Not sure if buying twine just for them jobs would make you more or less of a rooter.
I buy the big square bales, toss the straw away in a dike and I have my twine for gates, building structural work etc.
No rooting here.
I use clothes lines as twine substitute. Doesn't unravel or fray.
It's binder twine, not baler twine, according to my old man.
From the days of the reaper and binder, the ball of twine went into a container like a tilted gallon and fed out through a tensioned hole in the top to tie the sheaves which were then kicked out. I always marvelled at the timing of the thing. A neighbour, one of the last I saw using a reaper and binder, adapted one to be drawn by tractor when horses were getting scarce around mid 60's. A fair bit of guntering was involved to get it level. Anyway he put one of the sons up on the tractor. He was about my age 13 or 14 maybe, I was stooking the sheaves. The son got a bit impatient and he upped it a gear, there were sheaves flying out of the thing. There was no harm done but he got a thick ear and was off the tractor for a while.
That is a wonderful memory to have.
If you zoom in you can see the cable ties holding the gates together in my make shift creep area.
not for poor big ear lol
Spotted this temporary repair to a trailing shoe spring on a new tanker with probably less than 50 acres covered. 4 types of fastener- bolts bale twine vicegrips and cable ties.
A bit of thought went in to that,
Twine for fear he'd lose the vice grip 😅
And strategically placed behind the spring. All eventualities covered.
Just marvellous........ A feet of engineering in itself
I had an old ford escort engine for sale, lad arrived the other morning to buy it, now id have a fair few bits around still but he was a ford man and I'm not. He scoured the place looking for more bits, nearly couldn't get rid if him. Ended up selling a huge beacon the width of a cab for a vintage lorry.
He told me when it was in the van " I don't know what im going to do with that thing."
Possible contender for King of the Rooters.
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Probably a farm yoke that he chanced going to town with.
Baked mud - a rust free ECO friendy repair,
There are a lot of Toyota jeeps, that are very shook underneath and you would not know it. I saw a 016 up on a lift last year and she was completely ate with rust
Not sure if that's a defence? I'm sure he chanced it up many a road regularly, should be banned from driving.
well the DOE wasn’t doing its job so….
I bet that lad wouldn't hurt anyone tipping around at 30mph while the lad or lass in their new tesla looking at the ipad and iPhone will plough down a pedestrian.
There's a chap in the Glen of Imall who specialises in repairing / replacing Toyota chassis.
He's on Instagram as JHWELDFAB with lots of photos. Amazing how far gone some of them are!
But if he did, he'd no insurance! I bet he was a danger on the road even in a road worthy vehicle as he obviously doesn't give 2 **** about anyone.
I had to get mine done at ten years old but they're failing younger than that
I thought I specified a tub off overhaul and they didn't do it so it failed again and the they did it again at a discount removing the tub.
I was giving out about having to do it a again and the guy in the office just said ''If you didn't want rust why did you buy a toyota'' I don't know if you can sandblast and treat the internal of box section of the chassis properly but time will tell.
I think the 2012 jeeps are the quickest to rust from from what i hear, a friend has a 2011 hilux with 450000km on the clock and it flies the DOE, maybe it was treated when new
Nivaras had a lot of issues too and I had a Dmax that had to be done too. I don't think it's just a Toyota issue. You'd nearly want to get any fresh or new pickup treated as a preemptive measure.
Do lads wash underneath ur jeeps many times in the year....dung is serious sore on them
I agree, mucky cow shiite, is the lad to rust them. I put 2300 euro in to myown last year. I swore the day I got it back that I was going to keep it clean,,,,, test coming around again
''If you didn't want rust why did you buy a toyota'
The problem with Toyota is that the mechanicals are so good eventually the chassis rusts to stop them.
Every other jeep will be off the road for plethora of reasons before the Toyotas.
BTW I don't have a Toyota jeep
It's not the dung it's the crap steel and the worse paint and the there's the salt issue .......they need to be washed regularly like you've mentioned but treating them early and often is the only solution
dropped off the plastic today at the recycling point, a lad arrives in a van and "trailer" its a double box with 3 lightboards all broken and hanging at different angles from the back by baling twine, between the box and van he'd a massive ball of silage plastic tied together with blue rope. Twas some operation, and he wasn't an old lad either.
Think I officially became a rooter today. No guard on grinder n no gloves on. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
