[AT] Breakage

[Mattias Kessén]

How true. We had a discussion about this two days ago when i helped a friend changing tires on his brothers companies  Kangoo (small Renault pickup). We were in thier shop/garage using one metre extensions to unbolt the squeaking bolts when I popped the stupid question of where to find some grease. My friend who who's not an employee of his brother(and also believes in grease/lube) only using the car shaked his head and the garagelandlord Began laughing and didn't stop for a minute or two. When the landlord had stopped laughing he told us a whole bunch of stories about what happened with their equipment due to lack of maintainance(?)
    I occasionally break things mostly because the machines I have are the kind that their previous owner considered as worn out, more or less :-o At work we had some people breaking drive chains at new pavers in less than 3 months (worldrecord?) At lest the mechanic didn't get his hand sticky when demounting :-(

/Mattias

P.S. I refused to put on tires without greasing the bolts and after a while found some beneath a thick layer of dust.


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Skickat: den 10 mars 2005 22:14
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> On 10 Mar 2005 at 15:14, Almost-Running Deere wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, Just what I've seen.  I think the chain was to keep from tearing the 
> > crap out of the tractor.  From what I have been told a non-frame mount 
> > backhoe is aa a repair waiting to happen
> > 
> > Dana
> > SE PA
> 
> 
> 
> This is one of those relative things... 95% of the life of a tractor or any piece of 
> equipment is the owner / operator. I like to say that "some guys could break an anvil 
> while straightening feathers"... That is a genuine "farmer" quote for you.   :-)   I 
> constantly see stuff broken that absolutely amazes me. Scott and I walk around auction 
> sales saying over and over, "how in the hell did they break that ?" I am always surprised 
> at how many tractors I see with the lights bashed off of them. I don't believe I have 
> ever bashed a light.  Smashed grills, crushed goods and fenders. Stuff like broken off 
> gearshift levers. Most (most, not all) "breaks" are a direct result of abuse or miss-use, 
> period.
> My stuff is old and rusty and sometimes stuff wears out but we "break" very very little. 
> If you look at my stuff and see a big dent or bent stuff it is a pretty good likelyhood 
> that it was like that when we bought it. I have not hit a fence with a tractor or an 
> implement since I was 11 years old (that was a long time ago) and son Scott never has. 
> Our neighbor who farms behind me has hit the fence between us a couple of times and I 
> think his son hit it about 6 times as a teenager.  :-)
> I'm not someone that uses a tractor "occasionally". I have farmed all of my life and 
> used to have a small excavating business.
> I see the breakage on other farms, I just don't understand it...
> 
> Having said all of this I will probably go back outside and break a tractor in half or 
> something...   ;-)   Probably not, I am building a horse stall and installing a drain and 
> water line under it by hand.   :-)
> 
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
> 
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100 years 
> before the revolution.
> 
> 
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
> 
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