Labour Saving and General Guntering

St. Leibowitz

gctest50 wrote: »

one of these and you'd never leave the shed

Oh my Jebus, that's just ... I mean it's ... you're right, I'd need to bring another kettle and microwave out to the shed ...

Reggie.

St. Leibowitz wrote: »

Oh my Jebus, that's just ... I mean it's ... you're right, I'd need to bring another kettle and microwave out to the shed ...

Can we get leibowitz a change of pants there please

foxy farmer

pedigree 6 wrote: »

What you are describing sounds like you're looking for a scaled up version of a crush panel. I have them in my crush and they came from conden engineering. They hinge and can open on both sides.

http://www.condonengineering.ie/crushes/crush-races/

Yeah just without all the faffing about with pins clips or nuts and bolts. Just pull a lever on either end and the gate opens but should be animal proof too.
I have a few ideas in my head. Going to be a sleepless night for me thinking it over.

St. Leibowitz

Reggie. wrote: »

St. Leibowitz wrote: »

Oh my Jebus, that's just ... I mean it's ... you're right, I'd need to bring another kettle and microwave out to the shed ...

Can we get leibowitz a change of pants there please

Actually, could you make that two ??? May have to watch that video again before I hit the scratcher. Sorry.

gctest50

St. Leibowitz wrote: »

Oh my Jebus, that's just ... I mean it's ... you're right, I'd need to bring another kettle and microwave out to the shed ...

the ULTRA jig - you want the ULTRA jig you do , not one of those other ones

pedigree 6

foxy farmer wrote: »

Yeah just without all the faffing about with pins clips or nuts and bolts. Just pull a lever on either end and the gate opens but should be animal proof too.
I have a few ideas in my head. Going to be a sleepless night for me thinking it over.

I think i'd still leave the adjustable hinges on each side on the bottom of the gate on it. If you could.

Kovu

Damn....now I'm trying to figure out the double hinge gate

What about if you had something like a calving gate, have a smaller gate built into a larger gate with each opening different ways.
Like below but with no top/bottom rails.


Or tubular steel as posts put over a smaller rod. Latches welded on the outer so the bolts can close at either side and swing on the outer steel?

foxy farmer

Kovu wrote: »

Damn....now I'm trying to figure out the double hinge gate

What about if you had something like a calving gate, have a smaller gate built into a larger gate with each opening different ways.
Like below but with no top/bottom rails.

Yeah that would work too.

Nekarsulm

Couple of ideas, depending on whether you have an RSJ at each end or not. The crush panel idea is good, you see feed rails on sheds done like that, just with one long rod dropped down through both hinges, each end. The weight of the rod keeps it secure and cattle can't fiddle it open.
Then you could get technical and design something along the lines of a Euro loader headstock locking lever, pulling the pins in and out of the hinges, if you know what I mean.
Or the same principal only sliding a pair of brackets up and down the RSJ, each with a pieces of tubular steel top and bottom to engage the normal gate "spikes"

foxy farmer

Gate is 15ft with bullnose rails at both sides. Tolerances would have to be tight so gate will lock and open without having to lift or slam or pull the gate.

Nekarsulm

Don't think you're gonna hang a 15 food heavy gate without some small amount of droop or sag, without some impressive engineering.

delaney001

Who needs a tailboard

Reggie.

delaney001 wrote: »

Who needs a tailboard

First bump

O.A.P

delaney001 wrote: »

Who needs a tailboard

Ash or beech ?

delaney001

O.A.P wrote: »

Ash or beech ?

Ash. Fell during Desmond or whatever one of those storms was called

patsy_mccabe

foxy farmer wrote: »

Gate is 15ft with bullnose rails at both sides. Tolerances would have to be tight so gate will lock and open without having to lift or slam or pull the gate.

I can't see how you could do that without the gates sagging . You could put a roller wheel on each end with a spring on it, but the ground would have to be fairly level .

Nekarsulm

Single wheel in the centre would work. Great idea Patsy.

bogman_bass

Tested the fence and no power going to the Spring gate. A cheapo jump lead hanging up in the dairy came to the rescue

tractorporn

Probably been posted here before but one of the little tricks we use here for the loader is to colour code the pipes with coloured cable ties. Simple and saves a lot of time and hardship and the bag of cable ties was only 5 you yos in B&Q.

thomasthomas19

Slat scrapper.
An 2005. Partner lawnmower
Paid 150 for it at a hire place
Pumped up the tyres. . Cleaned the carb
Rewired it and away it went

Then put 3point hitch on it

Jb1989

thomasthomas19 wrote: »

Hard to bate a corolla for the farm work .

bogman_bass

thomasthomas19 wrote: »

Slat scrapper.
An 2005. Partner lawnmower
Paid 150 for it at a hire place
Pumped up the tyres. . Cleaned the carb
Rewired it and away it went

Then put 3point hitch on it

Have you used it? How well does it work?

whelan2

Does anyone have anything on front loader for lifting slats at a manhole in gang slat? Use j hooks here , but have had a few near accidents. We have safety manholes in most of the gang slats so its only 1 or 2 that we would be lifting

9935452

whelan2 wrote: »

Does anyone have anything on front loader for lifting slats at a manhole in gang slat? Use j hooks here , but have had a few near accidents. We have safety manholes in most of the gang slats so its only 1 or 2 that we would be lifting

We would have half width slats where they need to be removed for agitating.
2 crowbars , 2 lads , tip them up on their ends and use the crowbars to lift the half slat out onto the next slat.
What i have seen lads use is lifting slings. Thread them through the slats. one on each side and up to the loader. unless the sling breaks they cant really go wrong

Muckit

thomasthomas19 wrote: »

Slat scrapper.
An 2005. Partner lawnmower
Paid 150 for it at a hire place
Pumped up the tyres. . Cleaned the carb
Rewired it and away it went

Then put 3point hitch on it

She looks like a craftsman. You've a good yoke there if it's similar

Shes prob worth 500 even without the deck. That man mustn't b well in the head

thomasthomas19

Muckit wrote: »

She looks like a craftsman. You've a good yoke there if it's similar

Shes prob worth 500 even without the deck. That man mustn't b well in the head

He said it was a trade in . Was looking for 250 going . So I said I would 150. And fix it myself. Deck and collecter bin all came with it

thomasthomas19

Jb1989 wrote: »

thomasthomas19 wrote: »

Hard to bate a corolla for the farm work .

