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    #5642
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Aravo


    Muckit wrote: »
    Fair play. You don't hang around. Stick up a few pics if and when you get a chance.

    Pics attached

    ?user=122297&threads=1&sort=newest

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    #5643
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,363 ✭✭✭MfMan


    What's best way to level/smooth off a rough, stony boreen? Load of 804 leveled off, followed by a few passes of a roller, yes?


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    #5644
    148multi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭148multi


    MfMan wrote: »
    What's best way to level/smooth off a rough, stony boreen? Load of 804 leveled off, followed by a few passes of a roller, yes?

    804 leveled with a land leveler is a great job on then roll.


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    #5645
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    148multi wrote: »
    804 leveled with a land leveler is a great job on then roll.

    Also Give the rough lane a pull of the levellor first before the 804


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    #5646
    Suckler
    Registered Users Posts: 2,156 ✭✭✭Suckler


    148multi wrote: »
    804 leveled with a land leveler is a great job on then roll.

    We put a layer of quarry dust on top and rolled it well. Obviously not as good as concrete but keeping it clean of muck etc. is a lot easier. If you can form falls to one side it helps, rainwater nearly keeps it clean. and it's nice and smooth to travel on.


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    #5647
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,363 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Cheers all. Saturday job.


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    #5648
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭dzer2


    MfMan wrote: »
    What's best way to level/smooth off a rough, stony boreen? Load of 804 leveled off, followed by a few passes of a roller, yes?

    Really depends on how rough and the texture of what's there. If just uncomfortable driving with tractor then 804

    If being bounced out of tractor then maybe 2"down.

    If there a deep trenches where you have driven then 4" down. If you want ease of walking for the elderly then level up and put crusher gravel and roll.


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    #5649
    OffalyMedic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭OffalyMedic


    Sorry I know this is a little off topic but wonder could some of the genius' here come up with a solution to a problem I have. Have bought a robotic vacuum for the house but inside the back door we have a step up to each area of the house and I'm looking to make a 3 small 6" ramps so the vacuum can move between all rooms in the house.


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    #5650
    stock>
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭stock>


    Could you make up a piece to fill in the depression with some ply that can be removed when every one is home and put in during the day while the vacuum is at work?


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    #5651
    148multi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭148multi


    OffalyMedic wrote: »
    Sorry I know this is a little off topic but wonder could some of the genius' here come up with a solution to a problem I have. Have bought a robotic vacuum for the house but inside the back door we have a step up to each area of the house and I'm looking to make a 3 small 6" ramps so the vacuum can move between all rooms in the house.

    Can you move the step back to the blue line, raising the floor marked red x, therby eliminating the three steps.


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    #5652
    stock>
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭stock>


    148multi wrote: »
    Can you move the step back to the blue line, raising the floor marked red x, therby eliminating the three steps.




    'tis a very thin blue line.....................


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    #5653
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    OffalyMedic wrote: »
    Sorry I know this is a little off topic but wonder could some of the genius' here come up with a solution to a problem I have. Have bought a robotic vacuum for the house but inside the back door we have a step up to each area of the house and I'm looking to make a 3 small 6" ramps so the vacuum can move between all rooms in the house.

    2nd robot. 2 zones


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    #5654
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I got a zinglint one but couldn't get it to go rightly from room to room. Seemed to get confused.


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    #5655
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Aravo


    Have a PTO driven grain roller here, crushed grain is delivered out a side chute. Any ideas on some thing that would deliver from this chute area and move it to a meal bin 4 feet away and 4 feet high. I was thinking along the lines of a small auger. Any ideas welcome. Maybe someone had sorted something.


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    #5656
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Aravo wrote: »
    Have a PTO driven grain roller here, crushed grain is delivered out a side chute. Any ideas on some thing that would deliver from this chute area and move it to a meal bin 4 feet away and 4 feet high. I was thinking along the lines of a small auger. Any ideas welcome. Maybe someone had sorted something.


    Perhaps a secondhand Orby auger from some lad updating his milking parlour?
    The end with the motor on, obviously.
    Could be worth asking a milking machine fitter if he knows of anything, otherwise set up a Done Deal alert.


