Tommy Gough Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Just had a load of 47 bags (28.2 tons) of fert delivered ready for next year. Had to help the lorry escape as very muddy and little grip. ended up hitting our buckrake into a fence. All the fun of wet weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Delivered 36 bales of straw with no problems. Then had a surprise. The 165 railway shunter was to be picked up from the home of The Coldridge Collection! It was dead so I winched it up on with the help of Mr Thorn himself. What a nice chap! Just pulled a very dead 565 up on near Witheridge using crane, winch and a ratchet strap for a fail safe. Grabbing a break here before heading back Taunton way for a mower but space is a bit lacking! Tris have you ever had to let a potential delivery go because of lack of room on the trailer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Yes, just now! :D I only got one of the three mowers on. The two tractors are on nose to nose so I managed to get the best of the three sat on the bonnets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I hope you sleep with a smile on your face tonight Mr Trissle... you lucky lucky fella.. Oh how I'd love to have been a drivers mate for you today * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 milking ,feeding.. mending a feed auger ,for next door farm , what a bugger of a job.then back to milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Been Christmas shopping today and a bit of food shopping to stock up a bit as they give considerable snowfalls from tomorrow night and bitter cold icy conditions. Everyone else must have had the same idea as the town was heaving with people all dithering along getting in the way and shops all packed with ditherers. I knew what I wanted to get so could speedily go from shop to shop and try and avoid the ditherers but they were still getting in the way and the stupid checkout persons were so slow you'd think they were half asleep. And the car parking, well, full of impatiant abusive people who were in a hurry to park their cars and could not wait for an available place and try and get in in front of the next car, tooting, effin and blinding with faces like a bulldog chewing a wasp. It's official, I HATE CHRISTMAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Delivered 36 bales of straw with no problems. Then had a surprise. The 165 railway shunter was to be picked up from the home of The Coldridge Collection! It was dead so I winched it up on with the help of Mr Thorn himself. What a nice chap! Just pulled a very dead 565 up on near Witheridge using crane, winch and a ratchet strap for a fail safe. Grabbing a break here before heading back Taunton way for a mower but space is a bit lacking! hes got rid of the shunter eh, saw that the year before last, looked a bit of a state to say the least, but thought it was running at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Been Christmas shopping today and a bit of food shopping to stock up a bit as they give considerable snowfalls from tomorrow night and bitter cold icy conditions. Everyone else must have had the same idea as the town was heaving with people all dithering along getting in the way and shops all packed with ditherers. I knew what I wanted to get so could speedily go from shop to shop and try and avoid the ditherers but they were still getting in the way and the stupid checkout persons were so slow you'd think they were half asleep. And the car parking, well, full of impatiant abusive people who were in a hurry to park their cars and could not wait for an available place and try and get in in front of the next car, tooting, effin and blinding with faces like a bulldog chewing a wasp. It's official, I HATE CHRISTMAS. I think I'm with you there Tim, sometimes I just wish it would all go away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Feeding and bedding cows/pigs on a friend's farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Ferguson Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Feeding and bedding cows/pigs on a friend's farm I miss jobs like that - it's so satisfying when everything's fed, watered and bedded for the night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 hes got rid of the shunter eh, saw that the year before last, looked a bit of a state to say the least, but thought it was running at the time To be fair to the old thing it's quit tidy really. Rust in the cab window frames but it's straight. Original seat, heater, some soundproofing, even the pole for hooking the chain link over the rolling stock hook. Also, it's hydrostatic. I quite like the old lump really but I fear all the ballast and shunting plates, cab and bottom framework will be wieghed in and the rest will be made into 'just another 165' :( I don't think Mr Thorne wanted it to go really, he was fond of it but it was another project he couldn't see himself completing. Sad I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 makes you wonder how man ygo through him like that, amazing how much is laying arround in the bushes out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Well today it's a simple but lengthly tramp. One delivery, an ERF grab hire tipper to Bolton and then pick up another MF165 near Oswestry. Plenty out there yet Sean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1/32 farmer Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 site set up for the work over the chrismas break and allso gettting some cabins in ready for next years work at battersea power stn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 milked ,then carted muck (west 1600).. got 18 loads out by 2.15 then cleaned bucket ,palour ready then milked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMF Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 packed up as much of my stuff as i could into the c2, drove home. a respectable 50.4mpg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick henton Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Watching the miliatary awards hats off to you boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Just got back from the Hospital... Lumpy shut his wife's fingers in the baler door (accidentally of course) today and has all but taken the tips clean off two of them... poor girl.. she was in a right state.. looks like she's shattered the bones in the tips (crush injury).. de-gloved the ends (skin clean off and all but severed both of them by the looks of things. She's got to have an operation on Monday morning to try to save the tips and clean things up a little (they told me they'd take the nails off.. and put them back on again if they can :of I've seen some gruesome sights in my time... but this one is up there with the best of them.. the poor girl was howling in pain.. I panicked as well... called an ambulance... arrived in just a few minutes thankfully.. closely followed by two Police officers who came to assess if it was a 'crime scene' on behalf of the HSE.. phone RIDDOR to report the incident at 2.30pm today to be told.. we are closed.. call back on Monday AM :of .. have since filed a report on line and I'm awaiting the HSE 'Storm troopers' any time soon Poor lumpy was beside himself... what a feeling he must have had to cause those kind of injuries to his own Mrs :'( .. poor sod :'( The door is VERY heavy.. metal in a metal frame and only has about a 2-3mm gap around the door to frame space :'( .. makes my eyes water just thinking about it :'( :'( :'( Bloody good service from the Emergency services mind you - especially the Police who it appears make the initial emergency response on behalf of the HSE to preserve evidence in what can potentially be a crime scene \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakescot Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 this is not good mark , hop it doesn`t affect your day to day business too much........and here`s hoping mrs lumpy is soon recovering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Ouch, ouch and double ouch. That sounds horrible, Mark. I did similar to two right hand fingers in a McConnel topper. Poor girl and poor Lumpster. It just goes to show what can happen in the blink of an eye and it's a good job you invest in new machinery which are maintained and in full working order. It goes to show it is worth it. I hope the paperwork side is all plain sailing. No reason why it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 ouch marky, thats not a nice one, seen a guy at work do similar after he put his hand under a box cover and it came off the key, lost the end half of his little finger completly, and the other 3 suffered like mrs lumpy, but they got them back on ok, so with luck she will be ok, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMF Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 poor Mrs lumpy! poor lumpy! i wish her a speedy recovery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 nothing now we have got home,it was my wifes works do last night at st mellion,we were staying with friends at liskeard,taxi was supposed to pick us up at 1.30 came at 11.30 as roads were bad,a very hairy drive back to liskeard,now safely home at horrabridge ,devon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 clearing what little snow we had off the drive with the 880 using bits off the pile mum calls junk or as i like to call it the pile off oppertunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 up at 4.30am milked ,fed calves .. went to buy horses new rugs a bit of strawing down .. wife and kids mucked horses, so i scraped it to the muck pile.. good books now milk at 3pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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