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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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zetecescort

Didnt somebody here have a yard scraper on a golf cart or mower? Could do similar just change the angle of the pusher

Base price

Base price wrote: »

The other thing is we made two holes rather than cutting out one large hole in the center. This helped the barrel to hold its shape and not collapse. I will take a pic tomorrow.

Here is one that we used last year. We originally started to cut out the centre but decided not too have way through the job. It worked well as a drinker and was placed between two pens, but there was too much volume of water for the calves to keep it fresh, iykwim.

Base price

OH has been busy making gates (in the feed barriers) to move calves in and out of the pens in the slatted unit. Still more work to be done filling in the triangles made when the barriers were cut and refitting the timbers. Lots of painting in store.

5 wheel drive

mayota wrote: »

Making some calf pens here. Anyone know if a cheap electromagnet could be made to pick up metal filings ?

That’s a fine looking gate. I am doing up calf shed at the moment and went to price nine 12foot calf gates for the front of each pen. Over 140 euro plus vat per gate. Sounds very expensive to me.

Wat steel are you using there and what kind of hangers are you using.

I must decide if I’m going to make or buy?? I’ve only 2/3 week till calving starting.

mayota

5 wheel drive wrote: »

That’s a fine looking gate. I am doing up calf shed at the moment and went to price nine 12foot calf gates for the front of each pen. Over 140 euro plus vat per gate. Sounds very expensive to me.

Wat steel are you using there and what kind of hangers are you using.

I must decide if I’m going to make or buy?? I’ve only 2/3 week till calving starting.

I’m using 1/2” heavy galv box. I got it for 50c/foot from a mushroom place that was closing. I’m hanging them off 3” pipe set in the floor so I’ve made round brackets that clamp on. Takes time. You could maybe use 12’ light gates at approx €75+vat?

Buford T. Justice XIX

I'm thinking this is from the advanced guntering class...
https://twitter.com/Jimbutcher10/status/952603957536395264

blue5000

Noice double cab pickup, is it 4wd? Fairly big turning circle though.

Muckit

Great yoke to block a gap though!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Muckit wrote: »

Great yoke to block a gap though!

'Twould block a dual carriageway!

The Rabbi

It could be yours.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-rover-range-rover-off-road-spares-or-repair-defender-discovery/132465106011?rmvSB=true&ul_ref=https%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F710-53481-19255-0%2F1%3Fff3%3D4%26toolid%3D11800%26pub%3D5574637365%26campid%3D5337910453%26mpre%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fitm%2FLand-rover-range-rover-off-road-spares-or-repair-defender-discovery%2F132465106011%253FssPageName%253DSTRK%25253AMEBIDX%25253AIT%2526_trksid%253Dp2055119.m1438.l2649%26srcrot%3D710-53481-19255-0%26rvr_id%3D1416439440294&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&_mwBanner=1&ul_noapp=true

patsy_mccabe

Anyone know a good place to get some chain, as in your regular welded chain? Need some for bits and pieces around the farm.

White Clover

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Anyone know a good place to get some chain, as in your regular welded chain? Need some for bits and pieces around the farm.

Anderco lifting in cork would have what you need.

enricoh

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Anyone know a good place to get some chain, as in your regular welded chain? Need some for bits and pieces around the farm.

Try a local scrapyard, new chain is gone expensive, if not genfitt in Mayo, give credit card no. n they courier it out to u

einn32

No dump line in the farm here so I bought few rolls of 1 inch yellow pipe, a submersible pump, a 3 pin socket that turns on when you phone it and cut open a barrell. Bucket the red milk from jar to barrel. It's not perfect but hopefully will save the backs and time.

kollegeknight

Not farming guntering but happy with the creativity.

The science students have to do a tensile year experiment on hair and we had no equipment capable of clamping the hair and also having it at a set weight calculations.
This was my solution to their extensionometer problem

Buford T. Justice XIX

Original bit of guntering for spreading slurry with an umbilical across a road.
https://twitter.com/donalphoto/status/957374664287846400?ref_src=twcamp%5Ecopy%7Ctwsrc%5Eandroid%7Ctwgr%5Ecopy%7Ctwcon%5E7090%7Ctwterm%5E1

Muckit

I think a set of ramps would be a better idea

cute geoge

The problem with ramps is that a lot of modern cars are very low to the ground and will actually get caught and scrape underneath and might even pull off the exhaust or sump ,that would be some fun

Aravo

If it dosent look right it's not right. In my mind that's a tad dangerous.

Reggie.

Aravo wrote: »

If it dosent look right it's not right. In my mind that's a tad dangerous.

Its the height of the walls on both sides is the issue. Pipe would barely bend enough to touch the road I'd say

Say my name

Aravo wrote: »

If it dosent look right it's not right. In my mind that's a tad dangerous.

It looks like a specially made extension for the job on the loader. The pipe is supported all along the frame and the frame is well braced. There's no weight in the pipe anyway. They even got the correct curve right for the height.
Thing of genius I think.

Aravo

Some undesirable could have a field day saying they came into contact with that. I know them ramps over the pipes are sometimes a disaster as they can be very steep and catch a car.

jack of all

I suppose a bit of belt and braces approach would be no harm as regards Health & Safety- a few of those warning "ribbons" suspended from the hose, like you'd see on sites where there's a road passing under power lines or height restrictions? No advance warning on the approach road either...

patsy_mccabe

Repaired old dung fork. I don't think we ever used it before, must have it 20 years or more. Always used the bucket. The pins were left lying around so got used as crowbars etc to dig holes. The tops got destroyed. Ended up with mushroom heads on them.
Repaired them by grinded back the heads, cut M16 bolts and welded them on. Grand job. Saves me buying a new fork. Want it to clean out the calves shed.

First pic is how they were initially. A few pins are still on the fork.

emaherx

Bull wouldn't fit up the crush for herd test!
So 2 gates, some scaffolding clamps and a tractor later.....

blue5000

What's he by?^^^^:D

stock>

blue5000 wrote: »

What's he by?^^^^:D

A tractor a couple of gates and a wall by the look of the picture.:D

:D:D.............

Do I take it you want to know who sired him? the AI man or a bull............

emaherx

blue5000 wrote: »

What's he by?^^^^:D

RAWBURN ROMMEL E423

patsy_mccabe

Looks like he did a bit of guntering himself on one of those gates.

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Looks like he did a bit of guntering himself on one of those gates.

Well it wasn't him, but we have had a few champion show jumpers around here.

I cleaned out his pen yesterday as it was starting to look like he could just step over the gate.