Schndr Light Switches.

sending a text to farmer's wife when it's time to put the kettle on

Round here they use CB for that - you can hear  them, especially at harvest time.  Nice high antennas on the cabs, no buildings in the way, its ideal radio country. Perhaps farms nearer the cities use snapchat or something, but the one to many nature of CB clearly still works for some folk.

Mike

AJJewsbury: 
 

We ad to steer biet eye, not using some expensive G.P.S. gadget that is attractive to thieves. These modern gadgets are troublesome I reckon. It taint reet.

I thought the GPS systems on tractors weren't particularly used for controlling the position of the tractor - but rather to know the position of the tractor - which is then used when measuring crop yield or dispensing fertiliser or pesticides. So say you had one corner of a field that had a low yield last year, the system could add extra fertiliser to just that area this year to compensate without the risk of over-fertilising the rest of the field.

   - Andy.

Yes that and, look no hands……….

I called to see my customer who is a farm assessor a couple of weeks ago, his wife was laughing saying he has to take an exam to prove his competence and he’s keeping up with continuing professional development. 

He gave an example, if he asks some of the farmers when the last time they calibrated their spinner was they say they don’t do it anymore, because they have all singing and dancing GPS controlled machinery. 

I said I did understand this and the concept of soil mapping which allows the application of seed and fertiliser to be varied depending on where the machine is in the field with the soil fertility having been assessed. The farm assessor said it’s all works okay until they stick Grandad or some other old boy on the tractor and they start a run where a minimal application is required, if any, so the machine virtually or completely shuts down which results in the old boy getting out of the cab and giving thousands of pounds worth of equipment a prod with a stick because they think it’s blocked.

At some point you have to accept change and take it on board, even if it’s only a different layout on the back of a light switch, otherwise you run the risk of becoming an old boy who prods things you don’t really understand.

Sparkingchip: 
At some point you have to accept change and take it on board, even if it’s only a different layout on the back of a light switch, otherwise you run the risk of becoming an old boy who prods things you don’t really understand.

I was thinking on the train home today that Zoomy's pals on their little grey Fergies didn't need air-conditioning. Just as tenants whose rent includes heating regulate the temperature by opening windows, I wonder whether Grandpa opens the tractor's windows to let the fresh air in on a hot day?

Every time I get in my wifes’ car and I open the windows I get cussed, she forgets I don’t have air conditioning in my van.

Mind you, I was given a Makita cordless coffee machine for my birthday and now have a bag of coffee bags in the front of my van which gives off a very nice aroma.

Going back to light switches, I went into a local independent wholesaler this afternoon to drop a meter off ready for calibration and came out having agreed to buy all their remaining stock of Schneider GET Exclusive square edge access, I might end up doing the same at another wholesaler as well, because apparently I’m the only electrician who wants square edge fittings.

Sorry Sparky mate , I`m a roundy by preference meeself . Non the less I salute your stock keep idea. I bet you are known as the man who has everything. When I was young we had a newsagent like that . OK he was a grumpy old sod but whatever you wanted he had, he would dive under the counter and have a plethera of things that had been obsolete for years and some stuff he`d never sold for 20 years but he still had it. Local legend “George will have it or nobody does”. He had loadsa footfall despite his grumpiness. 

Oh and he sold a few newspapers too?

Round Edge is fine in new installations, but I’m working on existing installation and just want reliable square edge to match.

Fair enough between one room and another, but for me, in the same room particularly in a kitchen where the sockets are all on show, all the accessories would have to match (more or less) so if one of our square edge sockets broke, they'd all have to be changed.

I must be getting old … I remember when rounded corners were considered old fashioned and all the new stuff had square corners.  Fashion isn't what it used to be…

   - Andy.