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Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

You cant beat a bit of length

Its the width I'm told

dharn

Shes being diplomatic

Connemara Farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

Think they fired something at Thatcher out of that yoke in the 80's

dharn

The grips are fierce uncomfortable looking

Muckit

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. .

At first l thought it was a homemade incendiary device to blow up the trooper! But now I realise tis a post driver! Nicely made btw

quader

Reggie. wrote: »

Its the width I'm told

Na it's how u use it and more importantly how often😎😎

agriman27

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

Your jeep looks familiar I've seen it around:pac:

Nekarsulm

agriman27 wrote: »

Your jeep looks familiar I've seen it around:pac:

Ha! Don't be shy, got loads of fencing on tomorrow

dharn

I use the front loader to drive stakes, much easier

just do it

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made this this morning. Not pretty, but done the job. Good and long, cause easy to brain yourself with a short driver and a short post, when the bottom edge of the driver catches on the top of the post.

I'm glad I' not from where you're from

Nekarsulm

just do it wrote: »

I'm glad I' not from where you're from

They breed us tall up here.....;)

just do it

Nekarsulm wrote: »

They breed us tall up here.....;)

I was thinking more of your location in the user detail panel on the left hand side :cool:

cj maxx

Reggie. wrote: »

I feed all my bales with a similar fork and always pushed bushes with that fork as the branches can't get to the bonnet grill when your pushing

My idea was a frame the width of the tractor with ( prob)5 tines at the bottom and a longer one centered and height to suit the centre of the bale
Id only be handling 1 bale at a time so i could remove the centre and outer bottom tines if need be
I could remove the long centre bale spike to use as light gauge forks for pallets/ barrels and for pushing bushes
The closed back to protect the grill is good but maybe a strong steel meah for visibility
Now what size / gauge of steel should be thinking of and are the brackets dear ?

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

My idea was a frame the width of the tractor with ( prob)5 tines at the bottom and a longer one centered and height to suit the centre of the bale
Id only be handling 1 bale at a time so i could remove the centre and outer bottom tines if need be
I could remove the long centre bale spike to use as light gauge forks for pallets/ barrels and for pushing bushes
The closed back to protect the grill is good but maybe a strong steel meah for visibility
Now what size / gauge of steel should be thinking of and are the brackets dear ?

Euro brackets can be got round the €80 ish mark, but could be up to €100 depending where you get them,

As for steel bare minimum would be say 80*80*6 for the time beam, but if you could go heavier I would, and definitly put in tine bushings, just drilling 2 holes you'll never keep the tines tight..

Personally I wouldn't be mad for taking times in and out as you'll never keep the buggers tight in it if you do. To be honest If your only gona put 5 tines in a fork the width of tractor I wouldn't be to worried about taking them out anyway, you'll have no problem getting them into bales, and if you use 32"tines they'll be long enough even for chopped bales.

We've just 2*42" tines here on the fork and I hate opening silage bales on it as the centre falls through half the time whilst you r cutting the net off and ends up caught in the bale. On the other hand place i work in has a fork the bare width of the loader with 5*32"tines and it's no bother picking up bales and easier to break up bales and spread them out with it

cj maxx

Zr105 wrote: »

Euro brackets can be got round the €80 ish mark, but could be up to €100 depending where you get them,

As for steel bare minimum would be say 80*80*6 for the time beam, but if you could go heavier I would, and definitly put in tine bushings, just drilling 2 holes you'll never keep the tines tight..

Personally I wouldn't be mad for taking times in and out as you'll never keep the buggers tight in it if you do. To be honest If your only gona put 5 tines in a fork the width of tractor I wouldn't be to worried about taking them out anyway, you'll have no problem getting them into bales, and if you use 32"tines they'll be long enough even for chopped bales.

We've just 2*42" tines here on the fork and I hate opening silage bales on it as the centre falls through half the time whilst you r cutting the net off and ends up caught in the bale. On the other hand place i work in has a fork the bare width of the loader with 5*32"tines and it's no bother picking up bales and easier to break up bales and spread them out with it

Yeah think your right about puting tines in and out and thanks for trlling me about works fork
What is 80'80'6 steel , 3" box ? And by go heavier is that size or gauge ?

Nekarsulm

80 millimeter square box , with a 6 millimeter thick wall. If you can get 100mm square with a 10 or 12 mm wall, would be ideal.

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

Yeah think your right about puting tines in and out and thanks for trlling me about works fork
What is 80'80'6 steel , 3" box ? And by go heavier is that size or gauge ?

Yeah 80*80*6 would be close to 3inch, it'd be the modern equivalent, 3in would be closer to 75mm but it's either 70 or 80mm now!

As nec says 100*100 with 10mm would be better, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell!

cj maxx

, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell![/quote]

Old case 885xl , lifting 1 bale and bushes most listly the bulk of the work
I thought 100 mm might be heavy but maybe not. It'd be lighter than the bucket i use

Zr105

cjmc wrote: »

, But the 80 should be fine. I suppose it depends what sort of loader/power you have behind it and what sort of weight your lifting aswell!

