quick fixes, bodges and creations

[rc mx110]

replacing it with chain and d shackle is the solution around here

now there's an idea, or might just weld it up

 

[Monty]

Made this trolley for moving wads of straw about. I don't know how I'd cope without it now.

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[mire man]

thread on the drop arm ripped off this morning while scraping
good old ratchet straps
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long time since i saw one of those pto pumps,

 

[Landy Nick]

Made this trolley for moving wads of straw about. I don't know how I'd cope without it now.
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Saves having to carry the bale over longer distances with the string cutting into the fingers.

 

[multi power]

Made this trolley for moving wads of straw about. I don't know how I'd cope without it now.
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defintly like the trolly, simple , cheap n makes life easier

 

[devonshire farmer]

now there's an idea, or might just weld it up

I welded one on our scraper and unless you use dissimilar rods it wont last long, I then drilled right through it and put a 6mm bolt straight through and it works a treat!

 

[rc mx110]

I welded one on our scraper and unless you use dissimilar rods it wont last long, I then drilled right through it and put a 6mm bolt straight through and it works a treat!

Dissimilar rods??
I was going to ask the local mobile welder to glue them together with the mig????

 

[Monty]

defintly like the trolly, simple , cheap n makes life easier

Thanks MP. I designed it for quadrants and it will comfortably carry 1/5 or 1/6 of an 8 foot bale. The wheels go either side of the bale so it pivots back easily. It's a much nicer job now especially when the wads are very thin and the straw is short.

 

[Nearly]

If you're bodging a set of chain harrows take an old haybob tine and slit the rings with a 1mm disc. You now have 3 high tensile loops for joining links in the harrows.
A good spot of weld finishes the job.

 

[Cooper3075]

Welded scraper tractor somewhere I work about 8 years ago still holding now that was with the ark welder
My 956 striped the threads in its rod about 4 years ago with post driver on was near a m8s so blasted it with his mig then 2 years ago other one went so blasted that with my mig both still holding well but I did weld every part I could get to mainly runs round with 1.5 ton of post driver on it only drawback is I gave to use the other tractor for things like ploughing where I need adjustment So new rods would be nice really

 

[chickens and wheat]

@treblesykes has a sweepex brush with a piece of angle bolted below it to use as a scraper for any stubborn bits of muck when sweeping. Like

used it today so took a couple of pics, drive backwards with brush crowded back to scrape

 

[J 1177]

Bull beef hopper made out of scrap and an old kero tank (yes I know the pics on its side I'm on my iPhone and couldn't get it to load properly ) cost bout 30 quid for welding rods grinding discs and a tin of red oxide. Tis about the only cost bulls will stand at the moment

 

[Thick Farmer]

thread on the drop arm ripped off this morning while scraping
good old ratchet straps
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That looks familiar. The arm on my 784 has been like that for the past 4 years!

 

[Poorbuthappy]

View attachment 32586Bull beef hopper made out of scrap and an old kero tank (yes I know the pics on its side I'm on my iPhone and couldn't get it to load properly ) cost bout 30 quid for welding rods grinding discs and a tin of red oxide. Tis about the only cost bulls will stand at the moment

Could you take some more pics to show how you've done the trough and how it feeds down to it?

 

[J 1177]

Side on again unfortunately. In the first pic there is a piece of inch ply with wooden bracing behind to guide the barley . And a piece of angle iron at the top and bottom to keep it in place. The second picture shows the trough I think the gap at the bottom of the plate may be too wide but if it is i will bolt a strip of tin on. Time will tell. The front needs a strip of plate in to stop barley getting stuck in the 90 degree angle at the base of the trough. But to be honest I just stirr it up with a stick on a morning anyhow. Hope this helps

 

[exmoor dave]

snapped my crook........so bent a new end on to it! not a bad effort

 

[exmoor dave]

the step things off phone poles make useful extra catches for gale breakers

 

[wdah/him]

16 a layer, 6 layers.....
Had 7 layers once.

standard load here seven, bottom on edge, 5 on flat, top on edge, 120 of hay or straw on a 13by6 home made trailer. was eight row once plus the back of the old hilux, over 200 bales.