Labour Saving and General Guntering

lstmd · 17-10-2015 08:30PM

I feed meal to cattle at grass. I have four fairly decent size meal troughs. I'm thinking of putting a frame on top of one to hold bulk meal with a facility to release a fixed amount of meal into the trough. Wondering if anyone has tried this?

Muckit · 17-10-2015 08:47PM

poor farmer wrote: »

At least the cattle wouldn't be sweating in it .

They might be. Bricken it that they wouldn't come out through it!!

IH784man · 17-10-2015 09:38PM

lstmd wrote: »

I feed meal to cattle at grass. I have four fairly decent size meal troughs. I'm thinking of putting a frame on top of one to hold bulk meal with a facility to release a fixed amount of meal into the trough. Wondering if anyone has tried this?

The trough would have want to be fairly strong,what happens if it falls over and you loose a couple hundred euro of meal.

lstmd · 17-10-2015 10:44PM

IH784man wrote: »

The trough would have want to be fairly strong,what happens if it falls over and you loose a couple hundred euro of meal.

I agree need to think about it. would be handy.

blue5000 · 19-10-2015 04:37PM

lstmd wrote: »

I feed meal to cattle at grass. I have four fairly decent size meal troughs. I'm thinking of putting a frame on top of one to hold bulk meal with a facility to release a fixed amount of meal into the trough. Wondering if anyone has tried this?

http://www.oneillfeedsystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=8

Muckit · 19-10-2015 11:49PM

Reg you only like it cos it's red!

Imagine trying to keep that yoke full! :eek: Calibrated feeder be a better job. Then again a bucket and a few plastic barrels would do the same job!

Reggie. · 20-10-2015 08:55AM

Muckit wrote: »

Reg you only like it cos it's red! Imagine trying to keep that yoke full! :eek: Calibrated feeder be a better job. Then again a bucket and a few plastic barrels would do the same job!

A man out this way has one. Alot bigger than that aswell. It's well in from the road so hard to make it out but I'd put it at 16ft long

Reggie. · 20-10-2015 08:58AM

Odelay wrote: »

I have seen it done where a chain is used to keep the basket sliding off the forks. Simple and effective.

We use a rachet strap

blue5000 · 20-10-2015 09:14AM

Muckit wrote: »

Reg you only like it cos it's red! Imagine trying to keep that yoke full! :eek: Calibrated feeder be a better job. Then again a bucket and a few plastic barrels would do the same job!

You can adjust the rate of meal flow on these, never looked inside one yet.

keep going · 20-10-2015 09:55AM

lstmd wrote: »

I feed meal to cattle at grass. I have four fairly decent size meal troughs. I'm thinking of putting a frame on top of one to hold bulk meal with a facility to release a fixed amount of meal into the trough. Wondering if anyone has tried this?

I have a trough on wheels already thats about 20 ft long opened out a nd im thinking of doing the same, might get to work on it the next few days

lstmd · 20-10-2015 10:50AM

I'm thinking of putting a pipe running horizontal along bottom of storage bin of meal sitting over trough with a handle on the end of it. Turn handle either left or right will empty pipe fill. Pipe will hold xKg's of meal. I will be able to fill pipe a number of times to release the quantity I want.

lakill Farm · 20-10-2015 11:19AM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Sorry here are pics

I was going to say I wount like to put 0.6M3 of concrete out front of my tractor , but on a digger it be fine.

Im thinkin of making an axle for my pan mixer . Have a few walls to pour and want my own tractor and loader to fill the pans . uncle has little david brown that would drive the mixer

Reggie. · 20-10-2015 01:10PM

lakill Farm wrote: »

I was going to say I wount like to put 0.6M3 of concrete out front of my tractor , but on a digger it be fine.

Im thinkin of making an axle for my pan mixer . Have a few walls to pour and want my own tractor and loader to fill the pans . uncle has little david brown that would drive the mixer

To the guntering cave

foxy farmer · 22-10-2015 12:47AM

lakill Farm wrote: »

I was going to say I wount like to put 0.6M3 of concrete out front of my tractor , but on a digger it be fine.

Im thinkin of making an axle for my pan mixer . Have a few walls to pour and want my own tractor and loader to fill the pans . uncle has little david brown that would drive the mixer

When i bought my mixer i only had a ford 6600 and it couldnt handle a full mix. I had an old JF tipping trailer that i chopped up and made a basic frame using the drawbar and axle. Put a wide angle PTOshaft on it and i was good to go. A platform to stand on while bursting the cement bags is recommended. Still have the bogey but dont use it as it can be a bit of a nuisance especially if you are reversing.

