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On the Road Again

Nige

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Have a safe trip and stay well:)
Thanks John. Same to you.
Nige you sure you want to go home with the new version of "The Bug" there?
Ah but, mon brave, you forget that I have an apartment in Colombia and it is in that direction I will be winging my merry way a few hours from now .......... :cool::cool:

Quite frankly the UK in winter (all issues of pandemics aside) is not somewhere one would go by choice if there was another option available. Which in my case there is.
 

sfrs4

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It's bad when you think there's a vehicle coming at you because the rear lights on the tractor are on. On a hwy. you come up on them pretty fast.
Many years ago (20) when I worked on the family farm, we would put the rear work lights on so drivers could see the equipment hanging on the tractor, marker lights were used but couldn't be seen as the headlights would distract oncoming drivers. So the sensible thing to do is illuminate the equipment so they could see it before hitting it. The down side was those coming from behind were dazzled! damned if you do, damned if you don't>
 

colson04

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friend of mine has a farm tractor that has so many lights on it it looks like a gas station moving across a field at night

All the new ones look that way now. From the operators perspective, it's fantastic being able extend your working hours, especially when you have the right conditions and need to get acres done.

I've spent many hours on a Deere 8650, 8440 or Case 9250 with only two underpowered lights pointed forward and struggling and straining to see obstacles or keep a straight line. I was amazed the first time I ran the 32 ft cultivator behind our 9230 with high output light package. I can easily see beyond my working width and no more surprises to come across. You can see what is coming up ahead, and what is happening behind. That said, we generally don't road equipment in the dark. We just park it where we finished and have someone pick us up and drop us off in the morning. When we do travel at night, we set it to road mode so all rearward facing and upper mounted lights are turned off.
 

hvy 1ton

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All the new ones look that way now. From the operators perspective, it's fantastic being able extend your working hours, especially when you have the right conditions and need to get acres done.

I once raked 40 acres of alfalfa with the light selector in 'road.' It was the only position on the switch that would work and it was going to rain in the morning. I could only see behind me when the flashers hit. The outside round with fence on all 4 sides was stressful to say the least.
 

Tyler d4c

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Nige you sure you want to go home with the new version of "The Bug" there?

You coming back to assemble a few more of those Lego toys? I could send my 6 year old grandkid down to help! Only problem is he would be trying to mount a boom from one of the excavators on the front of a haul truck to have it load itself!
Self loading truck brilliant
 

Nige

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I really need to take some more snaps from the photo album of the final days of the assembly and post them up, but TBH during those few days I was more focused on getting the job done and my a$$ on a plane to be posting.

Since getting the New Year out of the way it has been a case of catching up with the list of "apartment maintenance" jobs that SWMBO had been saving up for me during the 6 months I was away. I'm like "Why didn't you get someone in to do it?"
Reply - "However good it was you wouldn't have been happy with it".
No rest for the wicked...... :(:(
 

kshansen

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Reply - "However good it was you wouldn't have been happy with it".
No rest for the wicked...... :(:(

She's probably right, I know the times we have hired work done around the house more often than not I'm not happy with the results. I won't bore with the details!
 

Nige

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She's probably right
Sitting here daydreaming and up popped an exchange I had with my dad many times when we were working together.

Dad: Is it right.?
Me: It's near enough.
Dad: You know that near enough's not good enough don't you.?
Me: Well in that case it's right.
Dad: That's near enough.
 

old-iron-habit

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Sitting here daydreaming and up popped an exchange I had with my dad many times when we were working together.

Dad: Is it right.?
Me: It's near enough.
Dad: You know that near enough's not good enough don't you.?
Me: Well in that case it's right.
Dad: That's near enough.


"Any job big or small, do it right or not at all." My favorite shop teacher and a friend still today at age 88, always said that.
I admit I am not always the perfect student.
 

colson04

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"Any job big or small, do it right or not at all." My favorite shop teacher and a friend still today at age 88, always said that.
I admit I am not always the perfect student.

"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it the second time? " quote by John Wooden. This was told to me as a teenager by my grandfather when I did a half assed repair because I felt rushed.

I wasn't a perfect student either, but I'm improving.
 

lantraxco

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Sitting here daydreaming and up popped an exchange I had with my dad many times when we were working together.

Dad: Is it right.?
Me: It's near enough.
Dad: You know that near enough's not good enough don't you.?
Me: Well in that case it's right.
Dad: That's near enough.

I love that, lol. Of course it seems to me that my Dad thought I never did anything right. Probably his was the same with him. Ah well.
 
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