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Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I suppose that my cattle handling system that I have not quite finished would fit into this thread.

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It was featured on TAW the other day though but this will be a more permanent record here.
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
13mm spanners go and live on a planet out there somewhere near the one with all the biros and odd socks on it.

It's my 17's that have gone. Not seen a pair for ages.
Loaded a baler today that I've not touched for 2 months (you can see where this is going.......)
Thought I'd just check in string box before it went :banghead:
You'd think you could buy bargain boxes of cheap spanners for just this reason, 10 per box all the same size. They could offer them in 13mm, 17mm and 19mm.

Like boxes of files.
 
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It's crushed firebrick mixed with fireclay and a little water. You make an inner form out of thin sheet, cut a hole in the 45 gallon drum where you want the burner to go in, fit a tapered wood bung in there, then ram the mix in. Leave it to dry out for as long as possible then build a wee paper fire in it, few kindlers, and very slowly warm it up so that it drives out the moisture without cracking/spalling (mine is like a jigsaw puzzle) few more logs and after a while turn on the blower, then you turn on the oil...View attachment 665064the compressor is putting a little pressure into the tank, as there's a little back pressure in the furnace, or perhaps the oil is too thick to flow.
The oil drips into the inside at the very front of the burner nozzle and gets thrown on to the furnace wall.

It melts cast iron so it's like water, steel just melts.
i did much the same but just a bit less work
 

pycoed

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WTF????
Wife in workshop???
That's where I go to get away from her!!
Mrs FB doesn't enter the workshop!!:):):)
Last time my wife broke security & accosted me in the workshop, she surveyed the two Meddings pillar drills, plus a Nutool and an ancient Wolf pillar drill, the Kerry lathe, the Harrison M300 lathe & the Drummond lathe, the Oxford welder, the SIP welder, the Machine Mart mig welder, the two bench grinders, the six angle grinders, the Record vice, the American tools vice & pointed at the Marlow mill. "What's wrong with you?" she sniffed "You only have one of those!" before turning away in disgust.:whistle:
That's what you get for restraint, I suppose;);)
 

Bloders

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Location
Ruabon
Last time my wife broke security & accosted me in the workshop, she surveyed the two Meddings pillar drills, plus a Nutool and an ancient Wolf pillar drill, the Kerry lathe, the Harrison M300 lathe & the Drummond lathe, the Oxford welder, the SIP welder, the Machine Mart mig welder, the two bench grinders, the six angle grinders, the Record vice, the American tools vice & pointed at the Marlow mill. "What's wrong with you?" she sniffed "You only have one of those!" before turning away in disgust.:whistle:
That's what you get for restraint, I suppose;);)

i assume you only have the one wife - she should be carefull?
 

Shovelhands

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Location
Sunny Essex
Last time my wife broke security & accosted me in the workshop, she surveyed the two Meddings pillar drills, plus a Nutool and an ancient Wolf pillar drill, the Kerry lathe, the Harrison M300 lathe & the Drummond lathe, the Oxford welder, the SIP welder, the Machine Mart mig welder, the two bench grinders, the six angle grinders, the Record vice, the American tools vice & pointed at the Marlow mill. "What's wrong with you?" she sniffed "You only have one of those!" before turning away in disgust.:whistle:
That's what you get for restraint, I suppose;);)

So she basically said ‘go and buy another mill’.....or am I not reading it right???......
 
Try having your whole workshop temporarily moved out for rebuilding :eek:

NOTHING is where you think it should be :facepalm:

It's almost as bad as letting your wife tidy the workshop :inpain:

I haven't had my workshop moved but nothing is where it should be/I think it is anyway. I am using some mongrel liquorice spanners as I can't find the proper ones as for hammers? club only as they are too big to walk. I do have an excuse though (scapegoat) my son is using it and any tools found are miraculously his, even ones I bought before he was born.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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