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Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Mine go onto the battery 115mm grinder
Mine would too but you shouldn't use ex-9 inch wheels on the small grinders, the speed is too high on the small grinders and the big wheel aren't up to it - just saying.
I usually use the 1mm ones on the battery grinder as they cut further for less battery use, those others were building up.
 

Bob c

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cotswolds
Mine would too but you shouldn't use ex-9 inch wheels on the small grinders, the speed is too high on the small grinders and the big wheel aren't up to it - just saying.
I usually use the 1mm ones on the battery grinder as they cut further for less battery use, those others were building up.

was thinking the same
but don't want to be a bar hum bug on key board;)
 

NH8360

Member
Location
Co Down NI
This must qualify, cutting up an old heating oil tank that someone gave me using all the small left over cutting discs that were too small to cut flat steel (and have been on a nail in the workshop for some time) but when cutting a tank you can have the guard on the 9 inch grinder over the edge and use them down to stubs. It took 18 of them in the end


, I almost got RSI from changing discs.

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I used new electricity though.

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Milwaukee do a quick change nut would speed the disk changes for you only about a tenner.
 
This must qualify, cutting up an old heating oil tank that someone gave me using all the small left over cutting discs that were too small to cut flat steel (and have been on a nail in the workshop for some time) but when cutting a tank you can have the guard on the 9 inch grinder over the edge and use them down to stubs. It took 18 of them in the end




, I almost got RSI from changing discs.

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I used new electricity though.

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If you cut 2" away from the corner, would that count as new 2" angle under the current thread rules?
 
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slurryman

Member
Salvaged road brush, salvaged 2 gate hangers, welded brackets to the hangers to fit it in the yard for the cows.

Can be moved around the yard if needed, same principle as moving a gate.

Happy cows!

Road brush (about to be skipped) = €0
Gate hangers ( re-used) = €0
Rod iron / angle iron (from yard) =€0
Welding rods = €3
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hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Not agricultural but still a bodge. Wife has her works Christmas party tomorrow night and when she went looking for her black boots to go with whatever she wanted to wear the zip was broken. The original ring and leather strip which is meant to be kept safe somewhere is missing so a quick fix was needed or the world would end :nailbiting:. Found an old keyring that was small enough to fit through the zip part and cut a strip of bike inner tube to replace the leather strip. Wife approved bodge :D
 

hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Not agricultural but still a bodge. Wife has her works Christmas party tomorrow night and when she went looking for her black boots to go with whatever she wanted to wear the zip was broken. The original ring and leather strip which is meant to be kept safe somewhere is missing so a quick fix was needed or the world would end :nailbiting:. Found an old keyring that was small enough to fit through the zip part and cut a strip of bike inner tube to replace the leather strip. Wife approved bodge :D
A picture would help :rolleyes:
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