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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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blackbox

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Guess what I found? Fecking delighted. Embarrassed to say where I found it.

In your toolbox?

emaherx

blackbox wrote: »

In your toolbox?

Or in Mrs Doyle's tool box?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0V68Prasg

chooseusername

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Guess what I found? Fecking delighted. Embarrassed to say where I found it.

The last place you looked?

patsy_mccabe

Odelay wrote: »

On the bonnet of the tractor?

Close. Remember I said, I was working from the roof of the tractor ..... well last night I went to put the laser level on the roof again and there it was, along with 2 other spanners.
They never fell off and I've been out on the road drawing cattle and everything for the last 2 weeks.

I now have to.go and tell my neighbours.

Buford T. Justice XIX

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Close. Remember I said, I was working from the roof of the tractor ..... well last night I went to put the laser level on the roof again and there it was, along with 2 other spanners.
They never fell off and I've been out on the road drawing cattle and everything for the last 2 weeks.

I now have to.go and tell my neighbours.

Better to be born lucky than born smart:P

curiousinvestor

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Better to be born lucky than born smart:P

I lost the middle ratchet of my teng tools set.
Changing an alternator.
Clean yard. Middle of the day . No trace at all.
The dog is always with me, he had a habit of picking up buckets, dog bowls , milk bottles etc etc and I find them in the silage !!! I can only blame him for it.
I have d set 15 years and it pains me everytime i open it to see the missing ratchet.

Jb1989

curiousinvestor wrote: »

I lost the middle ratchet of my teng tools set.
Changing an alternator.
Clean yard. Middle of the day . No trace at all.
The dog is always with me, he had a habit of picking up buckets, dog bowls , milk bottles etc etc and I find them in the silage !!! I can only blame him for it.
I have d set 15 years and it pains me everytime i open it to see the missing ratchet.

Order an individual one off teng and be done with it.

Limestone Cowboy

A few jobs we did over the last week.

AntrimGlens

Had some fencing to do but no time to do it. Got a lad in with this yoke. Never marked the ground and we had two serious days rain. He has changed the controls so he can drive it from outside and doesn’t have to be climbing in and out.

contrary_devil

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Had some fencing to do but no time to do it. Got a lad in with this yoke. Never marked the ground and we had two serious days rain. He has changed the controls so he can drive it from outside and doesn’t have to be climbing in and out.

Do you know the make of that crawler? It's a right job, I've often been thinking about using such a machine

Limestone Cowboy

contrary_devil wrote: »

Do you know the make of that crawler? It's a right job, I've often been thinking about using such a machine

Its a mooroka.

AntrimGlens

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Its a mooroka.

He ordered it from China, he said it was a nervous wait on it coming. Plenty of them for sale in England without having to go to China. They use them for planting the rice paddies.

Tileman

AntrimGlens wrote: »

He ordered it from China, he said it was a nervous wait on it coming. Plenty of them for sale in England without having to go to China. They use them for planting the rice paddies.

Wouldn’t like to be looking for parts for it in a hurry so.

The Rabbi

AntrimGlens wrote: »

He ordered it from China, he said it was a nervous wait on it coming. Plenty of them for sale in England without having to go to China. They use them for planting the rice paddies.

Morooka make the tracked dumpers which have been around for years.
So there should be plenty part suppliers in England.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Simple trick.
https://twitter.com/StaLuziaEsteio/status/1321132866571509760?s=19

emaherx

Found this on Facebook

No idea who or where this is but it's genius. It solves a problem that doesn't exist but I still like it.

richie123

Landlevellor/ripper
Was sick of filling potholes
Rough looking yoke but those a great job on a farm road Rips up potholes.
Ina previous life it was a ramp for loading high lorries.

Jb1989

richie123 wrote: »

Landlevellor/ripper
Was sick of filling potholes
Rough looking yoke but those a great job on a farm road Rips up potholes.
Ina previous life it was a ramp for loading high lorries.

Photo please

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Great job there. Lane looks nice.

richie123

Sorry bout all the individual posts.internet connection is very poor.
Rough and ready contraption but it's doing great job and cost next to nothing to put together.
Even the plates of steel welded on for the pins were cut from the h iron as I had nothing strong enough to use at hand!

richie123

mayota wrote: »

Great job there. Lane looks nice.

Ya it's a great feeling ripping through potholes.

emaherx

richie123 wrote: »

Sorry bout all the individual posts.internet connection is very poor.
Rough and ready contraption but it's doing great job and cost next to nothing to put together.
Even the plates of steel welded on for the pins were cut from the h iron as I had nothing strong enough to use at hand!

Using an image hosting site like flickr.com makes posting a lot of photos together much easier.

Good job on the lane though.

bamayang

This a pretty basic one, drives me mad trying to fill the ad blue into the car, takes so long due to the vacuum caused.

Recently I started sticking a knife in one corner to let the air in, but that’s messing. Then on the last drum I saw this, let’s the air in but not liquid out. Some job, very simple

older by the day

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Simple trick.
https://twitter.com/StaLuziaEsteio/status/1321132866571509760?s=19

Reminds me of every father and son doing any job together. Jayus what is he fecking complaining about now

webels

older by the day wrote: »

Reminds me of every father and son doing any job together. Jayus what is he fecking complaining about now

So true. Just looked at that again comments are gas, who's driving the tractor, they're not even the height of the seat.

lab man

Lads I'm thinking of putting on a ram on my front loader for the locking pins I had a loader years ago made by a crowd called kiverco from NI .. have any of ye done this wat size ram etc to get