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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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stock>

That never seem to happen to me Patsy.................................

patsy_mccabe

stock> wrote: »

Feck you Patsy if ya fell out a window ya go up..............

More like a case of nobody else wanting it.

stock>

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I got the mag drill for nothing.

Feck you Patsy if ya fell out a window ya go up..............

patsy_mccabe

9935452 wrote: »

Better than the mag drill cutters ?

Never used them so can't say. I got the mag drill for nothing and it had a reg drill chuck on it. These cutters centre well with the pilot drill though.
These cutters do come with an adaptor to fit them on the mag drill with the 2 face chuck.

9935452

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Bought one of these HMT holecutters. Tungstun carbide tipped. Savage to cut drill holes. Pricey at €45 a go, but so far so good.
I have a magnetic drill with standard drill chuck and it fits this.

https://holemaker-technology.com/collections/versadrive/products/versadrive-carbidemax-tct-holesaws

Better than the mag drill cutters ?

patsy_mccabe

Bought one of these HMT holecutters. Tungstun carbide tipped. Savage to cut drill holes. Pricey at €45 a go, but so far so good.
I have a magnetic drill with standard drill chuck and it fits this.

https://holemaker-technology.com/collections/versadrive/products/versadrive-carbidemax-tct-holesaws

TheFarrier

stock> wrote: »

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

Ha. I was cutting a length of the chain so I stuck one end in the vice, wrapped the other around the anvil and moved the anvil til it took strain. Cut away with the grinder then. Never had reason to remove the chain...

TomOnBoard

stock> wrote: »

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

An old farrier trick. The chain keeps the anvil weighted down so it wont float away...

stock>

What the chain wrapped round the anvil for??

TheFarrier

contrary_devil wrote: »

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

Coke fire
Gas fire (one of two)
Anvil (one of too many)

TheFarrier

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

No hassle buying bars. Local steel merchant has everything anyone could do want, and if he doesn’t have it he’ll get it.

In the photo, I’d guess your going casting something, probably aluminum???

croot

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

Are you trying to smoke the last bit of water out of the well?

riemann

blue5000 wrote: »

Burning out a stump?

Say my name

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

You're smelting all those robbed phone lines using your new found knowledge of charcoal/biochar?

ganmo

blue5000 wrote: »

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

a medieval heated toilet?

blue5000

Welcome TheFarrier, do you find it hard to buy solid bars?

Does anybody want to guess what's going on here? No mods need to answer, thanks;)

TheFarrier

contrary_devil wrote: »

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

Yeah I’ll snap a few when I get home this evening.

contrary_devil

TheFarrier wrote: »

One of my clients asked me to make a forged gate for his garden. Here’s my progress so far, bolted together just for effect, intention is to hot rivet it together.
My blacksmithing skills don’t extend much beyond traditional Farriery, but metal and hammers are metal and hammers. Said I’d give it a go...

Looks great so far, don't forget to post pics of the finished job.
Any chance of a pic of your forge please? I'd love to have a forge and do some basic stuff.

TheFarrier

Hopefully few less calves squeeze there way out through the crush now...

TheFarrier

One of my clients asked me to make a forged gate for his garden. Here’s my progress so far, bolted together just for effect, intention is to hot rivet it together.
My blacksmithing skills don’t extend much beyond traditional Farriery, but metal and hammers are metal and hammers. Said I’d give it a go...

9935452

emaherx wrote: »

They are on the left side of my trailer anyway, but I'm sure about half of second hand lorry axles on old trailers are on backwards or upside down.

I have an old sedan trailer at home with breaks, ie a lever at the front that you pull to work them, the previous owner said you tied a rope to the lever and pulled when you wanted breaks.

The axel was mounted backwards so the breaks would work when you pulled the lever.

I refurbished the trailer and made the breaks hydraulic so could then mount the axel correctly

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

They are on the left side of my trailer anyway, but I'm sure about half of second hand lorry axles on old trailers are on backwards or upside down.

White Clover

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

Spot on. Had a left hand wheel off the trailer here 2 weeks ago and they were left hand threads.

patsy_mccabe

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. I have those same rims on an old trailer here. I had to cut off the nuts and studs. Managed to get new truck bolts to suit. I'll take a pic later.

Just for the record, it's the left hand side that should have the Left Hand Threaded Nuts. My new trailer has them on the right hand side, but I guess the axle is on the wrong way around.
By the way, the reason for them is so that they tend to tighten rather than loosen when you brake hard. Inertia forces and all that.
Only old English vehicles have them.

tellmeabit

patsy_mccabe wrote:

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. .

Oh. That explains a lot. Bust them off and now can't get off hub

visatorro

Remember trying to loosen a wheel on an old trailer here before. Sure I hadn't a clue about left hand threads. Dunno how I didn't ring the studs. Gave up and rang tyre crowd and yer man just spun them off with the gun. Me after nearly breaking myself!!

TomOnBoard

studdlymurphy wrote: »

Pick up some leaf springs from the scrap yard they will be a way better jib than rebar

Yeah, thats probably a lot more sensible and worth looking into. Thanks.

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Here ya go. Looking at them now, not sure exactly what I did. Few years ago. I think the washers inside the outer nuts are domed. Bolts are fixed from the back.

Was going to be doing the exact same only for the nut buster. Original studs have a nut front and back but middle bit is keyed to stop stud spinning.

patsy_mccabe

Here ya go. Looking at them now, not sure exactly what I did. Few years ago. I think the washers inside the outer nuts are domed. Bolts are fixed from the back.

patsy_mccabe

Ya, right side of the trailer has left hand nuts. I have those same rims on an old trailer here. I had to cut off the nuts and studs. Managed to get new truck bolts to suit. I'll take a pic later.