Nekarsulm · 22-10-2015 01:31PM

I see my neighbour has been Guntering. Put up a pen on an out-farm, and used part of a Kidd feeder wagon to make a part of the crush.

RobinBanks · 17-11-2015 10:25AM

I have a few galvanized roofing sheets left over from a shed I put up in the summer and I was wondering if I could use them for something else instead of storing them in the back of the shed.

I have a 3 bay single slatted shed and although its not faced into the wind and rain the majority of the rain falls on the silage. The roof extends out over the feeding area by approx 5ft. It is not a separate canopy just a single roof.

I would like to extend this using the left over sheets. The reason for this is that the silage is always getting wet and at the minute I am feeding straw and will be for another month. That to gets to wet and the cattle will not eat it so well.

I was wondering what would be the best option for this. Would i need to extend the current roof girders by welding / bolting on another section of girder or would a 4x3 timber bolted onto the existing girder be strong enough to hold the sheets? I would also need to build a few blocks on one of the gable ends i suppose.

Has anyone any experience on this?

mayota · 17-11-2015 11:23AM

RobinBanks wrote: »

I have a few galvanized roofing sheets left over from a shed I put up in the summer and I was wondering if I could use them for something else instead of storing them in the back of the shed.

I have a 3 bay single slatted shed and although its not faced into the wind and rain the majority of the rain falls on the silage. The roof extends out over the feeding area by approx 5ft. It is not a separate canopy just a single roof.

I would like to extend this using the left over sheets. The reason for this is that the silage is always getting wet and at the minute I am feeding straw and will be for another month. That to gets to wet and the cattle will not eat it so well.

I was wondering what would be the best option for this. Would i need to extend the current roof girders by welding / bolting on another section of girder or would a 4x3 timber bolted onto the existing girder be strong enough to hold the sheets? I would also need to build a few blocks on one of the gable ends i suppose.

Has anyone any experience on this?

You would need 6x3's imo. However I reckon you would want to angle the sheets down to catch the wind and rain rather than extending the existing sheets out and up. You could get sections of girders made at an angle to bolt or weld on.

Sami23 · 17-11-2015 11:27AM

RobinBanks wrote: »

I have a few galvanized roofing sheets left over from a shed I put up in the summer and I was wondering if I could use them for something else instead of storing them in the back of the shed.

I have a 3 bay single slatted shed and although its not faced into the wind and rain the majority of the rain falls on the silage. The roof extends out over the feeding area by approx 5ft. It is not a separate canopy just a single roof.

I would like to extend this using the left over sheets. The reason for this is that the silage is always getting wet and at the minute I am feeding straw and will be for another month. That to gets to wet and the cattle will not eat it so well.

I was wondering what would be the best option for this. Would i need to extend the current roof girders by welding / bolting on another section of girder or would a 4x3 timber bolted onto the existing girder be strong enough to hold the sheets? I would also need to build a few blocks on one of the gable ends i suppose.

Has anyone any experience on this?

Have you a picture of existing shed ?

RobinBanks · 17-11-2015 11:43AM

Sami23 wrote: »

Have you a picture of existing shed ?

I don't but I had a quick look on google and found one that's almost identical. Mine is much lower and has sheets at the end of the roof point down to the ground. These vertical sheets point straight down not angled and are about 1ft in height.

I was hoping to make it a straight forward job and just continue the roof at the same pitch and put the vertical sheets back on the front of it.

foxy farmer · 25-11-2015 06:13PM

I have a loft in the workshop here but could only access it by ladder. Last week I was coming down using a stepladder when i slipped from the 3rd last step. I had my hands full at the time so i fell in a heap. Only solution was to buil a proper stairs. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
Using 3 18ft lengths of 9x2 i made a stairs just under a metre wide. 45 degree slope with 12 steps about 200mm high. It's hinged at the top so i can lift it up out of the way by means of a pulley system attached to the roof truss if the need ever arises. Thats not in position yet. All is left to do is make handrails.
Dog won't climb it as its an open riser stairs and he can see down between the steps as he's coming up!
Even as it is now its a gift to get up to the loft and will allow me to put so much more stuff up out of the way.

fastrac94 · 25-11-2015 08:43PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

I have a loft in the workshop here but could only access it by ladder. Last week I was coming down using a stepladder when i slipped from the 3rd last step. I had my hands full at the time so i fell in a heap. Only solution was to buil a proper stairs. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
Using 3 18ft lengths of 9x2 i made a stairs just under a metre wide. 45 degree slope with 12 steps about 200mm high. It's hinged at the top so i can lift it up out of the way by means of a pulley system attached to the roof truss if the need ever arises. Thats not in position yet. All is left to do is make handrails.
Dog won't climb it as its an open riser stairs and he can see down between the steps as he's coming up!
Even as it is now its a gift to get up to the loft and will allow me to put so much more stuff up out of the way.

