I spent two weeks getting this inherited Massey Ferguson running in order to dig up the front garden I have (also herited) in order to plant roses for my late mother’s memory.

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      9 days ago

      Ok yeah I can see that. Working on machinery is romanticized in pop culture but its a lot of screwing and unscrewing shit in hard to reach areas and taking forever because you only have a quarter inch you can articulate the fucking wrench in and the thread is three inches long for some fucking reason.

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      9 days ago

      Really? I just read a a bit about your process and I’d watch an entire YouTube video of the whole process.

      But I’m a sucker for fixing things. It’s one of the things I get the most joy from in life.

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        8 days ago

        you probably already know about the channel, but just in case:

        inheritance machining does exactly this sort of thing ;)