Labour Saving and General Guntering

Was it a C and F windmill, they seemed to have washed their hands of them when they gave trouble.

Not sure but I think someone else has taken them over

A Teagasc guy that specialises in energy usage monitored a wind turbine in Sligo for a year. On top of a cliff overlooking the Atlantic. He calculated that the turbine would pay for itself in 15 years. The predicted lifespan of it also happened to be 15 years…… says enough about them.

Would it be worthwhile putting 2 led floods on it one pointing each side. They will not be on the whole time. Just a thought

You will never regret putting it up. It will need a junction box as most of the LED floods have short cable tail so it would be a quick job. Avoid the LAP brand from Screwfix, utter muck, lesson learned with them. Did a job on the yard with lighting last year and it's a pleasure to work with. Most of the outdoor floods are on a single switch near yard entrance. Great comfort in the coming months and they are only on while you are working.

Have replaced over half the LAP ones that i got, just dont last and that's outside and under cover. Some of the early ones I got lasted but any in the past 18 months didnt and that's a mix of under cover and outside. Got replacements from Trade electric in Limerick and a better job,

Screwfix are grand for the bits and pieces such as switches, glands, junction boxes etc.

As an electrician, I would advise Ansell, Thorn or Ledvance lights. The cheap lights are just that.

Might be Patsy's post on 21st Oct, on this thread

I made up a hanger here to hang from the side of a pillar. Just cut a 200 length of 100mm wide flat bar (12mm thick). Drill 2 holes 18mm top and bottom. weld this on a 100 length of channel 200x100. Across the open of the channel weld on a flat 100mm bar with holes for the gate hanger.

Pics below. I had both the 200x100 channel and flat bar here already.

I saw this and couldn’t figure out why you’d add a towbar to the trailer door 🤔

I was painting some LED Light brackets today. Hung them up on a frame. Some on hooks, some tied up with baling twine. Painted one and the twine opened and fell down and knocked the tin of paint. Grabbed it with about 1/4 spilled but it slipped out of my hand , spilling 3/4 of it. Jeez, you could hear me cursing a mile away. Finished painting anyway and then realised I had spilled the paint all over my work pants, same colour. Paint went tru to the skin.

Some days you're better off staying in bed.

We've eight of them for the last 5 years in the one shed and two of them overflowed. We changed the valve on both but one of them still overflows if the lever valve on the pipe is turn fully on. I recommend that every month or so during the Winter you take off the galvanised cover and clean the area where the float is - bits of hay/silage etc get caught up and restricts the float valve.

The brass ones, they were the only ones that store had.

I check them daily when I walk along the feed barrier and scoop out any dirty water with a small plastic container that I keep in the shed. Other than the two that gave problems initially and the one that is still not right, the rest are fine and trouble free as long as you clean out around the float every now and again. I have older stock (yearling heifers) in the pens now and the drinkers are filling and working fine for them.