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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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larthehar

enricoh wrote: »

Can any of ye recommend a good auto dim welding helmet. Bought a couple of ones off Amazon, eBay etc and were rubbish- arceye all the time . I bought a parweld a few months ago but the face was on fire this week with it.
Thanks

Kinda depends on how much welding you do on a weekly basis and how much you are willing to spend. I have a four lakes one got it in ept in carlow as a package with the inverter welding. Happy out with it but i wouldn't be welding everyday with it

enricoh

Can any of ye recommend a good auto dim welding helmet. Bought a couple of ones off Amazon, eBay etc and were rubbish- arceye all the time . I bought a parweld a few months ago but the face was on fire this week with it.
Thanks

patsy_mccabe

Picture is a bit misleading. Theyre both channel, but the lower piece is a support welded on at 45 deg. So it's not a right angle as such. When it cut the support to mate the parts , I didn't cut the back plate, only the sides. So I had to fill a small 'v' as I welded.
Not expert welding by any means, but this is the guntering thread Muckit.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

White Clover

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

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

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!

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.

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?

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.

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

your just jealous

Yes...... yes I am.

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 .

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

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.

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 !

patsy_mccabe

kk.man wrote: »

Is that the IFA man?

Don't know. Could be.

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.

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?

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

_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.

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

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

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˜‚

mayota

have2flushtwice wrote: »

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

€30.

have2flushtwice

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

have2flushtwice

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