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What's your Least favorite thing to do?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Top of my least favorite thing to do list is plumbing.
Second, is greasing the terramite.
It usually takes a tube of grease and sometimes I run out of grease with only have a couple left to grease.
I could probably only use a tube if I didn't get the other half of the tube on me.
I put on yesterday's dirty bibs because they are going to get dirty anyhow. Grease likes to jump on me.

I use cheap Kroger napkins as grease rags to clean up messes.

Today I decided to use compressed air to clean the grease zerk before greasing. I covered the zerk with napkin so I didn't get splattered with old grease and dirt. It worked well on zerks that are in a hole to protect them from getting broken off. What do you use to clean zerk that are difficult to get to?

What's your least favorite thing to do?
 
Plumbing ranks right up there for me too. Usually raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels. I usually end up makeing 2(or more) trips back to town. And always seem to find a leak.These days,cutting hay is becomeing a least favorite thing too.
 

Being in the same room with my wife while she watches an allegedly "real life" police drama. Or being around when a so called "military movie" is on and it has no relation to anything approaching reality. In both cases my BP and BS meter peg out in a couple of nano seconds.

2nd least favorite thing is dealing with hormone laden teens.

If you mean tractor related stuff, I'd put changing tires that haven't been off since Truman was prez up near the top of the list!
 
probably cleaning out grain bins. It's hot and dusty and they don't make the doors big enough for a 68 yr. old out of shape guy to crawl in and out. No matter how much you seal the perimeter, weather you put the tar inside or outside or both, you end up with some spoiled grain around the edge. The smell of rotten soybeans is the worst. Also, you end up crawling in and out of bin 5 times to check and move the truck.
 
Setting up tobacco or picking blown down corn after a hurricane is a tie. Everything else is minor jobs compared to that.
 
Well I am a retired mechanic and I hate(dislike really) greasing anything. My secret is out. But, I probably over grease almost everything I use, and I can grease most of my equipment without getting very dirty. And I change oil more frequently than specified. But I don't want to fix something that could be prevented with MAINTANANCE. Anymore I wear gloves, usually the latex ones, and I use blue shop paper towels that I bought at Fastenal. The paper towels are very heavy duty. Comes in a great big roll. Way better than those you get at auto parts stores. I am frugal to a point, but I believe in spending money where I get the most use out of it. With the shop towels I use them first to check oil and wipe my hands from other jobs, and so forth. Then I reuse them when I grease things. In fact sometimes I can reuse a blue towel several times, before I pitch it. That big roll cost $80 @ Fastenal, but is well worth it because of the reusable factor. As far as greasing, if you don't already have one, get a Lock-n-Lube coupler end for your gun hose. You get it in a kit which has adapters for *90 angles that you can't get the gun, and a adapter that goes down into recessed holes that are too narrow for the lock n lube coupler. Mark.
 
Id rather take a beating then buy say a piece of furniture or SHELVES or table or gas grille or a bike etc etc from big box store THEN COME HOME AND GET OUT THE DIRECTIONS WRITTEN IN HALF CHINESE, SPREAD PARTS OUT ALL OVER THE FLOOR WITH 10 DIFFERENT SIZES OF BOLTS N SCREWS AND THE FURNISHED ALLEN WRENCH WITH THE WIFE GRIPING... ITS NOT RIGHT... AND ASSEMBLE IT GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Least favorite job, real men don't read directions lol I prefer just the picture that's until youre about done and discover something is bass ackwards or mirror image wrong so nothing remaining fits grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Wouldnt you just love to work at Wally World and have to put all that junk together NOTTTTTTTTTTTT

PS when I grease something I like/try to keep all the zerks clean both before and after and have used a battery powered grease gun or a manual pistol grip style so I have one hand left free to (IF necessary) hold the nozzle tight down and centered over the zerk YES I know how they are supposed to snap on and seal but thats not always how things work out on the farm grrrrrrrrrr

Hey as I grow older, UNLIKE when I was young and farming, there are many jobs I dislike, I dont have any patience and may get in a hurry and screw things up

Thats MY story n Ima stickin to it

John T Still a happy contented and at peace traditional conservative camper and proud of it yayyyyyyyyyyyy USA
 
Getting to be dealing with people although I am starting to dislike wrenching on equipment while trying to make a deadline in the field. Around the house or yard then keeping trees and bushes trimmed. I'll do electrical and plumbing because for my stuff it is pretty simple.
 

What is "setting up tobacco" mean?
Hanging it up in barn to dry/cure?

My time wasting peeve is mowing the lawn.

Can you imagine the $$ you could reap if you invented a "fertilizer" product you could put on your lawn that would suspend growth and keep it looking like it just got cut all season??
 
Setting up tobacco is after a storm has
blown it down on the ground. You go along
on foot and pick every plant up off the
ground and take your foot and stomp dirt
against the side it fell over to. Walk up
2 more foot and repeat. Do this over a 100
acres.
 
Jt,
Women like to tell men what to do. So when you have to put something together let the woman read the directions while you are 2 pages ahead.
Happy camping
 
Anything that involves going down cellar. I've had so many bad experiences with plumbing, drains and the furnace that my stomach drops and anxiety washes over me every time I even have to open the door.
 
Obviously you folks had never had to remove the bottom radiator bolts on an H Farmall. The nuts are fine threaded, inside the front bolster and subjected to many moons of moisture, grit and RUST. You can not get a socket on them, only a stubby box end because open ended will slip. The wrench has to be removed on each 1/4 turn because that's all you have room to turn the nut once you use at least a half can of PB Blaster to get the nut to turn. There is nothing on earth than removing an H radiator in my opinion.
 
I moved to town before I splurged and bought a lock-an-lube. I wish I had bought it a long time ago.

