what grinds your gears

[ladycrofter]

f**king mud and no prolonged freeze like in the good old days. I had a tidy wee job to do over winter once the ground FROZE. No chance. Bit of frost now and again but not very deep. Certainly not enough to stop me sticking the digger at the bottom of a slippy slope. Now hoping for a dry summer It winds me up just looking down there knowing I can't get in for a 20-30 minute job

Meanwhile I'm contemplating what crop to plant in the trenches left behind by the submerged tracks I had to lift the front/actually the back/ and swing the tracks sideways then claw my way out. Small blessings no witnesses to the gruesome affair. Pressure washer did some overtime.

 

[ladycrofter]

Drainage

North facing field on a hill, half the field has various different schemes ranging from old stone drains up to a 1975 tiles scheme.
That side is fixed .
Other side hasn’t got any tiles as that’s where the private water supply comes from, but no one was sure of the route the inlet took so it wasn’t drained by the schemes in case they disrupted the water supply. Got 4 separate boil ups from little stone drains, cannot find an exit for them, been at it for 2 days solid and just making a mess.

There’s gonna be a new leader trenched right up the middle of barsteward as soon as the trencher stops being broken in the workshop.

Go for it. I've never had an real success trying to fix an old drain, it just chokes itself 10 metres further along in a dry spot . Can you use diving rods? Does work.

 

[melted welly]

Go for it. I've never had an real success trying to fix an old drain, it just chokes itself 10 metres further along in a dry spot . Can you use diving rods? Does work.

Yeah, I do use the rods/bent wire off the old fence, but it’s about 50:50 here, I think there’s just been so much water

 

[RushesToo]

Electioneering hints about knocking a penny off taxes.
Do they think we are that stupid? Public debt has never been bigger and spending is out of control. So a tax cut won’t really help and will probably only need to be clawed back some other way.
The things that bother me are the health service, dentistry etc.

@DrWazzock I agree. I want to live in a place where people are educated, healthy and fed. I don't want to live in a ghetto where the rich put gates up to keep the poor out , or outside gates because I have less.
I want the roads to work and people to work - I realise this costs money and am willing to pay it. All I get is tax "cuts" and aggro in sorting out ways to do things as an individual that I never had to before because it just worked.

It is so bloody tiresome, irritating and costly - but Hey! I got my tax cut.

 

[stroller]

DEFRA the useless f**king twits have carried out routine land change detection work and erased large amounts of my hedges in every single bloody field, now I have to provide maps and evidence to get them changed back. They say they are busy and there may be a delay, well it's not bloody surprising, they must spend most of their time correcting the mistakes their f**king useless computer makes.

Just finshed on the phone to them, they want a field map and photo of each missing bit, 30 seperate photos, max of 2photos and a map per email due to the size limit.

 

[JJT]

Just finshed on the phone to them, they want a field map and photo of each missing bit, 30 seperate photos, max of 2photos and a map per email due to the size limit.

Easiest way I find to e mail pictures is don't attach them to an e mail, but go to the folder where they are, select all the pictures to send then right click, then "send to" then "mail recipient". You then get a window with a drop down box to select picture size, i usually select medium or large. It will then compress the pictures and open up an e mail, you can send loads more pictures in one go this way.

 

[stroller]

If I send a map with the associated photos they're less likely to f**k it up than if I send them in a bunch.

 

[Oscar]

Sending photos for evidence for HLS has been painful for me , over 100 photos on 54 e mails takes a lot of time and had no idea of an alternative . Will try your way next time @JJT

 

[coniser]

Sending photos for evidence for HLS has been painful for me , over 100 photos on 54 e mails takes a lot of time and had no idea of an alternative . Will try your way next time @JJT

get a photo compressor app on phone you can send more in a email

 

[Pan mixer]

get a photo compressor app on phone you can send more in a email

I had to put my photos in a word document.

 

[Oscar]

Have not got Word on PC.

 

[Gerbert]

1
I want to know the shipping costs on a website. Go to "frequently asked questions", go to "shipping and shippingcosts", then there is no mention of what the shippingcosts are.
Dude, fúck you and fúck the horse you rode in on.

2
My dad crossed a cycling lane and blocked it because of a gate that had to be opened. In comes lance armstrong with the silly bike and all the attire stopping only just in front of the car. So I say, you left your eyes at home? He says, you are blocking the lane. I know but how about you act like you are older then 5 years and next time you take both a bell and your eyes with you. Come on. And I live in the Netherlands so I am used to cyclists, just not the ones who take a lot of time to be quick.

 

[melted welly]

Having to dig up drains choked with hedge roots 20yrs after losing a blazing argument about why planting said hedge would cause us drainage issues further down the line.

 

[Nearly]

Having to dig up drains choked with hedge roots 20yrs after losing a blazing argument about why planting said hedge would cause us drainage issues further down the line.

When the other side of the argument has used the excuse of being dead to avoid admitting being wrong?

 

[melted welly]

When the other side of the argument has used the excuse of being dead to avoid admitting being wrong?

No, not dead, but never wrong.

 

[melted welly]

Turns out I’m wrong, again. The hedge roots in the tile drain are not the issue, it’s totally fecked and looks to have been for many years.
The problem is more that there’s an old old horseshoe tile system way deeper than anything else and it’s backed up to the point that I couldn’t even get near it without a boil up occurring.
The old boys were hardy chaps, the horseshoe system is in about 4.5 ft deep. Anyone know how they dug them in and what era the horse shoe tiles are from? Very neat channel, like a trencher has been used. I’d assumed the horseshoes were dug by hand.

 

[Pan mixer]

Paternity leave amongst your staff when you have less than two members of staff right on calving, lambing and spring work.

 

[britt]

Paternity leave amongst your staff when you have less than two members of staff right on calving, lambing and spring work.

Which one? The tupp or the bull?

 

[JMM]

Walked into the machinery shed after lunch to get the old JD handler, was greeted with the stink of diesel - b@stard rodent(s) have been sharpening their teeth on the bit of the tank where the hydraulic oil filler passes through.

drained what was left, took the tank off, hopefully got a guy coming out to plastic weld it later in the week. New tank from the mothership is best part of 3 grand

 

[DrWazzock]

Previous owners who can’t find, fill in or forward a V5. I mean how hard can it be? I checked on DVLA and everything is in order but no, they can’t find the form.