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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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893bet

Rough!

That yellow plastic is an old cows tag instead of a plastic insert!

emaherx

IMG_20200601_152317 by Emaherx, on Flickr

Poly tunnel taking shape.

funkey_monkey

Are those trees as close to that house as they appear from the photo?

Tunnel taking shape well.

emaherx

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Are those trees as close to that house as they appear from the photo?

Tunnel taking shape well.

Maybe not just as close, but pretty much.
It's actually not a house but the primary School.

funkey_monkey

What are you for growing?

emaherx

For me a few veg, but herself has bigger ideas as a nursery for flowers for the garden.

mayota

emaherx wrote: »

Maybe not just as close, but pretty much.
It's actually not a house but the primary School.

Must be like a prison in there.

emaherx

mayota wrote: »

Must be like a prison in there.

Not many inmates at the moment

Well the whole school is not covered by trees like that, it's just one corner, I think it's prefabricated building that was dropped in after the trees were established.

Pod123

Looking for advice. I want to bury an electric cable from one side of the drive to the other. I enquired about the bullet mole but no hire shop has one in galway.
I was thinking of digging a trench on either side of the drive and drive a crowbar through the bank. It’s approximately 6 mts in width so about 4 crow bars would do.
I would sleeve one to the other using a galvanise socket.
Has any one tried something similar and worked.
Thanks in advance.

Suckler

Pod123 wrote: »

Looking for advice. I want to bury an electric cable from one side of the drive to the other. I enquired about the bullet mole but no hire shop has one in galway.
I was thinking of digging a trench on either side of the drive and drive a crowbar through the bank. It’s approximately 6 mts in width so about 4 crow bars would do.
I would sleeve one to the other using a galvanise socket.
Has any one tried something similar and worked.
Thanks in advance.

Not a hope of driving it. There's a lad on donedeal that will come out with an air compressor and attachment that will gradually hammer between two ditches and you can pull the cable through afterwards.

dunlopwellies

Pod123 wrote: »

Looking for advice. I want to bury an electric cable from one side of the drive to the other. I enquired about the bullet mole but no hire shop has one in galway.
I was thinking of digging a trench on either side of the drive and drive a crowbar through the bank. It’s approximately 6 mts in width so about 4 crow bars would do.
I would sleeve one to the other using a galvanise socket.
Has any one tried something similar and worked.
Thanks in advance.

What do you intend to drive it with? Have done it in the past inch and a half galvanised heavy gauge tubing. Drive it with a 12 track machine. Under public roads and all.

Albert Johnson

Pod123 wrote: »

Looking for advice. I want to bury an electric cable from one side of the drive to the other. I enquired about the bullet mole but no hire shop has one in galway.
I was thinking of digging a trench on either side of the drive and drive a crowbar through the bank. It’s approximately 6 mts in width so about 4 crow bars would do.
I would sleeve one to the other using a galvanise socket.
Has any one tried something similar and worked.
Thanks in advance.

Rather you than me but as with most thing's it could be done with ingenuity and ignorance in equal measure. An elderly neighbor of mine spend years working on the sites in England before returning to become a publican.

His speciality was what you have suggested, he'd dig a long trench parallel to the road on one side and a smaller hole on the opposing side. A crush pole or similar with a point welded to it would then be driven across under the obstacle with a sledge. It was hardship on an industrial scale but he could keep it dead level when driving it and mark the spot it would emerge on the other side before starting. I wouldn't manage it from one end of the year to the other but he's still going strong at 80 odd years old so it didn't do him much harm. Best of luck and be sure to let us know how you get on.

Kevhog1988

Pod123 wrote: »

Looking for advice. I want to bury an electric cable from one side of the drive to the other. I enquired about the bullet mole but no hire shop has one in galway.
I was thinking of digging a trench on either side of the drive and drive a crowbar through the bank. It’s approximately 6 mts in width so about 4 crow bars would do.
I would sleeve one to the other using a galvanise socket.
Has any one tried something similar and worked.
Thanks in advance.

Won't work. Pm me and I'll get you someone to mole it if I can

Aravo

Have old tyres on trailer looks like 8 25 20. Would rubber duck excavator tyres come in this size or are the 8 25 20 tyres hard got. Trailer is used for just general use, holding fert, drawing fert etc

Omallep2

Aravo wrote: »

Have old tyres on trailer looks like 8 25 20. Would rubber duck excavator tyres come in this size or are the 8 25 20 tyres hard got. Trailer is used for just general use, holding fert, drawing fert etc

I put rubber duck tyres to replace 8.25r20. Fitted axle fine but as they were new the outside diameter was larger. Great job as 16ply if you have the clearance.

Aravo

Omallep2 wrote: »

I put rubber duck tyres to replace 8.25r20. Fitted axle fine but as they were new the outside diameter was larger. Great job as 16ply if you have the clearance.

Last year I saw a similar trailer with rubber duck tyres but it was tight on clearance. These were used tyres that I saw. Looked a great job, better able for weight. The tyres on the trailer must be over 40yrs old

funkey_monkey

https://twitter.com/farmingfred/status/1259471933143429120

Base price

funkey_monkey wrote: »

https://twitter.com/farmingfred/status/1259471933143429120

It starts with catching calves with a quad and ends up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl67R4-j9c

funkey_monkey

Base price wrote: »

It starts with catching calves with a quad and ends up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl67R4-j9c

Fnck. That.

Say my name

Base price wrote: »

It starts with catching calves with a quad and ends up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl67R4-j9c

The Top Gear of catching bulls! :pac:

There was another one about a month ago. I think ABC made it, of an Aboriginal family of ranch owners catching bulls in the bush.
The whole thing was remarkable in that they're in the minority being Aboriginal Australian and owning a ranch. Their father or grandfather I think sold stock or something and put the money on a horse and won and gambled again on a horse in Gold Cup and won again and bought the farm.
They take in disadvantaged aboriginal kids and train them in how to work on a cattle ranch and change their life around.

Say my name

Found it.

https://youtu.be/3EzBxkvxD74

patsy_mccabe

Thanks Guys. Just spent the last hour and a half watching cattle mustering videos in Aussie.

Aravo

Omallep2 wrote: »

I put rubber duck tyres to replace 8.25r20. Fitted axle fine but as they were new the outside diameter was larger. Great job as 16ply if you have the clearance.

Anyone know where to get 8 25 20 used rubber duck tyres. Thanks in advance

MfMan

Any idea of readymix price per m3, west of Ireland area?

Kevhog1988

MfMan wrote: »

Any idea of readymix price per m3, west of Ireland area?

E96 delivered to killala the last time i checked

MfMan

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

E96 delivered to killala the last time i checked

Thanks; I forgot to ask, what's a normal load contain generally, c. 7m3 is it?

Sami23

MfMan wrote: »

Thanks; I forgot to ask, what's a normal load contain generally, c. 7m3 is it?

8m3

Base price

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Thanks Guys. Just spent the last hour and a half watching cattle mustering videos in Aussie.

You're welcome. I still reckon that the video that you posted a few years ago from the Azores shows the ultimate in cattle handling skills especially considering that they are super aggressive. I spent many hours watching those videos and not a raised voice was to be heard. I often wonder how the young lad fared after the calf charged into the group and hit him below the waist. I wonder did he go back to help the following year.

Nekarsulm

Little bit of guntering last night..
Make tagging etc in the trailer a bit easier.

Dinzee Conlee

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Little bit of guntering last night..
Make tagging etc in the trailer a bit easier.

g]

There’ll be some language used when you miss the little platform, or put it on it a little bit sideways and the tagger or spray can fall on the ground outside