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Post by mjc on Feb 14, 2011 2:26:32 GMT -5
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Post by mnjrutherford on Feb 14, 2011 8:04:07 GMT -5
Mike has built sluices, 2 of them. One small running a couple gallons of water per minute and one rather larger using the engine of a VW beetle. He's also made other things but I couldn't enumerate them off the top of my head right now. I'll try to get him to the 'puter later.
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Post by heidihi on Feb 14, 2011 8:20:50 GMT -5
my husband is a self employed quite successful inventor for the welding industry
we have a plethora of better moustraps and tools around the place that he either built himself from other peoples plans or invented as a better way to do things that I have not been able to figure out!
we do have balers but we have all kinds of gardening tools ..fountains...water catchers and carriers ...even a cart my dog can pull my weeds around with he built ..he builds our gates down to the mechanisms to make the gates work and the tools to make the mechanisms to make the gates ..he is always making something and loves it
so enjoy!!! the journey to something is always as exciting as the end I think! I love watching him make tools!
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Post by garnetmoth on Feb 14, 2011 11:06:29 GMT -5
Sounds like great projects everyone!
Ive only gotten as far as cages for the rabbits, a quail cage that is 90% finished, and a few seedling flats from the leftover cage wire. I love them so far! Plastic flats have to be at least doubled to not be really devastatingly flimsy, and I can pick up my wire flats with one hand. We use corrugated plastic campaign signs (picked up the day after the election) for exterior rabbit hutch walls (spray clean easily!)
and I made one of those TLUD tin can stoves that I hope to try out this week (it stopped being bitter cold, but now its really windy)
Id love to see people's pictures!
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 14, 2011 11:44:47 GMT -5
I like the idea of wire flats!
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Post by Alan on Feb 14, 2011 11:49:57 GMT -5
We used to make box bailers somewhat similar to that here on the farm for pressing tobacco into bails to sale at the warehouse.
Basically they were about 3 1/2 - 4 foot wide by 5 foot tall. They were framed using 2x4 lumber and then finished out with plywood. Accross the top was attached a piece of angle iron positioned to the middle of the box and attached to 2x4's using lag bolts. A door was made using plywood with pins and receptacles on the front of the plywood and the plywood door was about 1/2 the height of the boxes as a whole
Next we made a "press plate out of 2x4 pieces and plywood that fit the interior of the box.
This allowed us to lay cotton rope into the box with the excess running up the walls and over the front door. We would lay our hands of tobacco into the box and after they would reach a certain height we would use a jack with the mechanism against the piece of angle iron to compress the bail.
Could work well for small scale bail making.
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 14, 2011 14:06:03 GMT -5
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Post by Jim on Mar 4, 2011 20:48:54 GMT -5
I've made some stuff like timber jacks and hitch parts. I'm better at idea generation than making the stuff. My fabricators at work laugh when I hand them my "blueprints" that typically are pictures from the wb with pen marks all over them.
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