quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Lincsman]

Started with one of these.
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Cut a hole, added some hinges and finally found a use for a spanner made of cheeseView attachment 856404
Test firing
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Definitely helped with removing the paint.
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Removed the rest of the paint and cut off some unnecessary bits
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Finished !View attachment 856400
No new materials harmed in the making of this.

Err ... waste of a spanner?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

After bursting an oil pipe on fert spreader on 2nd field this morning, replaced 5 pipes where they had been rubbing together, hopefully some foam rubber cable tied between pipes will stop it happening again

 

[hendrebc]

Used a different vaccine for the ewes this year. This one doesn't have a loop at the top of the bottle to hang it round your neck like you do with the usual stuff. Did have a crappy plastic hanger thing but it broke immediately. Found an old posh orange juice bottle on a wall in the shed. Who knows how it got there anyway hacked at it with my penknife and made this to hang the bottle from. Worked really well I'm going to keep it for next time.
Improvise adapt and overcome

 

[Ukjay]

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Used a different vaccine for the ewes this year. This one doesn't have a loop at the top of the bottle to hang it round your neck like you do with the usual stuff. Did have a crappy plastic hanger thing but it broke immediately. Found an old posh orange juice bottle on a wall in the shed. Who knows how it got there anyway hacked at it with my penknife and made this to hang the bottle from. Worked really well I'm going to keep it for next time.
Improvise adapt and overcome

You been watching Heartbreak Ridge again Yale ?

 

[chickens and wheat]

Im often short of water for my own washer when the professionals are washing the poultry sheds.

Old front tank, soil bucket and gas bottle trolley, transformed into a mobile power washer stand. Washer sits on front rack, held on with a scaffolding clamp, 50meters of pipes wrap neatly round the tank.
Irrigation pipes for lance storage, JD toolbox on headstock for bits and bobs
Snow foam lance with disinfectant/trf bottle lives in hopper
2inch filler port left on for easy fast fill from spray water tank, filter protects power washer. extension lead will park on trolley handle.

only new parts are the hozelock ends, ball valve was in the old parts bin

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[TripleSix]

The old red farm bus shat a front CV joint the other day, they've always been clicky clacky with knackered boots.
I may or may not have had it beached on a rock...

New CV found on eBay for £17 delivered!

Apologies for use of new parts, sometimes you just gotta.

Of course all 4 bolts holding the top balljoint to the A arm sheared off.

Soon welded it back into place!

 

[Mursal]

No moment, watch for the welds cracking with vibration. But you know best ......

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

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

Problem solved, works a treat, and all second hand. I have to admit to a couple of new O rings though.

 

[TripleSix]

No moment, watch for the welds cracking with vibration. But you know best ......

It's an off-road only machine that doesn't tend to go faster than 25mph so if if it does fall off I'm not worried.

I wouldn't dream of it on something road legal.

 

[Two Tone]

Hydraulic tailgate to prevent spillages of muck through the village and wasted space at the back of the trailer.
Hopefully more of a creation than a bodge. Though all the metal was from off-cuts and scrap. Even the hinge pins are off an old plough. The rams came off an old sprayer. The only new bits are the oil pipes, clamps and 3 aerosol cans of Hammerite smooth green.
Was a bugger to work out the geometry for the correct positioing of the ram! But I got it right.

First test load

Must have added 25% more to the load, compared to not using the tailgate. Took a lot more pulling!

 

[Bushmog]

Looks like a great job, the village should be a happy place.
Is there a mechanical way to lock the tailgate or is it reliant on the hydraulic rams?
If its used for grain cart will it hold OSR?! That is the test.

 

[Two Tone]

Looks like a great job, the village should be a happy place.
Is there a mechanical way to lock the tailgate or is it reliant on the hydraulic rams?
If its used for grain cart will it hold OSR?! That is the test.

At the moment, I’ve not put a mechanical locking system on the tailgate.
I wanted to see if the rams could cope or whether they would creep. I was slightly worried that the rams are a bit on the small side. Which is why they are placed at the about 45 degrees angle, so that they can push in the direction that the tailgate opens. It also helps in getting the geometry right, so that when open, it ends up at 90 degrees to when it is shut.

The test load was a very wet, heavy load of muck, out of a feed passage that has had both storms Ciara and Denis’s rain on it! The door moved very slightly, maybe 1mm.
I’m not likely to use this trailer for grain as I have another dedicated grain trailer which does have a locking tailgate.

