Scratch that, I see her foot now!Unless she's a contortionist Jerry those are her fingers!
Today at work
- Thread starter Penmoel
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Unless she's a contortionist Jerry those are her fingers!
look under her arms. Foot is up on a water pipe
- Location
- Hereford
Should have gone to specsavers!Scratch that, I see her foot now!
- Location
- Lancashire
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Cleaned the mowers. Now hoping for dry weather tommorow so I can grease them up and spray with oil. A few little things to fix but that's for another time.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
More of the same. Yesterday we finished harvesting beans today we mowed them down , disced them in , made beds and then planted broccoli 200,000 seedlings but rained off with 10,000 to go.
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I am giving myself the benefit of the doubt putting this in "Today at work" It could just as well have gone in Bodges and Creations or even What I f--ked up today.
Long story short; I fenced my deer farm here 32 years ago, 10,000 metres of HT netting and now a few of the stakes are beginning to rot. Having investigated the utter rubbish being offered as fencing stakes and not being willing to pay for properly creosoted timber I thought I would have a go myself. One of my neighbours was thinning a plantation so I now have about 8-10 tons of larch; mostly to make 10 foot 4-5inch but also some strainer posts and top rails while I am at it. I bought a peeling disc to go on the 9 inch angle grinder and it is fantastic, albeit a bit pricey.
Next step was to make a cradle to support the timber while peeling it. I thought it might be nice to rotate the logs while peeling thinking it would be easier. Another neighbours scrap heap was raided and I came up with an old dolly from a timber trailer. So I cut it up and reassembled the bits onto a frame I made. The box section was the only stuff I had to buy. Used some old barn flat belt pulleys from the back of the workshop and a spare hydraulic motor to drive the wheels and rotate the logs. All worked ok but it was a bit too fast and without buying a valve block and a flow reducer I can't see a way to slow it down. So the motor came off and I just turn the log by hand, only need to move it about 4 times to peel the whole log.
The posts will now dry for a year and I will get them creosoted somehow. As I am in my 70's I reckon they will last me out; if they don't I might have to think about retiring.
In this pic the frame is upside down just to show the drive mechanism.
Long story short; I fenced my deer farm here 32 years ago, 10,000 metres of HT netting and now a few of the stakes are beginning to rot. Having investigated the utter rubbish being offered as fencing stakes and not being willing to pay for properly creosoted timber I thought I would have a go myself. One of my neighbours was thinning a plantation so I now have about 8-10 tons of larch; mostly to make 10 foot 4-5inch but also some strainer posts and top rails while I am at it. I bought a peeling disc to go on the 9 inch angle grinder and it is fantastic, albeit a bit pricey.
Next step was to make a cradle to support the timber while peeling it. I thought it might be nice to rotate the logs while peeling thinking it would be easier. Another neighbours scrap heap was raided and I came up with an old dolly from a timber trailer. So I cut it up and reassembled the bits onto a frame I made. The box section was the only stuff I had to buy. Used some old barn flat belt pulleys from the back of the workshop and a spare hydraulic motor to drive the wheels and rotate the logs. All worked ok but it was a bit too fast and without buying a valve block and a flow reducer I can't see a way to slow it down. So the motor came off and I just turn the log by hand, only need to move it about 4 times to peel the whole log.
The posts will now dry for a year and I will get them creosoted somehow. As I am in my 70's I reckon they will last me out; if they don't I might have to think about retiring.
In this pic the frame is upside down just to show the drive mechanism.
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Brilliant
What a great idea,
could you just put a simple hydraulic tap in the line to slow the flow down if you can't turn it down enough on the tractor?
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grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Still on row crops Andy ?
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Time to go home
Andy hasn't got time for that!
Dman2
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- Location
- Durham, UK
Presume thats a wind turbine in the background, is it any good?
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
On top of a bin today, and this came through the yard,
Quite impressive, horses well under control and not phased by JCB etc
Quite impressive, horses well under control and not phased by JCB etc
I wasn't going to have the tractor running all day at idle revs so it was on a single cylinder diesel power pack and connected straight through, which was ok because the start up load was so small that you could start the engine with the drive engaged. Indeed there was no way to disengage it.What a great idea,
I actually don't think it would help to have it rotating, it works fine as it is and it is easier to peel more accurately; I can remove more material in some spots if I choose to straighten up a somewhat bendy log.
