quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Nearly]

Gantry beam was afterthought girders and ebay monkey and chain winches.
Can't beat a skyhook.

 

[Amund]

Dont want sawdust indoor, vacumcleaner did not fit, but the fix i found in the toiletroom.

 

[forblue]

Johnny would have done a better job,,,,,

 

[TheTallGuy]

All the wood sourced from the offcuts pile... I will admit to using a couple of new screws, can anybody guess what it's for?

 

[Netherfield]

Welly remover

 

[Tim G]

All the wood sourced from the offcuts pile... I will admit to using a couple of new screws, can anybody guess what it's for?

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Is it a step to reach @Nearly 's level of bodging?

 

[forblue]

Boot scraper.

 

[Hesstondriver]

kindling ?

 

[TheTallGuy]

Welly remover

Boot scraper.

kindling ?

Nope...

Is it a step to reach @Nearly 's level of bodging?

Heading in the right direction!

 

[hendrebc]

A step/platform for putting on the stairs for painting the bits you can't reach?

 

[TheTallGuy]

A step/platform for putting on the stairs for painting the bits you can't reach?

i do have a set of adjustable steps and a platform for such jobs, but find the old system is somewhat easier to work with!

 

[bravheart]

A step/platform for putting on the stairs for painting the bits you can't reach?

Good guess but the clues in the forum username

 

[Boohoo]

When you need a press but you haven't got one

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Spare concrete from another job so fitted a cross with 60mm box socket into an old forklift tyre and filled with the concrete, can fit T piece to move with forks or plan to make some more sometime and put 50mm box post into socket and make moveable hurdles, can also be used as gate blockers

 

[e5c0rt.mk1]

Manitou throttle cable snapped this morning, abit of broken pallet keeping it on 1/3 throttle did the job for the rest of the day.

I'll get it sorted properly tomorrow as its nearly undrivable like this.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Needed to join some earth leads together on a wagon to fit an isolator switch, old battery cable off magnum cut to length, bit of copper pipe squeezed in vice with hole drilled in it then fill the open end with solder and stick bared back cable in, bolt the 2 together with a short lead that was already onto chassis, new terminal on other end job done

 

[PuG]

More of an elongated quick fix. Our John Deere 3030 arrived last week which I bought relatively cheap. It had an misdiagnosed hydraulic fault, I feel sorry for the previous owner as he put on a new hydraulic front pump, reconditioned tranny and hi-low. Turned out he'd forgotten to put the wood ruff key on the front hydraulic pump shaft so it wasn't turning. Then reversed the rear rocker linkage with the arm load sensor so none of it was in calibration, and finially today discovered he hadn't installed one of the pipes correctly on the gear stick lever cover. (At my cost with a bent bale machine yesterday).

Quick peer in with the endoscope this morning:

Replaced this o-rings and put back the pipe. Still a leak mid way on the right which will have to wait for the top cover to come off. Just the PTO to figure out why it doesn't stay engaged on its own? (no missing springs externally!)

 

[Will 1594]

Old cousins v form was 3.5 m plus and old crumbler packer. , cut it down to match a razor packer bought out of a sale ,
And had some legs cut to take shakerator. Points , will use it to go down spud beds after lifting on the very stony flinty sand
They seem to be the only thing to stand the highly abrasive stones with sand in them

 

[Flat 10]

Old cousins v form was 3.5 m plus and old crumbler packer. , cut it down to match a razor packer bought out of a sale ,
And had some legs cut to take shakerator. Points , will use it to go down spud beds after lifting on the very stony flinty sand
They seem to be the only thing to stand the highly abrasive stones with sand in them

Only 3 legs?

 

[Will 1594]

Only 3 legs?

Just to go down the bed wheeling after lifting
Have 5/6 legs on new twb if low disturbance and working a lot shallower