Post by PG on Aug 12, 2022 15:31:28 GMT
Had a mishap yesterday. In the heat I've been keeping the tractor door open to get some draft through the cab. No aircon! The shed we keep the tractor in has a lip to drive over the get in. I'd pulled the door closed - or so I thought - but it had not caught the latch properly and came open as I went over the lip. It helpfully opened itself on the gas arm that opens it and therefore hit the metal stanchion of the building as the tractor was going forward. A competition between a tractor, a metal RSJ and a flimsy door frame is only going to end one way.
OK, we're insured and I can get it fixed. Or so I thought. It appears that as the tractor is a 1997 model, they no longer make the doors as spares. Glass yes. The actual frame no. There is a chance that a door from a later model of the same tractor might fit - our tractor engineer is trying to find out. Otherwise, I've either got to find a second hand one or hope he can straighten it enough to maybe close it with perspex in if the glass won't fit.
Am I allowed a quick swear? Fuck, arseholes, bastards, fuckers, I hate this heat.
OK, we're insured and I can get it fixed. Or so I thought. It appears that as the tractor is a 1997 model, they no longer make the doors as spares. Glass yes. The actual frame no. There is a chance that a door from a later model of the same tractor might fit - our tractor engineer is trying to find out. Otherwise, I've either got to find a second hand one or hope he can straighten it enough to maybe close it with perspex in if the glass won't fit.
Am I allowed a quick swear? Fuck, arseholes, bastards, fuckers, I hate this heat.
