Are You A Fixer Or A Ditcher ?

[beast 1,884]

 

big fan of duck tape ,,cable ties,,and fencing wire,,,,,fix anything...

lol dont forget bailing twine

 

i think farmers are born genetically able to see every possible use for baling twine.......tight feckers!!

 

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/101-uses-for-baler-twine.2855/

Edited November 23, 2016 by beast

[gnasher16 29,664]

Im neither a fixer or a ditcher i just break stuff.....last time i tried to fix something i got an electric shock so i tend to leave it to folk who know what they are doing these days.

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Definitely a fixer. My daily driver is 22 years old. New stuff is generally rubbish like washing machines and cookers that used to survive your childhood to now lasting about 6 years.

It is always worth having a go.

[Malt 379]

Fixer..

[walshie 2,804]

I start off well-intentioned and try to fix stuff but it rarely works out. Being ham-fisted doesn't help.

[johnny boy68 11,725]

I'm a fixer I am.

[Greyman 25,295]

I think if you put your age down when answering this, you would have a group of over 40,s that grew up with nothing and had to fix it or you never had one, and a group of younger folk that have been brought up in an age were you just sling it and get a new one on tick, it was called make do or mend, when I was a boy, meaning you make do without it or you mend it, I was given two bits of advice by my old man, one was if it has tits or wheels it will cost you and the other was if its broke you can't break it again

[Born Hunter 17,639]

Will it take considerable time and research to figure out how to fix it? Yes, then bin it. No, then I'll fix it.

 

I haven't got the time or inclination to be buggering about unless it's worth it.

[Malt 379]

I think if you put your age down when answering this, you would have a group of over 40,s that grew up with nothing and had to fix it or you never had one, and a group of younger folk that have been brought up in an age were you just sling it and get a new one on tick, it was called make do or mend, when I was a boy, meaning you make do without it or you mend it, I was given two bits of advice by my old man, one was if it has tits or wheels it will cost you and the other was if its broke you can't break it again

I lived with my grandparents for large parts of my childhood, there's probably a lot in what you say there. There was evidences of my grandads fixes everywhere you looked, one that sticks in my mind is one of my nans saucepan lids with a replacement handle fashioned out of a portion cut off the end of a bright yellow gardening trowel handle! He could fix anything my grandad, his fixes might not always have been aesthetically pleasing but they worked!

[johnny.w 316]

I try to fix stuff if it's decent quality and it has just worn out through use. If it's broken because it's modern crap I bin it.

[lurcherman 887 12,685]

Ditcher

[DIDO.1 20,894]

My dad grew up in poverty just after the war and it made him a hoarder. Not a scummy hoarder who lived in filth but he would save and store stuff but never let us use it. Some one would give him a pile of timber and he wouldn't let me use it....we had to draw up plans and measurements of anything i wanted timber for. Four years later the rotten timber would be thrown on the bonfire! Lol

He had boxes of mixed nails and screws, my pet hate....just buy a bag all the same size!

Sifting through boxes if fuses and bulbs to find one that hadn't blown!

Nah feck that just bin the lot

[walshie 2,804]

My Dad was a fixer. Or at least he thought he was. His idea of fixing was just keeping everything and saying he would fix it one day, which never came.

 

When i cleared out his garage, it was full of bent screwdrivers, bald tyres, blunt chisels, and car parts for cars he hadn't owned for years. Even blown fuses. Very handy.

 

Sometimes you have to say bugger this and dump stuff.

[beast 1,884]

 

I think if you put your age down when answering this, you would have a group of over 40,s that grew up with nothing and had to fix it or you never had one, and a group of younger folk that have been brought up in an age were you just sling it and get a new one on tick, it was called make do or mend, when I was a boy, meaning you make do without it or you mend it, I was given two bits of advice by my old man, one was if it has tits or wheels it will cost you and the other was if its broke you can't break it again

I lived with my grandparents for large parts of my childhood, there's probably a lot in what you say there. There was evidences of my grandads fixes everywhere you looked, one that sticks in my mind is one of my nans saucepan lids with a replacement handle fashioned out of a portion cut off the end of a bright yellow gardening trowel handle! He could fix anything my grandad, his fixes might not always have been aesthetically pleasing but they worked!

 

lol sounds like my old dad. when the oven handle broke he melted a load of plastic and stuffed it the hole where the handle went. after it set hard, he heated up an old screwdriver, pushed it into the plastic and left it to set. job done!! salt pot lids for cupboard door openers, roofing tiles for patching up garden fence, and 101 uses for the little pens you get from the betting shop...

[air gun ant 1,666]

been a bodger all my life,now I even get paid to bodge.