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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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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

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.

tractorporn

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

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.

Third photo is view from drivers seat.

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

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.

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.

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!

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/

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.......

Reggie.

Odelay wrote: »

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

Agreed

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

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

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...

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

50HX

ah he's been rumbled:D

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

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??

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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.

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

patsy_mccabe

kollegeknight wrote: »

Hi folks,

My balls are too small........

Said no Clare man ever.

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

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?

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

blue5000

Not cheap I agree. Have the hooks on the fiat, they're a great job, if the balls start falling out of the 5000 the hooks are being welded on instead.

Reggie.

blue5000 wrote: »

Not cheap I agree. Have the hooks on the fiat, they're a great job, if the balls start falling out of the 5000 the hooks are being welded on instead.

Great job for hooking up