quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Wombat]

Wot no 'farmer's friend'? Please tell me that they are second/third hand ties!

I don't think we have any farmers friend left as all our bales are round now a days, they did come off the workshop floor

 

[Servac]

Temporary repair to accelerator pedal now in its 5th year of service.

Think this qualifies as a bodge
Used baler twine ✔
Old trampoline spring✔

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Temporary repair to accelerator pedal now in its 5th year of service.

Think this qualifies as a bodge
Used baler twine ✔
Old trampoline spring✔

You don't dung her out too often, Maybe we should start a competition for the dirtiest cab,

 

[chickens and wheat]

disqualified the bodge is sound but the ticks on the typing far too hi tech

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

disqualified the bodge is sound but the ticks on the typing far too hi tech

 

[Ormond]

Temporary repair to accelerator pedal now in its 5th year of service.

Think this qualifies as a bodge
Used baler twine ✔
Old trampoline spring✔

What made me laugh was the lolly stick on the floor....brilliant!...could come in handy for another quick fix....at least you know where it is

 

[fermerboy]

Was baling yesterday and the pickup chain broke. I was 15miles from home so needed a bodge to get her going again.

Bent open the plates on the link, and managed to hammer a spout bolt I found in the cab through. Even found a nut!!!

Did 80 bales odd and got job finished.

 

[Larel]

Was baling yesterday and the pickup chain broke. I was 15miles from home so needed a bodge to get her going again.

Bent open the plates on the link, and managed to hammer a spout bolt I found in the cab through. Even found a nut!!!

Did 80 bales odd and got job finished.View attachment 713550

That’s not a bodge, that’s a permanent repair! Top job.

 

[Gerbert]

Was baling yesterday and the pickup chain broke. I was 15miles from home so needed a bodge to get her going again.

Bent open the plates on the link, and managed to hammer a spout bolt I found in the cab through. Even found a nut!!!

Did 80 bales odd and got job finished.View attachment 713550

Top marks sir!

 

[Nearly]

Was baling yesterday and the pickup chain broke. I was 15miles from home so needed a bodge to get her going again.

Bent open the plates on the link, and managed to hammer a spout bolt I found in the cab through. Even found a nut!!!

Did 80 bales odd and got job finished.View attachment 713550

Job waiting for you sir.

 

[Netherfield]

Later amended advert.

 

[AftonShepherd]

Too many laptop technicians nowadays have lost the ability to bodge to a useful standard!

 

[clbarclay]

The other day, I was chewing the fat with father about writing a book on the martial art and etiquate of reusing bale string. It could be a best seller like the Norwegian book on splitting and stacking firewood, but I hadn't though about the spin off training as part of a techincal degree in bodging to give less fortunate people a vital life skill.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

The other day, I was chewing the fat with father about writing a book on the martial art and etiquate of reusing bale string. It could be a best seller like the Norwegian book on splitting and stacking firewood, but I hadn't though about the spin off training as part of a techincal degree in bodging to give less fortunate people a vital life skill.

Include COMMON SENSE, and you are on a winner.

 

[fermerboy]

Thank you all for the comments about the chain bodge repair.

I did have luck on my side in that,
1, I did have the toolbox with me
2, i found a spout bolt in the tractor cab box that had been used to hold a cctv camera on.
3, there was enough slack in the chain once the nylon adjuster was thrown off.

Also it was a needs must job, i really didn't want to have to go back 15mile each way for the sake of 30 odd bales.
If it had happened at home I'd have jumped in the truck and had a new chain home and on without even trying a bodge.

Guess it is often the case that necessity drives invention.
Now if I could just bodge up the weather....

 

[Richard III]

Spotted this today, unfortunately I can't claim credit myself.

Leaky skid steer radiator, no problem, a bigger header tank will sort it.

 

[TripleSix]

Barbed wire unroller.

Bit of old lawnmower handle
Bit of used threaded rod
Wheels salvaged from a knackered hay turner
Axles made from the inner rod of a Peugeot front suspension strut.

Unfortunately it's all been spoilt by using new box section....
And the mag drill.

 

[pycoed]

Personally I think that the use of a limited bit of new stuff is OK, since most of the build is using old stuff......

What amazes me (are you REALLY from Yorkshire?) is the unashamed use of new barbed. You could at least have draped a few nettles over it to make it look as if it had been left in a hedge. Is money no object nowadays in the Northern Powerhouse?

 

[chickens and wheat]

I think triple sixes account may have been hacked

 

[TripleSix]

Personally I think that the use of a limited bit of new stuff is OK, since most of the build is using old stuff......

What amazes me (are you REALLY from Yorkshire?) is the unashamed use of new barbed. You could at least have draped a few nettles over it to make it look as if it had been left in a hedge. Is money no object nowadays in the Northern Powerhouse?

It was most likely "left over" from an outside job...