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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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just do it

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Have 3 of them.
Why is it so hard to upload pictures on boards

Don't go there gg, it seems that it's expensive software (I'm thinking of the likes of whatsapp) and boards.ie doesn't feel it's worth it

just do it

Why use 2 when 1 will do

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

No extra spending involved here

No good gg. Was doing that here but the cattle figured out that there was no shock and scratch off it knocking it

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

No good gg. Was doing that here but the cattle figured out that there was no shock and scratch off it knocking it

Them Westmeath cattle are like the footballers - clever feckers that don't take NO for an answer

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Them Westmeath cattle are like the footballers - clever feckers that don't take NO for an answer

Sure all westmeath fellas are like that :P

AP2014

Not sure if this belongs here or in a fencing thread. Put some galvanise to use of an old shed, an old pallet, old gate and tree that fell down to fill a gap. Not pretty but the place is stock proof without spending a penny.

Will send on links if images don't embed.

Gap

Tree in gap

Greengrass1

AP2014 wrote: »

Not sure if this belongs here or in a fencing thread. Put some galvanise to use of an old shed, an old pallet, old gate and tree that fell down to fill a gap. Not pretty but the place is stock proof without spending a penny. Will send on links if images don't embed.

Gap

Tree in gap

That's not guntering that's just typical irish fencing

tomieen jones

Greengrass1 wrote: »

That's not guntering that's just typical irish fencing

if you give that pallet a coat of fence life and the sheet of galvanise a spray paint you will get years out of them

AP2014

Greengrass1 wrote: »

That's not guntering that's just typical irish fencing

Ah infairness its a field surrounded by other fields I own so no danger of an animal going on the road or visiting a neighbour.

foxy farmer

When you start to look at the side sheeting on a shed as a quick and cheap source of fencing material its time to stop !!!

AP2014

tomieen jones wrote: »

if you give that pallet a coat of fence life and the sheet of galvanise a spray paint you will get years out of them

Looks like I need to replace one sheet of galvanise. Sounds like a job for next wkd. Pallet is holding up well I have to say.

have2flushtwice

that gate.... looks very like a gap we have!! I have looked at that picture ten times now and I'm still not sure - the profile of the field the other side is identical also!

AP2014

have2flushtwice wrote: »

that gate.... looks very like a gap we have!! I have looked at that picture ten times now and I'm still not sure - the profile of the field the other side is identical also!

Who are we, pale face? :P It's my gate and have another one like it as well. Definitely my field as well. 4 acre field the far side. Has never been rented either so you won't be claiming squatters rights or anything.

foxy farmer

AP2014 wrote: »

Who are we, pale face? :P It's my gate and have another one like it as well. Definitely my field as well. 4 acre field the far side. Has never been rented either so you won't be claiming squatters rights or anything.

Go home Yank!!!

Muckit

just do it wrote: »

Why use 2 when 1 will do

Ah no!!

I'm with gg on this one. We tried that years ago for a while but rebar isn't sprung like steel in a pigtail stake and will bend in a hoop. also weighs a ton.. aaannd with all that steel they can earth too easily, especially in wet weather. There's 3 reasons why I don't use them!

I remember Stan had steel rods welded onto his reels. Why I could never fathom. All that extra weight. I use a pigtail post to prop it up where it hooks into main fence line.

10 light white posts and a reel is the most my two hands can carry. Quads smads.

have2flushtwice

foxy farmer wrote: »

Go home Yank!!!

its my field!!!

foxy farmer

have2flushtwice wrote: »

its my field!!!

Easy now. We know how that ended!

Milked out

AP2014 wrote: »

Not sure if this belongs here or in a fencing thread. Put some galvanise to use of an old shed, an old pallet, old gate and tree that fell down to fill a gap. Not pretty but the place is stock proof without spending a penny. Will send on links if images don't embed.

