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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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Odelay

emaherx wrote: »

Wouldn't be very stoney soil around here. They were very easy driven, put up the fence by myself in a couple of hours. The only issue where I hit some stones was the post tended to twist around slightly making it a bit harder to clip in the wire, but none of them were relocated because of it.

Thanks. And how did you drive them? I’m thinking of using a two handled pipe thing.

emaherx

Odelay wrote: »

Thanks. And how did you drive them? I’m thinking of using a two handled pipe thing.

Yes, 2 handle pipe thing and the Clipex sleeve. It's needed or you'll bust the top clips. Hearing protection needed also.

patsy_mccabe

Crush gate I made up. Like a lot of things here, it started out as a simple gate with no head-lock. But then as I was making it, I thought might as well add it. Then thought it could double up as a calving gate if needed. Hardest part was the rachet grooves along the top. A bit of drilling and cutting to shape them.
There's 3 holes at the bottom to adjust for smaller animals and 2 ropes, one to close the head-lock and one to open the latch.
Would I be made to galvanise it?

Muckit

Fine solid job!! Nothing going to bend that too handy!

Looks like the main frame was made a while?
Don't tell us.... you pulled it out of a skip at work and repurposed it?!

Muckit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Would I be mad to galvanise it?

Galvanising has gone dear. Sperrin in Tynagh not too far from me and would have brought good few bits in the last while. It's the life of any metal.

Saying that, it won't be you that will have to worry about replacing that gate even if it never seen a paintbrush!

patsy_mccabe

Muckit wrote: »

Fine solid job!! Nothing going to bend that too handy!

Looks like the main frame was made a while?
Don't tell us.... you pulled it out of a skip at work and repurposed it?!

You don't miss much. Ya, main frame made since end of last year. Think I bought the channel for another job. I did buy the top brass pin (€2). But ya, the rest came from the skip that keeps on giving. :cool:

mayota

Tasty bit of welding and cutting on the top.

SCOL

I wouldn't mind look into that bin !!! you could sell tickets.

mayota

mayota wrote: »

Foam blobber for sprayer. Less than €20. Works a treat with fairy liquid.

Try a picture.

Muckit

Will that actually work?

mayota

Muckit wrote: »

Will that actually work?

Couldn’t believe how good it worked. The air needs to blow through the liquid so I attached a small length of pipe to the valve.

patsy_mccabe

mayota wrote: »

Couldn’t believe how good it worked. The air needs to blow through the liquid so I attached a small length of pipe to the valve.

What ratio of washing up liquid to water do you use?

mayota

Foam.

mayota

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What ratio of washing up liquid to water do you use?

About 50:1 I’d say . That’s a 10litre drum and there was about 2.5 liters of water in it to allow room for foam.It got a good long squirt of fairy. The beauty of it is it bearly uses up any of the liquid.

patsy_mccabe

No reason why you couldn't do the same with a fertiliser spreader. just make up a short boom.

riemann

mayota wrote: »

Foam.

Thats genius and very handy, especially in the evening sun.

Does your tractor have a 12 socket like you'd find in a car?

Mine (MF5455) has two electrical sockets but neither are the standard car type

Muckit

mayota wrote: »

Couldn’t believe how good it worked. The air needs to blow through the liquid so I attached a small length of pipe to the valve.

I missed your first bit, thought it was a spot sprayer !
So once u turn on 12v compressor does it start blobbing? U just turn t off to stop?

mayota

riemann wrote: »

Thats genius and very handy, especially in the evening sun.

Does your tractor have a 12 socket like you'd find in a car?

Mine (MF5455) has two electrical sockets but neither are the standard car type

The best option would be to put a 7pin trailer socket and use the parking light pin but I got one of these: https://images.app.goo.gl/BRnTtnNFmBZjoP4A8

mayota

Muckit wrote: »

I missed your first bit, thought it was a spot sprayer !
So once u turn on 12v compressor does it start blobbing? U just turn t off to stop?

It’ll start blobbing after about 30 seconds when first turned on and then every 5 or 10 seconds. It stops as soon as switched off.

9935452

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Crush gate I made up. Like a lot of things here, it started out as a simple gate with no head-lock. But then as I was making it, I thought might as well add it. Then thought it could double up as a calving gate if needed. Hardest part was the rachet grooves along the top. A bit of drilling and cutting to shape them.
There's 3 holes at the bottom to adjust for smaller animals and 2 ropes, one to close the head-lock and one to open the latch.
Would I be made to galvanise it?

Nice heavy job.
Make sure to weld the hinges on it solid so it cant be lifted off the hinges easily.
We borrowed a mobile crush one day.
Gate popped open with a 3 year old bullock stuck in it .
He lifted it off the hinges and took off down the field with it .
Lad here would only look at the crush gates that open in 2 halves not holding the animal.

satstheway

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Crush gate I made up. Like a lot of things here, it started out as a simple gate with no head-lock. But then as I was making it, I thought might as well add it. Then thought it could double up as a calving gate if needed. Hardest part was the rachet grooves along the top. A bit of drilling and cutting to shape them.
There's 3 holes at the bottom to adjust for smaller animals and 2 ropes, one to close the head-lock and one to open the latch.
Would I be made to galvanise it?

Mad not to galvanise it I'd say. Lifetime job

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Crush gate I made up. Like a lot of things here, it started out as a simple gate with no head-lock. But then as I was making it, I thought might as well add it. Then thought it could double up as a calving gate if needed. Hardest part was the rachet grooves along the top. A bit of drilling and cutting to shape them.
There's 3 holes at the bottom to adjust for smaller animals and 2 ropes, one to close the head-lock and one to open the latch.
Would I be made to galvanise it?

That's not a gate!

This is a gate!

Buford T. Justice XIX

When things get a bit more complicated than you expect...
https://twitter.com/Bob_Animal/status/1127686512060112896?s=19

vincenzolorenzo

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Canvassers are getting wise to is around here, they only place posters at locations where there is cctv

Would they not be only too delighted if posters went missing on election night, less for them to have to take down?

Buford T. Justice XIX

5 star guntering here...
https://twitter.com/ClintonReports/status/1129389001121632256?s=19

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Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

5 star guntering here...
https://twitter.com/ClintonReports/status/1129389001121632256?s=19

If they put tyres on it it might pull like a 4x4 should........................ with out the need of a lump of timber............................................

lab man

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

5 star guntering here...

Often seen my father doing that yrs ago you have to watch where the air valve is tho can nick it easily

visatorro

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

5 star guntering here...
https://twitter.com/ClintonReports/status/1129389001121632256?s=19

That's how you got the scraper going in the finish??!!

Sligoronan

Best bit of back saveing guntering done in a while.

Buford T. Justice XIX

visatorro wrote: »

That's how you got the scraper going in the finish??!!

Jaysus, don't mention the war!!!!

Coming this week to take it back, they said.

And I believe them....:rolleyes: