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Choker Chain Grab Hook. Push it under the fallen log/tree, hook on to the choker chain, and then pull the choker chain under. A lot easier than pushing the pin end of the choker chain under and then trying to find it to grab it with your finger tips and pull it thru.

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Its also a lot easier than what we used to do of driving a log hook into the end and lifting it to get choker under it. Gosh we were stupid back then, Strong but stupid.

 

[rasorbackq]

Was tired of my logging winch snatch block . It had a bent pin and most times hard to hold the cable, get the chain around a tree and get the pin in to hold it all.
Ebay 5" sheave $30 scrap flat bar and 3/4 axle (old washing machine agitator axle) and a couple hours and its done.
Now just rotate it open , drop the cable in, close it. Drop the chain through the hole wrap around the tree hook it up and done.

 

[1977212]

I modified my box blade to level an existing lawn. Or at least try to.

 

[PhysAssist]

Was tired of my logging winch snatch block . It had a bent pin and most times hard to hold the cable, get the chain around a tree and get the pin in to hold it all.
Ebay 5" sheave $30 scrap flat bar and 3/4 axle (old washing machine agitator axle) and a couple hours and its done.
Now just rotate it open , drop the cable in, close it. Drop the chain through the hole wrap around the tree hook it up and done.

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I needed to pull the old brake discs off of my F350, and my HF hydraulic gear puller's arms were to short to span the diameter, so I cut and drilled longer side plates like yours shown here to make them reach. A few turns of the handle later the discs fell right off with a whimper.

My F150's discs were stuck so hard that it took several hours of heating them with a OA (non-cutting) torch, beating them with a drilling hammer, and cranking on the screw type gear puller my B-I-L borrowed from the printing shop is foreman at, normally used to pull the rollers out of the 5' rolls of paper they print on.

At that,we had let them cool while we ate Thanksgiving dinner, and then heard a very loud spanging sound, only to find the disc 4' away from the axle (where I had been standing to crank on the puller.)

Thank God we were too hungry to keep working.
Thomas

 

[PhysAssist]

Well thank you sir. I think the pics make them look a little better than they really are. I cut the heads out of 1"x3" angle iron and the handles are old galv trampoline poles. I painted them and wrapped the handles with sandpaper tape. They work pretty dang good.

Bummer, I thought from the looks of those rakes, someone had finally found an actual use for a RatchetRake. :laughing:

Seriously though, those are awesome!

 

[dieselcrawler]

Made some internal snap ring plyers today at work. Replacing bearings on an L2850 kubota in the front wheel housing pivot. Found an old set of slip-jaws, a 1/8" 7018 welding rod and after a few minutes I had the flux knocked off the rod, cut 2 small pieces, and mig welded them on the plyers. Had about 20 minutes in it all together. Couldn't have drove 10 miles to town and bought some any cheaper or faster. Worked great!

 

[Oliver1655]

To make the degree sign ° , hold the <alt> then using the number pad, 248

Here is a great reference to the ASCI codes:

Special Characters — Alt Keyboard Sequences

 

[graydog111]

I was wanting a hand cleaner that worked as good as Goop brand, but without the hassle of prying off the lid of the plastic tub. I wanted a liquid, but Goop's Orange doesn't work as good as the white stuff. I gave up on that idea and decided to add some baking soda to it to make it gritty like the old Lava bar soap. When I mixed in the baking soda, the Goop turned into a liquid, exactly what I wanted. I poured that into an old Joy dish soap plastic squirt bottle. That makes a handy liquid Goop dispenser bottle I can carry on the tractor & combine and is much easier to use than the Goop tubs.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Oh excellent! Thx for this.

 

[bmaverick]

I was wanting a hand cleaner that worked as good as Goop brand, but without the hassle of prying off the lid of the plastic tub. I wanted a liquid, but Goop's Orange doesn't work as good as the white stuff. I gave up on that idea and decided to add some baking soda to it to make it gritty like the old Lava bar soap. When I mixed in the baking soda, the Goop turned into a liquid, exactly what I wanted. I poured that into an old Joy dish soap plastic squirt bottle. That makes a handy liquid Goop dispenser bottle I can carry on the tractor & combine and is much easier to use than the Goop tubs.

