The Easter long weekend started and I was looking forward to four whole days of digging. Hopefully finish the fish lake and repair some of the damage caused by last weeks torrential downpour being dumped onto my land by Narrogin Council’s lack of a drainage system.
Ten minutes in and as I lowered the bucket into a pile of mud there was a fountain of hydraulic oil! A hose to the bucket crowding ram had burst! I had visions of the whole weekend being lost as it was already 16:30.
I managed to get the bucket off the ground and drove back to the parking pad. I took the hose off and rushed round to Geoff Perkins Farm Machinery - my local supplier of Ford and general tractor parts. Within 10 minutes they had made up a new hose and before dark I had it back on, the oil level topped up and the Ford ready for some hard work.
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