Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

[Peter]

I have been spending an unhealthy amount of time in the graveyard lately sorting out mum's gravestone, and have been increasingly bothered by our old family angel who overlooks the proceedings from a few doors down from mum and dad's pad, and has lost her outstretched hand at some point in the last 100 years. No amount of searching has uncovered the missing appendage and I was pondering whether it could be replaced. Said angel is entwined around great grandad's cross and about twice the height of an action man . I was thinking of making several that could be attached with a spigot and changed round every now and then to frighten the church warden. Has anyone ever done any stonework jobs or could I mould one from resin?

Be a good excuse to buy a 3D printer.

 

[Peter]

Forgot to put up pic of the unit installed

 

[Gerbert]

Well I forgot to take a photo when it was clogged but you get the idea. The roll was growing, upsetting working depth, I wanted to make a decent scraper but low on time so I got a piece of wood and tiewraps. Made some slices in the wood to bury the ties and to my surprise it works.
I have been told if it's stupid but it works, it is not stupid so there you go.
Obviously the roll still fills up but hey.

 

[stroller]

Modified my Moore unidrill a bit, in less than ideal conditions it can leave the slot from the second row of discs open. I salvaged this off an old accord drill that I scrapped several years ago, I had also saved the steps, having them on one side rather than the middle means that I don’t have to stand on the edge of the standard middle mounted steps when opening a seed bag, I might add an extra bit of step in the middle to make cleaning out easier.
Had to stop drilling as the mud kept binging to roller up behind the tractor wheels, I will pull it up with the discs and let it dry out then have another go.

 

[young bull]

Finally got round to finishing these steps off

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Quick cobble up this morning from what offcuts was on the bandsaw to run a die down axle U bolts!!!

 

[Hesstondriver]

Quick cobble up this morning from what offcuts was on the bandsaw to run a die down axle U bolts!!!
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I had to look twice to understand the need for this one

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I had to look twice to understand the need for this one

forgot to explain that the handles wouldn’t pass the other half of U bolt!!!

 

[Sausage]

Die nuts are what you want for that job, a die with a hex on the outside to take a spanner. Not as readily available at short notice as your invention though.

 

[TheTallGuy]

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Die nuts are what you want for that job, a die with a hex on the outside to take a spanner. Not as readily available at short notice as your invention though.

I know someone who had a lot of bits to thread and so used a die nut with a socket and a rattle gun... it didn't end well.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

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I know someone who had a lot of bits to thread and so used a die nut with a socket and a rattle gun... it didn't end well.

I thought that the OP had shown considerable restraint in not welding a U on the end of the long extension and giving it a few g'duggers

 

[CPF]

I was looking for the gloves on the hands

 

[clbarclay]

For cleaning up studs in awkward places, I have used a socket that fits the die nicely and a stub of nail to peg the split in the die against the socket. We all have our limits though and I will leave trying an impact driver on that to people... As a way of working out who to never lend tools to.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Die nuts are what you want for that job, a die with a hex on the outside to take a spanner. Not as readily available at short notice as your invention though.

Was pretty impressed that we had an m22 fine thread tap and die in the set as it was after establishing that they were not 7/8 UNF!! We even had the thread gauges out….. wrong thread maybe

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I was looking for the gloves on the hands

Barrier cream for everyday jobs, work gloves for handling steel and nitrile gloves when working with oil, fuels or grease!!!

 

[CPF]

Barrier cream for everyday jobs, work gloves for handling steel and nitrile gloves when working with oil, fuels or grease!!!

Don’t get me wrong, but what are you working with?
Or are they made wood
And the can’s of whipped cream

 

[Binc]

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Well I forgot to take a photo when it was clogged but you get the idea. The roll was growing, upsetting working depth, I wanted to make a decent scraper but low on time so I got a piece of wood and tiewraps. Made some slices in the wood to bury the ties and to my surprise it works.
I have been told if it's stupid but it works, it is not stupid so there you go.
Obviously the roll still fills up but hey.

Could you get cheap footballs and inflate them inside the crumbler so it didn't get completely full? might squash the mud out as it goes!

 

[Gerbert]

Could you get cheap footballs and inflate them inside the crumbler so it didn't get completely full? might squash the mud out as it goes!

You are not the first to suggest that. Might try it but I doubt it'll stop the roller from growing.
Anyway, the tywraps gave in the other day, broke the wood in three

 

[Pan mixer]

A repeat photo from yesterdays TAW thread. Food mixer jams itself due to a broken auger flight, cleared that but everything too tired to renew that bit and I only need the mixer to go for another few months.

A before picture.

After extensive surgery and some cleaning out.

A busy few hours in the workshop as we needed it to work again very quickly.

Old intake will be covered, new intake entirely big enough for the small amount that goes in that way and above the broken flight and there is a grid over the new orifice now too.

 

[JCB_JCR]

Giving a the mowers a check over, day before cutting, and found one of the bearing holders in the bed had broken. Lathe and old sheargrab ram rod to the rescue...