Very good idea there,our dog will go up a set of stairs like those but wont come down...
Good idea with hinges, can be pulled up out way to stop kids climbing too..

patsy_mccabe · 25-11-2015 09:51PM

fastrac94 wrote: »

Very good idea there,our dog will go up a set of stairs like those but wont come down.....

Heard of a story like that. A few lads on the way home from a night out in Galway thought it would be a good idea to take a donkey from a halting site. Brought him up the stairs and left him in one of the lads bedroom. Your man came home, opened the door and there he was just standing there looking at him.
They couldn't get him back down the stairs again. Took them hours.

dzer2 · 26-11-2015 09:28AM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Heard of a story like that. A few lads on the way home from a night out in Galway thought it would be a good idea to take a donkey from a halting site. Brought him up the stairs and left him in one of the lads bedroom. Your man came home, opened the door and there he was just standing there looking at him.
They couldn't get him back down the stairs again. Took them hours.

Along time ago there were a couple of brothers in the local town that would drink all they could of a fair day. When finished would get into the ass's cart and let the ass take them home, by the time they would be passing the school the the old codgers would be asleep in the cart and the ass would continue home the last mile. The ass would stand at the kitchen door until the lads woke up and stagger in to the house. A few bright boyos one day decided to folloew the ass down the road. When the ass stopped at the house they unloaded the two brothers into the kitchen. Unyoked the ass amd brought him into the kitchen as well. They then proceeded to take the wheels off the cart turn it on its side and pulled it in to the kitchen. Put the wheels back on, yoked up the ass and put the brothers back into the cart. I was about 9 at the time my job was to hold the animal while they got the cart in.

Oh the harmless fun

Bullocks · 26-11-2015 10:20AM

dzer2 wrote: »

Along time ago there were a couple of brothers in the local town that would drink all they could of a fair day. When finished would get into the ass's cart and let the ass take them home, by the time they would be passing the school the the old codgers would be asleep in the cart and the ass would continue home the last mile. The ass would stand at the kitchen door until the lads woke up and stagger in to the house. A few bright boyos one day decided to folloew the ass down the road. When the ass stopped at the house they unloaded the two brothers into the kitchen. Unyoked the ass amd brought him into the kitchen as well. They then proceeded to take the wheels off the cart turn it on its side and pulled it in to the kitchen. Put the wheels back on, yoked up the ass and put the brothers back into the cart. I was about 9 at the time my job was to hold the animal while they got the cart in.

Oh the harmless fun

Very similar story here aswell

patsy_mccabe · 26-11-2015 11:02AM

I heard one where they took the cart of the donkey outside the pub and put the arms of the cart through a railing and hitched the donkey back up again.:D

Reggie. · 28-11-2015 10:42AM

Few deals here for any gunters
http://www.wholesaleweldingsupplies.ie/index.php?route=product/category&path=748#container

delaney001 · 29-11-2015 01:28PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Few deals here for any gunters
http://www.wholesaleweldingsupplies.ie/index.php?route=product/category&path=748#container

2 things. I have that welder shield and it's a fine job. That's a great price for one.
I also have that paraweld welder and I'm pretty sure it was never €330. Think I paid €270 inc vat.

Reggie. · 29-11-2015 02:17PM

delaney001 wrote: »

2 things. I have that welder shield and it's a fine job. That's a great price for one.
I also have that paraweld welder and I'm pretty sure it was never €330. Think I paid €270 inc vat.

Thinking of getting either one of them welders. Which would you recommend

Zr105 · 29-11-2015 08:48PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Thinking of getting either one of them welders. Which would you recommend

Have the 160 here for a few years great little welder in fairness to it. If going again I'd poss go for the 200amp, always nice to have the extra power, but you won't run it over 140 on a 13amp for to long. I'd like to know what the duty cycle is in around the 100+amps but if it's 25%@200amps id imagine it'd be pretty decent

Reggie. · 29-11-2015 10:13PM

Zr105 wrote: »

Have the 160 here for a few years great little welder in fairness to it. If going again I'd poss go for the 200amp, always nice to have the extra power, but you won't run it over 140 on a 13amp for to long. I'd like to know what the duty cycle is in around the 100+amps but if it's 25%@200amps id imagine it'd be pretty decent

Could change the 13amp to the 16amp blue round plug?

What amp do you normally run it on

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