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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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RobinBanks

blue5000 wrote: »

That's high carbon steel, they'd need to be tempered after welding. Where did you buy the links? Not cheap I guess.

The right job is to weld a bush or a helicoil into the frame and slot the prong through it and secure with a nut provide prong has thread on it of course.

I got them from MDE agri parts up north. €56 each.

You can get them most places but I needed some other genuine case parts and local case dealer had savage mark up on everything so I went direct to MDE myself

blue5000

TheFarrier wrote: »

Anyone here ever cut railway track??
Have a few lengths around the yard that were for a shed that was never built years ago.
Was hoping to use them to hang gates but I'm not sure what's the best way to cut them.
Would hiring a consaw do or would I better getting a lad to cut them with an oxy acetylene torch??

Thanks

Any attempt yet?

TheFarrier

blue5000 wrote: »

Any attempt yet?

No might give it a go now on Sunday. Must borrow a yoke to lift them into the yard where I can get power to the grinder.

have2flushtwice

Sounds rough, but drag them with anything with a towbar, will take you half the time.:)

have2flushtwice

What's the price of a concrete post these days anyway?

mayota

have2flushtwice wrote: »

What's the price of a concrete post these days anyway?

€30.

TheFarrier

have2flushtwice wrote: »

Sounds rough, but drag them with anything with a towbar, will take you half the time.:)

No way lad, I've caused enough damage at that racket before. ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

jimmy G M

Hardly worth putting up on this thread as it's made from timber .... but fierce handy as can easy switch from bale carrier to carry bag of nuts / square bale of hay etc ..... Surprised one of the round bale manufacturers havn't come up with something like it in metal

Reggie.

jimmy G M wrote: »

Hardly worth putting up on this thread as it's made from timber .... but fierce handy as can easy switch from bale carrier to carry bag of nuts / square bale of hay etc ..... Surprised one of the round bale manufacturers havn't come up with something like it in metal

That sort of thing would be better in timber. No metal on metal wear

_Brian

Reggie. wrote: »

That sort of thing would be better in timber. No metal on metal wear

Less rattle too.
Handy wee job that any farmer could make on a wet afternoon.

patsy_mccabe

Saw this on a Donedeal add this evening selling calves. Nifty idea for a Hay Rack.

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/friesian-calves/18169488

kk.man

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Saw this on a Donedeal add this evening selling calves. Nifty idea for a Hay Rack.

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/friesian-calves/18169488

Is that the IFA man?

Aravo

jimmy G M wrote:

Hardly worth putting up on this thread as it's made from timber .... but fierce handy as can easy switch from bale carrier to carry bag of nuts / square bale of hay etc ..... Surprised one of the round bale manufacturers havn't come up with something like it in metal

Can be a right pain taking things on and off in spring. We use a Bord na mona pallet on the bale handler. It's good and strong and always on the go.

patsy_mccabe

kk.man wrote: »

Is that the IFA man?

Don't know. Could be.

Eamonn8448

jimmy G M wrote: »

Hardly worth putting up on this thread as it's made from timber .... but fierce handy as can easy switch from bale carrier to carry bag of nuts / square bale of hay etc ..... Surprised one of the round bale manufacturers havn't come up with something like it in metal

That looks like the pallets they use for delivering wind farm parts, used to work for a courier and collect the empty ones for the yard, handiest thing a man can have around the yard but a bitch to hold on to , my cousins carried all the box ones for feeding sheep ration and hay on the mountain, family eh !

emaherx

jimmy G M wrote: »

Hardly worth putting up on this thread as it's made from timber .... but fierce handy as can easy switch from bale carrier to carry bag of nuts / square bale of hay etc ..... Surprised one of the round bale manufacturers havn't come up with something like it in metal

This is exactly the type of thing this thread was started for. It certainly wasn't opened just for Reggie to show us he has far too much time on his hands

We use similar around the yard and it is a very simple but useful idea. Manufacturers of small meal bins make some designed to be lifted by bale lifters.

Reggie.

emaherx wrote: »

This is exactly the type of thing this thread was started for. It certainly wasn't opened just for Reggie to show us he has far too much time on his hands

We use similar around the yard and it is a very simple but useful idea. Manufacturers of small meal bins make some designed to be lifted by bale lifters.

your just jealous

patsy_mccabe

It's a good idea, but will the bale lifters be on the tractor during the winter. I'd like the same idea, but for a bale spike on the back. Get working on it Jimmy G M .

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

your just jealous

Yes...... yes I am.

Muckit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

It's a good idea, but will the bale lifters be on the tractor during the winter. I'd like the same idea, but for a bale spike on the back. Get working on it Jimmy G M .

The 3 point bale spike l have since we started making baled silage! it has a big spike in the middle with a smaller one beneath. l find it a right nuisance of a design now that bales are chopped. Once u cut the net the bale is liable to go anywhere and fall in a heap, making it impossible then to shift with tractor and a right nuisance to try and grape.

l think 2 big spikes horizontally on the bottom bar (like a bale carrier) would be better.

whelan2

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Saw this on a Donedeal add this evening selling calves. Nifty idea for a Hay Rack.

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/friesian-calves/18169488

How would you get it on to the gate?

Nekarsulm

whelan2 wrote: »

How would you get it on to the gate?

2 of the slots go right to the bottom of the barrel and across the bottom. So it just drops over the gate and then you stuff it with hay.

Muckit

whelan2 wrote: »

How would you get it on to the gate?

The bottom of the barrel is cut in two, with a channel cut up the sides the width of the gate.

Did u do woodwork in school? It's like a cross halving joint!

Reggie.

Muckit wrote: »

The 3 point bale spike l have since we started making baled silage! it has a big spike in the middle with a smaller one beneath. l find it a right nuisance of a design now that bales are chopped. Once u cut the net the bale is liable to go anywhere and fall in a heap, making it impossible then to shift with tractor and a right nuisance to try and grape.

l think 2 big spikes horizontally on the bottom bar (like a bale carrier) would be better.

Fleming do one like that

White Clover

What about the cashels one with the paddles on over the tines. The one machine for summer and winter.

longgonesilver

Two horizontal spikes, a euro pallet fits on to these, I see a man bringing a big bag of meal from the mill tied with a strap. Seems secure enough.

charolais0153

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

It's a good idea, but will the bale lifters be on the tractor during the winter. I'd like the same idea, but for a bale spike on the back. Get working on it Jimmy G M .

Have one here if you want it.

patsy_mccabe

I know I posted this already, but the quality of welds I'm getting now compared to before is unreal. And to think it was all down to poor quality supply cables. I thought it was down to me. Pleasure to weld now in comparison.

Muckit

Sorry for being critical but (and I'm not a great welder myself by any means!) that's not a great weld Patsy. You've a lot more weld on the near piece and undercut the hell out of the other.

Think the angle of the rod has a lot to do with it. It's not easy to weld two pieces at right angles. I orienatate the pieces so that lm welding straight down but not always possible.

TheFarrier

Muckit wrote: »

Sorry for being critical but (and I'm not a great welder myself by any means!) that's not a great weld Patsy. You've a lot more weld on the near piece and undercut the hell out of the other.

Think the angle of the rod has a lot to do with it. It's not easy to weld two pieces at right angles. I orienatate the pieces so that lm welding straight down but not always possible.

It's not going to fall apart all the same