long story, a fellow chicken farmer came to the farm to meet with the guy who rents a shed from me. he saw the great pile of disused florescent light units I had, he politely asked if he could have a few to break for spares in order mend his own ( they are not much more than scrap anyway replaced with LED units).
I said ok, but leave a few for me to dismantle for repairs myself. we piled about 30 into his truck sorting out the nicer ones for me to keep . Anyway about a week later he returned while I was away and loaded the rest into his truck and off along with 2 new boxed units , box of 20 brand new tubes and some cable.

I rang him today, he started making excuses saying he must have picked them up by accident, then that his mate was with him and didnt know which were to be picked which not. then finally am I sure I havent moved them myself.

The end of the 'conversation' being that tomorrow he is bringing the whole lot back to me as he doesn't want to fall out with me

ingrate fecker . means I have a trip to the tip with a load of junk light fittings when I thought I had offloaded them all, and he will have to search again for non stocked spares for out of date fittings

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Must have been a Yorkshire man - no Derbyshire bloke would do such a cowardly act as thieve from a fellow farmer - not even a poultry producer..........

Glad he saw the light in the end

It was only a POULTRY matter anyway.....

Not worth EGGSurting yourself over .....


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Were the mud is thicker, and the ruts are deeper.
(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
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09 Xs Gone
12 xs Gone
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Must have been a Yorkshire man -A Derbyshire bloke would be too drunk and lazy to thieve from a fellow farmer

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Only a Yorkshire poultry producer would engage in a cowardly chicken act of engaging in copyright theft, deformation and the scurrilous dissemination of inebriated tribal behaviour. You're a parasitical scallywag CG.

shrink wrap them onto a pallet, print a fake delivery note and tape it to the side. leave them near the front gate, 99.999% certain those colourful, cheeky, Romany travelling chappies will probably make a mistake and think they are for them........ 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

Glad you've now got LED lights in all your caravans George  Ours - 2008 Stornoway Grey HSE Auto
Tricia's - 2006 Royal Blue Beetle Cabriolet Auto
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Ours - 2007 White Bailey Pageant Champagne

well he turned up and dumped all the goods outside the shed he took them from, snuck in and out when I wasnt looking


these are the new lights, the futures bright

http://www.agrilamp.com/products/30w-dimmable-floodlight/ At work
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Would be interested to find out how long they last.
We have replaced all the GU10 50W lamps at home with various makes of LED, out of the 31 we replaced a couple of years ago 6 have failed, this easily wipes out the saving in electricity.

The ones on dimmers fair less well, and in all cases it is the electronics that drop the mains voltage to the low voltage DC that has failed.

I suspect in the end we will be forced to use LED lamps as tungsten filament will be outlawed in the EU.
- flourescents usually have mercury, so although they use less power the green loonies will eventually turn on them as well. Time to get off the soap box and fix the guttering while the rain has lessened. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Lasted 18mths so far, 10 failed after 1 second, impressive faulty transformer clips,, none have failed since. they are on 18 - 24 hours a day only getting a weeks rest in between batches of chickens every 9 weeks.

sadly they cost £90 each, replacing flourescent fittings at £45 ish. specialist dimmer control is needed too . but each unit saves atleast 10p per day running costs

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