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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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emaherx

Muckit wrote: »

Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.

I'm nearly sure he just did

Keep Sluicing

Muckit wrote: »

Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.

Dont ask Reggie.... his weight bend the top link

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Couldn't resist reg

jimmy G M

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

Dont ask Reggie.... his weight bend the top link

Reggie not that heavy... I wouldn't have put him much more than 13 st.?

Reggie.

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

Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

Aravo

Reggie. wrote:

Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

9935452

Aravo wrote: »

Reggie. wrote:

Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

They reckon the heavier the better as it effectively taves weight off the front axel and carries it over the back axel which is better able for carrying weight

Keep Sluicing

Aravo wrote: »

Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

If making it from concrete, its 2.4 ton per cubic meter.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

MODS.... MODS ya must have a few cards left

We have, Reggie, but we can't card posters for telling the truth:D

Reggie.

Reggie. wrote: »

MODS.... MODS ya must have a few cards left

Great to get pulled by the mods for having a sneer

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

We have, Reggie, but we can't card posters for telling the truth:D

Well I got a verbal warning and a card for that. Dont think I'll be staying around for long if boards turns this way. Some bull****

Dinzee Conlee

Reggie. wrote: »

Well I got a verbal warning and a card for that. Dont think I'll be staying around for long if boards turns this way. Some bull****

Ha?

Aravo

9935452 wrote: »

Aravo wrote: »

Reggie. wrote:

Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

They reckon the heavier the better as it effectively taves weight off the front axel and carries it over the back axel which is better able for carrying weight

Weight made. 600kg, will let concrete cure for next 3-4 weeks.

Muckit

Aravo wrote: »

Weight made. 600kg, will let concrete cure for next 3-4 weeks.

Fair play. You don't hang around. Stick up a few pics if and when you get a chance.

patsy_mccabe

Muckit

Well are ye believing all that?!

stock>

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Looked at that vid yesterday and thought hogwash....................................

148multi

stock> wrote: »

Looked at that vid yesterday and thought hogwash....................................

Shiney new tin on the exhaust.

blue5000

It wasn't out for 16 Irish winters anyway, sounds like an Ozzie.

Markcheese

blue5000 wrote: »

It wasn't out for 16 Irish winters anyway, sounds like an Ozzie.

Kiwi,

older by the day

Are you sure there wasn't some ould lad in that Forrest painting broken down diggers with diesel every day. Such a load of ****ete

patsy_mccabe

God, ye are a cynical lot.

I suppose it would want to be as dry as the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tuscon. The so called aeroplane graveyard.

patsy_mccabe

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Want to drill holes on the side of an upright similar to that in the pic. The upright is already set in concrete away from the yard so have to drill by hand with battery drill. Would the attached hole saw do the job? Maybe 4 holes on one side only of the upright to do. Holes are for 48mm OD blue band pipe and uprights are 60mm OD.

https://www.demesne.ie/products/starrett-hs51-holesaw-51mm.html?filter_set[]=684,659&page=2

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

3mm wall. Which is 'Light wall' according to this.

Sorry - 4mm wall with 89mm OD. So medium wall.

https://iitc.ie/catalogue/steel/tubes/galvanised-pipe/galvanised-pipe/

Update. Drilled it fine with a cheapish holesaw. Ruko 51mm.

The Nutty M

Tasty

Figerty

148multi wrote: »

Shiney new tin on the exhaust.

Hi did say the forest owner wanted it removed.
If the exhaust was covered, and the engine sealed, then it could be started, but it's going to be a money pit forever.
16 years, probably not. Was it abandoned? You would be surprised what people will write off an abandon,

Their is a high quality digger abandoned between the Clarecastle and Newmarket,. You can see if from the motorway. A friend of mine, who knows his stuff, reckon that's it worth salvaging. If the engine is blown it can towed.
But for some reason it's there with about 10 years.

patsy_mccabe

Figerty wrote: »

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Their is a high quality digger abandoned between the Clarecastle and Newmarket,. You can see if from the motorway. A friend of mine, who knows his stuff, reckon that's it worth salvaging. If the engine is blown it can towed.
But for some reason it's there with about 10 years.

I know the one you're on about, on the left in wet land heading east. Is it there that long? If the tracks and drive motors are ok, all you'd need is a PTO pump to drive it out with 2 pipes connected to a tractor.
Here she is, in all her glory. Took pic from Gooogle Earth.

stock>

It an O&K I believe, used to be a 210 Komatsu there for a while after the road opened used to belong to Gamma, had no tracks on it..................................

Limestone Cowboy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I know the one you're on about, on the left in wet land heading east. Is it there that long? If the tracks and drive motors are ok, all you'd need is a PTO pump to drive it out with 2 pipes connected to a tractor.
Here she is, in all her glory. Took pic from Gooogle Earth.

I think there is some way of unlocking the final drives too and you can just tow it if you wanted. Was only looking at it yesterday when passing.

Figerty

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

I think there is some way of unlocking the final drives too and you can just tow it if you wanted. Was only looking at it yesterday when passing.

Yes, It's a planetary gear, pull the cover, extract the planet gear and the Hydraulics aren't affected.
Remove the boom and dipper and it's an easy enough job I'm told.

The steel is top quality on those machines. I can't think of the make, but that one is a quality machine.

Figerty

stock> wrote: »

It an O&K I believe, used to be a 210 Komatsu there for a while after the road opened used to belong to Gamma, had no tracks on it..................................

Yes, that's it, the paint has faded.
My friend reckons its a great machine. He couldn't understand why it was left there.
A few years ago the window were broken. Don't know if it was a storm or deliberate.
Even for scrap value it has to be worth something. I remember it working, then broken down and another digger beside it. It was moved a few metres and then stayed where it it.

emaherx

It's funny I passed that digger earlier in the week and it made me think of this thread, think I seen one somewhere else maybe around Mullingar.

On the powering the track motors from an external pump, there was a video doing the rounds of a digger working completely submerged, think it was probably modified to work using an unbilical system with power pack running above the water level somewhere.