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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭9935452


    Are the windows breaking because they are being left open ?

    A lad i work for bought an 8360 in 2003 and replaced it with a tm. Both were clocking 2000hrs a year. Never broke a back window. Window is never left open , air con is kept working too



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,794 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    The main offender would have been the slurry pump. Yes window would normally be open.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭DBK1


    The slurry pump will probably break the plastic one too I’m afraid.

    Probably best to keep it closed, although I’m sure you’ve figured that out yourself by now!

    Anything to do with slurry is where I’d be very particular about lads keeping the windows and doors closed. Apart from the safety aspect when it comes to slurry gases, there’s too many videos over the years of lads with the whole inside of the tractors destroyed in slurry after a pipe came off an agitator or something else like that happened.

    It’d be almost a sackable offence here to have a window or door left open when there’s any job with slurry involved.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Agree with keeping window closed with slurry pump, especially for reason outlined above.

    Mower was biggest offender here with breaking windows. Obviously the lads who suggest having windows closed at all times have AC, with no AC keeping window closed at all times is not an option and probably hazardous to health at times.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Back window closed will keep out the heat rising off the back end. Side windows open will create a nice breeze through once the back window is closed.

    Agree with what’s said above re slurry. Back windows generally only get broken when open.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭DBK1


    As White Clover said back window open only lets in the heat, especially in a new Holland. The back ends of them run very hot when working. Open the back window and it would be like being in a sauna.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Definitely cooler in my cab with back window open, and feck all breeze from open side windows. Agree windows only get broken when open, but same applies to side windows and doors. I've lost 2 side windows over the years when a branch caught in them.

    Edit: on the heat from backend, with a low profile 300 series Massey you are practically sitting on the backend with no insulation so opening the window is probably more likely to let heat out. I can see how it may be different in a flat floor cab with some insulation on the floor.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,866 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Whelan I think you should have got a new agitator as well as a new back window. Did the digger arrive yet?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,794 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    No still waiting on quick hitch for the front of it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Have a door on a 50hx done in that clear plastic. Fine and clear still after three years.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭SCOL


    Made this bale lifter for the young lad, finished welding it up last night.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,448 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Had a good few pigtails where the insulation was gone around the eye of it.

    Carried out a repair job. I used garden hose. Heated it in hot water. A bit of washing up liquid on the inside of the pipe really helped as well. It's much easier if you can catch them in a vice. I did about twenty in an hour.

    Here are some of them

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Wildsurfer




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭mr.stonewall


    Done it before and a good job. Small tip is to use the vice grips to break the cracked insulator.

    Must make a few hot stakes with some of the older ones for the start and back end of the year for the few awkward ones who get into the habit of pushing over a few pigtails



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭DBK1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Same thing happened down here to a contractor a few years back. Fresh JD was completely written off by the insurance as the electrics were goosed after.

    She was put back on the road after but I heard she gave loads of bother with electronic gremlins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭jd06


    The tabs always break.

    I find this handy. Can't beat cable ties



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Third time. How many lessons do they need?

    If it was the sight tube - as opposed to a sight glass mentioned; a local dealer strongly (almost refusal) advised us against getting one when we upgraded due to the risk of them shattering. Would like to think they have got better quality since though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭DBK1


    Like everything nowadays I’d say quality is worse than ever!

    I never had a front facing one shatter but it did happen one on the back of the tank and seeing the distance it fired the slurry would be enough to give you a permanent reminder that windows and doors should always be closed when doing any job involving slurry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭RockOrBog


    I need to replace the sliding bits up top on a pair of double sliding shed doors, they are 1.3m wide each (the opening being around 2.5m) and around 10ft High.

    In the local hardware I checked out the bits today, around 5.3 m of track, a joiner, the slider things, brackets, bolts etc. VERY dear and pretty flimsy with it tbh.

    Anyone have any ideas for a DIY job?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Are you sure you need a track? Any time I needed to do it I just had to change rollers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,448 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I replaced rollers a few years ago as well. Try Amazon Germany and generally online.

    Bought a Stihl hedge trimmer off a NI company based in Newery it was over 25% cheaper than buying locally 305 V 420.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭timple23


    Something like this except using a regular ball bearing and box as a track. We have sliding doors hung that way.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭RockOrBog


    The track is red rotten 30 years old, 4 gunthered rollers and a length of angle with a bit of a lip. Better than overpriced ch****e stuff any day.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭minerleague


    Just to note sometimes home made rollers develop a flat spot and slide instead of rolling, maybe grind grooves across them ??



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,512 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    Get either angle iron or as I have ipe200 on the flat and these rollers are back hubs off either a Renault or a Peugeot .double bearing in them and they run on the brake disk so less rolling resistance. The disc gives a good "grip on the rail so the door wouldn't come off



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭RockOrBog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,462 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Did this job the last few days. Existing gate was way too low. I eventually tracked down some railway girders.

    I bought a Draper kango hammer and a 9" tungsten carbide disc. Easier than expected to get down tru the concrete.

    Have to add 2 rows of blocks to the wall now.


    Post edited by patsy_mccabe on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,352 ✭✭✭enricoh


    That'll survive a nuclear blast patsy!

    For whoever was on about a sliding gate a neighbour has the top rail off an artic trailer and a couple of steel rails that help the artic to keep its shape. He just welded the gate to these 2 steel rails. It's a real handy gate to slide open.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    You must have a few showjumpers too patsy.



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