quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Rod Dumbreck]

Minor triumph with the tele handler door lock today, the lever had become so worn that it wouldn't release the catch without coming to the end of its travel, no obvious way of fixing the lever as its plastic, but a 6 inch nail with a 3mm hole drilled through fitted over the little spigot inside that releases the thing, topped off with the knob from my old class baler door (sold the baler in 1998, but knew the knob would come in handy one day) and a bit of araldite 5 minute to hold it on, and a bit of oak to keep the nail on the spigot. Works a treat.

 

[JWL]

That'll teach me to leave my snack in my pocket!

 

[br jones]

That'll teach me to leave my snack in my pocket!

Mmmmmmm a double decker ,my fave

 

[spanners and hammers]

mite only be a single decker after it melted in his pocket

 

[JWL]

mite only be a single decker after it melted in his pocket

It was a tadge squashed but at least I could get the wrapper off without wearing most of it

 

[TripleSix]

Ridden hard and put away wet...

Fixed!

 

[Lowland1]

We have built a thing to load fertilizer into our bean drill out of an old fertiliser spreader

 

[Wuffler]

When you're too tight to fork out for a set of worn skimmer bodies for the last 50 acres of the season...

 

[bravheart]

When you're too tight to fork out for a set of worn skimmer bodies for the last 50 acres of the season...

50acre left you’ve been busy

 

[TripleSix]

Wanted my spots on the front of the new truck, seem to be getting home late at the mo.

I don't really use the winch, took the outer rollers out of the fairlead and bolted the spots through the holes.
Quick n cheap

 

[24/7 farming]

Wanted my spots on the front of the new truck, seem to be getting home late at the mo.

I don't really use the winch, took the outer rollers out of the fairlead and bolted the spots through the holes.
Quick n cheap

Guaranteed you'll be needing the winch within a week!!! [emoji23]

 

[Chae1]

When you're too tight to fork out for a set of worn skimmer bodies for the last 50 acres of the season...

I normally get a cultivator point welded on edge of curved bit on left.

I normally manage to wear them thin enough that bolts pull through and will no longer hold them on!

 

[Wuffler]

I normally manage to wear them thin enough that bolts pull through and will no longer hold them on!

That's what was happening hence the quick bodge of bolting on the worn skimmer points...
Doesn't look very pretty but It worked quite well, I think I might leave them on.

 

[davieh3350]

theres no filter in the country for the genny... got sent the closest one to it... not close enough to get the cap on.
Still, winter is coming and there won’t be any dust for the next 6 months or so.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

A new seed bag baler today

 

[wilfholme]

Ran over my shovel

 

[pycoed]

Ran over my shovel

Nice idea, but are those tech screws new?

 

[Hesstondriver]

just seen this in FB , it think it qualifies for a "creation"

 

[Boydvalley]

Neighbour bought one or something very very similar a couple of years ago for around his paddock. Didn’t last 6months. Can’t remember what’s wrong with it but no back up from importer. Hideous to drive with the longest drive chain to the back axle I’ve ever seen. It is literally a quad bike with the back quarter cut off and the rest welded on. Even the seat has had a bit cut off and made good.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Neighbour bought one or something very very similar a couple of years ago for around his paddock. Didn’t last 6months. Can’t remember what’s wrong with it but no back up from importer. Hideous to drive with the longest drive chain to the back axle I’ve ever seen. It is literally a quad bike with the back quarter cut off and the rest welded on. Even the seat has had a bit cut off and made good.

i think his is why it safely belongs in this thread , just because its new doesn't mean its not a bodge