Id be leaning towards a bit of 4inch angle to clamp. Means you can clamp at right angles
Hole saw, but pre drill with a cobalt drill.
Ye are over thinking it lads!, an ordinary drill bit would be fine, just brace the drill the correct way in case it catches and breaks your wrist.
If ye want to be fancy a carbide tip hole saw will be every bit as fast,
There are even cheaper versions of this that are fine too :
Regular hole saw will do.. even the Aldi Variety will be fine.
Anyone use a battery paint spray gun? Are the any use?
have one here in a box that I haven’t used yet. Bought to paint a second hand kitchen when I have time. might be rubbish but for the few €€ I’ll chance it.
They are much faster obviously but wall would want to be 100% blemish free as any spec of dirt/dust will show up once sprayed, ok for ceilings
wont be doing anything tidy like a kitchen! the chief want to tip away at a few gates
it still on the box, the initial project I bough it for fell through.
I bought a Lidl one and it was a waste of money to be honest. Maybe with a bit more perseverance I might have got a better result but all I got was a mist of paint that went everywhere and barely changed the colour of the book shelf I was trying to paint
No, its mostly copper coloured clay.
You need to get a tin of NeverSeez, its a marine grade paste, made in the USA, but available through Bostick in UK/Ireland.
https://neverseizeproducts.com/marine-grade-anti-seize-16-oz-nmcbt-16-never-seez/
Changing the brake pads on the back of my Landcruiser and needed a push back tool for the piston. This worked a treat.
The 27mm socket filled the piston cavity. The jacking screw is part of a small vice clamp mechanism for cutting small piping square. The block at the tip of the screw was perfect width too.
Got about 100-120m of a drain cleaned. Spoil was put on side of bank and a bit of atea was tore up as well. I wanted to put some seed on it a neighbour loaned me this.
IIt's From Lidl it cost him 30-40 euro about 2 years ago. It battery operated, as handy as a small pot as the saying goes
I’ve thrown out grass seed by hand on small areas. There’s a half a knack to it a neighbour told me years ago - you take just under a fistful in your hand and spray it out with a flick of your wrist, like you’re throwing grain out on the ground to feed chickens.
Not exactly a technical description you’d see in the IFJ but it works for me
A sibling of a neighbour passed away after a lifetime in the USA. They wanted their ashes spread on a hill that was on their farm here beside me. It's a hill that overlooks the local village and on to the south coast of Wexford. The brother performed the ceremony of spreading the ashes with the family and priest in attendance. An onlooker said it was like watching him spread grass seed on a bare field.
Always check the wind direction.
https://www.facebook.com/ridiculousness/videos/wind-blows-cremated-ashes-into-womens-face/3003878376515349/
Fixing some gates:
I have shook ( as is the Kerry expression) both fertlizer and grass seed by hand. With grass seed it a type of figures of S&8 while letting the grass seed move out between your fingers slowly. Spreading with the breeze with your back helps as it moves the seed away from.your body and a better spread.Heard of a lad that could spread fodder turnip/rape seed etc by hand. He used to mix it into sand. If there is no or little breeze you can go up and down as we as over and accross the field
Anyone put up feed barriers lately?
It’s in front of cows on slats so my plan is to have a straight bar on top and timber below. I’m going with timber as I can do it myself so I’m not waiting on the builder and it should be a little cheaper.
Would 2 and a 1/4 (60mm) timber be wide enough? I’ve seen 70mm in places.
Any other dos or donts? This engineering type work is all new to me.
Thanks
2 9x3 timbers dropped in between the rsj and piece of steel welded to hold them in place
Another option is the precast stub walls and be done of it
If you can stretch the budget consider the diagonal barriers and it's only a matter of bolting them to the rsj. These are just better with bales. Get the loan of a mag drill and you would have them up in 2-3 hours on
For timbers i went with two 6x3 with spacers made of the cut offs, so first raised off concrete with cut offs,and so on
6x3 timber here, but they rotted out of it. Replacing them with forestry thinning trees bit by bit. Cut to shape with a chainsaw to slide between the RSJs.
6 x3s here since 2001. Never rotted, but they are in a roofed feed passage.
Price the pre casts too. They may be better value long term.
definitely keep the timbers an inch or two off the ground.
She might want to check her wardrobe too. Things are tight
6" block on it edge between the RSJs & a 9x2 sits on top of it. Can lift out the timber on 1 side when cattle are going in or out so they aren't tripping over it. The blocks make it awkward in the summer as I park loader buckets, bale lifter, fert spreader & the likes in the pens during the summer. I do have to stack 3 pallets at the back of the blocks so that I can drop the items on them for ease of getting them on again.
2 in No 6X3 under diagonal barriers held in between the rsj by another piece of wood. The top one just lies off if needed . Disadvantage if you hit them to hard they break however easy enough to replace. In 15 years broke two but rest still there Dairygold supposed to have a sale on barriers at present for 275 Iinc vat I think at present. I be buying them rather than a single bar. Stops a lot of bullying.
Dairygold - Heavy Duty Cattle Feed Barrier 16ft
Heavy Duty Cattle Feed Barrier 16ft – Co-Op Superstores (coopsuperstores.ie)
How heavy duty are they, Seen on man here that put in barriers just like them, for horses mainly, Jesus the diagonal bars all breaking
I was quoted €300 + VAT per bay for 16-inch precasts. €350 + VAT for 20-inch. That didn't include delivery or fitting.
I'm after going a different route altogether now. I rang the man who I was going to get the horizontal bars from and he called over to measure up. He made 4 diagonal barriers for me 2 years ago for a straw-bedded shed I put up then. But since the yard is being changed now, I don't really need them where they are. So I'm going to move them to the new set up, he'll make 2 more of them and then I'll have the 6 needed.
16-foot gates will do where they're coming out from as there'll be calves going into part of it. The heifers/cows will be in the other part to calf but that part opens out to the new feed barrier.
I'll have to cover this manoeuvre in the next YouTube video 😂
