Labour Saving and General Guntering

reilig wrote: »

I've made a couple of creep feeders and creep gates in the past. Have a creep under manufacture at the monent too - actually its been on the go for the last 12 months and I just can't find the time/motivation to finish it. I also made my own bale spike, gates and try to do repairs along with that.

I'm a fairly neat welder - I can do consistand thick and straight welds, but I have to admit that I'm just not a precision kind of guy. I won't win any awards for my straight cutting and any welding repairs that I do are kinda done in a bit of a hurry and it just seems that I try to throw a thick weld on it as fast as possible.

Have a PZ haybob that doesn't like me and I had to weld it at least once a year for the last 5 years at the centre joint. Brought it to a professional welder this year and he cut it and rewelded it. I guess I'm not that good of a welder after all when I see the job that he did.

please provide some pics.
This is not about who is the neatest welder/fabricator more about the ideas behind peoples creations. So please show the good the bad and the ugly.

I have the same problem with two haybobs, got a welder friend of mine to fix them and he added some extra bracing, I'll show some pics of this too when I get the camera out.

@vincenzolorenzo, I think guntering is the only word to describe the creation/modifictation of some farm built implements.

We have two tractors with loaders, a 390T with trima loader and a 365 with MF loader. So we made a hitch to fit MF Loader to Trima implements.

I will take some pics of our loader bale lifter attachment tomorrow when I'm fitting to tractor.

roosterman71 wrote: »

They aren't really things that were made to make life easier cos we could of just bought these things. My father also made cattle trailers about 20 years ago which he sold on.

Surely anything you made was to make life easier. Sure you could have bought most of those things. But coming up with the cash for such things is not always easy. And farms always seem to build up large amounts of scrap steel.

But I get your point most of those things are sort of generic and built on many farms around the country I don't know of one farm that doesn't have at least one DIY trailer . Still I think it could be interesting to see the sort of things built on farms from the "Generic" to original concepts.

My hitch above is hardly a masterpiece of engineering and its not something that you can buy from your local dealer. Yet it is one of the most important pieces of equipment we have, as we have no MF loader implements but we have and a decent selection of Trima ones. We need it to fit our grab to clean out all of our FYM as the 390T won't fit into some of the older sheds and the 365 won't pull the side slinger.

pjbrady1 wrote: »

If you take the pump out of an old fridge and attached a plugged lead at one end and a hose with a tyre pump valve at the other. Hey presto you have a quick and very robust electric tyre pump. It will pump a rear tractor tyre in a few minutes. You have to seal tight the hosed end. Be careful you have not left anything live and exposed. Make sure your plug is properly fused with the correct ampage fuse.

Another use for the rest of the fridge is to connect up a 150W bulb inside and you have an incubator for eggs. Works well, I've seen neighbors use some quite successfully.

bk1991 wrote: »

how do i insert pictures into this
i cant attach the pics now will put em up when u tel me how i put em here
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You need to have an account with a photo upload site such as pix.ie or similar then you insert the url of your pic, or the cut and paste option from the pix.ie site.
You can always just attach the pictures like you did before using the normal file attachment option.

bk1991 wrote: »

have any of ye done a welding course or ye all self trained what did you think of my drawings and what i steel i am useing any advicelove hear what ye think.how does that bale lifter work out oposed to the one with the ram ?

I haven't done any coarses, still trying to learn by myself and getting pointers from those who know.

The bale lifter works great but requires more precession when trying to stack than the one with the ram.

Your bucket looks fine for one thats going to be hand filled. I don't know much about collecting turf, but why don't you make it so that you can scoop up a lot of the turf rather than hand filling?

I have an electric arc welder with 20 -330 amp range.
But got a friend with a mig welder to do most of the welding on the trailer project.

Thats a good idea using the fog light pin on trailer socket for extra lighting.

bk1991 wrote: »

how would u rate ur welds ...has anything broke yet i have jsut started and theres more to it than it looks i got an arc inverter welder max amps 200 . whats your next project after the bale trailer .. u could sell that q/a attachment and the bale handler adapter no one else is doing em can the bale lhandler attachment take any other 3point linkage implements ... would be far handy for moveing implements around all ud need to do is put pin in topllink hole far handy ...who does the drawing and planing for ur projects

have u entered in farmers journal or ther tullamore show inventions ?


bk1991

See the welder beside the frame, That was from me repairing the frame rather than making it. although it only got damaged because I lost one of the pins so a lot more stress was exerted on the other two.

