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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

roosterman71 wrote: »

Do you hang the screen in the tractor or how have you that left?

4 bolts with washers on the back going through the roof liner.

49801

have2flushtwice wrote: »

I've a 17 ft heavy gate to hang, its across the roadway up to the yard. I've an rsj to hang it on. It has to be cut, and wondering if I can get two posts out of it.
What depth would I need to go down with the rsj to be sure it doesn't lean under the weight?

2.5-3ft of Rsj set in ground with a good lump of concrete

emaherx

Gillespy wrote: »

I see them locally for five times that. I think I'll chance a set for the feeder. One at the back to stop me reversing into things and could put the other looking at the conveyor as it's hidden and can block if not careful opening the door.

Wonder how the local ones compare quality wise. To be fair camera's seem solid but screen is fairly low quality plastic. But at the price it's hard to beat I seen the cameras and screen are sold separately too so even if I break one it will be less than €20 for a replacement.

Edit: the screen I got dosen't display both cameras at once but it's a single button press to switch between. For a little extra you can get ones that allow upto 4 cameras on screen at once.

emaherx

have2flushtwice wrote: »

I've a 17 ft heavy gate to hang, its across the roadway up to the yard. I've an rsj to hang it on. It has to be cut, and wondering if I can get two posts out of it.
What depth would I need to go down with the rsj to be sure it doesn't lean under the weight?

Are you cutting RSJ to hang 2 gates? Or will one be the other side of same gate? You would get away with closing side being a bit shorter above the ground and maybe a little less burried too.

wrangler

emaherx wrote: »

Are you cutting RSJ to hang 2 gates? Or will one be the other side of same gate? You would get away with closing side being a bit shorter above the ground and maybe a little less burried too.

If you put the concrete afoot further down in the ground than the rsj would it not have the same effect as lengthening the rsj. that's what i did with a cattle crush that i bought years ago that only allowed for about a sixteen inches in the ground

Wildsurfer

wrangler wrote: »

If you put the concrete afoot further down in the ground than the rsj would it not have the same effect as lengthening the rsj. that's what i did with a cattle crush that i bought years ago that only allowed for about a sixteen inches in the ground

Maybe weld a few bits of rebar to bottom of rsj to anchor into concrete if going with this option?

have2flushtwice

emaherx wrote: »

Are you cutting RSJ to hang 2 gates? Or will one be the other side of same gate? You would get away with closing side being a bit shorter above the ground and maybe a little less burried too.

It's to hang two gates. One 17ft one and the other is a lighter one a 12ft, just going from the roadway to the lawn. A stake will be fine to loop a ring of wire over to keep it shut.
The rsj is in the ditch and i haven't measured it yet.
It may be too heavy for the smaller gate so wouldn't be scrimping on length then. Won't be digging by hand so not too bothered if I have to go a bit more. So three feet should do, keep it narrow if possible. And lots of cement.

grange mac

I made a 18 ft gate that only touched ground at pivot. If your gate does not touch ground both ends put a jockey wheel on it. I found mine was bending at the Rsj as just blue bar pipe was too much weigh at the end unsupported.

funkey_monkey

emaherx wrote: »

Unladen? Not a clue.
Max laden weight is 8,000kg

Do you know what overall height the trailer is - and its internal height?
I know you got a special build down to 7ft wide - just wondering about the other dimensions.

emaherx

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Do you know what overall height the trailer is - and its internal height?
I know you got a special build down to 7ft wide - just wondering about the other dimensions.

I don't know but I'll check during the week if I think of it and have a tape handy.

funkey_monkey

emaherx wrote: »

I don't know but I'll check during the week if I think of it and have a tape handy.

Thanks, looking to build up one here and wondering what the standard dimensions are. I think internal heights are around 6ft and overall height around the 10ft mark.

emaherx

Home schooling project.

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emaherx

I know the above is not exactly farming related but I fully expect them to scale up before they go back to school.

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tractorporn

Hi all,

Not particularly farming related but definitely furthering. I have a 20ft wide concrete yard that I need to fence off for the children, I bought a retractable jobby from Amazon which has worked up to now but the 3 year old has figured it out this week and now cant be contained.

I was going to use some pallets as panel fencing but as you can see it's on concrete. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the fence upright. My best ideal is to drill holes and drive some rebar into the ground and somehow attach the pallet to the rebar. But I'm very open to ideas. It cant be too permanent either as hopefully we will be building as soon as the lockdown finishes and the fence will have to come down again. Cheers

mr.stonewall

What about hang 2 gates and tec screw picket board so that the hands and feet climbing.

tractorporn

mr.stonewall wrote: »

What about hang 2 gates and tec screw picket board so that the hands and feet climbing.

