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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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longgonesilver

Looks good and did the job,

An alternative to the u-bolts would be short pieces of iron, possibly angle iron with two holes in each piece and ordinary bolts.

emaherx

Was baling silage on Saturday, thought it would be a handy day with 7 acres to bale.....

Second round of the field and bearing collapsed on one of the bottom rollers, back to the yard battered out old bearing popped in new one and back baling, with only a few bales to go tyre went flat and came off rim on baler. Back to yard without baler and was going to borrow a wheel from muck spreader when I spotted an old 6 stud wheel lying against a wall, so decided to give it a go as it was still holding air.

Just to finish day off nicely battery went flat on tractor that was wrapping and it wouldn't work the solonide on valve chest to work the lift arm. On the more positive side I got finished just before the rain came.

lab man

emaherx wrote:

Was baling silage on Saturday, thought it would be a handy day with 7 acres to bale.....

I've them type wheels here on rims from new if your looking to buy

emaherx

lab man wrote: »

I've them type wheels here on rims from new if your looking to buy

The baler ones I presume you mean?

Nekarsulm

emaherx wrote: »

when I spotted an old 6 stud wheel lying against a wall, so decided to give it a go

Hurrah for the oul Bedford ( or Austin, or whatever)!
How often have we ment to get rid of them things to the scrap yard..

emaherx

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hurrah for the oul Bedford ( or Austin, or whatever)!
How often have we ment to get rid of them things to the scrap yard..

Exactly, I was amazed it still held air, it's been against that wall for as long as I can remember, it came here as a spare wheel for a cattle trailer that we haven't used in the last 20 years.

TooOldBoots

emaherx wrote: »

Exactly, I was amazed it still held air, it's been against that wall for as long as I can remember, it came here as a spare wheel for a cattle trailer that we haven't used in the last 20 years.

I doubt a new tyre would last 20 years against a wall.
Its because they used real rubber in them older wheels!!

emaherx

TooOldBoots wrote: »

I doubt a new tyre would last 20 years against a wall.
Its because they used real rubber in them older wheels!!

While true, I'm not sure I'd have much faith in that tyre now, although it looks remarkably good for it's age, it served a purpose on Saturday and luckily the land was beside the yard.

Nekarsulm

emaherx wrote: »

While true, I'm not sure I'd have much faith in that tyre now, although it looks remarkably good for it's age, it served a purpose on Saturday and luckily the land was beside the yard.

Bring it to a tyre place for a new tyre, and see if they run you....

I dug up a Model T Ford front axle at our place years ago, probably buried in the 1940s.
Hub still spun like it was new, took off the nut and the grease in the bearings was perfect.
Good quality stuff in those oldies..

emaherx

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Bring it to a tyre place for a new tyre, and see if they run you....

I brought a wheel from the tractor cattle trailer I'm currently using and they couldn't supply a tyre to fit as size no longer available. Ended up buying 2 new rims.

Nekarsulm

Nobody wants to see split rims nowadays.
I think a lot of that old stuff went out to India a decade or more ago.

Figerty

emaherx wrote: »

I brought a wheel from the tractor cattle trailer I'm currently using and they couldn't supply a tyre to fit as size no longer available. Ended up buying 2 new rims.

Torque multiplier? I have a trailer that luckily has wheels the same size as a MF 35 front wheel..Problem is they have been on the trailer for 40+ years. Getting them off is going to be awkward.. any suggestions?

Nekarsulm

Figerty wrote: »

Torque multiplier? I have a trailer that luckily has wheels the same size as a NF 35 front wheel..Problem is they have been on the trailer for 40+ years. Getting them off is going to be awkward.. any suggestions?

Good six sided socket.
Make sure you are loosening them , not tightening.
Those old trucks often had a left hand thread on the left side hub, but when they got put under a trailer the left side has a 50/50 chance of becoming the right hand side....

Figerty

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Good six sided socket.
Make sure you are loosening them , not tightening.
Those old trucks often had a left hand thread on the left side hub, but when they got put under a trailer the left side has a 50/50 chance of becoming the right hand side....

Ya. I hear you, I'd say there is an old bedford axle under it. The wheels are a little small for the land, ground needs to be very good.

emaherx

Figerty wrote: »

Torque multiplier? I have a trailer that luckily has wheels the same size as a NF 35 front wheel..Problem is they have been on the trailer for 40+ years. Getting them off is going to be awkward.. any suggestions?

Couldn't get the studs to budge on that trailer, redened them with the gas and hung out of them with a long breaker bar an a lump of pipe. Afterwards I bought the torque multiplier specifically for that job and it loosened them no bother.

patsy_mccabe

I tried to open a seized nut on a gatehanger in teh yard recently. I ended up shearing the bolt. Lubrucation, heat, shock and torque. All four if possible.

emaherx

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I tried to open a seized nut on a gatehanger in teh yard recently. I ended up shearing the bolt. Lubrucation, heat, shock and torque. All four if possible.

I doubt the bolt in the gate hanger is made from the same quality metal as a fourthy year old wheel stud. I'd a good long bar trying to loosen the bolts on that trailer and they wouldn't budge and didn't shear either. Although I'd bet the torque multiplier would break them if they didn't open.

patsy_mccabe

emaherx wrote: »

I doubt the bolt in the gate hanger is made from the same quality metal as a fourthy year old wheel stud. I'd a good long bar trying to loosen the bolts on that trailer and they wouldn't budge and didn't shear either. Although I'd bet the torque multiplier would break them if they didn't open.

They were 8.8 Grade bolts.

patsy_mccabe

Slow hay feeder.....:D

https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarming-for-sale/slow-hay-feeder/22288331

Thepillowman

I often find when you heat a nut with the hot spanner and quench it with water makes it a lot easier.Trick an elderly mechanic told me a good few years ago.

Say my name

Thepillowman wrote: »

I often find when you heat a nut with the hot spanner and quench it with water makes it a lot easier.Trick an elderly mechanic told me a good few years ago.

I think Patsy had something up here with the same thing except rubbing a wax candle on the hot nut. The wax soaks in between the nut and stud.

vincenzolorenzo

emaherx wrote: »

Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is that drawbar way higher than normal?

emaherx

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is that drawbar way higher than normal?

No, your eyes are ok. It's set to it's maximum height with PTO going below it.

Edit:
https://flic.kr/p/UkquGH

Might not be the best picture, but here it is hooked up. Allows better clearance in heavy crops as grass was gathering under hitch then entering baler in big lump and jamming.

vincenzolorenzo

Is it coupled up near the top link, as you'd normally see on the continent? Haven't seen that before in Ireland

Reggie.

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

Is it coupled up near the top link, as you'd normally see on the continent? Haven't seen that before in Ireland

Ah emaherx is a special breed

emaherx

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

Is it coupled up near the top link, as you'd normally see on the continent? Haven't seen that before in Ireland

Yes it is.

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

Ah emaherx is a special breed

Ah thanks...... I think......

Reggie.

emaherx wrote: »

Ah thanks...... I think......

Aravo

Any advice on a back weight for a 100hp tractor with loader. Am going to make up a concrete weight in the next few weeks. I know what I'm going to use but am not sure on what weight is good enough. 400kg

Muckit

Aravo wrote: »

Any advice on a back weight for a 100hp tractor with loader. Am going to make up a concrete weight in the next few weeks. I know what I'm going to use but am not sure on what weight is good enough. 400kg

Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.