Labour Saving and General Guntering

Muckit

Youll come out some morning to find a lovely bundle of ****ty firewood.

dharn

Ya agree timber is not strong enough , I will get damp and the screws will pull through it

zetecescort

whats the advantage of having it hinged?

royaler83

zetecescort wrote: »

whats the advantage of having it hinged?

Looks great but I'd be afraid they'l make dung of between horseplay or scratching against it from boredom

Sligoronan

Muckit wrote: »

Youll come out some morning to find a lovely bundle of ****ty firewood.

'twas only fire wood to start with

Sligoronan

zetecescort wrote: »

whats the advantage of having it hinged?

Had one for last 3 years on the wall and when the weanlings s##t in it, ya go to wash it with the hose it splattered up on ya. So hopefully with the hinge it save getting s##te in the head.

Reggie.

Have this done awhile. just seen it today and said I'll stick up a pic. Saves the cattle scratching off barriers/troughs

Mad4simmental

Reggie. wrote: »

Have this done awhile. just seen it today and said I'll stick up a pic. Saves the cattle scratching off barriers/troughs

Do they use it much Reggie?

Reggie.

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Do they use it much Reggie?

Once they learn what it's for they use it exclusively. Some dirt falls out of it tho when ya power hose the sheds

Farmer

Got mixed up there for a minute, thought it was the shower

darragh_haven

Indoor crush is a god send this weather. .... and the head rail is some job for putting manners on the odd wild bullock that gets bought in

darragh_haven

An old over ground slurry store needed a roof. Using it as a shed now.

Reggie.

Must have been a job to put that up

Greengrass1

How did you manage to find the centre for the pillar?

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

How did you manage to find the centre for the pillar?

I'd measure the circumference of the tank.

Divide by 4

Connect the opposites with lines

And X marks the spot

delaney001

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd measure the circumference of the tank.

Divide by 4

Connect the opposites with lines

And X marks the spot

Or pull a string between any two points on the edge of the circle, find mid point of the string. Go perpendicularly from that point towards the centre.

Do the exact same thing from anywhere else on the edge of the circle and the two lines will meet at the centre point

Tyson Lannister

delaney001 wrote: »

Or pull a string between any two points on the edge of the circle, find mid point of the string. Go perpendicularly from that point towards the centre.

Do the exact same thing from anywhere else on the edge of the circle and the two lines will meet at the centre point

ah yes the old bisect 2 chords

Tyson Lannister

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd measure the circumference of the tank.

Divide by 4

Connect the opposites with lines

And X marks the spot

wouldn't be so easy to do that though as measuring the circumference you'd be pulling the tape around the outside - therefore when you'd split into 4 your point obtained would be on the outside of the wall of the tank.
transferring to inside would be guesswork to pull the X - or am I missing something?

Nekarsulm

2 lengths of twine. Nail one end of the first piece anywhere around the inside of the tank. Pull it straight across to where the string is longest, nail or weight it down at this position.

Repeat with the other piece of string, starting anywhere else around the inside, but ideally roughly 90 degrees around from either end of your first string. Find the longest point of this string also, and pin it down. Where they cross is centre.

darragh_haven

Greengrass1 wrote: »

How did you manage to find the centre for the pillar?

It was a bit easier that most of yer suggestions. The tank was make up of 18 panels. Pulked a line from the joint of one panel across to the 9th next one (directly accross). Did this three times just to be sure of the centre

darragh_haven

Reggie. wrote: »

Must have been a job to put that up

I did architectural technology in college so I did everything out on the computer and cut and bored all timber on the ground and it just bolter together. Didn't have a total of 5 foot of waste.

keep going

Does it still count for slurry storage:-)

darragh_haven

keep going wrote: »

Does it still count for slurry storage:-)

It depends on who's asking

Muckit

Great bit of roofing geometry there and a lot of hips to flash! How did you manage to seal them?

It looks like one of those round house sheds! !

Reggie.

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

wouldn't be so easy to do that though as measuring the circumference you'd be pulling the tape around the outside - therefore when you'd split into 4 your point obtained would be on the outside of the wall of the tank.
transferring to inside would be guesswork to pull the X - or am I missing something?

Be very little in it.

Another way would be get the distance to the centre of the tank. Pull a line from a few different points like a giant compass and mark the ends of the twine.
Where all the marks intersect is the centre

Tyson Lannister

Reggie. wrote: »

Be very little in it.

Another way would be get the distance to the centre of the tank. Pull a line from a few different points like a giant compass and mark the ends of the twine.
Where all the marks intersect is the centre

To get the distance to the centre though you'd need to have the centre point? Or else measure the diameter, which you couldn't do without passing through the centre point which you don't have!:D:D

Nekarsulm

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

To get the distance to the centre though you'd need to have the centre point? Or else measure the diameter, which you couldn't do without passing through the centre point which you don't have!:D:D

See posts 1167 and 1170 !:D:D

Tyson Lannister

Ah yeah I agree with 1167, bisect two chords, use 3:4:5 triangle off one chord to bisect and snap a chalk line on the ground. Repeat and where they intersect is centre.
1170 though bit wish washy- find where line is longest to find diameter - you know yourself you wouldn't be able to find the exact point where its longest only a general area!

ford 5600

darragh_haven wrote: »

An old over ground slurry store needed a roof. Using it as a shed now.

A credit to you, fine bit of work. If you had to pay someone to do that, labour costs would be colossal, plus the off cuts of sheeting, you would probably be better building new and square. Still, a fine job.
As. Matter of interest, how old was that slurry store to be that rotten ?

darragh_haven

ford 5600 wrote: »

A credit to you, fine bit of work. If you had to pay someone to do that, labour costs would be colossal, plus the off cuts of sheeting, you would probably be better building new and square. Still, a fine job.
As. Matter of interest, how old was that slurry store to be that rotten ?

