Good morning!!!!

[300UGUY]

Yes, same at my last employer. We even made or repaired things for people in management. Then they lowered the boom and it all came to an end. Even closed the surplus store where they sold off scrap metal and odds'n'ends. They even fired a machinist that took home a ream of copy paper he'd rescued from a dumpster.:shocked:

I was surprised at what got thrown out. I actually scavenged parts off machines to keep others running, but got reprimanded for it? They would rather throw something out, and order new. I guess it keeps the management folks in business. They shut down our surplus / scrap center also.

 

[Buppies]

Trails End - Thanks, checked the bolts and they are all tight. Must admit the way the washers sit under the bolt heads had me looking when I first got it too.




Definitely not home made !
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If I showed you anything I made it wouldn't look any where near as nicely finished.

It's a shame that I didn't get to buy my farmland until after my dad (also called Eric) died, otherwise I would have had a good supply of spare tines. He was a spring maker for the "Tempered Spring" company and made up by hand the samples and prototypes that later got produced on machines.

Wherever he went he couldn't resist getting a close look at agricultural machinery and the parts they were made from. Often he would end up making replacement spring steel parts for the farmers he met. These parts were only made to help someone out, not for money.
He told me these little freebie jobs were known at work as "government jobs", with his employer turning a blind eye as long as he did it in his break.

In your picture there is a yellow sign on the left corner of your tractor roughly where my warning triangle goes what is it? Really has my curiosity up

 

[RoyJackson]

In your picture there is a yellow sign on the left corner of your tractor roughly where my warning triangle goes what is it? Really has my curiosity up

That's his license tag, I'll wager...

 

[daugen]

That's his license tag, I'll wager...

for on road use I agree...
control, and taxation
Two pence for the Queen you know...

now if we don't leave our property, and stay off public roads, I thought we didn't have to
display the SMV placard. But most of us leave it on.

 

[Buppies]

I actually leave mine off but do turn on flashers when working close to state road or traveling down the street to clean neighbors driveway. I guess another way to get taxes

 

[newbury]

I was surprised at what got thrown out. I actually scavenged parts off machines to keep others running, but got reprimanded for it? They would rather throw something out, and order new. I guess it keeps the management folks in business. They shut down our surplus / scrap center also.

Have you ever dealt with military contractors who get paid "cost plus"?

That's where everything they buy (computers, hammers, whatever) they get paid the cost of the item plus a percentage, often it was around 20%.

So let's see - 1 hammer @ $6 = $6 + $1.20, or 1 hammer at $600 = $600 + $120. "Saving" the government money meant getting paid less. And of course who is the better manager - the guy that gets 10 widgets built for $1,000 or the guy that gets 10 widgets built for $100,000? Why the guy with the $100,000 project.

 

[Buppies]

Have you ever dealt with military contractors who get paid "cost plus"?

That's where everything they buy (computers, hammers, whatever) they get paid the cost of the item plus a percentage, often it was around 20%.

So let's see - 1 hammer @ $6 = $6 + $1.20, or 1 hammer at $600 = $600 + $120. "Saving" the government money meant getting paid less. And of course who is the better manager - the guy that gets 10 widgets built for $1,000 or the guy that gets 10 widgets built for $100,000? Why the guy with the $100,000 project.

If you have ever done work for the federal government as a contractor then you should know the answer as to why things cost so much. 15 years of stories I have from taking 80 days to get paid or three days to fill out the paper work so you can submit for payment. Or billing for work done that was less than money budgeted and being attacked for refusing to raise the bill so their budget would not be cut

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 24F partly cloudy and calm this morning. High about 30F and clouding up. Overcast tonight and a low of 3F. Spent most of the day on church stuff, managed to clean the ashes out of fireplace and get a fire going.

 

[mostly_gas]

I remember "government jobs" at my former employer. And yes they did some work for the government. Buppies was only talking about the better points of working for "Uncle Sugar". Getting things updated is at best impossible, and woe to you if the process specified is no longer available. I believe those that make a killing at government supply have friends in very high places.

 

[300UGUY]

I guess we are going back into the deep freeze. 10 right now, going to -11 by morning. I tried to wash my truck twice today, both times the line was a block long. My truck has the Margarita look, the rime is really bad. The local car wash froze up last week, -15 isn't good for plumbing.