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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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mayota

Muckit wrote: »

Great idea but you are going to make ****e of that toplink! No need for it.

I know, l keep meaning to make up a bit of steel to suit. Great for piling bushes.

wrangler

mayota wrote: »

I know, l keep meaning to make up a bit of steel to suit. Great for piling bushes.

Guys on motorway construction clearing ditches here had Thumbs in all their diggers, first time I'd seen them and thought it was a very simple solution.
They had to load the trees/bushes into trailers and draw them back to a mulcher........ they weren't allowed burn anything

Odelay

Diggers should have thumbs, can’t understand why it’s not common here.

mayota

Odelay wrote: »

Diggers should have thumbs, can’t understand why it’s not common here.

I think there’s a kind of snobbery about it. I got fed picking up trees and them rolling out of the bucket or trying to come into the cab with me.

Odelay

mayota wrote: »

I think there’s a kind of snobbery about it. I got fed picking up trees and them rolling out of the bucket or trying to come into the cab with me.

Exactly, some say “if you had a good man on the digger.....” . Seen enough lads fluting around with a bucket to know in many cases it would be ten times faster with a thumb.

have2flushtwice

mayota wrote: »

Digger thumb.

Great job, toplink will only get let bent if you bend it....
Spent many hours fooling around with the bucket and rocks and trying to get them up against the track, if I could have had a thumb I'd be spoilt, but I'm probably a better operator now!
Anyone see the lad in the 360 loading the pass machine a few months back, he got the atm against the track and into the bucket then dropped it in the roof of a caddy.... some operator!

148multi

have2flushtwice wrote: »

Great job, toplink will only get let bent if you bend it....
Spent many hours fooling around with the bucket and rocks and trying to get them up against the track, if I could have had a thumb I'd be spoilt, but I'm probably a better operator now!
Anyone see the lad in the 360 loading the pass machine a few months back, he got the atm against the track and into the bucket then dropped it in the roof of a caddy.... some operator!

Practice, practice and more practice.

Say my name

148multi wrote: »

Practice, practice and more practice.

What did you buy lately?

Suckler

Odelay wrote: »

Exactly, some say “if you had a good man on the digger.....” . Seen enough lads fluting around with a bucket to know in many cases it would be ten times faster with a thumb.

Thumb and a blade on the digger are fierce handy. The blade gets the same snobbery in my experience.

have2flushtwice

Suckler wrote: »

Thumb and a blade on the digger are fierce handy. The blade gets the same snobbery in my experience.

Have a blade on my 3 ton. Wouldn't buy another without it.

Muckit

Is it any good for levelling or is it just to stop stuff going under the tracks or catching the tracks with teeth?

Probably drop her and keeps things steady when digging too?

contrary_devil

Muckit wrote: »

Is it any good for levelling or is it just to stop stuff going under the tracks or catching the tracks with teeth?

Probably drop her and keeps things steady when digging too?

Good for all that you mention

have2flushtwice

contrary_devil wrote: »

Good for all that you mention

Agree. Turn the cab Hald way around and you can level all day long. Good for stability on uneven ground too. Although if you go too far with it the machine bounces a bit , kinda shudders.
It's out of order the past while. The tracks got greased and one didn't tension. Think the seal is gone on the tensioner. Have to finish a forklift mast before I start the track job.

mayota

An example of recycling and guntering I saw on my travels. (or an early prototype heated tarmac body!)

Limestone Cowboy

Some of my better guntering fencing some of the winterage.

Base price

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Some of my better guntering fencing some of the winterage.

Scaffolding bars?

Muckit

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Some of my better guntering fencing some of the winterage.

Super super job! I'd put the wire and insulator on the other side of that bend though

colm_mcm

Muckit wrote: »

Super super job! I'd put the wire and insulator on the other side of that bend though

Wouldn’t it be more likely to short against the pole though?

emaherx

Muckit wrote: »

Super super job! I'd put the wire and insulator on the other side of that bend though

Me too..... But bet it won't happen unless it breaks.

Muckit

emaherx wrote: »

Me too..... But bet it won't happen unless it breaks.

We're all the same!

Base price

Muckit wrote: »

Super super job! I'd put the wire and insulator on the other side of that bend though

I wouldn't tbh as it allows cattle to scratch the underside of their heads/chins on the top of the pole.

emaherx

colm_mcm wrote: »

Wouldn’t it be more likely to short against the pole though?

Shouldn't at that angle, but if in doubt 2 insulators would sort it and leave fence stronger.

Muckit

God it feels good to be "fighting" over stupid ****e instead of the protests!

emaherx

Muckit wrote: »

God it feels good to be "fighting" over stupid ****e instead of the protests!

Look Mukit, different opinions dose not constitute "fighting"

Reggie.

Muckit wrote: »

God it feels good to be "fighting" over stupid ****e instead of the protests!

At least lights aren't involved

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

At least lights aren't involved

Yet:pac:

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

At least lights aren't involved

Ah... Don't be so hard on yourself, we all know you've learned your lesson

Limestone Cowboy

Base price wrote: »

Scaffolding bars?

Just the 2" tubes like you use in a cattle crush. You can work away with a sledge and they fit between the cracks in the rocks. Couldn't drive timber posts there.

Limestone Cowboy

Muckit wrote: »

Super super job! I'd put the wire and insulator on the other side of that bend though

I normally put them on the outside on bends alright. Slipped my mind on that one obviously...will see what the tec screws and insulators are made of now anyway

tellmeabit

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Base price wrote: »

Scaffolding bars?

Just the 2" tubes like you use in a cattle crush. You can work away with a sledge and they fit between the cracks in the rocks. Couldn't drive timber posts there.

What do tyry work out cost wise? Looks a right job for a stretch I was to fence on stoney ditch