Wreckers!!

[Muddyroads]

nobody should miss it. It should be part of the initiation process.

I suggest you go pour yourself a drink, and get yourself comfortable

How to move a dead horse?

We have a slight problem 17.3.hh shire cross collapsed and died in it's stable last night on our small livery yard. It is a BIG beast. The problem is that it has died in about the worst possible place imaginable, at the end of an ancient stone barn with no way to get any sort of machinery to...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

Agreed, it’s outstanding!

 

[Lofty1984]

A timely reminder, it was a Christmas day a few years back i sat and read the dead hore thread all through.

I was thinking, we should have a "Top of the threads" chart each year, that goes through the year to avoid the situation where recent threads get all the nominations?
There have been a couple of great threads this year, though i am afraid, the dead horse one remains my all time favorite.

A dead hore thread must of missed that one was it like the dead horse one

 

[Bloders]

A dead hore thread must of missed that one was it like the dead horse one

dont know what you mean....

 

[Robt]

I don’t think any suggestions for removing the dead horse resulted in being rescued by the coastguard from your merlo in the English Channel though.

This would be my perfect call out! Tractors and coastguard! That’s like the holy grail

 

[daveydiesel1]

A dead hore thread must of missed that one was it like the dead horse one

Funny i thought that it was about a dead lady for a minute there

 

[thorpe]

Funny i thought that it was about a dead lady for a minute there

id forgot the dead horse thread, ill save it for new years day to go back and have alook if tellys anything like this evening. ive spent the last hour on you tube mustering in new zealnd. if id had you tube 40 years ago iwouldnt be here now!

 

[spanners and hammers]

i can feel a surge in me butterkist shares

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Dangerous things them flying tyres

30 odd years ago we were lime spreading in a field crossed by some high voltage pylons. A muppet driving an artic managed to get his fully extended tipping ram in contact with the overhead wires

Luckily it tripped off the power (to about half of N.Lincs ) but before it did that, it heated up all the air in the artic's wheels to such an extent that it blew a super single off the trailer which hit our loader tractor about half way up the cab.
The lad in the tractor banged his arm rather badly but it was lucky that it was nothing worse.

It welded all the wheel bearings up in the trailer too

Dad had an artic load of lime delivered to a job once by a helpful old boy. Dad was away from the heap spreading at the time and the driver thought that because Dad was across the field that’s where he would need it tipping.

He trundled steady down the headland but then came to a stop under some pylon wires. He decided to tip up whilst standing outside the cab watching to make sure there was plenty of room between trailer and wires. When the trailer was right up, there was about a thirty foot gap apparently.

So the old boy thinks it’s all good and decides to get back into the cab. The moment he grabbed the door handle he made the contact. The arc blew him off his feet and quite some way from the lorry, I seem to remember 25 feet or so.

Dad missed it all but was soon back at the heap wondering what had happened. The driver said he was fine but Dad made him call the office and they took him to hospital for a check over.

Later that evening, none the worse for his ordeal, the driver got home and told his wife the only problem was his very sore feet. When he took off his boots his socks had completely burnt away and the remains were welded to the skin on his soles.

 

[yellowbelly]

Dad had an artic load of lime delivered to a job once by a helpful old boy. Dad was away from the heap spreading at the time and the driver thought that because Dad was across the field that’s where he would need it tipping.

He trundled steady down the headland but then came to a stop under some pylon wires. He decided to tip up whilst standing outside the cab watching to make sure there was plenty of room between trailer and wires. When the trailer was right up, there was about a thirty foot gap apparently.

So the old boy thinks it’s all good and decides to get back into the cab. The moment he grabbed the door handle he made the contact. The arc blew him off his feet and quite some way from the lorry, I seem to remember 25 feet or so.

Dad missed it all but was soon back at the heap wondering what had happened. The driver said he was fine but Dad made him call the office and they took him to hospital for a check over.

Later that evening, none the worse for his ordeal, the driver got home and told his wife the only problem was his very sore feet. When he took off his boots his socks had completely burnt away and the remains were welded to the skin on his soles.

Our mis-hap occurred because the weighbridge thought we were going to be short of lime - their Big A and our two Bredals were working at the same farm.

Normally lime for farm jobs was delivered with 8 wheelers (driven mainly by ex farm blokes who understood the ins and outs and had enough brains to avoid getting stuck/overhead cables, etc).

They diverted a few artics, that were usually running into the steelworks and the rest, as they say, is history

 

[Cab-over Pete]

The days of fleets of 8 wheelers driven by experienced blokes are fading I’m afraid.

I do have a firm who shift most of my lime with some good young lads on 8 wheelers but it’s rare to find them.

 

[Scholsey]

I don’t think any suggestions for removing the dead horse resulted in being rescued by the coastguard from your merlo in the English Channel though.

“well Mr insurance man, what happened was.........”

 

[Sid]

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“well Mr insurance man, what happened was.........”

That's a case of darwinitis and shouldn't be cover by insurance.
WTF were they doing trying to take food away from an eco system in the first place!

 

[Scholsey]

That's a case of darwinitis and shouldn't be cover by insurance.
WTF were they doing trying to take food away from an eco system in the first place!

probably didn’t want it stinking the pub out and putting everyone off their lemon sole.

 

[colhonk]

Has someone had the diesel tank away?

 

[Lincsman]

Pub director Tom Job said the machine may be salvageable.
"It's been done on Land Rovers before, you have to take them apart," he said,
"But it's a very complicated machine and it will be a hard process."

Dont think replacing that many electronic bits will make it viable, cars are never repaired after a bit of water gets in the footwells.

 

[Green&Steam]

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I replaced my rubber ring with a ring of steel

 

[Surgery]

I replaced my rubber ring with a ring of steel

‘Twas merLO tide when I went out

 

[Barleycorn]

Merlo electrics are a nightmare when they are dry! If that was a 1980s JCB you would get away with it.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Pub director Tom Job said the machine may be salvageable.
"It's been done on Land Rovers before, you have to take them apart," he said,
"But it's a very complicated machine and it will be a hard process."

Dont think replacing that many electronic bits will make it viable, cars are never repaired after a bit of water gets in the footwells.

Cars are written off as problems can arise later on and the blame put on the insurance/repairers usually. A lot of CAT D?? Cars on the road can be flood damage writeoffs bought back

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Merlo electrics are a nightmare when they are dry! If that was a 1980s JCB you would get away with it.

A serious pressure washing, change all fluids and maybe an exchange engine ecu and it would go again. It’s not like it’s been there for months. we’ve had an Izuzu Trooper, Hilux, Astra and a Hyundai Accent off the beach over the years and got them all going. The trooper did as an off road runabout for a bit but was a pain without a windscreen as it had been rolled on the beach before the tide came in!! The petrol Astra and Hyundai were of no real use on a Farm and the Hilux went for export!!