quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Roy_H]

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This old lube bottle screwed perfectly into the filler cap hole

Been there done that

 

[Nearly]

40mm box section splints into dropside tipper trailer tailgate.

Bit of mucky brown paint and good for another 30 years.

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

During our summer holiday visit to Mallorca, we concluded this cafe owner must also have a farm as he had made something useful out of a waste material.

The creative types on this thread may also like a bar we made for a family celebration, also made out of pallets. Sorry about the paint.

 

[clbarclay]

No such thing as waste materials on a farm. I have muse heaps and they only become scrap at the moment they cross the scrappy's weight bridge. Pallets are no different.

 

[Two Tone]

Fed up with forgetting to unplug the trailer light electrics on my hay and straw trailer, therefore snapping the cable, I have come up with the solution of using 3 (12v) snap connectors that will snap apart the next time I forget again!
This will prevent me having to rejoin the wires again with a screw type block connector.

The idea is that the cable closest to the plug has 3 staggered snap-plugs, so as not to try them all apart at once.
As the trailer doesn’t have fog or reversing light, I can eliminate the blue wire and only need 6 of the 7 wires, hence only needing 3 pairs of double snap plugs.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

What is that strange arrangement on the hitch with the pin and ?thumbscrews

 

[Two Tone]

What is that strange arrangement on the hitch with the pin and ?thumbscrews

It enables the pick-up hitch on the loader to be rotated 90 degrees so as to stop it digging in the ground.
Particularly useful when on a silage clamp or on very boggy ground.

 

[v8willy]

First time I forgot to pull it out it took the top off the socket, plastic socket, so now if I forget it just pulls out.
Ours is sitting higher tho so just a straight pull as it's well clear of the hook.

 

[milkloss]

What is that strange arrangement on the hitch with the pin and ?thumbscrews

It should have a ‘tighten with hammer’ symbol sticker on it!

 

[RCW Farm Services]

Fed up with forgetting to unplug the trailer light electrics on my hay and straw trailer, therefore snapping the cable, I have come up with the solution of using 3 (12v) snap connectors that will snap apart the next time I forget again!
This will prevent me having to rejoin the wires again with a screw type block connector.
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The idea is that the cable closest to the plug has 3 staggered snap-plugs, so as not to try them all apart at once.
As the trailer doesn’t have fog or reversing light, I can eliminate the blue wire and only need 6 of the 7 wires, hence only needing 3 pairs of double snap plugs.

What happens to the brake line...??

 

[Two Tone]

What happens to the brake line...??

Brakes? What brakes?
I’m pleading the 5th.
Ok, It’s a fair cop!
But at least the trailer brake lights will work to show that I am braking or at least attempting to slow down.

(If the worst comes to the worst, I’ll switch the hazard lights on too!)

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Brakes? What brakes?
I’m pleading the 5th.
Ok, It’s a fair cop!
But at least the trailer brake lights will work to show that I am braking or at least attempting to slow down.

(If the worst comes to the worst, I’ll switch the hazard lights on too!)

BUT, dropping the bucket or grab doesn't put the brake lights on.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Problem, hitching up the old Vicon, as it sits so close to the back of the tractors.
Solution, make it into a trailed sower.
I think this qualifies on two counts for this thread, as it is a bodge, and secondly all materials are second hand, never to mention the "new" PTO guard.

 

[Karliboy]

Problem, hitching up the old Vicon, as it sits so close to the back of the tractors.
Solution, make it into a trailed sower.
I think this qualifies on two counts for this thread, as it is a bodge, and secondly all materials are second hand, never to mention the "new" PTO guard.
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Can you reach the open close leaver out the back window now ?

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Can you reach the open close leaver out the back window now ?

Another slight problem to overcome.

 

[jamj]

Get a one way ram (to close) and a spring.
I got one of a combine header reel, from William James George a good few years ago. (Not too far from you?)

 

[Treemover]

One clever fella i know used an old window gas strut; cut of one end and threaded it to take a hyd pipe. He said you had to be gentle pulling the hydraulic lever! But i thought impressive!

 

[Tomtrac]

Another slight problem to overcome.

I just use a new brake ram spring one way oil other

 

[Two Tone]

It should have a ‘tighten with hammer’ symbol sticker on it!

It does have that sticker. It’s the yellow one at the top.

 

[Joe S]

Bodge of the day...wire tying the exhaust on after the mounts broke...with rusty welding wire[emoji23]??‍