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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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    #3272
    Mrs cockett
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭Mrs cockett


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Best purchase i ever made. Picked this little nipper up off DD for 100 quid. Ideal machine for putting out a few ewes and lambs instead of dragging around the trailer. Use it for holding the fencing gear aswell.


    Lovely Field


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    #3273
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Mrs cockett wrote: »
    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Best purchase i ever made. Picked this little nipper up off DD for 100 quid. Ideal machine for putting out a few ewes and lambs instead of dragging around the trailer. Use it for holding the fencing gear aswell.


    Lovely Field
    Its a good sign when you can barely see the end :)


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    #3274
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Whats the optimum distance between purlines when sheeting a roof with 0.7mm box profile

    I always work off 5 ft max.centre to centre.givwn you lication i wouldnt spare an evxtra stick


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    #3275
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Mrs cockett wrote: »
    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Best purchase i ever made. Picked this little nipper up off DD for 100 quid. Ideal machine for putting out a few ewes and lambs instead of dragging around the trailer. Use it for holding the fencing gear aswell.


    Lovely Field

    Thanks very much :) it's looking very green after the dung was spread on it.


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    #3276
    tractorporn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭tractorporn


    Anyone watch Colin Furze on youtube stick a 600cc motorbike engine into a bumper car?? That man has serious skills.


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    #3277
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,688 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Reversing mirror for Ifor Williams cattle trailer. It just hooks on the small box section on the front. It swivels at the top depending on what angle you reverse at.
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    Third photo is view from drivers seat.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #3278
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Reversing mirror for Ifor Williams cattle trailer. It just hooks on the small box section on the front. It swivels at the top depending on what angle you reverse at.
    Third photo is view from drivers seat.
    Very clever idea. Lining up the hitch can take a while if your not used to it


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    #3279
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,688 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    More guntering. Leg hoist. Didn't fancy paying 400 euro for one.
    Made from 3"x1.5" channel. Fairly heavy but when I tried it today it needed all of it. Bought the winch in Dairygold for €35. Rated for 450Kg (1000lb). It's also reversible in direction.

    Edit - Well I tried it out on my biggest maddest cow and she broke the rope on the second leg. Maybe a wire rope would be better. There is some force from a big cow. Those lifting bolts are not ideal but I did run a small round file on the inside of the ring to smoothen them.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #3280
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Odelay


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Reversing mirror for Ifor Williams cattle trailer. It just hooks on the small box section on the front. It swivels at the top depending on what angle you reverse at.
    413875.jpg
    Third photo is view from drivers seat.

    A welder and a brain have got to be the most environmentally friendly tools there is, the amount of stuff that can be repaired, reused or repurposed into a new life/use amazes me. Well done!


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    #3281
    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭50HX


    don't know if this should be in this thread or not but fair play to him for thinking of it

    wouldn't fancy it for baled silage but he did say it was for hay

    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/viral-video-of-kildalton-students-bale-handler/


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    #3282
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Odelay


    50HX wrote: »
    don't know if this should be in this thread or not but fair play to him for thinking of it

    wouldn't fancy it for baled silage but he did say it was for hay

    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/viral-video-of-kildalton-students-bale-handler/

    Tractor could do with a wash.......


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    #3283
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,368 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Odelay wrote: »
    Tractor could do with a wash.......

    Agreed


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    #3284
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    I don't want to burst anyones bubble but there's a chap making and selling a similar gadget on Donedeal with a few yrs. Its not a new concept.
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/bale-handlers/13141007


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    #3285
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,368 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    I don't want to burst anyones bubble but there's a chap making and selling a similar gadget on Donedeal with a few yrs. Its not a new concept.
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/bale-handlers/13141007

    There's a few of them designs floating around first a while


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    #3286
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    I don't want to burst anyones bubble but there's a chap making and selling a similar gadget on Donedeal with a few yrs. Its not a new concept.
    https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/bale-handlers/13141007

    Very same thing featured in a magazine called "Power Farming" back about 1990.
    Home made, it was reported in a series called "Out of the farm workshop"
    Only thing is, the lad down in limerick wasn't born till ten years later...


