Murphy was Right

Murphy developed his famous law on an Australian farm. You know the one - if something can go wrong, it will. The problem is on a farm if something goes wrong it usually involves pain.

If there is one thing I have learnt over the years is that before I do anything in the workshop or out in the paddock I think about what can go wrong first. Nowadays, they have a fancy name for it - risk assessment - but I call it plain commonsense.

The other day I was hooking up a scarifier to the back of the old fergy. I had just climbed aboard and was backing the tractor to line up the 3 point linkage when my boot slipped off the clutch and the tractor accelerated and pushed the scarifier over. That one little slip led to an hour of extra work I had not planned on that day. There is a bit of weight in those buggers and I knew I was not going to be able to lift it back upright myself. I had to get cunning and use a chain and the pneumatics on the tractor to lift it back in place.

The moral here is assume that something will go wrong and plan for it. Even if you don't hurt yourself, you could waste precious time that could be better spent lazing under a tree.

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