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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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The Rabbi

I often put a few spots of white hammerite on my vertical welds.
If anyone is looking at it I'll just say "Fcukin pigeons"

Lime Tree Farm

The Rabbi wrote: »

I often put a few spots of white hammerite on my vertical welds.
If anyone is looking at it I'll just say "Fcukin pigeons"

thereby killing two birds with the one stone.

patsy_mccabe

Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

webels

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

Probably a planer or a drawknife

Dinzee Conlee

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

It looks like part of one of those things they used to have outside fancy houses to wipe your boots on?

EDIT : Like this - but looking at that pic, it doesnt look likely, as it doesnt have the 'legs'...

So, thats me out of ideas

NcdJd

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

It looks like part of one of those things they used to have outside fancy houses to wipe your boots on?

EDIT : Like this - but looking at that pic, it doesnt look likely, as it doesnt have the 'legs'...

So, thats me out of ideas

I've learned something new today. Never knew such a thing existed. I'm going to steal that photo and send it on to my brother. If he doesn't know what it is it will do his head in until I tell him.

Figerty

NcdJd wrote: »

I've learned something new today. Never knew such a thing existed. I'm going to steal that photo and send it on to my brother. If he doesn't know what it is it will do his head in until I tell him.

Standard issue in 1970s school designs. Boot scraper outside. Now it woudld be seen as a hazard.

blue5000

Might be a bench dog, for holding wood to a work bench.

https://trialanderrorwoodworker.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/dogs-dog-holes-and-pseudo-crochet/

Dinzee Conlee

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

My second off the wall suggestion is...

Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...

Donegalforever

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

My second off the wall suggestion is...

Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...

That is also what I though it might be.

Earnshaw

Farm Roadway Sinking

Have a farm roadway that has been sinking over the years from the weight of machinery. The grassy bit in the middle is at too much of a higher level to drive over without scraping the bottom of the jeep.

I was wondering if I just filled the two sunken tracks at the sides of it with 2 inch stone would it keep them going for another few years.

As opposed to scraping off the grassy middle bit and building the whole width of the roadway up.

funkey_monkey

Can you get road planings?
Would 2" stones not dislodge more easily?

Odelay

Use two inch down? Should bind together fine.

Other option is a lift kit for the jeep?

SuperTortoise

2" down would be fair rough on a Jeep no?

Earnshaw

The 2" down would be grand for jeep and machinery - just wondering about my plan of only using it to fill up the tracks and not the middle bit.

Where would road planings be sourced cheaply? Would be a nice job too.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Earnshaw wrote: »

Farm Roadway Sinking

Have a farm roadway that has been sinking over the years from the weight of machinery. The grassy bit in the middle is at too much of a higher level to drive over without scraping the bottom of the jeep.

I was wondering if I just filled the two sunken tracks at the sides of it with 2 inch stone would it keep them going for another few years.

As opposed to scraping off the grassy middle bit and building the whole width of the roadway up.

Scrape off the middle with a loader bucket or transport box, then a bucket load or two of trunking and the jobs fine for another few years. We have to do sections here every year or two after the slurry tankers.

countryjimbo

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...

That what I thought of too when I first saw it!

Grueller

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Scrape off the middle with a loader bucket or transport box, then a bucket load or two of trunking and the jobs fine for another few years. We have to do sections here every year or two after the slurry tankers.

What is trunking Buford?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Grueller wrote: »

What is trunking Buford?

Anything that can bring up the base level of the road from stones on the farm to bought in aggregate. A bucket or two of a finer mix on top as blinding if there's cattle using the road.

Grueller

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Anything that can bring up the base level of the road from stones on the farm to bought in aggregate. A bucket or two of a finer mix on top as blinding if there's cattle using the road.

Ah right. We would call that fill. Then blinding.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Grueller wrote: »

Ah right. We would call that fill. Then blinding.

I reckon we'd need a thread with all the different names for the same things. Might have to ban forks/prongs/pikes from the thread in case we end up banning the whole forum:pac:

richie123

A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces I had
For pulling sheep and Barb wire.
The name frame is an old shear grab
Bought two Hydraulic rams to crimp wire.
Huge labour saving for sheep and Barb wite

Aravo

richie123 wrote: »

A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces I had
For pulling sheep and Barb wire.
The name frame is an old shear grab
Bought two Hydraulic rams to crimp wire.
Huge labour saving for sheep and Barb wite

That's a serious bit of kit. Any chance of a few more pics.

emaherx

richie123 wrote: »

A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces

For a Post that started with "a yoke I made out of bits and pieces" that picture far exceeded my expectations.

Please post a few more pics.

emaherx

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

I reckon we'd need a thread with all the different names for the same things. Might have to ban forks/prongs/pikes from the thread in case we end up banning the whole forum:pac:

It's a grape

richie123

emaherx wrote: »

For a Post that started with "a yoke I made out of bits and pieces" that picture far exceeded my expectations.

Please post a few more pics.

Welder give me some hardship stopping and starting slightest bit of wind ya end up with bird droppings...so ignore d welding

emaherx

richie123 wrote: »

Welder give me some hardship stopping and starting slightest bit of wind ya end up with bird droppings...so ignore d welding :)

We are not here to judge the welds. It's an excellent job and you are making a fine job of the fencing too.

richie123

emaherx wrote: »

We are not here to judge the welds. It's an excellent job and you are making a fine job of the fencing too.

Cheers...that machine speeds up the job something shocking.

NcdJd

richie123 wrote: »

A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces I had
For pulling sheep and Barb wire.
The name frame is an old shear grab
Bought two Hydraulic rams to crimp wire.
Huge labour saving for sheep and Barb wite

That's not guntering that's serious talent in thought, design and engineering. I'm sure alot of people on here would be interested in something like this. Great work man all it needs is a colour

Some seriously talented people in this thread.

richie123

NcdJd wrote: »

That's not guntering that's serious talent in thought, design and engineering. I'm sure alot of people on here would be interested in something like this. Great work man all it needs is a colour

Some seriously talented people in this thread.

Cheers ncdjd ..I diddnt want to spray it up till I tried it out first.the h iron I used which is heavy grade needs reinforcing would u believe ...the bar holding the Barb wire needs reinforcing too
H iron could have done with been a little lower too so as to pull sheep wire closer to ground but will work ok as is.
As simple and all as it looks more thinking than engineering went into that project...