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  • 27-11-2014 6:50pm
    #1
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭


    Finished this today for a job. It's fun. The diggers idling as it's indoors, hence lack of pressure. Revved up, it's a weapon.



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  • #2
    Packrat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Stupid question maybe, but what are you going to use it for? Big pallet crushing contract?

    I agree it's a right handy looking weapon, - could think of multiple uses for that tbh, - branch lopper comes to mind...

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”



  • #3
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Packrat wrote: »
    Stupid question maybe, but what are you going to use it for? Big pallet crushing contract?

    I agree it's a right handy looking weapon, - could think of multiple uses for that tbh, - branch lopper comes to mind...

    We deal with a lot of redundant pallets at work, they're a pest, chopped up, not so much, even when it comes to just fitting a lot of them into a waste-wood skip - before, the skip was full of mostly air.... I changed the geometry of the blades and where the "Mk1" ^ struggled to chop 3 or 4 boards at once, the "MK2" will slice through up to seven or eight no bother and will chop a 6"*3" timber with ease.

    Chopping them up with saws/whatever is slow, tiring and dangerous, where-as this just chaws them up safely and quickly. It reduced a big pile of pallets into a nice little pile of usable fuel today in jig-time. It also happily chops through angle-iron etc, but that's hard on the blade edges. Chopping stuff up is a bit of gas too...


  • #4
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Be damn handy for chopping up brash/felled trees too, de-limbing etc.

    We fill an awful lot of skips of general waste every year, dozens, and skips are dear these days, a lot of bulky stuff goes in, in future we'll be able to reduce the volume of the waste a lot, which will also lead to cost savings.


  • #5
    Packrat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Could you patent and sell? What'd it cost you roughly? Ignoring your own time of course...

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”



  • #6
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Packrat wrote: »
    Could you patent and sell? What'd it cost you roughly? Ignoring your own time of course...

    I just made it for the craic tbh. No notions of selling/making it. I wanted a yoke for breaking up pallets and didn't have the dough to buy one/couldn't find one, so I made one, and there is the extent of it atm. :)


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  • #7
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Have you any idea on a turf cutting attachment for a digger, been messing around with the idea for a while, made a grid which the sods would extrude through that attaches onto a bucket and had a plate on hinge which would push out the scoop out of the bucket but was no mighty success. Was too cumbersome.


  • #8
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Have you any idea on a turf cutting attachment for a digger, been messing around with the idea for a while, made a grid which the sods would extrude through that attaches onto a bucket and had a plate on hinge which would push out the scoop out of the bucket but was no mighty success. Was too cumbersome.

    I often wondered the same.

    The flap plate would generate the compression/extrusion forces to produce dense sods. It wouldn't be hugely outputtey like a rotary machine with an auger, but it would beat a non-pressurized "turf bucket" hands down due to the "extrusion" effect?. Turf is big here(we live beside the bog in kildare). But you reckon it wasn't great, so maybe it's a non-runner?

    If there was a hydraulic auger in the bottom of the bucket to extrude the turf it would be better, with a flap plate to feed the auger, but jasus, it's starting to get heavy and cumbersome too, isn't it?


    What about having a lateral ram that forces the peat out sideways through the nozzle? Dunno how well that would cope with pieces of timber and lumps though?


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