Today at work

davieh3350 · Aug 24, 2020

More enjoyable than yesterdays activity, when I got a call from the guy whos ramp the pickup owner was borrowing, asked me to fix his digger.

(some shitty welding by me :-( too big a root gap and rods that were too big)

still, it was a slight improvement.

Ukjay · Aug 24, 2020

davieh3350 said:
Struggling to get back up to Iceland, went to the pub on Saturday night and ended up getting persuaded to repair a leaky diff.
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It was quite enjoyable.

Nice bit of fettling there

grainboy · Aug 24, 2020

Finished demolition today, left the site for the

next stage.

Wigeon · Aug 24, 2020

Big guns out today getting last of grass seed in- 13k and 6m covers a bit of ground for a tiny tractor.

Then a bit of cover crop:

Av Gorritt · Aug 24, 2020

davieh3350 said:
Struggling to get back up to Iceland, went to the pub on Saturday night and ended up getting persuaded to repair a leaky diff.
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It was quite enjoyable.

Smart bit of tin bashing I think . It's what I would call a "Plant fitter's repair " Get you back on the road with a minimum of hold up , when the job has to go ahead . Many people would have just waited for a new one , or visited the scrap yard .

mar · Aug 24, 2020

davieh3350 said:
Struggling to get back up to Iceland, went to the pub on Saturday night and ended up getting persuaded to repair a leaky diff.
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It was quite enjoyable.

How did you do that, did you just place the cut out on top of the old one and just keep hitting it until you got your shape. I have a repair to do on a bonnet of a MF168 and it's in a very awkward corner

davieh3350 · Aug 24, 2020

mar said:
How did you do that, did you just place the cut out on top of the old one and just keep hitting it until you got your shape. I have a repair to do on a bonnet of a MF168 and it's in a very awkward corner

No, made a point of shaping it away from the axle, practice for when I get around to the bloody pickup.
Paper template for a start for the rough shape, it gives you an idea of which areas need shrunk and which need stretched, then batter feck out of it on the sand bag, offer it up, back to sand bag and batter feck out of it, offer it up. Keep on at it. a lump of steel as an anvil for folding over the flange and flattening lumps too. A few dollys would be good, but not got that much stuff yet. Got some railway line to make some with. The lump of en24 I took with me was too rough and it left a lot of marks on it.

I did tap it a little once I tacked it in place.

Pan mixer · Aug 24, 2020

bit of limex turned up.

Then spreading it.

another 1000 straw in the shed.

mar · Aug 24, 2020

davieh3350 said:
No, made a point of shaping it away from the axle, practice for when I get around to the bloody pickup.
Paper template for a start for the rough shape, it gives you an idea of which areas need shrunk and which need stretched, then batter feck out of it on the sand bag, offer it up, back to sand bag and batter feck out of it, offer it up. Keep on at it. a lump of steel as an anvil for folding over the flange and flattening lumps too. A few dollys would be good, but not got that much stuff yet. Got some railway line to make some with. The lump of en24 I took with me was too rough and it left a lot of marks on it.

I did tap it a little once I tacked it in place.

It's an impressive piece of work, would there be any videos on youtube showing something somilar

davieh3350 · Aug 24, 2020

mar said:
It's an impressive piece of work, would there be any videos on youtube showing something somilar

Yeah, there’s a load.
Lazze does good stuff.

mixed breed · Aug 24, 2020

Past month the boss, me and the oh have been grafting, well, it's been too wet to do much combining.

Cleaned the deep litter cow shed out, and took the top layer off

Assembled some shuttering

Stoned, Wackered,rolled and generally arsed about, and then laid 30 odd cube with this

Sorry wrong pic, with this

Boss did some painting

And after a lot of nut and bolting the cows were allowed back in tonight to explore

got enough cubicles left to do the other shed, but I may keep that loose housed for this winter as there is bound to be some cows that won't comply. (And I've not enough slurry storage, or cash)

looking forward to saving some straw (which has yet to amount to much anyway) but mainly keep the cell count under control.

Adeptandy · Aug 25, 2020

Sunday and today have mostly been doing this again

Robert K · Aug 25, 2020

Combining the spring wheat and spring Barley

fieldfarmer · Aug 25, 2020

Robert K said:
Combining the spring wheat and spring Barley
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Do you have roller doors that you can close on those grain bays? Not one bit of that grain would be dry with the rain and storms last night. If the shed was in Devon.

Robert K · Aug 25, 2020

fieldfarmer said:
Do you have roller doors that you can close on those grain bays? Not one bit of that grain would be dry with the rain and storms last night.

No doors yet but we did have a few lorries in to clear the front, going into a central store.

nick... · Aug 25, 2020

fieldfarmer said:
Do you have roller doors that you can close on those grain bays? Not one bit of that grain would be dry with the rain and storms last night. If the shed was in Devon.

Was going to ask the same question
nick...

bluepower · Aug 25, 2020

fieldfarmer said:
Do you have roller doors that you can close on those grain bays? Not one bit of that grain would be dry with the rain and storms last night. If the shed was in Devon.

If you had a tall open fronted shed like that down here on the edge of the world you wouldn't have a roof on it for long! The wheat would probably blow away as well!!

Hesstondriver · Aug 25, 2020

mixed breed said:
Past month the boss, me and the oh have been grafting, well, it's been too wet to do much combining.

Cleaned the deep litter cow shed out, and took the top layer offView attachment 903295
Assembled some shutteringView attachment 903298
Stoned, Wackered,rolled and generally arsed about, and then laid 30 odd cube with this
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And after a lot of nut and bolting the cows were allowed back in tonight to exploreView attachment 903301got enough cubicles left to do the other shed, but I may keep that loose housed for this winter as there is bound to be some cows that won't comply. (And I've not enough slurry storage, or cash)

looking forward to saving some straw (which has yet to amount to much anyway) but mainly keep the cell count under control.

thats a credit to your graft

did you have the obligatory A-team moment and proudly say " I love it when a plan comes together"??

fieldfarmer · Aug 25, 2020

bluepower said:
If you had a tall open fronted shed like that down here on the edge of the world you wouldn't have a roof on it for long! The wheat would probably blow away as well!!

Had to laugh, we've just re hanging the running gear on the sliding door of the wet shed that got blown off last night, no harm done, the grain was 22% when it went in can't tell the wet bit. Exeter.

mixed breed · Aug 25, 2020

Hesstondriver said:
thats a credit to your graft did you have the obligatory A-team moment and proudly say " I love it when a plan comes together"??

Something like that, a few head scratching moments and plenty of search's on TTF to get dimensions right, but we were pleased how its turned out.

Horrid weather last night and some of the cows had returned home, little boss nipped out in her PJ's first thing and came back smiling "there's 23 of them lying in beds, so it's that's a good start, isn't it?!"

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