

 

[primmiemoo]

I remember now. It's not the calipers, it's the hoses. They corrode internally and block if you don't change the brake fluid so they don't let the brake fluid back so the pressure stays on the brakes and they overheat. Change your brake fluid every 2 years and you won't get seized caliphers.

We were thinking hoses. The whole kaboosh will have to be sorted ... [That second emoji thingie arrived out of nowhere The delete button doesn't remove these since TFF 2.0, for some reason, and there's no longer the spanner icon in the toolbar, either. Sigh.]

 

[DrWazzock]

Well I was told the flexible hoses corrode and swell up internally or something and restrict the brake fluid so holding some pressure on the brakes so they drag and overheat, or it could be the brake pipes. Something like that.

 

[melted welly]

Put a photo of it up on Facebook a d anywhere else you can !

Having since met the owners of said van, I reckon next time I’ll just drag/carry any abandoned minker wagons to the nearest public road. Not worth the hassle.

 

[Shovelhands]

The rubber hoses can split internally, and delaminate, causing a ‘bulge’ internally, this can cause a blockage and will not allow the callipers to release. Sounds unbelievable, but I’ve had it happen on more than one occasion.

 

[GeorgeK]

Pheasant feeders starting to appear ("I'm just taking a bit of wheat, you don't mind, do you?"). They won't be touched now till shoot day, by which time they will either have run out or fallen over ("I can't understand why we didn't see many birds this year, did you have to tidy up that weed patch? It was good game cover"). Next year comes around... "I'm sure I had more feeders than this." Well you do, they've either fallen into ditches and you can't be bothered to look for them or they're wrapped up in the topper because you never take them away. And at the end of it all I get home to find 20 dead pheasants ripped apart by shot hanging on the door like a generous payment because "You can have 'em, none of us eat pheasant." Thanks, I think?

 

[bumkin]

Pheasant feeders starting to appear ("I'm just taking a bit of wheat, you don't mind, do you?"). They won't be touched now till shoot day, by which time they will either have run out or fallen over ("I can't understand why we didn't see many birds this year, did you have to tidy up that weed patch? It was good game cover"). Next year comes around... "I'm sure I had more feeders than this." Well you do, they've either fallen into ditches and you can't be bothered to look for them or they're wrapped up in the topper because you never take them away. And at the end of it all I get home to find 20 dead pheasants ripped apart by shot hanging on the door like a generous payment because "You can have 'em, none of us eat pheasant." Thanks, I think?

you seem to have understood the situation ,they will be down the pub dressed in tweed or wax jackets and posh wellies telling everyone on my shoot, didnt you know i have a shoot down the road ect ect

 

[roscoe erf]

Mine always loose jumpers for some reason and then find them at the end of the year

jumpers for goal posts