Our lawn mower for instance... it is nearly as old as me, you have to bridge the terminals with a screwdriver to start it, the deck isn't even, the steering is slack as owt, it is falling to bit,s it doesn't circulate coolant properly, the alternator is pretty much dead.. He bought one off **** exactly the same that was for parts so he could keep repairing bits and bats. The amount of hours spent fiddling with it is stupid.
In fact I've got to remove the steering from the spare one tomorrow along with other bits and then take the chassis to the scrapyard.
We've a ferguson ted 20 tractor that you can't start without jumping it and even then it has no brakes...
A generator that doesn't work, a compressor that works, but on 3 phase...
3 water pumps that don't work, and were bought knowingly unworking.
Up until last year we had a whacker plate that didn't work, spent hours and hours messing with the damned thing, had my buy a carborettor for it (cost £70) still didn't work. Bought an entire new engine £120 works perfectly, took an hour to pick it up and an hour or so to fit it...
A roller that you need four arms to start
a diesel cement mixer that is in bits and is going to be repaired despite us having another working one that we use...
He can afford to buy new, but cheaps out and buys junk from auctions or bodges stuff together it is insane. he bought a bucket for the digger (auction) got home fits on but will only open so far before it catches the back making it useless.
Bought a conveyor belt (for taking stuff onto scaffolding etc) didn't work had to spend twice as much on bits, and even then the manufacturer had to send out a engineer to redo what we'd do due to concerns something was majorly wrong with the part... Turns out ours was missing loads of other bits that were confusing its brain..
Oh and we don't even need as we have a telehandler that can lift 3.5 tonnes and extends to 14metres in length and you can drive it...
I'm sure there is more...
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