Graip
Sprong, around here
Thanks. You did serious bolting on the new handle. You must be a bear of a man
Patsy those 4 prong pikes are inefficient/laborious. Make life easy get a 3 pronger.
That's a lovely fork Patsy π
Non-farmer here but I've re-handled plenty of tools over the years. Last fork/ graip/sprong/ pike (love the regional variations!) I did I screwed a large tek screw into the end and used a pry bar and hammer combination (sort of a slide hammer idea) and the piece of handle slipped out of the socket without too much swearing! I saw a tip somewhere about wiping the shaped end of the new handle with Stockholm hoof tar to protect against rot. I tried this out on a slash hook handle replacement recently, smells good anyway and can't do any harm.
I knew someone would appreciate it. π
Seriously though I started out with the intention of asking on here how to remove the old handle and ended up giving advice. Large TEC screw as above seems a good idea.
was out with a client on site the other day and got talking to a shuttering supplier
Ended up buying a few peri pans ex hire for my own that need new ply . be a winter job or spring time even. looking at approx 40ft of wall, a few 300mm and 2 corner set up for β¬3000 when re-sheeted . and approx another β¬1200 for clamps and twirly bars & nuts. would hope to buy another 24/40ft next year off the same lad
should get good value out of them
Do you eat your dinner with a grapeπ
That is a very valid point I never thought of π
Let's not even get into Is a spade a shovel?. Because the ace of Spades looks nothing like spade.. but the Ace of Shovels doesn't have a ring to it!
Did it much the same way myself, a shovel is easier as there is a hole at the bottom and you can punch it out. I used a cold chisel and a screwdriver to open the joint at the back to get the remnants of the drilled handle to pop out.
Three or two prong for picking silage or hay. Four prong for cleaning the feed face or picking loose material
2 prongs for hay, 3 prongs for silage, 4 prongs for manure, 6 prongs for beet, 10 prongs for potatoes.
Yes, the beet and potatoes (and turf) ones would have blunt rounded tips to stop the tines sticking into your spuds or beet (or turf)
Stapled the mesh to the 6x2, turned it over and parked the car on it. Bit of huffin and puffin to bend it but it worked a treat...
Nicely done. Hayrack?
If your not careful, we'll keep you, you fit right in. Well done.
Yip
It was posted on here before about a method of getting out the broken butt from a shovel,GRAIP ,etc.
Get the biggest screw you can find & screw it into the broken butt. Put the head of the screw in a vice then & tap the shovel, GRAIP etc away from that, then leaving the butt & screw alone in the vice.
Tried it here many times since I read it on here & it works.
Just said I'd throw this up here. I chanced this knife this winter and I have to say its a serious piece of kit for opening bales, the hook gets in under the plastic and slices through the heaviest of plastic with ease. It also seems well build and I hope it will last ages if I don't loose it first.
murphy's law the more expensive a knife the more likly it's to fall down between the slats
A length of binder twine around the wrist, you'll never lose it.
The more expensive the knife the stronger the baling twine the more likly its to get caught in something and remove your hand and arm from the shoulder........Murphy's 7th law of Momumental f@@kups
With the knife stuck in said arm..
Or in the other arm
Yhprumβs 1st law is to tie it right in the first place.
Who's dropping all the knives through the slats? Sounds like twine might be the issue to start with, stop hanging gates with twine and you'll have no reason to take the knife out over the slats.
Still the odd lad using twine in the baler as opposed to net. Imagine that.
I still see the odd twine only baler working on a few local farms, if it aint broke I guess. But round baler twine is horrible stuff anyway, we still make a few hundred small squares it's better gauge for tying stuff. Or twine from large square bales is almost rope.
I started this thread back in 2009 and there has been some amazing projects shared over the years but have mostly gotten lost in the conversation with almost 8000 posts, not to mention many hosted images lost over the years. Would there be much interest from the users of this thread in a dedicated multi-user blog site where you can signup and share farm projects?
Projects could be categorized and searchable and the individual project remains the main focus in each thread/microblog.
Disclaimer: I'm doing a software development course and need a project, this is one I'm toying with because it would be nice to build something that could be maintained afterwards.
