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Labour Saving and General Guntering

emaherx

How about using this thread to show off our engineering skills (or lack of!)
A lot of us have home made or improvised labour saving tools / implements lying around. Similar to stuff in Farmers Journal labour saving compettions. (without the prize money:p).

Maybe we could use this thread to share interesting ideas and discuss improvements.

I don't have any pictures at the moment of my own but I will take some at the weekend if not before.

My own projects include:
Quick hitch for front loader (fairly rough but works), designed to fit Trima implements onto MF loader.
Adapter to fit bale lifter onto front loader.
Various other loader attachments spikes etc.

Current project is a wrapped bale transporter being built out of remains of an old Muck Spreader. (only just started, currently just an axle and draw bar).

Their maybe other stuff around too, I'll have to have a look.

So what are peoples opinions, is this a good idea for a thread?

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bob charles

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Right so
*heads off for his helmet and flack jacket*

your screwed Sharp, you spent a couple of days this week complaining about the cold, I hope we never have to send your crowd to defend us during a cold spell

Sharpshooter82

bob charles wrote: »

your screwed Sharp, you spent a couple of days this week complaining about the cold, I hope we never have to send your crowd to defend us during a cold spell :D

Ah I've me termels on, sorted

jersey101

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Ah I've me termels on, sorted

overalls on this week, this a great job. Sisters arent giving out to me any more cause i smell like a cow

Sharpshooter82

jersey101 wrote: »

overalls on this week, this a great job. Sisters arent giving out to me any more cause i smell like a cow :D

Have to welder keeping me warm today

munkus

Lads, ye'd wanta get a grip. The paranoia here is unreal. The department / guards / Martians cannot access the boards server logs to find out the email you registered with or your IP address unless they get a court order.

They're not going to go to that trouble because you mention on here that you squeezed a bullock at 10 months without a nurse present, or that you dehorned a Late calf.

Be smart about what you post if you want to stay anonymous and under the radar, but don't be worried about the suits turning up at the gate.

Comments on an internet forum would be laughed out of court as evidence. Anyone could have written that comment, not you. Sure twas a Chinese student that hacked my password.

Now I'm off to shoot the neighbour and kidnap his wife......

Conmaicne Mara

munkus wrote: »

They're not going to go to that trouble because you mention on here that you squeezed a bullock at 10 months without a nurse present, or that you dehorned a Late calf.

They've made inquiries before.

munkus

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

They've made inquiries before.

who's they, where did they get your identity from?

Boaty

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

They've made inquiries before.

Did they make anything of it tho?

Conmaicne Mara

munkus wrote: »

who's they, where did they get your identity from?

In my reply to your quote, the Department of Agriculture.

In my own case if I wanted to say I would have

Boaty wrote: »

Did they make anything of it tho?

Not that time AFAIK.

Play with fire.

The problem, for those naive enough or stupid enough to admit things they shouldn't is all it takes is a "surprise" inspection to catch them out.

There's no warning or tip off.

Boaty

You must have been a bold boy.:)

Conmaicne Mara

Boaty wrote: »

You must have been a bold boy.:)

Nope

Sharpshooter82

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Nope

*Cough Cough*

JohnBoy

munkus wrote: »

Lads, ye'd wanta get a grip. The paranoia here is unreal. The department / guards / Martians cannot access the boards server logs to find out the email you registered with or your IP address unless they get a court order.

They're not going to go to that trouble because you mention on here that you squeezed a bullock at 10 months without a nurse present, or that you dehorned a Late calf.

Be smart about what you post if you want to stay anonymous and under the radar, but don't be worried about the suits turning up at the gate.

Comments on an internet forum would be laughed out of court as evidence. Anyone could have written that comment, not you. Sure twas a Chinese student that hacked my password.

Now I'm off to shoot the neighbour and kidnap his wife......

You'd be amazed at how easy it is to join the dots online, and how automated it can be. it can and does happen, and unless you want to perjur yourself in court then it stands up just fine.

The department/gardai/whoever, dont need to go round reading boards looking for admissions of guilt. the world is full of busybodies who'll hand them stuff on a plate, or worse, people with grudges who'll bide their time.

There are some that do actively pursue this info though. Insurance companies regularly spider car forums with software that's capable of identifying threads on modified cars. (it's not rocket science at all) flag some pages with pics for review by a human, do a quick query on any number plates and boom, johnny (boy) gets a letter in the post from FBD saying they have reason to believe your car is modifed and it will need to be reviewed by an assesor before renewal time.

