quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Netherfield]

Come home from the hospital in the afternoon from our new baby being born 2am, to feed up quickly before heading back. Straight away hydraulic hose blows on the teleyhandler leaving her stranded in the barn blocking our loader tractor. Thankfully spare bale spike shoved through the digger knuckle on the bucket works brilliantly! I might actually have to make up a proper attachmen, makes loading a breeze.

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Necessity, the mother of invention.

Congratulations on the as well.

 

[Zebbedee]

Come home from the hospital in the afternoon from our new baby being born 2am, to feed up quickly before heading back. Straight away hydraulic hose blows on the teleyhandler leaving her stranded in the barn blocking our loader tractor. Thankfully spare bale spike shoved through the digger knuckle on the bucket works brilliantly! I might actually have to make up a proper attachmen, makes loading a breeze.

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Congratulations on the bodge ( bale spike) and proper job ( new baby)

 

[TomBowers]

Recycled an old yard scraper into a silage pusher in the summer, hoping it’s up to the job when cows enter the new shed in a couple of weeks

 

[organicguy]

Gate came off my neighbours scrap heap! Yard gate quality.

10 minutes with jack and sledge

Another donor

Just needs another half hour with the welder and Triggers broom is good to go.

 

[hendrebc]

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Gate came off my neighbours scrap heap! Yard gate quality.View attachment 929988

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Another donor

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Just needs another half hour with the welder and Triggers broom is good to go.

Why was that first gate on the scrap heap

 

[Happy hillbily]

I have a similar yard gate. The castor wheel end bolts to where the eye bolts go, and the other end sits in a L shaped channel made out of angle iron with a couple of straps welded to hold the gate in place.
Bottom rung was repaired with a length of scaffold tube, after a mishap with the yard scraper.
Found the axle in a pile of dirt building a shed in Corwen, no idea what it was off, never had any tyres on it since it's been here. The castor came off a snowplough i bought off a local college for a tenner many years ago.

 

[organicguy]

Why was that first gate on the scrap heap

The galvanised gate was unsuccessfully jumped by a cow,(not my gate), my one on the wheels had finally run out of metal. Bottom rail had already been replaced at least once, it may donate some bits for my other gate on wheels which got too close to the JCB.
The iron wheels came off sheep troughs, we got rid of sheep in 1952. I have just found an old galv. rivetted water trough which has two axles but no wheels, now full of flowers but would look better with wheels!

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

New telly tubby. This one has the stupid operator presence switch in the seat. Thoroughly useless for front mounted post driver, unless I take a small child or trained monkey with me. (Yes I realize this is a "do at your own risk" fix).
Solution.

And permanent plug once confirmed works.

 

[Gerbert]

I did that to some seats but they all go into error mode when the switch isn't used for a number of hours. Simple if it's just on on/off switch but a pain when it's some electronic contraption like modern tractors seem to have.

 

[Gerbert]

Tired of stupid laser etching. Good thing I have a die grinder.
Ps, this was a socketset that came with an impact,might as well lose 11, 14 and 21. 16 can be handy for a worn down 17.

 

[towbar]

I did that to some seats but they all go into error mode when the switch isn't used for a number of hours. Simple if it's just on on/off switch but a pain when it's some electronic contraption like modern tractors seem to have.

Why not add an override switch inline so only use override when you need to.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Why not add an override switch inline so only use override when you need to.

Ok. Care to elaborate on this one? I'm having issues with my fix. Seems the screen doesn't power down as it thinks someone is still sitting in the seat waiting to turn the key on. I've tried running my fix through a couple of relays , but it didnt work....out of my payscale atm.

 

[marco]

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Tired of stupid laser etching. Good thing I have a die grinder.
Ps, this was a socketset that came with an impact,might as well lose 11, 14 and 21. 16 can be handy for a worn down 17.

14 will do 9/16 if you ever have something American in the yard

 

[towbar]

Ok. Care to elaborate on this one? I'm having issues with my fix. Seems the screen doesn't power down as it thinks someone is still sitting in the seat waiting to turn the key on. I've tried running my fix through a couple of relays , but it didnt work....out of my payscale atm.

So instead of shorting the wires in a loop make a harness that has a plug and socket so the seat is still connected. Then add a double pole switch to short the wires. When switch open seat operates normally. When switch closed appears like operator in seat. That way you only close the switch when you need too. ie when operating post driver etc.

 

[Gerbert]

Why not add an override switch inline so only use override when you need to.

I did, or rather the previous owner
Good theft protection aswell.

 

[towbar]

I did, or rather the previous owner
Good theft protection aswell.

I presume for theft protection they used a 3way switch?

 

[Zebbedee]

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Tired of stupid laser etching. Good thing I have a die grinder.
Ps, this was a socketset that came with an impact,might as well lose 11, 14 and 21. 16 can be handy for a worn down 17.

Milwaukee set I have one the same also with same problem

 

[Netherfield]

Something broke on the 25th dec, so I made this as a temp fix, can't get parts to repair until Jan 4th, as guesses what it does?

 

[Highland Mule]

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Something broke on the 25th dec, so I made this as a temp fix, can't get parts to repair until Jan 4th, as guesses what it does?

Looks important if you’re prepared to sacrifice a gate pin - is it the oven door hinge?

 

[Netherfield]

Not for the oven, the bar was part of a bird feeder which rusted away in the ground.