quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Sausage]

You don’t need a ramp…. Make a little platform to drive it onto and lift it on the trailer.

 

[Heathland]

You don’t need a ramp…. Make a little platform to drive it onto and lift it on the trailer.

I had thought about making a platform but sometimes my trailer is full with seed if I'm going all day.

I know nothing about Gators and what type of transmissions they have, are they hydrostatic? I understood that hydros cannot be towed. Perhaps the transmissions an be disconnected.

They are just belt driven so I just put it in neutral,you can easily push it about...on a level surface.

 

[Om352]

Had an Ertl IH with trailer, plough and disc harrows, plastic hitch on the disc and trailer broke , dad being a metal man made new clevis hitches out of metal complete with a drawbar pin tied to the tractor cab.
Still have

 

[Nearly]

For future reference a Discovery 2 standard ride height is 6 pieces of parquet flooring.
After taking the pic I did put 3 10x2" screws up behind the axle into the wood to stop it sliding forwards.
1 hour drive home. Sorted.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

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For future reference a Discovery 2 standard ride height is 6 pieces of parquet flooring.
After taking the pic I did put 3 10x2" screws up behind the axle into the wood to stop it sliding forwards.
1 hour drive home. Sorted.

That really is being prepared.
Note to self, put parquet flooring in the pickup ready for emergencies

 

[Paddington]

I suppose if you had a top spec Range Rover you could have a fitted parquet floor in the boot, just in case.

 

[clbarclay]

A big trolley auger really needed some kind of steerable wheels under it to help pull and manover by hand. The trolley jack just happened to be right next to it and it turns out the saddle peg is a good match to the towing hitch on the auger.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

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For future reference a Discovery 2 standard ride height is 6 pieces of parquet flooring.
After taking the pic I did put 3 10x2" screws up behind the axle into the wood to stop it sliding forwards.
1 hour drive home. Sorted.

I chose duct tape and cable ties to hold the rear suspension together after I had to pinch a nut off one of the bolts to cobble the front suspension back together on an Outback trip a few years ago. Made it the 90kms to the closest town in the middle of no where (Oodnadatta....Google it and you'll see what I mean). Magyvered it as failure wasn't an option out there....Note: The nuts off of the shackles/ bolts that hold the springs in are the same as those that go on the rod that holds the upper control arm to the front strut in a Hilux. No other nuts on the vehicle fit.

 

[Nearly]

Son is driving chaser or a header at Moree at the moment on your little island.

Driving a Disco2 has taught him more about mechanic work than his Toyota Aygo.

 

[Rossymons]

Emergency roller fix.

Coke can was roughly the size needed for the bearing.

Plan was to drill a hole and cut the hole with my jigsaw. Of course the jigsaw was long enough to cut the wood I had in mind so I cut half out, smashed it out before turning it over and finishing the other side.

Held in place with 2 coach bolts (that just about caught) and some washers from an ex girlfriends boxing set hence the pink. I don't own any other pink washers!

I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to put together.

40 acres later it was all done

I left the rear weight block on due to sheer laziness.

 

[Willie adie]

rather than take quad bike and trailer to roll out spool of wire, and old section of tube from a trampoline does the job.
On the wheel for coils of wire.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

I went the other way and decided I needed a mobile one, luckily the bumper on the ranger is the same size as scaffolding tube, so its easy to remove.

 

[Hill Ground]

I went the other way and decided I needed a mobile one, luckily the bumper on the ranger is the same size as scaffolding tube, so its easy to remove.

This is my version, slots into front of existing post carrier.

Just step of and put a post in. One pass fencing

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

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This is my version, slots into front of existing post carrier.

Just step of and put a post in. One pass fencing

Genius, I have to ask about the washers on the reel posts?

 

[Hill Ground]

Genius, I have to ask about the washers on the reel posts?

Good spot.

A few years ago a friend of mine thought he could make reel posts cheaper than he could buy them if we all clubbed together, so there was plenty of them

Long story short...he can't, and he drlled the holes in the wrong place so the reels just spin with no washer!!

 

[Farmersboy]

Son is driving chaser or a header at Moree at the moment on your little island.

Driving a Disco2 has taught him more about mechanic work than his Toyota Aygo.

Your man working for Lawson Grains?

 

[stroller]

I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before or not, but broke a ‘proper’ bucket today so made another one.

 

[Nearly]

Your man working for Lawson Grains?

Avondale Ag, Yarrawa

 

[Night watchman]

Boss found me some stainless tube from a local guy a lump cheaper than an £1800 exhaust from fendt. Been waiting for a wet day for a while to get it tadged on.

 

[Gerbert]

Go with a swiveling raintop, like the first gen 800/900 .