Slurry store was 39 years old when it wasn't worth patching any more (and didn't need the storage any more.) The Job has been done 5 years now. The total cost inc VAT was €5,600. I don't think you'd get much concrete, steel, timber and sheeting for that. There was no wastage of sheeting because i had calculated the lenght of sheet need where the off cut on one section was the lenght needed for the next section. I added 50mm to my calculations for each sheet just to be sure. see attached pic

Zr105

darragh_haven wrote: »

It was a bit easier that most of yer suggestions. The tank was make up of 18 panels. Pulked a line from the joint of one panel across to the 9th next one (directly accross). Did this three times just to be sure of the centre

Some people just don't see the simple things in life :P :P


Tasty job getting the sheeting measured out! Had a guy that's doing roofs 25 or 30 years measure up for us here one day... I still don't know where he came up with half the sheets.....

Reggie.

Zr105 wrote: »

Some people just don't see the sime things in life :P :P


Tasty job getting the sheeting measured out! Had a guy that's doing roofs 25 or 30 years measure up for us here one day... I still don't know where he came up with half the sheets.....

Ya can't beat the experience

Bullocks

Zr105 wrote: »

Some people just don't see the sime things in life :P :P


Tasty job getting the sheeting measured out! Had a guy that's doing roofs 25 or 30 years measure up for us here one day... I still don't know where he came up with half the sheets.....

I'd say he got it from the philosophy " its better looking at it than for it " .

Zr105

Bullocks wrote: »

I'd say he got it from the philosophy " its better looking at it than for it " .

I'd say more so he thought more money for me cause we'd done the steel work ourselves... I'm talking about a couple of full sheets the longest being 9ft....

Reggie.

PHEW!!!!! That's the reinforcement on the blades done. 6 hrs and 160 rods later. Time for a quick run to loosen the body before the tae

Zr105

Reggie. wrote: »

PHEW!!!!! That's the reinforcement on the blades done. 6 hrs and 160 rods later. Time for a quick run to loosen the body before the tae

That's fair going.... I'd say the leads musta been near glowing

Nekarsulm

Its getting more Mad Max like every day

Reggie.

Zr105 wrote: »

That's fair going.... I'd say the leads musta been near glowing

Me back is near glowing from stooping

Reggie.

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Its getting more Mad Max like every day

Ok you caught me. I'm making the props for the new film

Deepsouthwest

Reggie. wrote: »

PHEW!!!!! That's the reinforcement on the blades done. 6 hrs and 160 rods later. Time for a quick run to loosen the body before the tae

Fair play, ur tasty with the rods Reggie. Is it for ur own use or for sale? I'd be v interested to hear more about soil aeration, thinking of trying some mole ploughing here. Trial a few fields first, sorry I didn't do a bit this fall. Only thing that's putting me off is I don't know any guys around here who've tried it. Is it not successful? Or is our land around here too riddled with old stone drains?

Reggie.

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Fair play, ur tasty with the rods Reggie. Is it for ur own use or for sale? I'd be v interested to hear more about soil aeration, thinking of trying some mole ploughing here. Trial a few fields first, sorry I didn't do a bit this fall. Only thing that's putting me off is I don't know any guys around here who've tried it. Is it not successful? Or is our land around here too riddled with old stone drains?

Its for our own land here. Anyone that has it done around here claims it's a good job. Time will tell I suppose

Deepsouthwest

Reggie. wrote: »

Me back is near glowing from stooping

Spent most of a day on my knees welding channels for a calfhouse a few yrs ago. I swear when I was finished it took a few days for me to stand up straight again!

Reggie.

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Spent most of on my knees welding channels for a calfhouse a few yrs ago. I swear when I was finished it took a few days for me to up straight again!

It never hits ya till your finished

Nekarsulm

Finally entered the 20th Century here, and bought one of those LED Inspection lamps. Totally fed up putting bulbs into the old type lamps.
Aldi have 60 LED models for 12 Euro. Local agri. spares place want 30 Euro for almost identical model.

Reggie.

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Finally entered the 20th Century here, and bought one of those LED Inspection lamps. Totally fed up putting bulbs into the old type lamps.
Aldi have 60 LED models for 12 Euro. Local agri. spares place want 30 Euro for almost identical model.

Ooooh fancy

blue5000

Reggie. wrote: »

Ooooh fancy

The watch?:D

Sami23

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Finally entered the 20th Century here, and bought one of those LED Inspection lamps. Totally fed up putting bulbs into the old type lamps.
Aldi have 60 LED models for 12 Euro. Local agri. spares place want 30 Euro for almost identical model.

Great yoke alrit

Nekarsulm

Don't knock the Germans, or they won't lend us any more money to buy their cars........:)

Zr105

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Finally entered the 20th Century here, and bought one of those LED Inspection lamps. Totally fed up putting bulbs into the old type lamps.
Aldi have 60 LED models for 12 Euro. Local agri. spares place want 30 Euro for almost identical model.

Have one of those for the last 2 or 3 year, wouldn't be used a whole lot but it is bloody handy. Was over with a neighbour calving a cow, left it stuck to the pillar turned on around 7 in the evening, he dropped it back over around half 9 the next day and it still had power in it!

f140

Reggie. wrote: »

PHEW!!!!! That's the reinforcement on the blades done. 6 hrs and 160 rods later. Time for a quick run to loosen the body before the tae

paint those welds. looks a mighty job