Sounds, good. Do you mean a thread for each project?
Something like this? where each topic has its own replies, so easy to follow each one
www.confusedbird.com
Are you hosting a separate website or one under the umbrella of boards.ie
Separate site, it's not going to be a forum or intended to be a replacement for boards or even this thread, it will still be needed.
This thread evolved much more towards the "general guntering" discussion than the "labour saving projects" with lads lives almost threatened for showing work that is too tasty😁.
My idea is for a blog site, where anyone can sign up and produce an article/blog where their work will always be the primary focus of each individual blog. Projects can be categorized, tagged, bookmarked and searchable. Probably not too different to a blog site I already have but open to anyone to signup and add content without needing to know how the site works. Guntering would still be welcome but content should be more geared towards projects/hacks on the farm rather than just questions on how to fit a square peg into a round hole as they would be more suited to this thread.
My current blog site is just a Wordpress Site with the default Blog settings, this new site will be built from the ground up.
Would there be opportunity for feedback from other posters or would it just be the poster of the project posting into the abyss?
Absolutely.
Nothing worked out fully yet and open to all suggestions, I imagine the project at the top of the page with comments below.
Author maintains editing rights so any updates to the project can remain at the top.
As you are writing the language/script yourself to develop the site (as opposed to using a desktop publisher) - maybe you should bring it up to the point showing a menu of categories/headings and then seek contributions under those headings. There were some great creations shown on the guntering site here, the one with a workbench springs to mind. You could invite those posters to give details of their creation/invention.
That is more or less the plan.
The workbench is one of the best examples in my mind, if I'm not mistaken I think it was pruned from this thread and given one of its own because it was so good. Plenty of other good ideas in this thread too but hard to isolate them because of the shear size of it.
But definitely plenty of room for smaller projects or simple labour saving hacks too.
Bring on the AI
Someone link the workbench there?
Buddy of .one still running welger twine round baler, and he swears the cord squeezes better, same lad do be spending all year doing his own bits a contractor would have done in few hours ,
This one was given a thread all of its own (and deservedly too). But was still hard enough to find with the forum search.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058036592/the-bench/p1
Can't say I'm much different myself, all summer making small bits of hay silage for myself and a few others. Keeps the input costs low and I like the work. Although my baler has a net as well as twine facility, I've never threaded twine through it and wouldn't know how either but definitely wouldn't be a fan of opening twine wrapped bales over the winter.
Same lad is happy out so realistically what's wrong with that, he not working outside farm so has time, horses for courses etc
@Ginger83 how are things with you? Hope you are feeling well and still enjoying the Guinness.
I’m looking for an accessory there for my porta power. Is there a pull type ram with two flat plates so as you fill the ram it closes.
It’s for installing bushes into arms, I have a manual one but as I have the porta power pack it would be a great addition.
Lads I'm looking for guntering suggestions for to transport whole milk between sheds and dispense accurately to individual calf feeders, as little as 2 litres at a time. Don't need a mixer or anything.
Thinking a 30 gallon can, a diesel/oil pump and flowmeter might do the business. Maybe people have suggestions. Welding a trolley together might be beyond me though
Garden trolley cart?
Good man, yhanks. Sometimes the answers are obvious!
I'll check measurements, but this might be a good job. Centre of gravity might be a bit high maybe.
Any thoughts on a pump and dispenser?
https://www.screwfix.com/p/the-handy-large-garden-trolley-1400mm-x-640mm-x-650mm/8750D?kpid=8750D&cm_mmc=Google-_-Datafeed-_-Outdoor%20and%20Gardening?kpid=KINASEKPID&cm_mmc=Google-_-TOKEN1-_-TOKEN2&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiApOyqBhDlARIsAGfnyMr0aJlbJsJtkZsBfu20MGeytJviCwaEvkSD3Y7MNjzpqf6l-CNmIssaAov6EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Great. Sorry can't help I've no experience of modern calf rearing apparatuses.
Would not take much work to turn into a calf cart
Get a 3000gph bilge pump from amazon and a battery for a camper van think they are deep cycle, they can handle being run down to near empty better before charging again.
We use a blue barrel with a small pump on the bottom and a length of yellow flex hose with an ad blue nozzle at the end.the barrel is in a position where it can reach both house s and the milk is piped by gravity from the parlour to the barrel.we use 10 teat feeders and to measure the milk its roughly a litre a second so just count it out as you are feeding in other words 25 seconds is 25 litres of milk.you d want good yards for the trolleys edit the barrel doesn't move and we have a 2 way valve near the pump to wash it all out .we also use to it to fill water troughs for the calves
Advice please. I was going to get OH a Dewalt combi drill for around the yard as I got him an impact wrench last year for Christmas. The pic is the impact wrench and the second is a link to the drill I was looking at getting him. I presume that the batteries fit. If any of ye don't think the drill is good enough please let me know.
I've the slightly older version it's grand for all sort of jobs plenty of power and no issues battery all fit the same tools. Just for future reference I recommend the 5 amp battery and up . Also there's different specs of dewalt tools and as far as I'm aware the heavy duty ones all carry xrp in the description
They both use same batteries 18v 5ah so drill will have plenty of power. An option you might consider too would be an impact driver for driving screws, tex screws etc. I use that more than any other cordless tool I have.
I'd second that.
https://www.screwfix.ie/p/dewalt-dcf787n-sfxj-18v-li-ion-xr-brushless-cordless-impact-driver-bare/767ph
Thanks guys. Christmas is sorted for OH. I ordered both of them for him.
He'll not be disappointed with them.
I’m looking for a decent drill at the moment. Would that one drill 12mm holes into concrete slabs?
Thanks.
I have that drill and as good as I find it I think a 12mm masonry bit would be a bit much for it. Better off with the bigger SDS version. I have one too and it's a great tool, same 18v batteries.
