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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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Odelay

tellmeabit wrote: »

Could an old JF manure spreader be modified to spread lime I wonder?

The chances of busting the floor chains would be high I’d imagine.

Dinzee Conlee

Odelay wrote: »

The chances of busting the floor chains would be high I’d imagine.

We have an old JF spreader - I was tearing one Saturday evening, trying to finish up clearing out a shed and loaded it too much...
Like that - bust the chains, well, one of em... Had to empty the load of dung by hand...

Parked the spreader in the shed, headed out for the night...

That was 1994, spreader hasn't moved since... :rolleyes:

Nekarsulm

When the re-test is at 2pm, and you discover at 1 that theres not an Avensis mirror to be found in Co.Cavan, not even from Toyota....

zetecescort

Nekarsulm wrote: »

When the re-test is at 2pm, and you discover at 1 that theres not an Avensis mirror to be found in Co.Cavan, not even from Toyota....

Did it pass?

Nekarsulm

zetecescort wrote: »

Did it pass?

Of course it passed!

Anto_Meath

Did Martin Cahill not have 1 for you.. I ve yet to see him beat...

Nekarsulm

Anto_Meath wrote: »

Did Martin Cahill not have 1 for you.. I ve yet to see him beat...

None in Martin Cahills.
None in Felix Gormleys.
None in Gannons.
Rang 3 motor factors as well as Toyota Cavan, none of them had one.
Bought that trailer LED in Clarkes in Cavan, along with a roll of duct tape and a box of Stanley blades.....

tellmeabit

Nekarsulm wrote: »

None in Martin Cahills.
None in Felix Gormleys.
None in Gannons.
Rang 3 motor factors as well as Toyota Cavan, none of them had one.
Bought that trailer LED in Clarkes in Cavan, along with a roll of duct tape and a box of Stanley blades.....

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blue5000

Neks you might want to get rid of that photo, your reg number and vin are visible. Thanks to all my run ins with the dept of ag over the years where I was presumed guilty until proven innocent I now have a criminal mind.:cool:

Nekarsulm

blue5000 wrote: »

Neks you might want to get rid of that photo, your reg number and vin are visible. Thanks to all my run ins with the dept of ag over the years where I was presumed guilty until proven innocent I now have a criminal mind.:cool:

Them Dept. types are huers!

Dinzee Conlee

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Of course it passed!
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Am I reading it right in that the NCT expires in Nov?
That’s only 6 months...

Nekarsulm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Am I reading it right in that the NCT expires in Nov?
That’s only 6 months...

Six months because it's been out of test since last October.
Destroyed my knee on the 10th, and when I got out of hospital bought an auto, and the Avensis has been sitting since.

Dinzee Conlee

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Six months because it's been out of test since last October.
Destroyed my knee on the 10th, and when I got out of hospital bought an auto, and the Avensis has been sitting since.

I didn’t realise they back dated like that - that kinda makes no sense...
You’d think it should be 12 months from the day it was tested, not the day it was supposed to be tested...

Sami23

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I didn’t realise they back dated like that - that kinda makes no sense...
You’d think it should be 12 months from the day it was tested, not the day it was supposed to be tested...

It makes sense because if they didn't back date it lads wudn't bother doing the test when they should at all

Nekarsulm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I didn’t realise they back dated like that - that kinda makes no sense...
You’d think it should be 12 months from the day it was tested, not the day it was supposed to be tested...

No, NCT always runs from the date it was first registered in this country.

Dinzee Conlee

Sami23 wrote: »

It makes sense because if they didn't back date it lads wudn't bother doing the test when they should at all

Yeah, that’s true...

Jb1989

Nekarsulm wrote: »

No, NCT always runs from the date it was first registered in this country.

It works on the anniversary date of registration.
If nek waited waited till October to tax he may have got 12 months. Can't remember if that still happens tho.

Figerty

Jb1989 wrote: »

It works on the anniversary date of registration.
If nek waited waited till October to tax he may have got 12 months. Can't remember if that still happens tho.

Tested my car last year in June/July, it was due in May but lockdown prevented,,plus cracks in lifts in the NCT centres. My next test is due in Sept/Oct. They extended the testing period as a result.
So I think I got 17months in stead of 12. I know of others who were the same.