Yeah great yoke She is 93 Passed test first go last week
Spent just 70 euro on it
Brought for 200 euro couple of years ago with 1 years nct

thomasthomas19

bogman_bass wrote: »

Have you used it? How well does it work?

Haven't used it yet . But will let you know

Nekarsulm

whelan2 wrote: »

Does anyone have anything on front loader for lifting slats at a manhole in gang slat? Use j hooks here , but have had a few near accidents. We have safety manholes in most of the gang slats so its only 1 or 2 that we would be lifting

see post 1656 ?

dohc turbo2

Picked up this few weeks ago as a project , put on new bottom bar , two new sides and rest just needed cleaning

Reggie.

dohc turbo2 wrote: »

Picked up this few weeks ago as a project , put on new bottom bar , two new sides and rest just needed cleaning

Very nice. Much work in it? Bought a tidy one myself the other day. A vicon aswell but a 300 kg one. That is 500kg or 1000kg?

dohc turbo2

Reggie. wrote: »

Very nice. Much work in it? Bought a tidy one myself the other day. A vicon aswell but a 300 kg one. That is 500kg or 1000kg?

500 kg , the lad I got it off had fine new sides made up for it , but rented land few miles away so bought a 1 tonne one , so he gave me them to use as they were the worst bits , they had rusted away from base frame , but I replaced that with new gal pipe , I had it done in about 3 evenings and painted it last weekend

Cavanjack

whelan2 wrote: »

Does anyone have anything on front loader for lifting slats at a manhole in gang slat? Use j hooks here , but have had a few near accidents. We have safety manholes in most of the gang slats so its only 1 or 2 that we would be lifting

They are pure hardship and can be replaced cheap enough. Replaced them all here a few years ago for a couple of hundred afair. Got the steel manhole covers on the safety grant last year for them.

Nekarsulm

Some one used their head when roofing this "landrover" trailer.

foxy farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Some one used their head when roofing this "landrover" trailer.

Reminded me of something I saw when googling recently. An extreme form of "recycling".

Limestone Cowboy

Looks like a handy yoke!

annubis

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Looks like a handy yoke!

ya very handy

Reggie.

annubis wrote: »

ya very handy

Not a bad price either

annubis

Reggie. wrote: »

Not a bad price either

i have an older type one here but its hopeless, wont cut into bag right so you couldnt trust it to stay in place, think you would need bag to be lifted though and be fitted your adapter in underneath bag as opposed to photo, you would have enough flow id say with the bag just resting ontop like that

Bullocks

annubis wrote: »

i have an older type one here but its hopeless, wont cut into bag right so you couldnt trust it to stay in place, think you would need bag to be lifted though and be fitted your adapter in underneath bag as opposed to photo, you would have enough flow id say with the bag just resting ontop like that

I was going to order the one in LC pictures yesterday but didn't like the little blades and screwing it in so had a rethink . I'd say the other one on DD that's a bit dearer might be more robust . What ye think ?

annubis

Bullocks wrote: »

I was going to order the one in LC pictures yesterday but didn't like the little blades and screwing it in so had a rethink . I'd say the other one on DD that's a bit dearer might be more robust . What ye think ?

ya my one has little blades and screws in, as i say its hopeless

Bullocks

I ordered the one in Cork there awhile ago , €161 including VAT and delivery. Hope it works well now

Reggie.

Bullocks wrote: »

I ordered the one in Cork there awhile ago , €161 including VAT and delivery. Hope it works well now

Keep us posted

pedigree 6

Not ground breaking but this is a catch I made up to keep a covered gate open.
You just push the gate and it latches on to the plate on the pillar on the house.

Bullocks

Reggie. wrote: »

Keep us posted

Will do , depending on the weather though it could be a month before I use it if I get to spread what I have here before it arrives

mengele

Reggie. wrote: »

Not a bad price either

what is the reason for people buying these? that there spinner wont hold a big bag? they don't want to use a whole bag and don't want to be lifting small bags?

jack of all

@ pedigree 6

The sharp point on the end of the latch looks like an accident waiting to happen, would it not be a good idea to grind it back or round it over for fear someone would do themselves an injury if they walked or backed into it?

Nekarsulm

mengele wrote: »

what is the reason for people buying these? that there spinner wont hold a big bag? they don't want to use a whole bag and don't want to be lifting small bags?

Quad spreader that holds four or so cwt. Or that you don't want to fill completely due to soft or hilly ground . Leave the bag hanging on the forks and you can zoom in and out in minutes.

EJ88

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Quad spreader that holds four or so cwt. Or that you don't want to fill completely due to soft or hilly ground . Leave the bag hanging on the forks and you can zoom in and out in minutes.

Why not use 50kg bags?

Reggie.

EJ88 wrote: »

Why not use 50kg bags?

Easier on the back