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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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    #5522
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Aravo


    Any advice on a back weight for a 100hp tractor with loader. Am going to make up a concrete weight in the next few weeks. I know what I'm going to use but am not sure on what weight is good enough. 400kg


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    #5523
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Aravo wrote: »
    Any advice on a back weight for a 100hp tractor with loader. Am going to make up a concrete weight in the next few weeks. I know what I'm going to use but am not sure on what weight is good enough. 400kg

    Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.


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    #5524
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Muckit wrote: »
    Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.

    I'm nearly sure he just did :D


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    #5525
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Muckit wrote: »
    Ask Reggie. He made a nice homemade one.

    Dont ask Reggie.... his weight bend the top link :)

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    Couldn't resist reg


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    #5526
    jimmy G M
    Registered Users Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭jimmy G M


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Dont ask Reggie.... his weight bend the top link :)

    Reggie not that heavy... I wouldn't have put him much more than 13 st.?

    :D


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    #5527
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Aravo wrote: »
    Any advice on a back weight for a 100hp tractor with loader. Am going to make up a concrete weight in the next few weeks. I know what I'm going to use but am not sure on what weight is good enough. 400kg

    Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader


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    #5528
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Aravo


    Reggie. wrote:
    Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

    Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.


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    #5529
    9935452
    Registered Users Posts: 2,757 ✭✭✭9935452


    Aravo wrote: »
    Reggie. wrote:
    Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

    Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

    They reckon the heavier the better as it effectively taves weight off the front axel and carries it over the back axel which is better able for carrying weight


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    #5530
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Aravo wrote: »
    Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

    If making it from concrete, its 2.4 ton per cubic meter.


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    #5531
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Reggie. wrote: »
    MODS.... MODS ya must have a few cards left

    We have, Reggie, but we can't card posters for telling the truth:D


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    #5532
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Reggie. wrote: »
    MODS.... MODS ya must have a few cards left

    Great to get pulled by the mods for having a sneer


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    #5533
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    We have, Reggie, but we can't card posters for telling the truth:D

    Well I got a verbal warning and a card for that. Dont think I'll be staying around for long if boards turns this way. Some bull****


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    #5534
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well I got a verbal warning and a card for that. Dont think I'll be staying around for long if boards turns this way. Some bull****

    Ha?


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    #5535
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Aravo


    9935452 wrote: »
    Aravo wrote: »
    Reggie. wrote:
    Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

    Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

    They reckon the heavier the better as it effectively taves weight off the front axel and carries it over the back axel which is better able for carrying weight
    9935452 wrote: »
    Aravo wrote: »
    Reggie. wrote:
    Yeah made one that's about 700kg. A little heavy but just right when something on the loader

    Thanks for that. 400-500kg is what I have in mind. If tomorrow is as wet as expected, I will do a bit with it.

    They reckon the heavier the better as it effectively taves weight off the front axel and carries it over the back axel which is better able for carrying weight

    Weight made. 600kg, will let concrete cure for next 3-4 weeks.


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    #5536
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Aravo wrote: »
    Weight made. 600kg, will let concrete cure for next 3-4 weeks.

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


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    #5537
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    '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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    #5538
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Well are ye believing all that?!


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    #5539
    stock>
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭stock>


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »


    Looked at that vid yesterday and thought hogwash....................................


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    #5540
    148multi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭148multi


    stock> wrote: »
    Looked at that vid yesterday and thought hogwash....................................

    Shiney new tin on the exhaust.


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    #5541
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,664 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    It wasn't out for 16 Irish winters anyway, sounds like an Ozzie.

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



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    #5542
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,463 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    blue5000 wrote: »
    It wasn't out for 16 Irish winters anyway, sounds like an Ozzie.

    Kiwi,

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #5543
    older by the day
    Registered Users Posts: 1,768 ✭✭✭older by the day


    Are you sure there wasn't some ould lad in that Forrest painting broken down diggers with diesel every day. Such a load of ****ete


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    #5544
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    God, ye are a cynical lot. :D I suppose it would want to be as dry as the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tuscon. The so called aeroplane graveyard.

    '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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    #5545
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Want to drill holes on the side of an upright similar to that in the pic. The upright is already set in concrete away from the yard so have to drill by hand with battery drill. Would the attached hole saw do the job? Maybe 4 holes on one side only of the upright to do. Holes are for 48mm OD blue band pipe and uprights are 60mm OD.

    https://www.demesne.ie/products/starrett-hs51-holesaw-51mm.html?filter_set[]=684,659&page=2
    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    3mm wall. Which is 'Light wall' according to this.

    Sorry - 4mm wall with 89mm OD. So medium wall.

    https://iitc.ie/catalogue/steel/tubes/galvanised-pipe/galvanised-pipe/

    Update. Drilled it fine with a cheapish holesaw. Ruko 51mm.

    '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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    #5546
    The Nutty M
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭The Nutty M


    Tasty


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    #5547
    Figerty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Figerty


    148multi wrote: »
    Shiney new tin on the exhaust.

    Hi did say the forest owner wanted it removed.
    If the exhaust was covered, and the engine sealed, then it could be started, but it's going to be a money pit forever.
    16 years, probably not. Was it abandoned? You would be surprised what people will write off an abandon,

    Their is a high quality digger abandoned between the Clarecastle and Newmarket,. You can see if from the motorway. A friend of mine, who knows his stuff, reckon that's it worth salvaging. If the engine is blown it can towed.
    But for some reason it's there with about 10 years.


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    #5548
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Figerty wrote: »
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    Their is a high quality digger abandoned between the Clarecastle and Newmarket,. You can see if from the motorway. A friend of mine, who knows his stuff, reckon that's it worth salvaging. If the engine is blown it can towed.
    But for some reason it's there with about 10 years.

    I know the one you're on about, on the left in wet land heading east. Is it there that long? If the tracks and drive motors are ok, all you'd need is a PTO pump to drive it out with 2 pipes connected to a tractor.
    Here she is, in all her glory. Took pic from Gooogle Earth.

    '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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    #5549
    stock>
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭stock>


    It an O&K I believe, used to be a 210 Komatsu there for a while after the road opened used to belong to Gamma, had no tracks on it..................................


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    #5550
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I know the one you're on about, on the left in wet land heading east. Is it there that long? If the tracks and drive motors are ok, all you'd need is a PTO pump to drive it out with 2 pipes connected to a tractor.
    Here she is, in all her glory. Took pic from Gooogle Earth.

    I think there is some way of unlocking the final drives too and you can just tow it if you wanted. Was only looking at it yesterday when passing.


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    #5551
    Figerty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    I think there is some way of unlocking the final drives too and you can just tow it if you wanted. Was only looking at it yesterday when passing.

    Yes, It's a planetary gear, pull the cover, extract the planet gear and the Hydraulics aren't affected.
    Remove the boom and dipper and it's an easy enough job I'm told.

    The steel is top quality on those machines. I can't think of the make, but that one is a quality machine.


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