Butch
 
My least favorite thing to do? The list could be lengthy!

Aside from personal matters, divorce, colonoscopy, jail (not there yet), dental work, grown kids that fail to launch, incompetent professionals, corrupt politicians...

Limiting to mechanical choices, it's the mystery problem! Something that defies all logical deductions, yet persists, or worse is so intermittent it can't be caught in the act.

Then there are computer problems! Be it a problem with the home computer, something a complete illiterate like me can't find, or a computer controlled component that I don't have the proper equipment or ability to repair, then take it to someone that says they can, only to be charged an outrageous fee to find out they can't fix it either!

I don't mind getting dirty as long as I can see a solution.
 
(quoted from post at 10:20:24 06/26/21) I agree about mowing the lawn, and your good idea about grass growing control product
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Mowing lawn is one of those nuisance jobs that, the main reason you do it is so the neighbors and people driving by don't b*tch about how it looks! And fertilizing it is right near the top of my "makes no logical sense" list. WHY would you make it grow faster, just so you have to cut it more often?



(quoted from post at 10:22:58 06/26/21) Running the weed eater tops my 'hate to due' list.
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A little Roundup around the base of the trees and along the edge of the buildings solves this problem. "Liquid Weed Eater"!!
 
Getting chemotherapy treatments and dealing with the side effects of getting the chemo. But, God has been with me all the while
and will be when I start the next round of it and He has used it to keep me alive.
 
1. Yearly brushing down of cobwebs in the basement.

2. Cleaning the bathroom - grossest room in any house to clean.
 
Ive have one laying around on an old grease gun, some are a bit big n bulky but no more then I have to grease nowadays I get by with the pistol grip. Ive found if the zerks are clean and grease gun nozzle fairly new n tight they dont leak yayyyyyyy

Nice chatting with you

John T
 
I was raised on a farm. Dad always had a cotton crop and of course he needed help with it. This was in the early 1960s before the use of chemicals and motorized pickers were popular here in the south. I hated walking the rows with a goose neck hoe chopping the weeds and grass out of the cotton plants. A hot nasty job it was. Then we got to pick the cotton or pull the bolls by hand. I started dragging a six foot sack when i was only around six years old.By the time i was eleven or twelve i was using an eleven foot sack. Man i hated the cotton field. Then as a young adult i went to work for a farmer picking cotton with a 616 International cotton picker. I found that i still hated picking cotton. I have done almost everything else there is to do on a farm and liked most of it. But anything to do with cotton i disliked.
 
The worst job I ever helped with was cleaning out a painting machine in a factory. It had up to six inches of paint on the inside of the walls. Pools of liquid xylene in some corners. They sent us in armed with a paper pair of coveralls, safety glasses, and a carbon respirator.

You could not stand more than 15 minutes at a time. Eyes were on fire at that point. I'm sure I should have refused to do that job. It took about a week every year.

Before that job I thought rotten soybeans in a grain bin was pretty bad.
 
Being 1st born and raised on a dairy farm I automatically got the annual job of scraping all the dried cow stuff off the walls, stanchions, ceiling, etc. and painting every square inch of the milking parlor white. I was pretty young when this started and apparently did too good of a job of it to get out of when my little brother, (a natural born dodger), came along. I hate painting to this day. gm
 
Sit in the truck at the Walmart parking lot.

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better yet, cleaning out a semi sleeper after a driver quits or gets fired. That is worse than butchering chickens. I lost my lunch a few times if you know what I mean. We have found some nasty stuff ! Bill
 
Im not a fan of plumbing either. I usually think I have everything then its one or two more trips to get what I didnt have. Another would be making small squares when its 85 out, high humidity, and you just worked 10 hours at your road construction job. I think number one though is anything with heights where Im not on a man lift or something I feel totally safe in.
 
Diving torpedo tubes on a diesel-electric submarine while in drydock, 1963. The tubes are 21 inches diameter, 21 ft. long, made of gun bronze. I had to brush entire tubes with huge air-powered brush held right at head level, inhaling fine bronze particles which stayed in my lungs for weeks. The only protection i had was a paper dust mask. Those were the days long before FEMA.
 
Thank you. I am off chemo for a little while to allow my body to recover and doing pretty good except for neuropathy from the chemo which keeps my feet and fingertips numb with some pain. I also cant be on my feet for long or the pain can ramp up, so I learn how to work around my limitations but still able to do quite a bit. Still able to square bale some hay, but much less than before I was sick, and was forced to retire a little early but as I said God is with me all the way through this.
 
My least favourite things to do are, pulling a dead calf out of a cow, and having to shoot a cow that there is no hope for. Not that I cant kill things that need to be dead, just having to finally give up on a animal and dispatch it, seems like I failed. Any fool can just kill them, theres an art to nursing them back to health.
 
Attic work! Seems like first hot spell customers decide they need a ceiling fan. And no ceiling light there, so cut in box brace box run wire , fish wall, cut in switch and find a hot feed. All in a very dusty, hot, black attic.
Glad to be a retired sparkey, joe
 
When nature goes awry it can make for some hard decisions that leaves a person second guessing himself. For those who care about and nurture their herds it can be really tough sometimes. I understand exactly what your saying. It hurts mentally and it's hard to forget.
 
Crawling under my house, and fixing other things that have been incorrectly done. The idiots who built it provided only 15" of crawl space, and, of course, that is where all the plumbing is. For about another $100.00, the builders could have installed one more course of cement block. (I'm the third owner, built in 1998.) Inexpensive construction - no house wrap or other facing between vinyl siding and sheathing, nor any roofing paper between the shingles and decking. Outside electrical outlets just screwed to the siding; no boxes. A French Drain that has its drain pipe 8" above the actual French Drain pipe. Stuff like that. zuhnc
 
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