Past Jobs

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Heres a few photos of some workshop jobs i did this year that i remembered to take photos of. Should have posted them at the time but forgot. Our homemade grain pusher has always been used with pallet forks but as the farms grown it gets used more and more the pallets forks were becoming a nuissance so fitted a set jcb brackets. Next was a new cutting edge on our muck/stone bucket, old one was well worn so fitted an oversize one this time to make it last a bit longer. Got sick of lifting the slug pelleter on and off the bike because it had other jobs to do so made up an axle for it to sit on. Only takes seconds to put on and off and takes the stress off the back frame off the bike.

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Just finished an 8ft hay rack to go in poly tunnel at lambing.Got another to make once this ones in use to tweak any of the design. Got myself the rtech 180 mig for the job, certainly made easy work of the mesh.

 

[colhonk]

Have the rtech still got a very noisy fan? and is it noticeable or do you get used to it? as have been considering getting one for car repairs.

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Have the rtech still got a very noisy fan? and is it noticeable or do you get used to it? as have been considering getting one for car repairs.

Dont particularly notice it although i usually use stick inverters.

 

[som farmer]

home made gates feeders etc, seem to last so much longer, than the latest new ones.
we use a lot of 6ft hurdles, for calf pens, the weight difference between the oldest, and the newest, is very noticeable.

 

[David.]

They are now only using the barest minimum amount of steel to support the galvanising. If it would stick to cardboard, I'm certain they would use kitchen roll tubes instead.

 

[Alchad]

Just finished an 8ft hay rack to go in poly tunnel at lambing.Got another to make once this ones in use to tweak any of the design. Got myself the rtech 180 mig for the job, certainly made easy work of the mesh. View attachment 1088460View attachment 1088461View attachment 1088463

Assume that was galvanised mesh? Did you have to clean off the galvanising before welding or did it weld without problems?

Alchad

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Assume that was galvanised mesh? Did you have to clean off the galvanising before welding or did it weld without problems?

Alchad

Had to clean it, if i was doing alot more i would have got plain mesh and some sort of paint spraying set up

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Made a another this year, 8x4 so no mesh to cut.

 

[Sausage]

Looks tidy, but doesn’t it blow over in a bit of wind?

 

[puppet]

I like the bodge with the concrete block

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Looks tidy, but doesn’t it blow over in a bit of wind?

Early days but it hasnt yet and we are on the coast. The more it empties the less there is for the wind to blow against.

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

I like the bodge with the concrete block

That was just extra security incase they pushed it because its on harder standing but its never moved.

 

[Sausage]

Early days but it hasnt yet and we are on the coast. The more it empties the less there is for the wind to blow against.

Fair enough. We’ve got some old ones on cast iron wheels. They have lids which can blow up and then cause the whole lot to blow over.

 

[Will 1594]

I like the bodge with the concrete block

Portable handbrake

 

[David Bliss]

Long past and gone but idea still used, must have been in the late fifties spent all my pocket money of £5 on a not old back then mint 1936 Austin 10 with only 22,000 miles on the clock, ran it on the fields but as the engine needed same spent, scrapped it and made the back axle into fertiliser and seeds board-caster and after several years use got silver medal at the Norfolk show in 1966 and was still being used behind the lawn mower for grass seeding until recently. Then took pity on a someone that had messed up his Austin axle, I then found my fiddle needed a bag and bit of other work as only needing something the odd time. A old heater motor and gallon carton mounted on the lawn mower worked then altered to take a small juice bottle worked as using such small amounts of seed, and a easy adjustment with different hole shapes in the caps was nessarsery with sowing such veering sized mixtures of seeds, it gave a even sowing at 3+ metres at 8-10 mph depending how rough it was.

 

[le bon paysan]

Long past and gone but idea still used, must have been in the late fifties spent all my pocket money of £5 on a not old back then mint 1936 Austin 10 with only 22,000 miles on the clock, ran it on the fields but as the engine needed same spent, scrapped it and made the back axle into fertiliser and seeds board-caster and after several years use got silver medal at the Norfolk show in 1966 and was still being used behind the lawn mower for grass seeding until recently. Then took pity on a someone that had messed up his Austin axle, I then found my fiddle needed a bag and bit of other work as only needing something the odd time. A old heater motor and gallon carton mounted on the lawn mower worked then altered to take a small juice bottle worked as using such small amounts of seed, and a easy adjustment with different hole shapes in the caps was nessarsery with sowing such veering sized mixtures of seeds, it gave a even sowing at 3+ metres at 8-10 mph depending how rough it was.

Plastic bottle, bah humbug. 20/25 lts cleaned out spray can, bolted to back of fert. spreader body sat on centre bar 50/50 left right, 9 mm hole each ' side' of the plastic can. 4/5 kgs hc at 8kph at 8 mt pass. Small seeds clover rape etc.

 

[David Bliss]

Plastic bottle, bah humbug. 20/25 lts cleaned out spray can, bolted to back of fert. spreader body sat on centre bar 50/50 left right, 9 mm hole each ' side' of the plastic can. 4/5 kgs hc at 8kph at 8 mt pass. Small seeds clover rape etc.

This was just after its last job in 2015 so that was its fifty years of use, I found keeping things stupidly simple works, used to pace across end of field, divide that by bags of seed we had to put on, (note used to save the seed bags and if little seed for given acreage used halve the bags into the spare bags so doubling up so more accurate) dump bags along headland and guess the adjustment hopefully on the scant side and go for it, mostly only had to drive a little narrower or wider to reach the next bag, we did have a mounted ton spinner and did use it, but sort of levitating down a field at speed was more fun, If needs must was asked to drill some grass seed, only four acres, it took longer to calibrate the drill than spinning it would have, then because of little seed across the drill hopper wasn't long before seed needed scratching into the feed cups. I had used a hand applicator for iron sulphate killing moss in the lawn, next year bother that pushing by hand a quick mod and fitted a skirt to my machine, that was easy and kept that stuff away from paths?, must have been few weeks later got it in the neck as had to get the T-cut out as plastic window sills had developed freckles.