- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
Red tractor want perch platforms, so i chopped down some poultry transport module drawers. Only 78 more to chop
quick fixes, bodges and creations
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TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Wheres the bodge ? I bet you even used genuine welding rods and that steel look suspiciously like steel.
using a drawbar as a drawbar, what ever will they think of next
Is it not a "quick fix" or a "creation"?
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Still a tonne to use up before I start importing from 'darn sarf'
- Location
- northumberland
- Location
- northumberland
With the extensions on the sprayer booms they can catch the ground too easy before the factory fit spring coil stops them, so a couple of tines from a machine well gone into the nettle patch in the sky clamped to the boom with a jubilee clip and a few (sorry new) cable ties
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Carting bales with the loadall and trailer today, the live feed for the radio has broken somewhere between the fuse and radio, so borrowed the radio from the shower till i get it fixed 
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Who spends long enough in the shower to need a radio?
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Wife and daughter !
I think I knew the answer really, in fact my daughter would have a phone in the shower if she could.
Had a hole in the bottom of the quad trailer for a while but needed to go and get a stray lamb from next door today so a quick fix was needed so the lamb didnt break any legs. Found a bucket lid on the floor of the trailer in amongst the rest of the crap I had to empty and found 3 nails on the floor in the pickup. Hole fixed
I admit nails are new but I didn't pay for them
. They came from a bag of nails that was in a big box of stuff my father in law was throwing away from his workshop 
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
My doubled headed dog lead. The secret ingredient is the blue bit, a section of bungee rope, this gives the whole thing some give when they pull in opposite directions (yes my dogs both pull on the lead, I'm a bad dog owner
) The other important factor is that the red lead is connected fairly close to the other dog's collar (about 8" away), so when the dog on the left wants to suddenly shoot to the right it does it behind its companion, and I lift the lead up allowing it to slide underneath, and not get tangled. Helps if one dog is smaller than the other, but should work if they're the same height too.All the double dog lead you buy are equal length, which means when they pull they pull towards each other, with the offset lengths on this design when they both pull one falls in behind the other. I came across the idea entirely by happenstance, but it works surprisingly well
Edit: before anyone asks, the left hand dog is wearing a face mask because she's liable to go crashing through any undergrowth and damage her eyes, after some serious vets bills in the first few months I had her (she;s a rescue) dealing with scratched eyeballs I decided prevention was better than cure. She wears it pretty much all the time when out walking, and isn't bothered by it at all.
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Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
Ha ha very smart.
You may find some solution to the pulling (without training) by using a front loading harness, just depends how much you care. It does require more effort than just using the collar they've got on already though
You may find some solution to the pulling (without training) by using a front loading harness, just depends how much you care. It does require more effort than just using the collar they've got on already though
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
I put up with the pulling because 99% of the time they're not on leads, even this picture was posed
I'm obviously very privileged to be able to let them run over hundreds of acres, if they had to be walked on the lead all the time I'd probably be motivated to make them improve.Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
I put up with the pulling because 99% of the time they're not on leads, even this picture was posed
Yes mine are off lead all the time now, so i get that. Fair enough
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My doubled headed dog lead. The secret ingredient is the blue bit, a section of bungee rope, this gives the whole thing some give when they pull in opposite directions (yes my dogs both pull on the lead, I'm a bad dog owner
All the double dog lead you buy are equal length, which means when they pull they pull towards each other, with the offset lengths on this design when they both pull one falls in behind the other. I came across the idea entirely by happenstance, but it works surprisingly well
Edit: before anyone asks, the left hand dog is wearing a face mask because she's liable to go crashing through any undergrowth and damage her eyes, after some serious vets bills in the first few months I had her (she;s a rescue) dealing with scratched eyeballs I decided prevention was better than cure. She wears it pretty much all the time when out walking, and isn't bothered by it at all.
If they pull could always try a halter type collar, ment to be brilliant to stop dogs pulling on a lead!!
- Location
- Near Colchester
They don't work with ours, I can scratch my knees without bending now