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Labour Saving and General Guntering

emaherx

How about using this thread to show off our engineering skills (or lack of!)
A lot of us have home made or improvised labour saving tools / implements lying around. Similar to stuff in Farmers Journal labour saving compettions. (without the prize money:p).

Maybe we could use this thread to share interesting ideas and discuss improvements.

I don't have any pictures at the moment of my own but I will take some at the weekend if not before.

My own projects include:
Quick hitch for front loader (fairly rough but works), designed to fit Trima implements onto MF loader.
Adapter to fit bale lifter onto front loader.
Various other loader attachments spikes etc.

Current project is a wrapped bale transporter being built out of remains of an old Muck Spreader. (only just started, currently just an axle and draw bar).

Their maybe other stuff around too, I'll have to have a look.

So what are peoples opinions, is this a good idea for a thread?

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893bet

Best washers around.

893bet

older by the day wrote: »

Reminds me of every father and son doing any job together. Jayus what is he fecking complaining about now

Except he is alone. No one on the tractor! Just has it in low gear.

patsy_mccabe

First day on the job;

https://twitter.com/cctv_idiots/status/1328279659793047552

timple23

Very interesting youtube channel, testing tools amongst other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st8dkGzJWtg

timple23

Have a pto driven power washer with a hairline crack in the housing, weeping a drop of oil. Could I put jb weld over it? Or is there anything more suitable?

blackbox

timple23 wrote: »

Have a pto driven power washer with a hairline crack in the housing, weeping a drop of oil. Could I put jb weld over it? Or is there anything more suitable?

I successfully repaired a cracked cast aluminum sump on a car once with isopon (2 part).

I drained the oil and cleaned it spotlessly inside and out before repairing, but it never leaked again.

A "non gunterer" would have replaced it or got someone to weld it.

richie123

blackbox wrote: »

I successfully repaired a cracked cast aluminum sump on a car once with isopon (2 part).

I drained the oil and cleaned it spotlessly inside and out before repairing, but it never leaked again.

A "non gunterer" would have replaced it or got someone to weld it.

What is isopon ?

wrangler

richie123 wrote: »

What is isopon ?

https://www.handyhardware.ie/UPO-P38-Easy-Sanding-Body-Filler-250ml-Tin_p_52752.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAzNj9BRBDEiwAPsL0d9cZtOyFC7yD6EPgDYdF8jUGNBOHZXqWMCzW2tf-7_RYBT9b2hXajhoCvJ8QAvD_BwE

selectamatic

A bit of chemical metal worth a try too.

Dozer1

Forcefield mx6s fence looks like a few components shorted out. Do any of you lads know do they do resonable repairs or do I need to dust off the soldering iron

Donald Trump

893bet wrote: »

Best washers around.

Blades look like they were never used though!

NcdJd

Possibly a gunterer's worst nightmare ? When doing a few jobs in a neighbour's farm yard as his cattle are being housed in a couple of days, the power goes and i say to the brother "hold on I'll check the trip switches in the fuse box" and you encounter a nest of these little b@stards.

emaherx

NcdJd wrote: »

Possibly a gunterer's worst nightmare ? When doing a few jobs in a neighbour's farm yard as his cattle are being housed in a couple of days, the power goes and i say to the brother "hold on I'll check the trip switches in the fuse box" and you encounter a nest of these little b@stards.

That's what happens when you looking for trip switches in a fuse box.

148multi

https://youtu.be/MMssklzoBAk

Came across this little nugget this evening.

patsy_mccabe

NcdJd wrote: »

Possibly a gunterer's worst nightmare ? When doing a few jobs in a neighbour's farm yard as his cattle are being housed in a couple of days, the power goes and i say to the brother "hold on I'll check the trip switches in the fuse box" and you encounter a nest of these little b@stards.

I've a bag of them here. I tend to blow them when I go welding.

NcdJd

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I've a bag of them here. I tend to blow them when I go welding.

Ha my brother's welder was the culprit. The last job of the day was to find and replace one of the spikes on his loader for the bales. He blew about 3 and then I said we'll have to switch to another outlet as there was only one of them long fuses left and his electric fence is running off that. He reduced the voltage on the welder which made a difference in the end. ( i haven't the foggiest about welding except to look away from the light. )

He's bringing the jenny next time.

Found thin foil in one of them when I unscrewed it!

We've persuaded him to get an electrician in in the summer to replace it and rewire to the sheds etc.. make life a bit easier for him. He's one of these lads who loves the hardship!