My welding is OK but not professional by any means. Not sure if I'd like to see an x-ray of one of my welds but most things tend to stay together. If I'm not sure how to weld something or if it will be strong enough then I get a friend who is a welder by trade (and also spends a lot of time here helping with silage making etc anyway) to do it, he has better tools and a mobile welder (electric arc/MIG) and is a lot more knowledgeable. I also try to learn from him when he dose some work for me so that I can do it my self the next time.

I do no drawing at all, usually just start making, the plan changes as I go along and changes again when I seek help from my welder friend (his input usually introduces new innovation/complication).

No other implements fit the bale lifter adapter correctly but I have used it for moving others by attaching top link pin as you suggested.

My next project is still part of my bale handling project (ie bale lifter adapter and wrapped bale trailer) is a set of wireless trailer lights so that I can hook and unhook from the trailer without getting down from the tractor. The whole outfit should significantly reduce the time to bring bales in from the field.

I was also planning on making pallets using short RSJ's that can be lifted using the bale lifter for moving things around the yard.

bk1991 wrote: »

now i like the sound of wireless trailer lights how u gona make these apart from saveing time from getting down to plug them out better still u dont have to worry about pulling the plug out when its forgotten has happened many times by my father ... once the weld is strong enough i woulnt be too worried about the look of it


its better bad looking and strong than looking great and week
what do u find the hardset in welding any tips for beginenier

how many bales will u carry on the trailer ? how many bales will u carry are u brakeing the axel on that
as i said before i am going to put an extenstion on to my trailer its 12 ft long but it never manages to fit 3 bales long i am going to make a extendable rack at back that i can slid under the body an not take it off mabey it might fit 4 bales long of hay or straw and then 3 silage long could fit 6 on bottom and 4 on top
but id love to know ur plans for wireless lights .woulnt mind doing em for my trailers and tank and all fare handy

I don't think I'd be much good for the old tips, probubly tell you how to do it wrong:)

It will only cary four wrapped bales. I have a trailer which will carry 18 bales but it is no good for wrapped bales. I'm not going to bother with brakes for four bales.

Still working on plans for wireless lights but it will involve off the shelf RF modules and digital encode/decoder setup. Rechargeable battery and LED lights for the trailer unit

bk1991 wrote: »

how will the lights work how much of cost compared to standard lights
have you sofd drive on ether of yer loaders ?
i have fitted soft drive ie hydralic acumulator +valve and pipe dident use it much on rd yet so dont know how shell work

bk1991

transmitter
Tractor socket => optocouplers => digital encoder=> TX module => antenna.

receiver
antenna => Rx module => digital decoder =>transistor/relay driver stage=>trailer lights.

This is the basic configuration, haven't fully costed it yet but, I reckon about 30 to 40 euro on top of your normal light set.

Commercially available wireless lights cost between 300 - 400 euro.

I haven't fitted any of the loaders with soft drive, but let us know what you think of yours when you test it properly.

blue5000 wrote: »

that is neat, I've made a few things myself probably the best one is a woodburning stove from the back end of a fordson major. The wood goes in where the lift cover was, air goes in where the brakes were, and smoke goes out where the pto was. It took a year from getting the idea to having it in the lounge! All the photos of making it are before I got a digital camera, I'll scan them and put them up.

I'd like to see that, even a current picture of it in situe. Now that's true guntering:)

MrFoxman360 wrote: »

The best thing I ever made was this fork to go on the three point linkage of my MF 35x. I originally just intended to use it for moving pallets, but it has proved invaluable at so many things since I made it.


Best thing is that the materials were completely free . Its made from an old McHale hydraulic bale handler (that I aquired). The two legs with the tines were taken off and I cut the cross members from the frame of the handler. The lower linkage attachment points are tipping hinges from and old KP trailer, and the toplink part was from and old yard scraper, Even the pins I use are made from the pins holding the ram into the handler,... recycling at its best

Was designed for lifting pallets and it does it perfectly, as the tines are the ideal distance apart, wide enough for max stability, but still lift a euro pallet from the narrow end. Was very useful for moving concrete pipes, loading clamps of turf directly onto a trailer in the bog, and all sorts of general moving and lifting. I'm sure if you had a big tractor on it you would brake it but it can easily handle any weight the 35 can lift, although the tines are rated for over three tons together

That looks like a handy fork alright. You can't beat free materials. The trailer I am building shown earlier in the thread also cost me nothing in materials. only time, grinder disks and welding rods/wire.

Nice collection of simple ideas, thats exactly what this thread is ment to be about. I like the filter drainer and the key way puller especially.