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Nice tip. However, have you looked over the MSDS sheet for Goop? It has some questionable things in the reactive realm.
"Materials to Avoid: Strong oxidizers, ketones, nitric and sulfuric acids, halogens and halogen compounds." So, if you are spraying or putting down fertilizer with the tractor, use caution. It also has a storage issue, "Do not store above 140° F or below 10° F" So, living up north, do not leave a bottle on the tractor outside in the winter. It has a health warning of 1.

Now, a better hand cleaner is the GoJo Orange with that slightly gritty feel. It has no reactivity and no health level warning. Storage is still an issue at below freezing due to expansion in the container.

Around the farms, it's always good to read the MSDS sheets on simple things like hand cleaners to chemicals in the fields. Your hands, eyes, lungs and skin are important part of our bodies and livestock too.

 

[graydog111]

Thanks for the information, bmaverick.

 

[Scooter78]

Another great hand cleaner is the snap-on brand. A mechanic buddy of mine got me the small bottle for a x-Mas present a couple years ago. I loved it so much got him to order two of the big bottles and the wall dispenser. I also try to keep small bottle on truck durning bushhog season.

 

[torrin]

Good morning;

Some great ides here. I'm cheeeeeeep so I make what I can, and buy the best when I have to buy.

No pictures, (I don't even know where they are now, but I made my self some inside and outside calipers for lathe turning of wood. The ones the size i needed were very expensive.

I started with 1/4" cold rolled rod. Lathe tapered the ends to a reasonable point. Bent the outside form over a 6" soil pipe. Bent the inside form with a railroad track chunk anvil. Heated and flattened the ends opposite the points. Drilled the flats and inserted a 1/4" -20 bolt with a star washer and wing nut.

After some tweaking to match the points, they worked great.

As my description said, I make it or make do. I wanted to buy a 55lb. anvil, but have by a railroad repair yard and talk to the maintenance foreman. Ended up with a 24" piece of railroad track. Rounde on top flat on the bottom, makes a great anvil. Just don't kick it or drop it on your toes. (two broken toes during spring garage cleaning)

 

[pmsmechanic]

Enjoyed this thread. Just wanted to mention that the best hand cleaner I've found is from John Deere. The green stuff made with soybean oil. Works awesome with NO grit to kill your hands.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Ya but Goop just works.. Petroleum product.

 

[downsizingnow48]

We had a railroad track anvil growing up worked great now where did it get off to!

 

[forgeblast]

Made an outdoor shave horse/riving stand. I do a lot of carving and will be getting into chairs/rockers this summer. Peeling and shaving is sometimes hard on my back when doing it for hours at a time. I saw plans/picture that someone posted and made a working model. The post is 32'' off the ground, and the metal used for the step and arm is 1/4'' I want to put a piece of pipe insulation on the arm to keep it from marring the wood.

 

[forgeblast]

Made an outdoor shave horse/riving stand. I do a lot of carving and will be getting into chairs/rockers this summer. Peeling and shaving is sometimes hard on my back when doing it for hours at a time. I saw plans/picture that someone posted and made a working model. The post is 32'' off the ground, and the metal used for the step and arm is 1/4'' I want to put a piece of pipe insulation on the arm to keep it from marring the wood.

 

[PhysAssist]

I have my eyes on a section of rail that appears to have been abandoned next to a track locally. it looks to be 12'+ long, and has been laying there rusting for nigh on 2 years.

Does anyone have any idea about how much that long a piece of RR track would weigh in at?

I'm wracking my pea brain trying to figure out how to get it home in my pickup's 8' bed, with a near rusted out (and therefore unreliable for weightbearing) tail gate.

My HF truck crane and some nylon straps would prolly pick at least an end of it up and swing it in, but the overhang kinda scares me.

I don't want to end up as an object lesson on our current "pictures of people hauling or towing something wrong" thread...

Thomas

PS: I have thought about making or buying a truck bed extender outrigger that attaches into the trailer hitch box, but I'm worried about the weight limit on them. It extends 3' and is rated at 350#.

 

[jwmorris]

I bet it still belongs to the rail road. Kind of like if you had a classic car sitting in your yard that you hadn't touched in 2 years or more, I would still be stealing it if I stopped by one day and took it.