However, I am thinking of making a locking system on this one, just in case it ever does get used for grain.
There are a few ways I could do it:
1. Fit check valves to the rams. The problem being that the centre ram seal might leak, allowing the tailgate to open.
2. If you look at the 1st photo, you will see a fairly strong channel beam that the lights are fixed to. I could use this as a datum to attach a lever that connects to a hook that hold the tailgate shut on both sides when the trailer is it it’s non-tipped position. Then I’d have to tip it up a bit to open the hooks before I open the tailgate.
3. I could use a spring-loaded hook, operated by a Small ram (like a brake ram) plumbed into the lift side of the trail gate ram to operate the hook. Hopefully it would release the tailgate, before the main ram starts pushing it open. The spring-loaded hook would allow the hooks to open as the gate is lowered.

Any other suggestions welcome.

 

[Netherfield]

Connect your hook to the tipping rams with a smaller bored hydraulic pipe, the hook rams will be easier for the hydraulics to operate than the pressure required for tipping, I've had it fitted to a silage trailer like that, also whilst the trailer body is dropping enought oil is forced back to keep the hook rams operated.

 

[organicguy]

But the tail board will still open if you get valve leak?

 

[Two Tone]

But the tail board will still open if you get valve leak?

That is always the worry.
My grain trailer has a really good solution but it would have been complicated to build on the muck trailer.

This one lifts the door out of the stops that hold it shut, before it starts to open the tailgate.

 

[Lincsman]

At the moment, I’ve not put a mechanical locking system on the tailgate.
I wanted to see if the rams could cope or whether they would creep. I was slightly worried that the rams are a bit on the small side. Which is why they are placed at the about 45 degrees angle, so that they can push in the direction that the tailgate opens. It also helps in getting the geometry right, so that when open, it ends up at 90 degrees to when it is shut.

The test load was a very wet, heavy load of muck, out of a feed passage that has had both storms Ciara and Denis’s rain on it! The door moved very slightly, maybe 1mm.
I’m not likely to use this trailer for grain as I have another dedicated grain trailer which does have a locking tailgate.

However, I am thinking of making a locking system on this one, just in case it ever does get used for grain.
There are a few ways I could do it:
1. Fit check valves to the rams. The problem being that the centre ram seal might leak, allowing the tailgate to open.
2. If you look at the 1st photo, you will see a fairly strong channel beam that the lights are fixed to. I could use this as a datum to attach a lever that connects to a hook that hold the tailgate shut on both sides when the trailer is it it’s non-tipped position. Then I’d have to tip it up a bit to open the hooks before I open the tailgate.
3. I could use a spring-loaded hook, operated by a Small ram (like a brake ram) plumbed into the lift side of the trail gate ram to operate the hook. Hopefully it would release the tailgate, before the main ram starts pushing it open. The spring-loaded hook would allow the hooks to open as the gate is lowered.

Any other suggestions welcome.

If for only occasional use i would weld on some of those locking clamps as per lorries, yes you will have to get off and unwind them everytime,. but 100% safe and only for occasional use eg;

Ramp fastener Set - Large

Product Features: Kits Includes: 2 x Fasteners 2 x Handles 2 x Plates.

www.trailertek.com

 

[Two Tone]

If for only occasional use i would weld on some of those locking clamps as per lorries, yes you will have to get off and unwind them everytime,. but 100% safe and only for occasional use eg;

Ramp fastener Set - Large

Product Features: Kits Includes: 2 x Fasteners 2 x Handles 2 x Plates.

www.trailertek.com

Bloody good idea, Thanks!

For Muck, the trailer hydraulics will be in constant use, therefore it is unlikely to stand long enough for the rams to creep open and spill the load.

For grain, it is luckily to be stood a lot longer between each load, therefore going more chance of the rams creeping open. Especially as this trailer is far more likely to be used as a (reserve) dump trailer in case the main one can’t get back to the Combine in time.

A really good solution @Lincsman . Thanks again.

P.S.
If the trailer was to be used for delivering Grain, I’d have to get out to unravel the grain sock anyway. So I could re-pressurise the rams before I got out and do both job at the same time.

 

[Lincsman]

Bloody good idea, Thanks!

For Muck, the trailer hydraulics will be in constant use, therefore it is unlikely to stand long enough for the rams to creep open and spill the load.

For grain, it is luckily to be stood a lot longer between each load, therefore going more chance of the rams creeping open. Especially as this trailer is far more likely to be used as a (reserve) dump trailer in case the main one can’t get back to the Combine in time.

A really good solution @Lincsman . Thanks again.

Your welcome, may be add a shut off valve to the tailgate rams to avoid someone trying to open it while the locks are on?

 

[GeorgeK]

A trailer hook for the Manitou without having to buy new brackets

 

[Mur Huwcun]

A trailer hook for the Manitou without having to buy new bracketsView attachment 859740View attachment 859741

If you’re having to take the tines off anyhow then bolt the drawbar vertically to the top box section permanently. Tilt carriage over and you will have better visibility aswell.