Base price

NcdJd wrote: »

Possibly a gunterer's worst nightmare ? When doing a few jobs in a neighbour's farm yard as his cattle are being housed in a couple of days, the power goes and i say to the brother "hold on I'll check the trip switches in the fuse box" and you encounter a nest of these little b@stards.

A bit of tin foil and your sorted :rolleyes:

NcdJd

Base price wrote: »

A bit of tin foil and your sorted :rolleyes:

I don't know these things at all. All I went up to do was feed some of the horses and scavenge about the sheds for box steel and sheets of galvanise. Messed up my mojo them yokes did.

NcdJd

emaherx wrote: »

That's what happens when you looking for trip switches in a fuse box.

I'll never make a gunterer. Although I did see a fantastic bit of guntering done by a fella that used to work for him. It was a broken bath with the stopper and surround on it. It was bolted underneath with the aid of a T-Hinge. I cut off the hinge for the bath he's using for the cattle going into the shed so done that in memory of the original gunterer. Gone but not forgotten

Base price

NcdJd wrote: »

I don't know these things at all. All I went up to do was feed some of the horses and scavenge about the sheds for box steel and sheets of galvanise. Messed up my mojo them yokes did.

You're better off and safer not knowing. You did the correct thing advising your neighbour to get an electrician in to sort it out.
I had a stand off with OH one day in the main yard about 12 years ago. He was welding something using his ancient oil cooled Bantam welder that had a round three pin plug. There was only one round pin socket in the old dairy and it was used for that welder. The old type fuse blew and when he took it out the bit of wire that he used to connect the points had melted and he went looking for another bit of light wire to replace it. I took a hammer to the fuse and smashed it to bits - he was very annoyed but he got over it. We got an electrician in to install a proper fuse but welder still runs on it's original three pin plug.

Donald Trump

Base price wrote: »

You're better off and safer not knowing. You did the correct thing advising your neighbour to get an electrician in to sort it out.
I had a stand off with OH one day in the main yard about 12 years ago. He was welding something using his ancient oil cooled Bantam welder that had a round three pin plug. There was only one round pin socket in the old dairy and it was used for that welder. The old type fuse blew and when he took it out the bit of wire that he used to connect the points had melted and he went looking for another bit of light wire to replace it. I took a hammer to the fuse and smashed it to bits - he was very annoyed but he got over it. We got an electrician in to install a proper fuse but welder still runs on it's original three pin plug.

100% on the hammer. Only solution for that messing. I know it's tempting to use it as an exception but then the exception becomes the rule and it is like that forever until it hurts someone.

timple23

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ABlur

https://www.donedeal.ie/farmtools-for-sale/27-spanner/26658800

Limestone Cowboy

ABlur wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/farmtools-for-sale/27-spanner/26658800

He's not taking it good, an awful lot of time wasters ringing him

Figerty

emaherx wrote: »

That's what happens when you looking for trip switches in a fuse box.

Ah.. Silver paper of a goldflake box was a good work around!

Sacrolyte

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

He's not taking it good, an awful lot of time wasters ringing him

I was trying to ring him all night. So was it you hogging the line.

patsy_mccabe

Dead chuffed with myself. Managed to open a large nut on the back of the tractor that hasn't been opened since 1977. Soaked with wd40 yesterday. Kettle of water today and once it moved a bit, I tightened it a little in the opposite direction. Back and forth then with plenty wd40 and off it came. Used heavy duty socket and long pipe.
I was sure I'd have to cut it off.

Reggie.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Dead chuffed with myself. Managed to open a large nut on the back of the tractor that hasn't been opened since 1977. Soaked with wd40 yesterday. Kettle of water today and once it moved a bit, I tightened it a little in the opposite direction. Back and forth then with plenty wd40 and off it came. Used heavy duty socket and long pipe.
I was sure I'd have to cut it off.

I'd say pure ignorance helped too

patsy_mccabe

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd say pure ignorance helped too

'Strength and ignorance' as my father used to say. Seriously though, that back and forth with plenty wd40 is the job. You work the stuff between the threads.

Sacrolyte

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Dead chuffed with myself. Managed to open a large nut on the back of the tractor that hasn't been opened since 1977. Soaked with wd40 yesterday. Kettle of water today and once it moved a bit, I tightened it a little in the opposite direction. Back and forth then with plenty wd40 and off it came. Used heavy duty socket and long pipe.
I was sure I'd have to cut it off.

The euphoria that is felt when a stubborn nut starts to move would be hard to replicate by any drug.

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