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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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MickeyShtyles

Donald Trump wrote: »

Ah sure you're just doing the Council a favour by picking them up off the road for them. Sure all the locals know about the collapsed bank into the ditch. If someone drives into it, they're probably a cheeky blow in that shouldn't be on your roads anyway :pac:

How many cones are in yards up and down the country an none of them paid for!

_Brian

https://www.facebook.com/370264256738076/posts/585554481875718?sfns=mo

Saw this in my Facebook feed.
The first “contraption” actually scared me, having worked with a guy when he caught his hand in a machine and mangled it I actually felt a bit sick watching it.
It’s the most dangerous piece of gear I’ve seen in a long time.

patsy_mccabe

This is the one that really gets to me. How could anyone with any sense use one. I was at an agricultural show recently and saw one working in the vintage section. Saw it working in the distance and as I got closer, realised I knew the guy. Did a quick 180 turn.

emaherx

Metal pallets for bale lifter.

emaherx

Self filling IBC

emaherx

patsy_mccabe

Simple but ingenious way of making kindling with a log splitter.

Nekarsulm

When your Orby auger declares it's "Game Over"!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Nice short video showing how to use high tensile wire to make a non slip gate handle holder on a mains fence.
https://twitter.com/ClonakiltyAg/status/1113742461317341184?s=19

Muckit

Putting up a temp polywire fence, I used always hook handle and then carry reel and unspool. Hard to do while still carrying 10-12 pigtails.

Now l hook the reel onto the main line, release catch and hook handle into my belt loop. Then start pacing out and placing stakes. Hook handle to where u want line to finish then walk back and wind up reel until tight,loop polywire around hook and reattach.

Nekarsulm

Todays guntering.
Washing machine with a damaged drum.
If you are moving a machine, don't leave it on its side in the back of the jeep.....
It was basically scrap, so worth a try.

mayota

Remember the safety glasses for the first wash.

Nekarsulm

First wash is on, no leaks yet!
A soldering iron with some kind of heat control would have been handy...

Odelay

Nekarsulm wrote: »

First wash is on, no leaks yet!
A soldering iron with some kind of heat control would have been handy...

Bet you were always wondering what them bolts that came with the machine were for.

mayota

Odelay wrote: »

Bet you were always wondering what them bolts that came with the machine were for.

I’d say he knows but can’t remember on what job he used them.

Parishlad

Nekarsulm wrote: »

First wash is on, no leaks yet!
A soldering iron with some kind of heat control would have been handy...

Fair play Nek...if that was me, the thing would be f**ked out and a new one ordered!

Farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Todays guntering.
Washing machine with a damaged drum.
If you are moving a machine, don't leave it on its side in the back of the jeep.....
It was basically scrap, so worth a try.

Surely only someone with experience of opening damaged ATMs could be capable of such precise guntering

Nekarsulm

Farmer wrote: »

Surely only someone with experience of opening damaged ATMs could be capable of such precise guntering

I followed best practice and froze it in a local butchers cold store for 24 hours, before cutting the side of it open...

Base price

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I followed best practice and froze it in a local butchers cold store for 24 hours, before cutting the side of it open...

That reminds me of the time when I was visiting Mam at home (a few years ago) and she asked me to get a brown soda loaf from the freezer. I picked the first small parcel that I saw and brought it into the kitchen. Luckily I unwrapped it first as it contained a part of a computer - I think it was called a mother board?? - that my eldest brother was fixing and he had put it into the freezer the previous night.
What's with computers and freezers?

Farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I followed best practice and froze it in a local butchers cold store for 24 hours, before cutting the side of it open...

Ingenious. So that's how you get around the ink..er..I mean water spillage!

dzer2

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Todays guntering.
Washing machine with a damaged drum.
If you are moving a machine, don't leave it on its side in the back of the jeep.....
It was basically scrap, so worth a try.