Jb1989

Figerty wrote: »

Tested my car last year in June/July, it was due in May but lockdown prevented,,plus cracks in lifts in the NCT centres. My next test is due in Sept/Oct. They extended the testing period as a result.
So I think I got 17months in stead of 12. I know of others who were the same.

Yea the covid extension was on top of normal nct, you couldn't be sure how much test you might get nowadays if you let a car ly up without it for a period.

patsy_mccabe

I have to take out an old crush gate here. It's rusted bad at the ground, where it's about 2.5" box iron. What's the best way to take this out?

I don't fancy going at it with a jack hammer. I've done this in the past and it's torture. There could be 5" of top concrete plus whatever concrete was put in at the bottom to hold it in place. There could be 18" of concrete there.

(Not my decision to put non-galvanised steel into the ground like that. )

timple23

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I have to take out an old crush gate here. It's rusted bad at the ground, where it's about 2.5" box iron. What's the best way to take this out?

I don't fancy going at it with a jack hammer. I've done this in the past and it's torture. There could be 5" of top concrete plus whatever concrete was put in at the bottom to hold it in place. There could be 18" of concrete there.

(Not my decision to put non-galvanised steel into the ground like that. )

Any photo? (Make sure nothing is in the background

patsy_mccabe

Looking at it since, it looks like the box frame goes down and across under the concrete. Wall on right is cavity block.

patsy_mccabe

Close up. It's almost gone here at this point.

enricoh

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

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Just butt it with the grinder. Fill the hole with a bit of concrete.
Are you replacing with a galvanized box? Rawlbolt a say 7x7" plate down n weld the new one to that.
All the steel quality nowadays is rubbish methinks, if it's not galved it won't last. Cow s#@t will make light work of it!

K.G.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I have to take out an old crush gate here. It's rusted bad at the ground, where it's about 2.5" box iron. What's the best way to take this out?

I don't fancy going at it with a jack hammer. I've done this in the past and it's torture. There could be 5" of top concrete plus whatever concrete was put in at the bottom to hold it in place. There could be 18" of concrete there.

(Not my decision to put non-galvanised steel into the ground like that. )

A post where that is would be subject to a good bit of stress so if it was mine I'd go full hog dig it out and put in a new post

Murang

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Close up. It's almost gone here at this point.

Cut it clean at the ground get another piece of box that fits tight inside it belt in weld to old box you can leave it come up about a foot or all the way whatever suits and attach new gate.

patsy_mccabe

K.G. wrote: »

A post where that is would be subject to a good bit of stress so if it was mine I'd go full hog dig it out and put in a new post

How would you dig it out, consaw and jack hammer ?

Grueller

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

How would you dig it out, consaw and jack hammer ?

Mini digger and breaker. About €150 a day from hire centre

Good loser

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I have to take out an old crush gate here. It's rusted bad at the ground, where it's about 2.5" box iron. What's the best way to take this out?

I don't fancy going at it with a jack hammer. I've done this in the past and it's torture. There could be 5" of top concrete plus whatever concrete was put in at the bottom to hold it in place. There could be 18" of concrete there.

(Not my decision to put non-galvanised steel into the ground like that. )

I did that precise job with a jack hammer 10 years ago and it was torture - on a hot day too. Must have been 2 feet down when it toppled. IN fact I was so concentrated on the bottom of the hole didn't notice the pillar tilting when it decide to budge.
You'll be so happy when you get there, it's worth the torture.
Start early - preferably on a Monday!

patsy_mccabe

Good loser wrote: »

I did that precise job with a jack hammer 10 years ago and it was torture - on a hot day too. Must have been 2 feet down when it toppled. IN fact I was so concentrated on the bottom of the hole didn't notice the pillar tilting when it decide to budge.
You'll be so happy when you get there, it's worth the torture.
Start early - preferably on a Monday!

I did it myself with the 3 uprights on the same crush about 10 years ago. Pure torture, is right. I reckon everyone should be made spend a day on a jack hammer. You'd think twice then about putting light painted steel into concrete.