Wreckers!!

[Deerefarmer]

Skill issue? User not currently holding a certificate of competence in said machine?

Stupidity on my part so yeah I need to enroll for further training. Removing a 650/42 wheel..... mistakenly thought it was balanced. Sorta happened really fast

 

[Cab-over Pete]

We have an electric one at our feedstore.

I ran it backwards towards a wall yesterday and as it rolled to a stop the handle ended up vertical.

It’s far too clever for its own good and, with the handle vertical, it won’t move in any direction. I was a bit stuffed then.

Had to get a bit of timber and hotch the pallet (luckily only 1/4 tonne on it) round a bit so I could get it out!

I far prefer the manual one, just like yours, except it doesn’t stop when I think it will and I nearly ran myself over with the bloody thing!!

 

[chaffcutter]

How’s the ‘diversification’ going Pete? At least you are busy even when you can’t spread lime!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Bloody flat out John, thanks for asking.

It is certainly keeping us all busy!

 

[850]

A scary number of very top class herds have disappeared into the ether. Very alarming when you consider the amount of work and years involved to build them up!

I was relief herdsman there in the 70s

 

[850]

No, I don’t think so.
John, an arable farmer, died in the late 90’s. Survived by his wife Kate and their son Henry, who now runs the Farm.
John’s youngest brother is Geoffrey, still farms arable and beef at Sutton-Under-Brailes.
IIRC, Geoffrey once held the world record wheat yield and I’m told it is on some land I now farm, belonging to my next door neighbour. That field has done me very well too, but the weather has to be on your side or it can also be crap. As @CPF found out, struggling to harvest a certain crop of Linseed last year!
The Warhurst family, headed by Charlie and Hilda, including the middle brother Winston, moved down from Cheshire, to Chesterton, Warks. Bringing their dairy herd with them, by train! That Dairy herd became one of the most famous Friesian herds in the world, known as the Ewefields herd.
That is how I originally came to know the family and my family would come and stay with John and Kate for Royal Show week, at which we also exhibited our own Cambrian Herd of Pedigree Accredited British Friesian dairy cattle.
Geoffrey still farms cattle, but they are South Devons.

Boy have a lot of things changed since those halcyon days!
There’s a few folks who’ve turned over and over in their graves, several times since then.

 

[850]

Yes I used to work for them

 

[850]

I’m not sure. I remember Geoffrey ringing my boss, while he and I were having our regular Monday morning meeting to say that he had died and would he let me know. I’d say that was mid 2000’s.
By Christ they had some cracking cattle. We bought one called Ewefield’s Honey that won a lot of the East Anglian County shows and then another called Ewefield’s Annette that did the same. Not just fantastic conformation and high yielding, but some of the nicest charactered cattle I ever saw too. Born to please.
Do you remember those herd family names?
About dawn one morning, our Annette was struck by lighting while giving Birth. We called the kennels who came to pick her and the calf up.
But later that day in the evening, we found another calf, a heifer that could only have been what must have been one on Annettes twins. We rang the kennels to ask what sex that dead calf was, but it was too late.
So we kept the live calf in the hope that she wasn’t a Free-martin. Fortunately, she not only calved but also went on to win other shows too!

Everything was so smart at Ewefields, that I don’t think they’d ever have anything that would appear on this Wreckers thread.

Yes I worked there for 6 years

 

[B'o'B]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/967876918194552/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=989986969449041

 

[Wombat]

I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky

 

[ollie989898]

I can't even begin to list the injuries that guy should have, let alone the ones he could have.

 

[Pringles]

Don't think he will have suffered much brain damage!!!!!!!

 

[76masseyman]

Is it just me that thinks it doesn’t look completely real ?

 

[Deerefarmer]

Update on the broken pallet jack......knowa guy who fixes broken things

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Tip - top.

 

[ollie989898]

Fair play, some good metal gluing there.

 

[JP1]

 

[CPF]

View attachment 1173490

Drive was very lucky . Happened, in (2017)

 

[goodevans]

Drive was very lucky (2017)View attachment 1173510

Strange looking attachment

 

[CPF]

Strange looking attachment

Did not all come through,
Because I had been looking it up on my phone getting it ready to post
And pressed post reply when I put my phone down
to go a eat my tea (dinner)

So the accident happened in 2017, and the driver was not injured. He was very lucky..