- Location
- Yorkshire
Doesn't look very round
Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.
- Thread starter Pan mixer
- Start date
Ready for the upgrade square baler
- Location
- Huntingdon
Swmbo says I don’t need a 4x4 Hesston for 20 cows . I don’t know why. But I can get 3 rounds in this oneReady for the upgrade square baler
I’ve bought round feeders that have ended up square and square feeders that have ended up round . I hope this will stay true to form
and at least it won’t float or blow away
Same shape as a boxing ring
Gerbert
Member
- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Craptacular gardena grasstrimmer got a new lease on life.
It has flat connectors that fit a simple 6.3 mm connector perfectly so the biggest job was to cut 2 more holes for a second cabletie.
Dman2
Member
- Location
- Durham, UK
And the traffic cone is for ????
That was a bodge back in the summer. Sits underneath the gutter and I used an old broken down pipe to catch the water in an IBC for my girlfriends gardening.
that is for the other thread.............the one with greater or less skill whichever way you look at it
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
I prefer to think of it as more imagination.
The previously a 'bit unreliable in the damp' electric drive of Belle concrete mixer ( tried new switch and capacitor to no real long term avail. ) being modified to petrol engine . because its such a nice simple little tool to use.
didnt break off the gearbox plastic drive cog wheel either like the ham fisted geezer does in the youtube vid might come for later use or sale.
didnt break off the gearbox plastic drive cog wheel either like the ham fisted geezer does in the youtube vid
might come for later use or sale.
all the new bits needed
Triggers Broom?
the mixer hasn't done a huge amount of work and is in as new working order apart from the electric side of it which restricts use and adds health and safety issues imo.
new petrol engined one would be upwards of 1k and those bits were just over 200 delivered.
so its a no brainer for me even with my brain
All finished ready to go mixing again.
now with added advantage of having a governor on the engine ,so the drum speed can be varied
, unlike the electric , also will now go slower which can make a better mix at times.
Happy days.
now with added advantage of having a governor on the engine ,so the drum speed can be varied
, unlike the electric , also will now go slower which can make a better mix at times.
Happy days.
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Other unexpected upside of a petrol engined mixer is the vibrations help release stickier mixtures from the drum, its much easier to keep the drum clean on a petrol engined belle than an electric.
belle design is so useful the way the drum swings around 180 /360 even better without the eletric cable trailing as you go around to tip.
i mostly tip right into the loader bucket rather than wheel barrow , works a treat
£180 total parts cost after vat got back about an hour not much more to do
tomlad
Member
- Location
- nr. preston
Mate tells a story of wen electric mixer full on concrete mix, presumably getting a wobble on, fell off stand and chased him around the room while he's trying to unplug it 
- Location
- Eastern Ontario Canada
Technically not farm, but used dairy farm materials. House rad sprung a leak. Got enough scrap laying around I can make a replacement. The work so far, more pics to follow as it gets done.
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