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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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Nekarsulm

Anyone know what this thing is?

It's made of some kind of low grade "pot metal" and has two O rings on it.
Ever since I bought the current Trooper, every acceleration or braking caused a most annoying "clunk" from somewhere on the passanger side.
It sounded like a big ball bearing rolling in a tube.
Finally found it last night... have half the interior torn out by that stage..

Odelay

Looks like some sort of plug.. wine bottle stopper?

Odelay

https://cookinglife.eu/wine-stoppers-stainless-steel-set-of-2/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3diFjZum7wIVmuhRCh0HkQRcEAQYBSABEgI36_D_BwE

Nekarsulm

Thanks guys, couldn't imagine what it was...

But tell me, do people actually leave a bottle with wine in it?

stock>

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Thanks guys, couldn't imagine what it was...

But tell me, do people actually leave a bottle with wine in it?

When they use it for cooking................................................

blue5000

Odelay wrote: »

Looks like some sort of plug.. wine bottle stopper?

Google butt plug:eek:

Nekarsulm

blue5000 wrote: »

Google butt plug:eek:

Must be for kinky Jack Russell's .....

blue5000

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Must be for kinky Jack Russell's .....

Just wondering what else you found in the jeep?

Nekarsulm

blue5000 wrote: »

Just wondering what else you found in the jeep?

Apart from crusty old 5 cent coins and the usual hair clips and rubbish, this pressurised cylinder thing was the only unusual thing.
For an airsoft gun or a bicycle tube inflator?

Odelay

LOL That is nitrous oxide or 'hippie crack' canister. That jeep had an interesting life... Hope you continue the trend!!!

satstheway

Could could be from a self inflating life jacket

kollegeknight

Few bits left to do to tidy it up. I laser cut the holes for the peg board and 3d printed the pegs for the it.

They are happy out to be helping.

zetecescort

what's the world coming to, laser cutting and 3d printing in the guntering thread

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looks a fine job

kollegeknight

zetecescort wrote: »

what's the world coming to, laser cutting and 3d printing in the guntering thread .

looks a fine job

Gotta look to the future. I’ve unsuccessfully tried to 3d print baler twine to tie a pallet in a gap. When, successful, I’ll post here. :-)

White Clover

kollegeknight wrote: »

Gotta look to the future. I’ve unsuccessfully tried to 3d print baler twine to tie a pallet in a gap. When, successful, I’ll post here. :-)

Could you 3D print a gate instead

Micheal H

Needed to take a few side sheets down off a shed, but the gutter was blocking the top row of nails. Couldn't get any pry bar or nail bar in at them, or a grinder or hacksaw to cut the heads off them. Too much hassle to take the gutters off so a bit of guntering was called for...

Sacrificed the head of an old broken hammer and a bit of round bar to make a custom nail bar. Worked a treat!

patsy_mccabe

Hey, that hammer still works. :cool:

foxy farmer

Propeller agitator modified to mix Overground tanks , mounted on loader and powered hydraulically. Propeller tucks in towards front axle during transport.
Apologies for foto quality. Glass gone from in front of lens.

White Clover

foxy farmer wrote: »

Propeller agitator modified to mix Overground tanks , mounted on loader and powered hydraulically. Propeller tucks in towards front axle during transport.
Apologies for foto quality. Glass gone from in front of lens.

Would need a good oil cooler for that!

stock>

Micheal H wrote: »

Needed to take a few side sheets down off a shed, but the gutter was blocking the top row of nails. Couldn't get any pry bar or nail bar in at them, or a grinder or hacksaw to cut the heads off them. Too much hassle to take the gutters off so a bit of guntering was called for...

Sacrificed the head of an old broken hammer and a bit of round bar to make a custom nail bar. Worked a treat!

Yes real guntering none of that new fangled lasering or plastic printing........................................................

kollegeknight

stock> wrote: »

Yes real guntering none of that new fangled lasering or plastic printing........................................................

While I am exceptionally impressed with the nail bar.... does it count when they used a welder and didn’t forge weld it with the fires of mount doom? ;-)

blue5000

kollegeknight wrote: »

While I am exceptionally impressed with the nail bar.... does it count when they used a welder and didn’t forge weld it with the fires of mount doom? ;-)

Forge welding is not guntering, more of a black art.;)

Micheal H

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Hey, that hammer still works. :cool:

You're right, now it's a multi tool

kollegeknight wrote: »

While I am exceptionally impressed with the nail bar.... does it count when they used a welder and didn’t forge weld it with the fires of mount doom? ;-)

Mount Doom was closed when I was at this job, so had to make do with regular welding

Anyway, I'm with blue on this one - forge welding is way above guntering level!

tnegun

Micheal H wrote: »

Needed to take a few side sheets down off a shed, but the gutter was blocking the top row of nails. Couldn't get any pry bar or nail bar in at them, or a grinder or hacksaw to cut the heads off them. Too much hassle to take the gutters off so a bit of guntering was called for...

Sacrificed the head of an old broken hammer and a bit of round bar to make a custom nail bar. Worked a treat!

Nice job but did no one else think WTF and see the the top of a leg bone for a split second!!

dryan

tnegun wrote: »

Nice job but did no one else think WTF and see the the top of a leg bone for a split second!!

Honest to jaysus, when I first looked at that pic I thought someone managed to gunter a new hip joint together and ripped out the old one!!

Westernrock

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Apart from crusty old 5 cent coins and the usual hair clips and rubbish, this pressurised cylinder thing was the only unusual thing.
For an airsoft gun or a bicycle tube inflator?

Gas canister for a air vest, coupled with the wine stopper I’d guess that jeep had equestrian adventures at some stage? ðŸ€”

Nekarsulm

Westernrock wrote: »

Gas canister for a air vest, coupled with the wine stopper I’d guess that jeep had equestrian adventures at some stage? &#55356;&#56340;

Well, I bought it from a Dublin chap marooned in the Midlands, a fire fighter.

148multi

Westernrock wrote: »

Gas canister for a air vest, coupled with the wine stopper I’d guess that jeep had equestrian adventures at some stage? ðŸ€”

Surely there'd be a video ðŸ˜‚, any memory sticks

patsy_mccabe

What's the best way to attached corrugated sheeting to 75mm angle iron?

On one of the sheds here built on the 80's, they used special clips that clip on the edge of the angle and a gutter type bolt is put through a hole from the outside and threaded into it.
Would self tapping type Tec screws be the best?

zetecescort

something like these used here to attach sheets to the vertical front and rear of the sheds

https://www.fastfixdirect.ie/product/hook-bolts-nuts-zinc-yellow-2/