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    #5657
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Auger would be the cleanest and simplest way to do it.


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    #5658
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    A friend sent me a video of this little machine. Scraper is worked off an electric winch. Cheaper version of a lely scraper :P


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    #5659
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    A friend sent me a video of this little machine. Scraper is worked off an electric winch. Cheaper version of a lely scraper :P

    That is a work of art!


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    #5660
    sandydan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭sandydan


    Has anyone fitted or seen the newer 1000 series 6 cylinder perkins engine fitted to a 399 4WD in lieu of the 6354 engine if so were modifications needed to fit front axle , i was told by main dealer that it cannot be done but im sure someone has succeeded ,. thanks in advance


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    #5661
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    After many decades of service one of the crush uprights started rotting at ground level and was pushed outwards by a cow.

    To save us the effort of breaking concrete and putting down a new upright we cut the cap off the existing upright and shoved a length of 3 inch box iron down into it with some agricultural persuasion :D Welded it all back together and a lick of paint to leave it looking untouched.

    The new box iron section has a 5mm wall so should hopefully be a lifetime job.


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    #5662
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭Odelay


    rushvalley wrote: »
    After many decades of service one of the crush uprights started rotting at ground level and was pushed outwards by a cow.

    To save us the effort of breaking concrete and putting down a new upright we cut the cap off the existing upright and shoved a length of 3 inch box iron down into it with some agricultural persuasion :D Welded it all back together and a lick of paint to leave it looking untouched.

    The new box iron section has a 5mm wall so should hopefully be a lifetime job.

    Is that a Nugent three point linkage side slinger in the background? Is it of any use?


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    #5663
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    rushvalley wrote: »
    After many decades of service one of the crush uprights started rotting at ground level and was pushed outwards by a cow.

    To save us the effort of breaking concrete and putting down a new upright we cut the cap off the existing upright and shoved a length of 3 inch box iron down into it with some agricultural persuasion :D Welded it all back together and a lick of paint to leave it looking untouched.

    The new box iron section has a 5mm wall so should hopefully be a lifetime job.


    Done same with mine!, bull backed against it and bent it back, only difference was i could'nt find 3" box anywhere so had to use 3" angle welded together to form a box and then persuaded down into the old box.
    You made a grand tidy job of that.


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    #5664
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    Odelay wrote: »
    Is that a Nugent three point linkage side slinger in the background? Is it of any use?

    Its a fleming but I think there the same thing. Spreads dung as well as any side spreader but only suitable for small amounts unless you like hardship.


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    #5665
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Odelay wrote: »
    Is that a Nugent three point linkage side slinger in the background? Is it of any use?

    Whats your plan for that spare duncan cab?


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    #5666
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Odelay wrote: »
    Is that a Nugent three point linkage side slinger in the background? Is it of any use?

    Don't be silly.... It's obviously a Flemming :D


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    #5667
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Whats your plan for that spare duncan cab?

    This is the best thread for lads looking in the background of someones proud accomplishments.


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    #5668
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭Odelay


    emaherx wrote: »
    Don't be silly.... It's obviously a Flemming :D

    I is color blind 😆


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    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    emaherx wrote: »
    This is the best thread for lads looking in the background of someones proud accomplishments.

    :)


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    #5670
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Whats your plan for that spare duncan cab?

    No its not for sale!! took me long enough to find a good one...
    Going tidying up the tractor on the right


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    #5671
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    rushvalley wrote: »
    After many decades of service one of the crush uprights started rotting at ground level and was pushed outwards by a cow.

    To save us the effort of breaking concrete and putting down a new upright we cut the cap off the existing upright and shoved a length of 3 inch box iron down into it with some agricultural persuasion :D Welded it all back together and a lick of paint to leave it looking untouched.

    The new box iron section has a 5mm wall so should hopefully be a lifetime job.
    I did similar with a crush here, the uprights were breaking at the ground, uprights were tubing so got an insert but had to drive them into the uprights with the post driver, insert were so tight..... it's some job now


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