what was your biggest waste of money purchase?

whelan1 · 20-03-2011 10:16PM #1

was trying to think today, was probably the first set of automatic scrapers we put in , the steel was too light and they kept bending and breaking

blue5000 · 20-03-2011 10:24PM

probably my friggin house.

Farm wise I bought those clear plastic strips to put up at the entrance to the parlour, 10 yrs later they are still in the wrapper, might use it on a calf creep feeder to keep the crows out, don't milk cows anymore.

stanflt · 20-03-2011 10:25PM

10 man-oman straws from eurogene at 90euro a pop-2pregnancys and only used on really fertile cows

jeff greene · 22-03-2011 11:55AM

Those light galvanised gates, slowly being replaced by homemade or heavy duty ones. Crossing one this morning, a bar came off and almost castrated myself.

Once got a load of that imported blended fertilizer which was a disaster, never again.

Matbro teleram was broken down constantly

Cheap fencing posts, they are cheap for a reason.

Quinn bale wrap

I'm sure there are alot more!

whelan1 · 22-03-2011 12:20PM

ye remember those gates where the travellers had put sand in them to make them heavier , then after a couple of years they rotted :rolleyes:

pakalasa · 22-03-2011 01:40PM

Yep, we bought a few of those gates aswell. All fell apart with rust too. I see a few of them around on different farms in the area aswell.
'Pennywise and pound foolish' - as they say.

johngalway · 23-03-2011 02:48PM

Lidl/Aldi generator. I don't make many big purchases

cjpm · 23-03-2011 03:08PM

Bought a "Parkside" battery drill in Lidl..... RUBBISH There's more power in a AAA battery

Jack C · 23-03-2011 05:59PM

Getting a crowd to paint my sheds. After 18 months they were all peeling off.
They so called powerwashed them down first but a good thunderery shower would have done a better job..... and they were'nt travellers.

what was your biggest waste of money purchase?

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