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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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    #6242
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,113 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    How do you find the blue rope? , I've orange rope here, not overly impressed with it.

    Why is there a gap in those two pieces of metal in the upper top side?


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    #6243
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Figerty wrote: »
    Time to paint that shed!:D

    Hangers for tracking, for a sliding door?


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    #6244
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭The Rabbi


    I often put a few spots of white hammerite on my vertical welds.
    If anyone is looking at it I'll just say "Fcukin pigeons"


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    #6245
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,638 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    The Rabbi wrote: »
    I often put a few spots of white hammerite on my vertical welds.
    If anyone is looking at it I'll just say "Fcukin pigeons"

    thereby killing two birds with the one stone.


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    #6246
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,697 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #6247
    webels
    Registered Users Posts: 672 ✭✭✭webels


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

    Probably a planer or a drawknife


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    #6248
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

    It looks like part of one of those things they used to have outside fancy houses to wipe your boots on?

    EDIT : Like this - but looking at that pic, it doesnt look likely, as it doesnt have the 'legs'...

    So, thats me out of ideas ;)


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    #6249
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    It looks like part of one of those things they used to have outside fancy houses to wipe your boots on?

    EDIT : Like this - but looking at that pic, it doesnt look likely, as it doesnt have the 'legs'...

    So, thats me out of ideas ;)

    I've learned something new today. Never knew such a thing existed. I'm going to steal that photo and send it on to my brother. If he doesn't know what it is it will do his head in until I tell him. :D


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    #6250
    Figerty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Figerty


    NcdJd wrote: »
    I've learned something new today. Never knew such a thing existed. I'm going to steal that photo and send it on to my brother. If he doesn't know what it is it will do his head in until I tell him. :D

    Standard issue in 1970s school designs. Boot scraper outside. Now it woudld be seen as a hazard.


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    #6251
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Might be a bench dog, for holding wood to a work bench.

    https://trialanderrorwoodworker.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/dogs-dog-holes-and-pseudo-crochet/

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #6252
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Any idea what this is? I'm thinking it's some kind Of wood plainer. Inner edge of long part seems sharpish.

    My second off the wall suggestion is...

    Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
    They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

    That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...


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    #6253
    Donegalforever
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭Donegalforever


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    My second off the wall suggestion is...

    Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
    They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

    That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...

    That is also what I though it might be.


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    #6254
    Earnshaw
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭Earnshaw


    Farm Roadway Sinking

    Have a farm roadway that has been sinking over the years from the weight of machinery. The grassy bit in the middle is at too much of a higher level to drive over without scraping the bottom of the jeep.

    I was wondering if I just filled the two sunken tracks at the sides of it with 2 inch stone would it keep them going for another few years.

    As opposed to scraping off the grassy middle bit and building the whole width of the roadway up.


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    #6255
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Can you get road planings?
    Would 2" stones not dislodge more easily?


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    #6256
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,790 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Use two inch down? Should bind together fine.

    Other option is a lift kit for the jeep?


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    #6257
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    2" down would be fair rough on a Jeep no?


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    #6258
    Earnshaw
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭Earnshaw


    The 2" down would be grand for jeep and machinery - just wondering about my plan of only using it to fill up the tracks and not the middle bit.

    Where would road planings be sourced cheaply? Would be a nice job too.


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    #6259
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Farm Roadway Sinking

    Have a farm roadway that has been sinking over the years from the weight of machinery. The grassy bit in the middle is at too much of a higher level to drive over without scraping the bottom of the jeep.

    I was wondering if I just filled the two sunken tracks at the sides of it with 2 inch stone would it keep them going for another few years.

    As opposed to scraping off the grassy middle bit and building the whole width of the roadway up.

    Scrape off the middle with a loader bucket or transport box, then a bucket load or two of trunking and the jobs fine for another few years. We have to do sections here every year or two after the slurry tankers.


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    #6260
    countryjimbo
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭countryjimbo


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Is it off one of the front shafts off an old cart?
    They had things like that on them, which held the chain that went over the ‘saddle’ (not sure if saddle is the right word there - but it was like a saddle)

    That would mean the long part shouldn’t be sharp though - if anything the opposite...

    That what I thought of too when I first saw it!


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    #6261
    Grueller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,113 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    Scrape off the middle with a loader bucket or transport box, then a bucket load or two of trunking and the jobs fine for another few years. We have to do sections here every year or two after the slurry tankers.

    What is trunking Buford?


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    #6262
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Grueller wrote: »
    What is trunking Buford?

    Anything that can bring up the base level of the road from stones on the farm to bought in aggregate. A bucket or two of a finer mix on top as blinding if there's cattle using the road.


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    #6263
    Grueller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,113 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    Anything that can bring up the base level of the road from stones on the farm to bought in aggregate. A bucket or two of a finer mix on top as blinding if there's cattle using the road.

    Ah right. We would call that fill. Then blinding.


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    #6264
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Grueller wrote: »
    Ah right. We would call that fill. Then blinding.

    I reckon we'd need a thread with all the different names for the same things. Might have to ban forks/prongs/pikes from the thread in case we end up banning the whole forum:pac:


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    #6265
    richie123
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭richie123


    526770.jpg
    A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces I had
    For pulling sheep and Barb wire.
    The name frame is an old shear grab
    Bought two Hydraulic rams to crimp wire.
    Huge labour saving for sheep and Barb wite


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    #6266
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Aravo


    richie123 wrote: »
    A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces I had
    For pulling sheep and Barb wire.
    The name frame is an old shear grab
    Bought two Hydraulic rams to crimp wire.
    Huge labour saving for sheep and Barb wite

    That's a serious bit of kit. Any chance of a few more pics.


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    #6267
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭emaherx


    richie123 wrote: »
    A yoke I made up out of bits and pieces


    For a Post that started with "a yoke I made out of bits and pieces" that picture far exceeded my expectations.

    Please post a few more pics.


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    #6268
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    I reckon we'd need a thread with all the different names for the same things. Might have to ban forks/prongs/pikes from the thread in case we end up banning the whole forum:pac:

    It's a grape :p


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    #6269
    richie123
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭richie123


    emaherx wrote: »
    For a Post that started with "a yoke I made out of bits and pieces" that picture far exceeded my expectations.

    Please post a few more pics.

    Welder give me some hardship stopping and starting slightest bit of wind ya end up with bird droppings...so ignore d welding :):)

    526791.jpg


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    #6270
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭emaherx


    richie123 wrote: »
    Welder give me some hardship stopping and starting slightest bit of wind ya end up with bird droppings...so ignore d welding :):)

    We are not here to judge the welds. It's an excellent job and you are making a fine job of the fencing too.


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    #6271
    richie123
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭richie123


    emaherx wrote: »
    We are not here to judge the welds. It's an excellent job and you are making a fine job of the fencing too.

    Cheers...that machine speeds up the job something shocking.


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