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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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    #7742
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,188 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120343779#Comment_120343779

    I use the bulk meal bag suspended using two builders trestles. Keep it off the ground is the main thing. Once it gets nearly full jump into it and tramp it down a few times. Tie it up and then off it goes.



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    #7743
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,188 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120346173#Comment_120346173

    A bit confused TBH. Are you just using the floor of the 45' container as the floor of the shed or are you using the full container as a shed?

    Will it be 45' x 8' or 22.5' x 16'?


    If it is just for the floor of a storage shed would €700 not get you it dug out, a sheet of terram down and a good base of stone? Have a shed done like this myself for machinery and it is perfect for the job.



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    #7744
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120347256#Comment_120347256

    Yea, base of stone can be better than concrete, especially for storing timber as the ground can breathe.



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    #7745
    Micheal H
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Micheal H


    Forgot to take a photo while at it, but was replacing seals in the final drive of the brother's digger this weekend. Bearing nut needed to be torqued up to 490Nm and torque wrench only goes up to 300. So got one of those digital luggage weighing scales, wrapped it around the end of a breaker bar with an extension bar 1.4m long and plugged the numbers into an online calculator. Pulled on the scales until it read 35kg and that'll be the required torque. Job's a goodun 😁



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    #7746
    RockOrBog
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭RockOrBog


    I fitted a new rod holder on the arc welder today, redid the earth clamp connection too. Had a bit of vertical to do on the crush... Ya can't beat a good circuit



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    #7747
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Not mine but a simple portable air source

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    #7748
    148multi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭148multi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377543#Comment_120377543

    The puddle of water today will help as well 😆



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    #7749
    RockOrBog
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭RockOrBog


    They reckon small electric shocks are good for the heart..



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    #7750
    148multi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭148multi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377543#Comment_120377543

    🤣 that would depend on who's heart got them.



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    #7751
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭enricoh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120378577#Comment_120378577

    I like that, does the gas fitting screw off handy enough I wonder or would it have locktite? No heating with the hot spanner on that one!



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    #7752
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    I see lads on YT just unscrewing the gas valve with a stillson or whatever so mustn't be too bad. Probably some type of thread lock used alright.

    Yer man had my trailer parked out of sight of inquisitive eyes and I spotted a flat tyre on it when I went to pick it up. Too much work in getting it to his garage to the compressor so he brought the air to the wheel instead. Said he once pumped a flat land cruiser tyre to correct pressure with it.



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    #7753
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Land roller bought back around 97 was worse for wear. Always left out and never got a coat of waste oil. About 30ft of 4" galv box and a few bits of days here and there. Will nearly see me out now

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    #7754
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭893bet


    Wrong thread! That’s far from guntering!



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    #7755
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Fine job, at least u were welding the galv outside - hateful stuff to weld.

    With the quality of steel nowadays anything not galvanized will be junk in no time.



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    #7756
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,148 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    Anybody have a handy way of indicating the water level in a storage tank.i d prefer something simple but would be open to something electronic



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    #7757
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    Depends on type of tank....if above ground...

    A weighted float (2 Liter bottle containing a few pebbles) inside tank attached to a cord (clothes line) through a hole in tank lid. Attach a white flag/tag to other end of cord outside tank. As water level drops, flag rises as float pulls cord.

    If there's a power source nearby then use the pull cord to close a switch to turn on a lamp when float drops below a certain level.

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    #7758
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,929 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


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    From Reddit.



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    #7759
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Odelay


    You could rent that out.



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    #7760
    older by the day
    Registered Users Posts: 1,739 ✭✭✭older by the day


    That's what I would have for the dog outside in the garden but the wife would not let me. Those women with their high standards



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    #7761
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,753 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Anyone care to guess what this is for and what I plan to use it for on the farm?

    The spike part is just over 4 inches and stainless steel.

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    '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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    #7762
    SCOL
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭SCOL


    To stab someone selling gates boss !!!



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    #7763
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,607 ✭✭✭White Clover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582482#Comment_120582482

    Would you use it before putting a ring on a bull?



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    #7764
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,753 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582535#Comment_120582535

    On the ball. I saw a vet using similar here a few years back. Now the one the vet had, was longer and just a spike with no handle. She said she got it made up especially for the job.

    I find it difficult to break the skin on the far side of the nose with just pushing the ring, as the ring keeps turning back towards me. It's an ice pick, ordered from Amazon. Very well made in fairness and I checked the spike with a magnet. It seems to be stainless (non-magnetic). We'll see how it goes.

    '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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    #7765
    dodo mommy
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭dodo mommy


    Has any of ye ever retro fitted wheels on to a land roller if so I would like to know how ye done it. Tia



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    #7766
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,229 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582561#Comment_120582561

    I used to use a good quality nose punch to make the hole first then slip the ring in through the hole.

    https://animalfarmacy.ie/product/bull-nose-punch/




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    #7767
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,188 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Trying to drill some holes in 3mm bar. I punch the centre spot and drill a 5mm pilot hole. However the bit still seems to wander. As I then drill out the wander becomes noticeable as the bar is only 50mm wide.

    I've bent the bar into shape first, which is possibly the root cause of the problem as I can't now put it in the pillar drill.

    Any hints on how to ensure they are centred? The bits are new.



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    #7768
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    When you mark it with the punch after the first blow take out the punch and then re position it in the hole then hit it again. This stops you having more than 1 punch mark which I think might be the problem.

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



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    #7769
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Try using a Tek screw, found them handy before n less likely to go wandering.



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    #7770
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,188 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    I welded the holes back up again, grinded them flsuh and used some intermediate bits to step out - seems to have worked better. Maybe just going from 5 mm to 12mm was the problem - too a big a bite. Dunno.



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    #7771
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,607 ✭✭✭White Clover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120677583#Comment_120677583

    5mm is too big for a pilot hole. Also as blue5000 said, when marking with a punch, one blow and reposition again before the next blow.



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