The old skills are all getting lost.
A young couple in their late 30's rent a nearby farm and naturally I was talking to him in the week about how hard things are and how expensive everything is.
He told me the gearbox had gone on his paddock topper (giant tractor-mounted Flymo) and a new one was nearly ?300.
I asked why he didn't just replace the bearings and he looked at me as if I was bonkers.
Yesterday he brought it round and an hour or so of cursing and my 1950's bearing puller plus ?16 of ball-race and it was fixed.
Why does nobody mend anything any more?
He brought round a bottle of Glenmorangie this morning as well.
