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Best way to drill armco crash barriers

RushesToo

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Location
Fingringhoe
Workshop persuaded me to part money for annular drills - 12mm upward. Just drills the hole you need but not the core. We don't do it often, but the standard stuff breaks.
We can't do gas in our workshops.
 

jf850

Member
Location
Co laois
Put up a pen 2 years ago with 21 ft w barriers, and short sections as the posts. Bored the 16 mm holes with a s/h mag drill i bought for the job, childs play BUT i had to G clamp a piece of 6 x 3/4 steel as a base for the drill. Did most of them at home, a genny did a good few on site. Dont have a gas axe , no power within 1/2 a mile of site. When you got into swing of setting it up, you would drill a lot of holes in an hour , and you can be proud of it, when the neighbours look at it, unlike if you got John Welder at it......
 

Genesis

Member
Location
Ireland
This:

I've gone through 25mm of steel with this in a cordless drill, even managed at 50mm diameter!!!
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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