(johnny would like to point out that said car never saw road in it's modified state but there was only 2 months on the policy when the project started so there was no point in cancelling. sadly it still hasnt seen road, many many years later)

I also know a guy who took a garage to the small claims court when his engine ate itself within two hours of being collected from having the timing belt done. The garage's solicitor produced a video from youtube of yer man driving the same car in mondello in the past and basically painted him as a complete scumbag boy racer and lost him the case.

It's very very easy to join the dots, dont say anything online you wouldnt put your name to in writing a letter to be published in the irish times.

renandstimpy

Folks dont take this the wrong way but I though this thread was about labour saving and general guntering ?

renandstimpy

Folks dont take this the wrong way but I though this thread was about labour saving and general guntering ?

Damo810

From Facebook..

A true gunter! Twine for a toplink and half a pto shaft too!

darragh_haven

Damo810 wrote: »

From Facebook..

A true gunter! Twine for a toplink and half a pto shaft too!

What do you mean.... is this not how everyone attaches spreader? ;-)

mayota

Damo810 wrote: »

From Facebook..

A true gunter! Twine for a toplink and half a pto shaft too!

Is that a bit of a stick for a pin?

Sharpshooter82

Damo810 wrote: »

From Facebook..

A true gunter! Twine for a toplink and half a pto shaft too!

Tasty operator

keep going

My local machinery dealer spins the one about the fella that turned up to collect the new fertilizer spreader and he mentioned to your man the toplink looked shook.you can geuss what happened on the way home---burst the gearbox on a span new spreader

Bizzum

Is that a ticket on the machine above, with the "flexi toplink" ? An auction job is it?

49801

Knocked these together in Oct and just came across photos.
Cut silage wrap tubes in half and used two tech screws to keep the tube upright.
Drilled a hole through the bottom to put a nail through to anchor the bait.
Just used ordinary storm blocks and drove the nail through em with a hammer.
Bit of a pain to reload but no more stolen and horded bait

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Sharpshooter82

49801 wrote: »

Knocked these together in Oct and just came across photos.
Cut silage wrap tubes in half and used two tech screws to keep the tube upright.
Drilled a hole through the bottom to put a nail through to anchor the bait.
Just used ordinary storm blocks and drove the nail through em with a hammer.
Bit of a pain to reload but no more stolen and horded bait

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Very clever and simple my man

Sharpshooter82

Is it hard to nail through the poison

rushvalley

49801 wrote: »

Knocked these together in Oct and just came across photos.
Cut silage wrap tubes in half and used two tech screws to keep the tube upright.
Drilled a hole through the bottom to put a nail through to anchor the bait.
Just used ordinary storm blocks and drove the nail through em with a hammer.
Bit of a pain to reload but no more stolen and horded bait

we use old silage wraps aswell but break up the block of poison and mix it with some butter to attract the rats. Breaking up the block makes them eat it instead of bringing it away

49801

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Is it hard to nail through the poison

Not difficult at all. The storm blocks are not pre drilled but do have a big dedent in their middle that is nearly a through hole.
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Only broke a couple blocks when putting the nail through. No big deal really.

Reggie.

rushvalley wrote: »

we use old silage wraps aswell but break up the block of poison and mix it with some butter to attract the rats. Breaking up the block makes them eat it instead of bringing it away

Chocolate works a treat as well

Brown Podzol

Reggie. wrote: »

Chocolate works a treat as well

I have a map for board bia, I let a copy thrown around for the rats.:D

feartuath

I have the same and used some 2" and 4" plastic tubing I got at work
I drilled the bait with 4mm bit and used old welding rods with flux removed to hold bait in position .
The rods are folded outside the tube to stop it rolling about.

DanielGibbons

49801 wrote: »

Knocked these together in Oct and just came across photos.
Cut silage wrap tubes in half and used two tech screws to keep the tube upright.
Drilled a hole through the bottom to put a nail through to anchor the bait.
Just used ordinary storm blocks and drove the nail through em with a hammer.
Bit of a pain to reload but no more stolen and horded bait

That's a good idea! We were clearing out a relatives shed before, only to find about 20 poison blocks stashed when we lifted up a sheet of galvanized in the haybarn!

We use granules of poison now, it looks like a bag of oats dyed blue! Works a treat

No idea where the aul fella gets it tbh!