quick fixes, bodges and creations

pine_guy

Member

Location

North Cumbria

• Feb 24, 2018

• #6,921

Made some IBC calf hutches. Teat milk holders made from the tin on the sides with the labelling on. Teat feeders themselves made from some recycled plastic gallon tubs. Plastic is too thin to seal the teats, so made some plastic washers out of the lids of grease cartridges.

Teats are new though.

 

Last edited: Feb 25, 2018

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Hairy Bob

Member

• Feb 24, 2018

• #6,922

Mur Huwcun said:

Some drills have a flat, square edge on the magnet base that lends it self to the use of a g-clamp just in case, not all of them do!! Slight movement half way through some heavy plate and the broach is a gonner though!!

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For thin steel (<6mm) I find it helps to put a bit of ~8mm flat plate, at least the size of the magnet, on the underside of the workpiece before turning the magnet on, gives it something to hold onto.
I wouldn't recommend it for drilling horizontally at height though, if the magnet lets go it's something else to fall!
G clamps can work well, I've used them to mag drill through aluminium extrusions before. Can get time consuming if you've many holes to drill though.

 

colhonk

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Darlington

• Feb 25, 2018

• #6,923

As long as the bolts on show came with the IBC`s,then for me you pass the test @pine_guy

 

pine_guy

Member

Location

North Cumbria

• Feb 25, 2018

• #6,924

colhonk said:

As long as the bolts on show came with the IBC`s,then for me you pass the test @pine_guy

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I confess to using two rusty spout bolts on the second feeder holder, as the two inch long thick tek screws looked a bit dangerous for when the kids are helping.

 

Nearly

Member

Location

North of York

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,925

Admittedly new grinder discs but salvaged allen head bolts and traded/swapped racking makes disc storage tidy.

 

Nearly

Member

Location

North of York

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,926

And 15 years ago I used halved orange juice bulk barrels for kid shelters in a cold autumn.
Ten years ago the goats went.
5 years ago I ran the circular saw around the barrel base to make the sides into stockboard.
Today I sliced the round bases into 7" strips to draught exclude above a sliding door.
Now just these offcuts of offcuts to find a home for.....

 

Last edited: Feb 26, 2018

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Philip Watkins

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Location

Back in Shropshire

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,927

Nearly said:

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Today I sliced the round bases into 7' strips to draught exclude above a sliding door.
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They were big barrels

 

Nearly

Member

Location

North of York

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,928

Philip Watkins said:

They were big barrels

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The big useful 1350 litre ones.

 

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Philip Watkins

Member

Location

Back in Shropshire

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,929

Nearly said:

The big useful 1350 litre ones.

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You'd get 7' strips off the sides but not off the bottom Sure you didn't mean 7"

 

Nearly

Member

Location

North of York

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,930

Philip Watkins said:

You'd get 7' strips off the sides but not off the bottom Sure you didn't mean 7"

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Edited.
17.5cm
Best go up a size in glasses.

 

chickens and wheat

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Boroughbridge, york

• Feb 26, 2018

• #6,931

Nearly said:

And 15 years ago I used halved orange juice bulk barrels for kid shelters in a cold autumn.

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social services not active in your area?

 

joe soapy

Member

Location

devon

• Feb 27, 2018

• #6,932

 

massey 6480

Member

Location

Eire Field down the road

• Feb 27, 2018

• #6,933

Seen this on Facebook thought it was worthy of here [emoji13] . Pic credit profi magazines page

 

yellowbelly

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

N.Lincs

• Mar 2, 2018

• #6,934

The beast from the East was making the barrow hales a bit nippy on the finger ends

This is mark 2...

Mark 1 used old baler band to tie the bits of towel on but wasn't up to the job - had to splash out on some new silage tape
Apologies for the excessive expense but it was an 'emergency situation' - animal welfare was being compromised

 

Last edited: Mar 2, 2018

DrDunc

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Dunsyre

• Mar 3, 2018

• #6,935

When the water freezes underground and the cattle are thirsty

IBC was thankfully full of water, but the outlet is frozen.

Solution has been to simply siphon it out from the top after smashing through the ice.

Simples (can the winter weather now kindly effoff)

 

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7610 super q

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Mar 4, 2018

• #6,936

Today's wacky idea....... fabricating a Cape Trofsec profile roofing sheet , using 2 forklifts.....

Back to the drawing board....

 

Netherfield

Member

Location

West Yorkshire

• Mar 4, 2018

• #6,937

God loves a trier.

 

J428TGS

Member

• Mar 4, 2018

• #6,938

7610 super q said:

Today's wacky idea....... fabricating a Cape Trofsec profile roofing sheet , using 2 forklifts.....

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Back to the drawing board....


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not bad, plenty of expanding foam will sort it

 

Badshot

Member

Location

Kent

• Mar 4, 2018

• #6,939

One of the dog kennels lost its roof weeks ago.
I'd cut the top off an ibc to use for a log container
It just so happened that with judicious use of the heat gun it squeezed on perfect .
No screws, no cable ties, Nowt. Just some home produced electric to run the heat gun

 

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Walton2

Member

• Mar 4, 2018

• #6,940

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One of the dog kennels lost its roof weeks ago.
I'd cut the top off an ibc to use for a log container
It just so happened that with judicious use of the heat gun it squeezed on perfect .
No screws, no cable ties, Nowt. Just some home produced electric to run the heat gun

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