Old case 885xl , lifting 1 bale and bushes most listly the bulk of the work
I thought 100 mm might be heavy but maybe not. It'd be lighter than the bucket i use[/quote]
I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really

cj maxx

I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really[/quote]
Heavier guage (10 mm) Would be handier welded too i magine

Reggie.

cjmc wrote: »

I'd go as heavy as you can really, even heavier walled 80*80 would be no harm really

Heavier guage (10 mm) Would be handier welded too i magine[/quote]

Yeah it would as there is more steel to bite into

delaney001

Thinking about throwing together a trailed milk tank for feeding calves, pull it behind the quad. Don't think anyone makes one yet. Prob buy one of those atv trailer kits. There bout €180 and locate a tank to put on top of it. Enjoy welding a lot so looking forward to it.

Any tips at all or advise regarding quad trailers?

GY A1

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

delaney001 wrote: »

Thinking about throwing together a trailed milk tank for feeding calves, pull it behind the quad. Don't think anyone makes one yet. Prob buy one of those atv trailer kits. There bout €180 and locate a tank to put on top of it. Enjoy welding a lot so looking forward to it.

Any tips at all or advise regarding quad trailers?

Reggie.

GY A1 wrote: »

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

I like the lick bucket holder

delaney001

GY A1 wrote: »

something like this
made already

http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/calf-feeder/4461540

It's actually only the transport I want. We could have ten groups of calves in different areas. They all feed on the 10 tit blue feeders hanging on a gate. So rather than having to carry buckets of milk around to 10 areas, it'd be handy fill this thing up and drive around to each pen. If that makes sense.

O.A.P

36mm spanner, I needed one thin enough to fit between the engine block and the fan on a landrover defender.
It worked and took me about 15 minutes .
Its as rough as they get though.

dharn

If it works... I made a 36 mm socket from some pipe cut 5 slots in it flattened each section around the nut welded the joins, perfect job, welded handel on to the side of it, removed blades off a topper

Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

If it works... I made a 36 mm socket from some pipe cut 5 slots in it flattened each section around the nut welded the joins, perfect job, welded handel on to the side of it, removed blades off a topper

Nice...very nice

Reggie.

Finally got back to the "sprocket"

Odelay

Nice work. What's with the paint job on the drum? Is it camouflaged?

Reggie.

Odelay wrote: »

Nice work. What's with the paint job on the drum? Is it camouflaged?

Ran a builders line on it and then sprayed over it to get the curved line. Look closely and you will see the line I'm following for the blades in pic 2

Odelay

Reggie. wrote: »

Ran a builders line on it and then sprayed over it to get the curved line. Look closely and you will see the line I'm following for the blades in pic 2

Ah, now I get it, thought the dark area was sprayed over the yellow drum but now see it's yellow sprayed over a steel drum.
Sorry to be a nosey fooker again, but what is the tray/trough on the back wall? Know ya put a lot of thought into work, so curious as to its use......

Zr105

Reggie. wrote: »

Ran a builders line on it and then sprayed over it to get the curved line. Look closely and you will see the line I'm following for the blades in pic 2

Smart idea! I was about to ask had ya gone all fancy and using some special anti spatter spray

dharn

Looks like its for feeding a giraffe

Farmer

dharn wrote: »

Looks like its for feeding a giraffe

That'll confuse the grading machine but sure we've already had horse meat so why not

Reggie.

Odelay wrote: »

Ah, now I get it, thought the dark area was sprayed over the yellow drum but now see it's yellow sprayed over a steel drum.
Sorry to be a nosey fooker again, but what is the tray/trough on the back wall? Know ya put a lot of thought into work, so curious as to its use......

it's just a homemade feeding through that hangs on a gate

Odelay

Reggie. wrote: »

it's just a homemade feeding through that hangs on a gate

So you made a device to hang the feeding trough that hangs on a gate to store it??? I'm guessing there are no pallets and twine filling gaps in your place:pac:

Reggie.

Odelay wrote: »

So you made a device to hang the feeding trough that hangs on a gate to store it??? I'm guessing there are no pallets and twine filling gaps in your place:pac:

Nope it just haging on the side panels of the shed

rushvalley

Reggie. wrote: »

Finally got back to the "sprocket"

Just needs a coat of MF red now

Reggie.

rushvalley wrote: »

Just needs a coat of MF red now

Now there's an idea

Was wondering on a colour scheme for it
Was thinking yellow drum and wheels with blue frame

Suggestions?

Mad4simmental

Nice job Reggie. It'll be interesting to see what difference it will do to a field.

Reggie.

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Nice job Reggie. It'll be interesting to see what difference it will do to a field.

More than likely seed metal blades in the ground everywhere

dharn

What are your spikes made from

Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

What are your spikes made from

Reversible plough points

dharn

Will the hardened steel weld to the mild steel

Reggie.

dharn wrote: »

Will the hardened steel weld to the mild steel

Seems to have while I was tacking it

Figerty

Reggie. wrote: »

Seems to have while I was tacking it

29 /9 rod if it doesn't. That should sort it.

Reggie.

Figerty wrote: »

29 /9 rod if it doesn't. That should sort it.

I'm gonna MIG them

cj maxx

Quote: Mad4simmental
Nice job Reggie. It'll be interesting to see what difference it will do to a field.


Sorry reggie but i cant find the op or photos , what did you make for tearing up ground ?

Reggie.

cjmc wrote: »

Quote: Mad4simmental
Nice job Reggie. It'll be interesting to see what difference it will do to a field.


Sorry reggie but i cant find the op or photos , what did you make for tearing up ground ?

A drum aerator

Look two pages back