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Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

You cant beat a bit of length

Its the width I'm told

dharn

Shes being diplomatic

Connemara Farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

Think they fired something at Thatcher out of that yoke in the 80's

dharn

The grips are fierce uncomfortable looking

Muckit

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. .

At first l thought it was a homemade incendiary device to blow up the trooper! But now I realise tis a post driver! Nicely made btw

quader

Reggie. wrote: »

Its the width I'm told

Na it's how u use it and more importantly how often😎😎

agriman27

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

Your jeep looks familiar I've seen it around:pac:

Nekarsulm

agriman27 wrote: »

Your jeep looks familiar I've seen it around:pac:

Ha! Don't be shy, got loads of fencing on tomorrow

dharn

I use the front loader to drive stakes, much easier

just do it

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

I'm glad I' not from where you're from

Nekarsulm

just do it wrote: »

I'm glad I' not from where you're from

They breed us tall up here.....;)

just do it

Nekarsulm wrote: »

They breed us tall up here.....;)

I was thinking more of your location in the user detail panel on the left hand side :cool:

cj maxx

Reggie. wrote: »

I feed all my bales with a similar fork and always pushed bushes with that fork as the branches can't get to the bonnet grill when your pushing

My idea was a frame the width of the tractor with ( prob)5 tines at the bottom and a longer one centered and height to suit the centre of the bale
Id only be handling 1 bale at a time so i could remove the centre and outer bottom tines if need be
I could remove the long centre bale spike to use as light gauge forks for pallets/ barrels and for pushing bushes
The closed back to protect the grill is good but maybe a strong steel meah for visibility
Now what size / gauge of steel should be thinking of and are the brackets dear ?

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

My idea was a frame the width of the tractor with ( prob)5 tines at the bottom and a longer one centered and height to suit the centre of the bale
Id only be handling 1 bale at a time so i could remove the centre and outer bottom tines if need be
I could remove the long centre bale spike to use as light gauge forks for pallets/ barrels and for pushing bushes
The closed back to protect the grill is good but maybe a strong steel meah for visibility
Now what size / gauge of steel should be thinking of and are the brackets dear ?

Euro brackets can be got round the €80 ish mark, but could be up to €100 depending where you get them,

As for steel bare minimum would be say 80*80*6 for the time beam, but if you could go heavier I would, and definitly put in tine bushings, just drilling 2 holes you'll never keep the tines tight..

Personally I wouldn't be mad for taking times in and out as you'll never keep the buggers tight in it if you do. To be honest If your only gona put 5 tines in a fork the width of tractor I wouldn't be to worried about taking them out anyway, you'll have no problem getting them into bales, and if you use 32"tines they'll be long enough even for chopped bales.

We've just 2*42" tines here on the fork and I hate opening silage bales on it as the centre falls through half the time whilst you r cutting the net off and ends up caught in the bale. On the other hand place i work in has a fork the bare width of the loader with 5*32"tines and it's no bother picking up bales and easier to break up bales and spread them out with it

cj maxx

Zr105 wrote: »

Euro brackets can be got round the €80 ish mark, but could be up to €100 depending where you get them,

As for steel bare minimum would be say 80*80*6 for the time beam, but if you could go heavier I would, and definitly put in tine bushings, just drilling 2 holes you'll never keep the tines tight..

Personally I wouldn't be mad for taking times in and out as you'll never keep the buggers tight in it if you do. To be honest If your only gona put 5 tines in a fork the width of tractor I wouldn't be to worried about taking them out anyway, you'll have no problem getting them into bales, and if you use 32"tines they'll be long enough even for chopped bales.

We've just 2*42" tines here on the fork and I hate opening silage bales on it as the centre falls through half the time whilst you r cutting the net off and ends up caught in the bale. On the other hand place i work in has a fork the bare width of the loader with 5*32"tines and it's no bother picking up bales and easier to break up bales and spread them out with it

Yeah think your right about puting tines in and out and thanks for trlling me about works fork
What is 80'80'6 steel , 3" box ? And by go heavier is that size or gauge ?

Nekarsulm

80 millimeter square box , with a 6 millimeter thick wall. If you can get 100mm square with a 10 or 12 mm wall, would be ideal.

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

Yeah think your right about puting tines in and out and thanks for trlling me about works fork
What is 80'80'6 steel , 3" box ? And by go heavier is that size or gauge ?

Yeah 80*80*6 would be close to 3inch, it'd be the modern equivalent, 3in would be closer to 75mm but it's either 70 or 80mm now!

As nec says 100*100 with 10mm would be better, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell!

cj maxx

, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell![/quote]

Old case 885xl , lifting 1 bale and bushes most listly the bulk of the work
I thought 100 mm might be heavy but maybe not. It'd be lighter than the bucket i use

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell!

Old case 885xl , lifting 1 bale and bushes most listly the bulk of the work
I thought 100 mm might be heavy but maybe not. It'd be lighter than the bucket i use[/quote]
I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really

cj maxx

I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really[/quote]
Heavier guage (10 mm) Would be handier welded too i magine

Reggie.

cjmc wrote: »

I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really

Heavier guage (10 mm) Would be handier welded too i magine[/quote]

Yeah it would as there is more steel to bite into

delaney001

Thinking about throwing together a trailed milk tank for feeding calves, pull it behind the quad. Don't think anyone makes one yet. Prob buy one of those atv trailer kits. There bout €180 and locate a tank to put on top of it. Enjoy welding a lot so looking forward to it.

Any tips at all or advise regarding quad trailers?

GY A1

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

delaney001 wrote: »

Thinking about throwing together a trailed milk tank for feeding calves, pull it behind the quad. Don't think anyone makes one yet. Prob buy one of those atv trailer kits. There bout €180 and locate a tank to put on top of it. Enjoy welding a lot so looking forward to it.

Any tips at all or advise regarding quad trailers?

Reggie.

GY A1 wrote: »

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

I like the lick bucket holder

delaney001

GY A1 wrote: »

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

It's actually only the transport I want. We could have ten groups of calves in different areas. They all feed on the 10 tit blue feeders hanging on a gate. So rather than having to carry buckets of milk around to 10 areas, it'd be handy fill this thing up and drive around to each pen. If that makes sense.

O.A.P

36mm spanner, I needed one thin enough to fit between the engine block and the fan on a landrover defender.
It worked and took me about 15 minutes .
Its as rough as they get though.

dharn

If it works... I made a 36 mm socket from some pipe cut 5 slots in it flattened each section around the nut welded the joins, perfect job, welded handel on to the side of it, removed blades off a topper

Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

If it works... I made a 36 mm socket from some pipe cut 5 slots in it flattened each section around the nut welded the joins, perfect job, welded handel on to the side of it, removed blades off a topper

Nice...very nice

Reggie.

Finally got back to the "sprocket"

Odelay

Nice work. What's with the paint job on the drum? Is it camouflaged?