Gap

Tree in gap

I don't know about the rest of ye but if there isn't a strand of electrice fence around our fields some animal would get thru it, doesn't matter how high or dense the ditch is they'll climb over it or burst thru it. Heifers in particular always nosing about,

have2flushtwice

foxy farmer wrote: »

Easy now. We know how that ended!

I could make a very bad joke about that, relating to another hot topic thread, but I will refrain!

AP2014

Milked out wrote: »

I don't know about the rest of ye but if there isn't a strand of electrice fence around our fields some animal would get thru it, doesn't matter how high or dense the ditch is they'll climb over it or burst thru it. Heifers in particular always nosing about,

Few quiet bullocks here and I have them well trained.

Greengrass1

Milked out wrote: »

I don't know about the rest of ye but if there isn't a strand of electrice fence around our fields some animal would get thru it, doesn't matter how high or dense the ditch is they'll climb over it or burst thru it. Heifers in particular always nosing about,

Fact. Our herd is half heifers and 2nd calvers this yr. And there right bitches. Have had to redo alot if fencing this yr that the older girls don't bother with.

Markcheese

Muckit wrote: »

Ah no!! I'm with gg on this one. We tried that years ago for a while but rebar isn't sprung like steel in a pigtail stake and will bend in a hoop. also weighs a ton.. aaannd with all that steel they can earth too easily, especially in wet weather. There's 3 reasons why I don't use them!

I remember Stan had steel rods welded onto his reels. Why I could never fathom. All that extra weight. I use a pigtail post to prop it up where it hooks into main fence line.

10 light white posts and a reel is the most my two hands can carry. Quads smads.

Anybody bodged a "quiver" for pig tail posts ? - a Always found it a right dose to manage posts and unrolling the reel ( At any speed )

ganmo

What do pigtails cost vs those white ones?

td5man

Markcheese wrote: »

Anybody bodged a "quiver" for pig tail posts ? - a Always found it a right dose to manage posts and unrolling the reel ( At any speed )

https://youtu.be/3cZ3-6FlXgc

darragh_haven

td5man wrote: »

https://youtu.be/3cZ3-6FlXgc

The only problem with that one is that the pig tails would earth you.

Wildsurfer

Just wondering has anyone here made a personnel basket for a loader to work at heights, eg power washing, erecting sheds etc? With farm safety in mind I think its time I upgraded from a pallet and pallet forks! My loader isn't self levelling though and just looking for any clever ideas on how to design the basket on some sort of swivel so that it keeps its own level.

quietsailor

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Just wondering has anyone here made a personnel basket for a loader to work at heights, eg power washing, erecting sheds etc? With farm safety in mind I think its time I upgraded from a pallet and pallet forks! My loader isn't self levelling though and just looking for any clever ideas on how to design the basket on some sort of swivel so that it keeps its own level.

Would you be better off designing a self levelling system into the loader - it's basically the same thing - a system of levers to level the attachment - but if you can get it on the loader it levels every attachment instead of just one

td5man

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Just wondering has anyone here made a personnel basket for a loader to work at heights, eg power washing, erecting sheds etc? With farm safety in mind I think its time I upgraded from a pallet and pallet forks! My loader isn't self levelling though and just looking for any clever ideas on how to design the basket on some sort of swivel so that it keeps its own level.

Loader should have check valves afaik.
Basket is better than a pallet though.

gctest50

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Just wondering has anyone here made a personnel basket for a loader to work at heights, eg power washing, erecting sheds etc? With farm safety in mind I think its time I upgraded from a pallet and pallet forks! My loader isn't self levelling though and just looking for any clever ideas on how to design the basket on some sort of swivel so that it keeps its own level.

one of many - sure someone has better

hang the basket from the top edge on pivots

put a hydraulic ram between the basket and arm with a pipe joining end and a valve in the middle to stop it swaying from the force of the power washer and to stop it flipping upside down and dumping you out

patsy_mccabe

It would be lethal. The person in the cage would have no control over the up/down side movements.
I can see it now, Auld Fella in the tractor going 'Whaaaat' and the young fella in the cage roaring instructions, and effing and blinding.