Yeah could work but I would have to figure out how to hang the gate on the house side. There is an rsj on the shed side so not a problem

selectamatic

tractorporn wrote: »

Yeah could work but I would have to figure out how to hang the gate on the house side. There is an rsj on the shed side so not a problem

Old steel car wheel filled with concrete with a heavy profile steel pipe up through the middle makes a decent thing to hang gates off that can still be moved about when needs be.

tractorporn

selectamatic wrote: »

Old steel car wheel filled with concrete with a heavy profile steel pipe up through the middle makes a decent thing to hang gates off that can still be moved about when needs be.

Great idea

stock>

https://www.screwfix.ie/c/screws-nails-fixings/masonry-screws/cat840054

mr.stonewall

Hang a 16 ft of the rsj and a small access gate. Some 3 inch box with a baseplate fixed to yard. Would act as a receiver for the large gate and let you hang a short gate. Work something on the short gate to open and close the bolt at the top of the gate. 3yr old are fast learners and mine this week started to open fence handles. Little divel

ruwithme

selectamatic wrote: »

Old steel car wheel filled with concrete with a heavy profile steel pipe up through the middle makes a decent thing to hang gates off that can still be moved about when needs be.

I've seen the same idea recently out in a field where ground would be of a rocky nature for crowbaring a post hole for wire fence.

using a lorry wheel and rim with concrete threw in round a decent wooden post.

Always great to get a look around some other lads places.

tractorporn

stock> wrote: »

https://www.screwfix.ie/c/screws-nails-fixings/masonry-screws/cat840054

They look the job

tractorporn

mr.stonewall wrote: »

Hang a 16 ft of the rsj and a small access gate. Some 3 inch box with a baseplate fixed to yard. Would act as a receiver for the large gate and let you hang a short gate. Work something on the short gate to open and close the bolt at the top of the gate. 3yr old are fast learners and mine this week started to open fence handles. Little divel

And the 17 month old picked it up off him and now she cant be contained and it has my wife driven demented. That's another good idea I've seen base plates before where you can put in a square post so that could work. I'd probably sheet gates in stock board to prevent climbing.

MfMan

ruwithme wrote: »

I've seen the same idea recently out in a field where ground would be of a rocky nature for crowbaring a post hole for wire fence.

using a lorry wheel and rim with concrete threw in round a decent wooden post.

Always great to get a look around some other lads places.

Would that be firm/solid enough for a straining post?

ruwithme

MfMan wrote: »

Would that be firm/solid enough for a straining post?

I'd say it would surprise you how good a strain it would take.ones i seen were done year's ago so pretty much welded to the ground with grass and moss growing round the base at this stage.

20silkcut

tractorporn wrote: »

They look the job

They are a great job. Star key head. Buy plenty of star keys cause you’d eat them up on these screws.

emaherx

New Dung Fork, I won't try to take credit and it's not really guntering as it was made by a Metal Fabricator friend of mine. But the deal involved some guntering and bartering. So in exchange for some old scrap machines he is doing a few jobs for me. Due to the current Covid19 restrictions I haven't actually seen him, so he came to the yard helped him self to an old NH370 baler and left this fork in its place.

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emaherx

The Baler.....
This baler has been in our yard almost as long as I can remember. I've done most of the baling here for the last 20 years and I've never used it but I definitely remember handling the idiot blocks that fell out of the back of it, so I'd say maybe 25 years or so since it was used. unfortunately the old man didn't have much sympathy for machinery and left it sitting in the weeds for 10 years or so, until one day I pulled it out and said I'll fix it up, then looked at it and thought oooh..... maybe not as the chassis was rotten, but I left it in the back of a shed till now. The only thing I managed to do at that time was oil the crap out of it and grease the knotters etc and turned it over by hand a few times.

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He sent me this video of it within hours of it leaving my yard, so there is hope for it if he finds the time to fabricate all of the chasiss/ body work. I'll update if I see it back in the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUSvaTXbWg

timple23

Was thinking of putting up shelving as storage. Would it be cheaper to buy or build? I wouldn't be familiar with steel prices. These look cheap and capable weight wise. https://www.screwfix.ie/p/heavy-duty-shelving-900-x-450-x-1800mm/2817r

893bet

timple23 wrote: »

Was thinking of putting up shelving as storage. Would it be cheaper to buy or build? I wouldn't be familiar with steel prices. These look cheap and capable weight wise. https://www.screwfix.ie/p/heavy-duty-shelving-900-x-450-x-1800mm/2817r

They are the finest to be honest for most things. They are very light but strong. I have 5 cable tied together and to the wall and they are grand.