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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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Aravo

Not sure if this has cropped up before, has anyone made something for shoving in silage. Like a rotating tyre.

older by the day

Sorry for butting in. I have a MF 6270; and the exhaust has rusted away, its the pipe coming out the side, the box and upright are ok. Any one every fix one

Base price

older by the day wrote: »

Sorry for butting in. I have a MF 6270; and the exhaust has rusted away, its the pipe coming out the side, the box and upright are ok. Any one every fix one

Do you mean it's rusted at the manifold where it comes out of the block. You can buy manifolds online.

Post a picture of it if you can.

pms7

Aravo wrote: »

Not sure if this has cropped up before, has anyone made something for shoving in silage. Like a rotating tyre.

Lots of them around, some made commercially. You need a reasonable amount of silage to keep it turning. Other option is a snowplough design, a V, not sure which is best, wheel one a lot tidier so easier to sell and transport, was thinking of making V one, and turn it the other way to clean out waste silage,
Any opinions from anyone who has a V type?

49801

Aravo wrote: »

Not sure if this has cropped up before, has anyone made something for shoving in silage. Like a rotating tyre.

Search here or web for 'silage pusher'

patsy_mccabe

Used a few of these Rawlplug Eye bolts this year. Used it here to temp block off a 30 foot gap. Same setup at the other end. Was going to hang 2 gates instead but this works fine. Cows won't go tru it.

Odelay

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Used a few of these Rawlplug Eye bolts this year. Used it here to temp block off a 30 foot gap. Same setup at the other end. Was going to hang 2 gates instead but this works fine. Cows won't go tru it.

Wouldn’t it be earthing off the concrete?

patsy_mccabe

Odelay wrote: »

Wouldn’t it be earthing off the concrete?

It's not live. I just need to keep back cows while I'm cleaning the yard. I could run the mains fencer out to it and put eggs on the end of it.

TheFarrier

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Used a few of these Rawlplug Eye bolts this year. Used it here to temp block off a 30 foot gap. Same setup at the other end. Was going to hang 2 gates instead but this works fine. Cows won't go tru it.

I have a few screw on insulators put into a mass concrete wall with rawlplugs for gap handles to hook onto. Good job

_Brian

Odelay wrote: »

Wouldn’t it be earthing off the concrete?

If they are well used to a fence they wouldn’t even think of touching it so maybe no power in it.

einn32

Odelay wrote: »

Wouldn’t it be earthing off the concrete?

Get a length of some insulated electric cable and form it into to ring at both ends with one hooked into the eye of the bolt and the other ring can be hooked onto your wire.

Buford T. Justice XIX

I use the insulated half of the old type wire strainers, the egg with a metal hook in half the egg and a hook jutting out to hook into the strainer bit. I hook the egg onto the gate/fence/rawl plug eye bolt/whatever and then hook the electric fence handle into the other open insulated end.

Very handy to have when you need a quick electrified fence.

memorystick

In Munich and saw a few IBC tanks. Do the maths yourself.

tractorporn

This was Saturday's mini project. I was sick of looking at the pile of logs spread out over most of the shed so hopefully this will tidy it up, with the added bonus of drying out the logs at the same time. I have a lath nailed onto the wall to stop the pallet falling and its screw in at the bottom to the other pallet. Hopefully it stays up or it's back to the drawing board.

Limestone Cowboy

Panic guntering.

jimini0

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Panic guntering.

Jesus ye were lucky. Is it a hole in the pan? Them 4×2 pans are a nightmare prefer the big ones

Limestone Cowboy

jimini0 wrote: »

Jesus ye were lucky. Is it a hole in the pan? Them 4×2 pans are a nightmare prefer the big ones

Ya. Lucky enough now not much escaped . It split the weld on one of the braces going across the pan. Our own fault. Was getting a bit heavy handed with the poker trying to move it down along the wall.

jimini0

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Ya. Lucky enough now not much escaped . It split the weld on one of the braces going across the pan. Our own fault. Was getting a bit heavy handed with the poker trying to move it down along the wall.

Happen us a few years ago with them pans. Split at the corner like that. Lost a lot of concrete that day. Concrete wagon driver wet it up too much. Savage pressure with wet concrete. We changed to the big perri pans after that

Limestone Cowboy

jimini0 wrote: »

Happen us a few years ago with them pans. Split at the corner like that. Lost a lot of concrete that day. Concrete wagon driver wet it up too much. Savage pressure with wet concrete. We changed to the big perri pans after that

We had it fairly wet aswell now. Truck driver was telling me after he was at a job last week where the pans gave after the fourth load. Some mess. A set of the peri or doka pans would be some job compared to the 6x2.

Cavanjack

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

We had it fairly wet aswell now. Truck driver was telling me after he was at a job last week where the pans gave after the fourth load. Some mess. A set of the peri or doka pans would be some job compared to the 6x2.

If doing a slatted tank it Might be as well let the building contractor price for labour and concrete so to avoid any conflicts.

jimini0

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

We had it fairly wet aswell now. Truck driver was telling me after he was at a job last week where the pans gave after the fourth load. Some mess. A set of the peri or doka pans would be some job compared to the 6x2.

Are the pans sitting on the timber to raise them up?

Limestone Cowboy

jimini0 wrote: »

Are the pans sitting on the timber to raise them up?

The outer ones are. We did it a bit arseways. Poured footings and then floor and wall on top of that. Inner pans were six inches higher and all screwed into floor.

Limestone Cowboy

Cavanjack wrote: »

If doing a slatted tank it Might be as well let the building contractor price for labour and concrete so to avoid any conflicts.

It's only for a cattle crush for myself . Myself and a friend were doing it.

Limestone Cowboy

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

It's only for a cattle crush for myself . Myself and a friend were doing it.

Pic.

bamayang

Tidy out. Very satisfying seeing jobs well done

MfMan

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Pic.

Is there steel through the wall? Go deep at the foundation?

Donald Trump

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Pic.

Looks like a good job. Would you not have put one or two bars down on the other side to allow you to put a bar in across to keep a small number tight in it later? Or even left a few slots out of the wall to allow you to slide a bar through?

Limestone Cowboy

MfMan wrote: »

Is there steel through the wall? Go deep at the foundation?

Ya we set rebar in the footings and tied mesh onto it for the wall. Think the footings were 9" deep.

Limestone Cowboy

Donald Trump wrote: »

Looks like a good job. Would you not have put one or two bars down on the other side to allow you to put a bar in across to keep a small number tight in it later? Or even left a few slots out of the wall to allow you to slide a bar through?

I was just going to bore out holes after.

foxy farmer

Man 2 town lands over carrying out Labour saving on a grand scale. Installing 54 unit rotary parlour coming from a 30 unit herringbone.
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