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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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  • #872
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dharn wrote: »
    All the extras ? Mmmmm that ill be pricey are ya sure:P

    What are the extras anyways :)


  • #873
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Poor man's einboch.
    Lads I couldn't come up with 3 grand + for an einboch harrow when I was sowing grasseed so came up with this instead, pulled by a pair of 10m ratchet straps.

    Have ye no blackthorns down there, they are the closest thing to a harrow around here :)


  • #874
    rushvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Have ye no blackthorns down there, they are the closest thing to a harrow around here :)

    And do just as good a job too


  • #875
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Its called a bush harrow around here But what we normally do is use an old wrought iron gate and inter wind the bushes into it and off you go.


  • #876
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Its called a bush harrow around here But what we normally do is use an old wrought iron gate and inter wind the bushes into it and off you go.

    Sure why would ye bother buying these power harrows and land levlers


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  • #877
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Sure why would ye bother buying these power harrows and land levlers

    Couldn't see you pulling one of them around with the new massey :D


  • #878
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Couldn't see you pulling one of them around with the new massey :D

    Ye'd be wrong. I'd do it just to get the neighbours talking


  • #879
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Ye'd be wrong. I'd do it just to get the neighbours talking

    :D


  • #880
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Don't know if I put this up before but this is the first thing I welded after my FAS course.

    Made it for loading turf but had been used for straw, stones and everything in between since


  • #881
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    I always find that rebar hard to weld, I use arc welder and find the rebar not inclined to float or mix with the mild steel


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  • #882
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dharn wrote: »
    I always find that rebar hard to weld, I use arc welder and find the rebar not inclined to float or mix with the mild steel

    No it doesn't plus it melts far to easily aswell


  • #883
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,655 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    This shed was built in 1986. Only last month i came up with a brainwave to put a door in the door. Now big door can be locked and it also stops visitors from having a nosey. Big door is very heavy yo open and close


  • #884
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    This shed was built in 1986. Only last month i came up with a brainwave to put a door in the door. Now big door can be locked and it also stops visitors from having a nosey. Big door is very heavy yo open and close

    Nice....see you have security there aswell


  • #885
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan2 wrote: »
    This shed was built in 1986. Only last month i came up with a brainwave to put a door in the door. Now big door can be locked and it also stops visitors from having a nosey. Big door is very heavy yo open and close

    That's a very simple but great idea. I think all gates should come with a little personnel hatch as standard to save opening and closing a big heavy gate.


  • #886
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Muckit wrote: »
    That's a very simple but great idea. I think all gates should come with a little personnel hatch as standard to save opening and closing a big heavy gate.

    Just needs a slot for a shot gun...


  • #887
    Damo810
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    Figerty wrote: »
    Just needs a slot for a shot gun...

    Or power-washer lance! :D


  • #888
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Got this for nothing today, plenty of guntering required to put it to use though!


  • #889
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Got this for nothing today, plenty of guntering required to put it to use though!

    Weed licker is it


  • #890
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Weed licker is it

    No, Tis a welger rp12 Reggie ;)


  • #891
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    No, Tis a welger rp12 Reggie ;)

    If ya reckon that you've some guntering ahead of ya


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  • #892
    rushvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Got this for nothing today, plenty of guntering required to put it to use though!

    If you're handy with a welder you could consider making a bracket on the drawbar for the can instead of trying to lift a full can up into the current bracket. :)


  • #893
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    rushvalley wrote: »
    If you're handy with a welder you could consider making a bracket on the drawbar for the can instead of trying to lift a full can up into the current bracket. :)

    Have a quad sprayer I could put on it so might cut it off altogether. Needs 3 new bearings, a belt, a carpet and a lick of paint. It's a bit heavy for the quad though is the only thing but ideal for a tractor.


  • #894
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Have a quad sprayer I could put on it so might cut it off altogether. Needs 3 new bearings, a belt, a carpet and a lick of paint. It's a bit heavy for the quad though is the only thing but ideal for a tractor.

    Sounds more like a decorating job


  • #895
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    ganmo wrote: »
    Sounds more like a decorating job

    Short of the frame falling apart there isint much more that could go wrong with it really!


  • #896
    Damo810
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Short of the frame falling apart there isint much more that could go wrong with it really!

    Sure a while of a day would have her going well, a lot cheaper than buying a new one too!


  • #897
    locha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭locha


    Just looked at the journal today... great idea by a fella in Mayo for his slatted shed. To ensure the water does not freeze he installed a circulation pump and extra piping... allows the water to continuously move so it does not ice up... must look into this. the cost was bout 150... 2010 is still way to fresh in the mind...


  • #898
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    locha wrote: »
    Just looked at the journal today... great idea by a fella in Mayo for his slatted shed. To ensure the water does not freeze he installed a circulation pump and extra piping... allows the water to continuously move so it does not ice up... must look into this. the cost was bout 150... 2010 is still way to fresh in the mind...

    You can say that again. Ended up in the ditch that winter


  • #899
    have2flushtwice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭have2flushtwice


    moving water will freeze - look at a river in very cold weather....

    in a pipe the icicles will form at the edges of the pipe, slow the water to a trickle and freeze the lot. pumps freeze too, the vanes ice up. I has a 30kw unit freeze up in work in 2010.


  • #900
    Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Farmer


    have2flushtwice wrote: »
    moving water will freeze - look at a river in very cold weather....

    in a pipe the icicles will form at the edges of the pipe, slow the water to a trickle and freeze the lot. pumps freeze too, the vanes ice up. I has a 30kw unit freeze up in work in 2010.

    ...but maybe it would be feasible to circulate it through a small tank with thermostatically controlled heater that keeps the water at a degree or two?


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  • #901
    Damo810
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    Farmer wrote: »
    ...but maybe it would be feasible to circulate it through a small tank with thermostatically controlled heater that keeps the water at a degree or two?

    Thats a bit over the top for a once in how many years occurrence? How is it controlled in colder Nordic countries or the colder regions of Canada?


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