quick fixes, bodges and creations

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Rod Dumbreck

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Location

Edenbridge, Kent (actually just in Surrey)

• Sep 16, 2021

• #9,981

I am well chuffed with todays effort in the workshop.Someone kindly gave me this electric fence unit about ten years ago and its done sterling service, but a couple of weeks ago it didn't respond to having a fresh battery.
Having undone all the screws possible, tested the capacitor and bought a new one, which made no difference, I had a prod about with the tester and found a resistor on the board that was open circuit. Emailed a picture to brother who knows about these things, he said 100 ohm, got ten for 50p, and guess what. Its effin workin! Not the smartest soldering, and breach of thread rules, it was a brand new resistor.

 

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clbarclay

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Location

Worcestershire

• Sep 17, 2021

• #9,982

Nice fix...

However I guess the purists might be more inclined to forgive you for meddling in the dark arts of electricery if you had pulled apart something else to find and reuse another resistor of near enough the same value, only rused the solder of the boards and scraped some sap of a pine tree for flux.

 

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glasshouse

Member

Location

lothians

• Sep 17, 2021

• #9,983

Quick tec screw bodge to extract a broken stud

 

Norfolk Hill Farmer

Member

• Sep 18, 2021

• #9,984

I guess spares for Sanderson teleporters are hard to come by these days.
Spotted this on the side of the road during a recent trip to the Morton show and a brief stay in the Cotswolds.
Good improvisation !!

 

clbarclay

Member

Location

Worcestershire

• Sep 18, 2021

• #9,985

Spares? the original step is still right there supporting that... work of art. I can only guess the driver has short legs.

 

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Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Yorkshire

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,986

clbarclay said:

Spares? the original step is still right there supporting that... work of art. I can only guess the driver has short legs.

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They've already made another lower step to the original lower step too

 

cows sh#t me to tears

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Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,987

clbarclay said:

Spares? the original step is still right there supporting that... work of art. I can only guess the driver has short legs.

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Or elderly or infirmed. In which case the strategic use of the 2 screwdrivers to hold the step ladder on , may be their undoing.....

 

Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North West Wales

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,988

cows sh#t me to tears said:

Or elderly or infirmed. In which case the strategic use of the 2 screwdrivers to hold the step ladder on , may be their undoing.....

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Our neighbour used to have a two gallon paint pot in tractor with him on a length of string. Pop it on floor to get in then use the bale twine to pull it back into cab and off he went. Reverse the procedure to dismount….

 

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Abacus

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

South east

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,989

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lot better than plat forks when you are on your own

 

R J

Member

Location

Herefordshire

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,990

Started stripping down a old fertiliser spreader ready to create a seed drill filling hopper

 

mobileweld

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Cambs/Suffolk/Norfolk

• Sep 19, 2021

• #9,991

I class this as a bodge. it’s on the mrs’s horse muck trailer and not a paying customer

 

JCB_JCR

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Sep 20, 2021

• #9,992

Adjusting spindle broke and couldn't get bits quick enough. So bodged it up with some threaded bar (sorry new) and several nuts and washers.

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Sep 22, 2021

• #9,993

One pass pipe worn through on a bend with barley hitting it. Duck tape quickly wore through again and barley escaping.

 

Farmer_Joe

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

The North

• Sep 22, 2021

• #9,994

thats some beautiful bodging

 

Suffolksucklers

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Suffolk

• Sep 22, 2021

• #9,995

String looks a bit fresh

 

Bobthebuilder

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Sep 22, 2021

• #9,996

Broken coulter bracket in the pronto last night in the dark with 3 runs around headland to do, bit of string didn’t look up to the job remembered I had a small ratchet strap in tractor got it finished then home by half 11

 

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Boydvalley

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Location

Bath

• Sep 22, 2021

• #9,997

No more overflowing IBCs.

 

Zebbedee

Member

Location

Scotland in the best bit

• Sep 27, 2021

• #9,998

Speaks for itself use what’s in the toolbox to get going

 

B R C

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

South Beds with a bit of Herts and Bucks

• Sep 27, 2021

• #9,999

After years of using them as weights for welding have just realised old sledge heads are perfect mig torch holders

 

Karliboy

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Livestock Farmer

Location

West Yorkshire

• Sep 28, 2021

• #10,000

Mates 12 month old JPM trailer.
Every time your on stone or anything big it always rolls forwards and shears pipes of fittings.
In all fairness it’s a bad design from jpm to make it like this.

Hopefully won’t happen again just need new fittings for pipes now.