Why did I buy that? It's a bit bigger than I thought!

[Ian 2,417]

For a change it wasn't me that made a shopping mistake, it was Nigel... It gave us something to laugh about yesterday

 

For reasons I'm still not sure about Nigel bought a set of disk harrows from Fleabay not quite realizing how big they were!!

 

Of course Nigel had not turned up at the workshop when "Time Team" Dave dropped the harrow off, so Nigel's face when he turned up and saw the size was priceless

 

 

 

What you can't quite see from the above photo is the front of the harrow was through the doors of my workshop, so it had to be moved....Ah.. No wheels on it!!

Only one thing for it, split it in two and borrow a forklift.. The rear discs went first..

 

 

 

Followed by the fronts.

 

 

 

As fun as a forklift is they are not that good off road.. So the LandRover tug was called into action to finish the job.. So far so good..

 

 

 

Until suddenly no steering!!   So the LR had to be abandoned where it was for the day.

 

 

 

I'm not back at the workshop until Monday, so I will let Nigel finish the story once he has worked out what has busted steering wise..

[Stormin 4,458]

      Suppose two sets could be made out of them.

[HeadExam 1,783]

I did the same thing. I bought a 10hp motor for my air compressor off ebay, when I arrived at the dock it was on a pallet, all 345lbs  and at 22" long and 12" wide it wasn't going to set on my air tank very well, It looked smaller in the picture, I learned the same lesson after a few internet dates with "average" size ladies, not sure which was bigger.

[C-101plowerpower 548]

I did the same thing. I bought a 10hp motor for my air compressor off ebay, when I arrived at the dock it was on a pallet, all 345lbs  and at 22" long and 12" wide it wasn't going to set on my air tank very well, It looked smaller in the picture, I learned the same lesson after a few internet dates with "average" size ladies, not sure which was bigger.

Must have been the American average size

[meadowfield 1,900]

Omg, a lesson for all of us. Went to collect a nice small compact, dual spool valve the other week. When I got there it was 12" square and took two hands to carry! It was the spool valve off the skid steer motors!

I left it where it was

[HeadExam 1,783]

Must have been the American average size

I'm not sure if average and American can be used in the same sentence, lol

[Ian 2,417]

For your viewing pleasure here's how Nigel broke the steering

 

[meadowfield 1,900]

It's called karma Ian for nudging the camera mans vantage point

[Triumph66 1,256]

Nigel's smile quickly disappeared!

Hope it is sorted quickly.

[HeadExam 1,783]

better to find the problem there then on the road or while driving.

[nigel 1,876]

well we towed the landy back to the workshop with the holder, soon found the problem i had forgot to weld the steering shaft on properly it only had a tack weld anyway all sorted now

[C-101plowerpower 548]

well we towed the landy back to the workshop with the holder, soon found the problem i had forgot to weld the steering shaft on properly it only had a tack weld anyway all sorted now

 

 

[Ian 2,417]

Glad you go it sorted mate, now dont try and move the rest of the harrow without me and the camera there :-D