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    #3287
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Very same thing featured in a magazine called "Power Farming" back about 1990.
    Home made, it was reported in a series called "Out of the farm workshop"
    Only thing is, the lad down in limerick wasn't born till ten years later...

    The old boy used get the "Power Farmer " when i was young .The pictures to me seemed out of this world . Tractors we would never see around here at the time :D


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    #3288
    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭50HX


    ah he's been rumbled:D


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    #3289
    The part time boy
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭The part time boy


    Not really farmer related but .

    My t washing line broke (rusted away ) off at the base . I stuck a bar Into it to hold it up however it spins . Is there any quick fix that stop it spinning that keep me going for 12 months before I have to dig a new hole


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    #3290
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users Posts: 607 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


    The part time boy wrote: »
    Not really farmer related but .

    My t washing line broke (rusted away ) off at the base . I stuck a bar Into it to hold it up however it spins . Is there any quick fix that stop it spinning that keep me going for 12 months before I have to dig a new hole

    Could you drill a hole and stick a bolt through it??


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    #3291
    The part time boy
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭The part time boy


    Ya that's prob a good idea. The only problem is the inner bar is solid so it take a bit of drilling


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    #3292
    croot
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭croot


    The part time boy wrote: »
    Ya that's prob a good idea. The only problem is the inner bar is solid so it take a bit of drilling

    Could you squeeze either end with a vice grips to make it more oval and then put in the solid bar?


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    #3293
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Odelay


    The part time boy wrote: »
    Not really farmer related but .

    My t washing line broke (rusted away ) off at the base . I stuck a bar Into it to hold it up however it spins . Is there any quick fix that stop it spinning that keep me going for 12 months before I have to dig a new hole

    Why didn't you dig a new hole now instead of waiting 12 months?


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    #3294
    The part time boy
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭The part time boy


    Odelay wrote: »
    The part time boy wrote: »
    Not really farmer related but .

    My t washing line broke (rusted away ) off at the base . I stuck a bar Into it to hold it up however it spins . Is there any quick fix that stop it spinning that keep me going for 12 months before I have to dig a new hole

    Why didn't you dig a new hole now instead of waiting 12 months?

    Because I am moving to a undeveloped part of the garden And want to put a canopy over it . So waiting for funding


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    #3295
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Odelay


    The part time boy wrote: »
    Because I am moving to a undeveloped part of the garden And want to put a canopy over it . So waiting for funding

    Two jubilee clips and a split bicycle tube or bit of canvas. Wrap the tube around both pipes and secure with the jubilee clips? Bit rough but would stop it rotating?


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    #3296
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Hi folks,

    My balls are too small on my case 785 (the originally fitted but the arm has loosened)

    Traditionally, my father would put rings of weld on it and keep the ball moving.

    I had thinking of buying slightly bigger balls and heating the arm and knocking them in.

    Has anyone had similar problems and how did the sort it?

    Thank in advance and am looking forward to the puns about minding my balls.

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    #3297
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Weld on a pair of these instead, keep your balls;)

    http://www.malpasonline.co.uk/itm/Weld-on-Linkage-Quick-Release-Ends/Lower-Link-Weld-On-Hook-Cat-2/33085

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #3298
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,688 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Hi folks,

    My balls are too small........
    Said no Clare man ever.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #3299
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭emaherx


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Weld on a pair of these instead, keep your balls;)

    http://www.malpasonline.co.uk/itm/Weld-on-Linkage-Quick-Release-Ends/Lower-Link-Weld-On-Hook-Cat-2/33085

    I'd agree with Blue5000 on this one, but if budget is tight or you want similar to what you have .

    http://www.malpasonline.co.uk/s/c/tractor-parts/linkage/linkage-ends/ball-ends-weld-on


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    #3300
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Weld on a pair of these instead, keep your balls;)

    http://www.malpasonline.co.uk/itm/Weld-on-Linkage-Quick-Release-Ends/Lower-Link-Weld-On-Hook-Cat-2/33085

    So that would be £282 a pair?

    Or it that a price for a pair?


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    #3301
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭emaherx


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    So that would be £282 a pair?

    Or it that a price for a pair?

    And you thought you were only loosing your balls :D


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