quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Happy hillbily]

Used to have electric fence stakes I made out of rebar that I could drive into a hard standing with a sledge, but only gone and lost them. No spare rebar about ATM, So got the wheels of my old Subaru legacy, welded a piece of tube to them, trimmed the foot peg on a couple of plastic stakes so they fit in the tube and jobs a good un

 

[JCB_JCR]

Raided the spare parts/scrap heap to add a second sprinkler to the dirty water system. Reduced the 1st sprinkler nozzle to half size by drilling out a stop end to the right size. Now got double the spread area per move

 

[will_mck]

More of a tip than anything else, Hate having to repeatedly clean dusty combine windows and mirrors regularly during a harvest day, cloths seem to instantly clog with muck when you start wiping the window so I got a squirty bottle of water, give the windows a good soak then use a roll of towel roll as a squeegee, tear off the sheet and throw it away when it gets full of gunk and before the combine tank has emptied, I've the windows and mirrors sparkling again

 

[box]

Do you not have these things over there? I don't know how I ever managed without it.

 

[will_mck]

Do you not have these things over there? I don't know how I ever managed without it.
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I'd need to carry a bucket of water in the combine to clean the squeegee surely?

 

[box]

I'd need to carry a bucket of water in the combine to clean the squeegee surely?

I've had my one for a couple of years now and never cleaned it. Although being a dairy farmer, my idea of "clean" windows might be a bit different to yours

Squirt the water, agitate the mud/sh*t with the fluffy thing, squirt more water, turn it around and squeegee the brown water off.

If it's only covered in dust, a squirt of water and wipe down with the rubber squeegee is all it needs.

I just use tap water but you can add a pinch of washer fluid to reduce streaks.

 

[CPF]

 

[Pan mixer]

Brilliant, except it is in the wrong section here, meltdown from bodgers predicted.

 

[clbarclay]

Bodging melt downs are when we use a combine fire as a forge to bodge/fix another machine?

 

[chickens and wheat]

a bodge would be using that winch to pull combine out of a swamp

 

[Fendt516profi]

a bodge would be using that winch to pull combine out of a swamp

Where you going to find one of those

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Brilliant, except it is in the wrong section here, meltdown from bodgers predicted.

Replace cable with baler twine, electric winch with hand driven mechanism from mother's old mangle found in the nettles and a clevis off an old three tonne trailer that was last used in the seventies and it might be acceptable here

 

[chickens and wheat]

Where you going to find one of those

Be carefull what you wish for

 

[Scholsey]

Had to label it incase it gets chopped up to create another bodge.

 

[clbarclay]

Is that Very Important Bodge just a visual guide while hand grinding?

 

[Scholsey]

Is that Very Important Bodge just a visual guide while hand grinding?

To hold the blade square and firm so can get right angle on it when sharpening.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Triggers broom, top link holder

 

[clbarclay]

There comes a point when an object is more weld than anything else.

 

[Om352]

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Had to label it incase it gets chopped up to create another bodge.

Can't be many farms where you won't find a collection like that in the workshop!
Various broken springs, worn grinder disc, rusty roll pin, round bar, abandoned lynch pins and a chunk of timber among other stuff. Always the hope that someday a bit will be found there that will save the day.

 

[Hesstondriver]

There comes a point when an object is more weld than anything else.

We’re not there yet . I reckon it’s got at least 1 if not 2 repairs let in it yet