What are you up to in the workshop?

Mid cork said:
Been years meaning to make one of these, only got around to it today. Should speed up the job a lot. Will be handy to be able to move it along the side lace of the trailer to where the straps fall, rather than having it fixed in the one place and having to move the unrolled straps to it.
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That is an excellent idea. Well done. We should all have one those in our armory. I think the next wet day in the workshop would be ideal to make up something similar.
 
Bought 1 few years back in Lymm truckstop or somewhere for £20

Handier with the hook inside BUT.....brother threw 1 over a couple of bales of straw when he heard a yell, ran round to see the fella holding his head with the blood dripping out of it, caught him just above the eye, not nice.
 
Changing an output seal on the van's gearbox. No shoulder to seat the seal against so I ended up giving one tap too many on one side and had to destroy a screwdriver to make a seal puller backer tool. The output sleeve inside the seal was a decent lump of steel so I was actually able to reach behind the seal lip to lever on its metal housing and work it back a few mm. I don't think I did any damage to the seal, I'd studied the shape of the original and pretty sure I was only levering on metal. Time will tell I suppose
 

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headcase said:
Block and crank at least
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found a engine specialist 60 mile away who thinks block and crank are salvageable
TBH I think they are too
quick face of the crank in a lathe then weld the block to carry the thrust washer and to take the excess up from machining the crank
braze the journal then line bore back to size
crank needs a good polish
probably get a 2thou lick of block and head being as its apart
currently stripping the block to bits...



by fuck id love to have the kit to do it, might ask the guys when I drop the block off if I could have a quick nose in the workshop
 
I've had this hitch off a frontera in the resource pile for 12 years I think. A real nice Dixon Bate jaw on it, always figured it was worth keeping.

Always a bit of a pain moving the trailer and putting the chipper on and off so had a brainwave this evening after adjusting the blades and offered it up.

It mounted at a bit of an angle on the jeep and that same angle conveniently went through an existing hole in the frame and lined up another mounting hole with another part of the frame so it's bolted to the strongest part of the machine (still not a very strong point it must be said)
 

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JohnBoy said:
I've had this hitch off a frontera in the resource pile for 12 years I think. A real nice Dixon Bate jaw on it, always figured it was worth keeping.

Always a bit of a pain moving the trailer and putting the chipper on and off so had a brainwave this evening after adjusting the blades and offered it up.

It mounted at a bit of an angle on the jeep and that same angle conveniently went through an existing hole in the frame and lined up another mounting hole with another part of the frame so it's bolted to the strongest part of the machine (still not a very strong point it must be said)
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How is the contract chipping business going?
 
josh said:
I hear ya. Is it a good machine? I have some material for chipping here.
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It's only ok, it's fierce hardship feeding it compared to a proper one. I'd say a basic self feeding machine would be about five times faster/easier.
 
Coming along nicely, now to finish the welding.. what else would ye be doing outside on a wet day🙄
 

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I have a drag trailer I'm using to draw in baled silage and a few other things, was either modify the coupler to fit the tractor or modify the drawbar on the trailer.
Said I'd try this option first. If I'm not happy then I'll modify the drawbar to use the pickup hitch on the tractor instead
 
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