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Winter barley I assume did it come off ok ??
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Today I found this, it was due to me melted down.
I don't need a lump hammer, I have a few. But it looked like it needed a new home and some TYA TLC.
So, were to start.
A well seasoned peace of wild hard wood tree branch, AKA "Didgrowwild"
I have access to a semi decent wood lathe. So a few coffees and a choccy hob nob
Remove old handle, well a few blows with a drift and a hammer and it was out.
Fitted, double wedge and oiled
But, re shafting and wedging old hammers now to me is old hat. But today I had to re sharpen the few lathe tools and clean the metal after some one turned down some un seasoned horse chestnut.
I don't need a lump hammer, I have a few. But it looked like it needed a new home and some TYA TLC.
So, were to start.
A well seasoned peace of wild hard wood tree branch, AKA "Didgrowwild"
I have access to a semi decent wood lathe. So a few coffees and a choccy hob nob
Remove old handle, well a few blows with a drift and a hammer and it was out.
Fitted, double wedge and oiled
But, re shafting and wedging old hammers now to me is old hat. But today I had to re sharpen the few lathe tools and clean the metal after some one turned down some un seasoned horse chestnut.
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Made? More like assembled. Well I made the cyclone and stand, but it was quite a while ago, last night I assembled the blower in pieces on the wall mount, only way I could get it up there was one component at a time and it worked!
Now follows the design and layout of a ducting system, filter box and stuff
Now follows the design and layout of a ducting system, filter box and stuff
last weekend I was demonstrating wire drawing at the local Industrial museum,
using a drawing plate with tapered holes in it like this (these plates are normally used for reducing the size of small lengths of silver and gold wire for jewellery making.
but the end of the wire needs to be tapered to feed it into the hole. I was told that to do this the wire would need to be filed against a wooden block, but as the wire started off at 0.7mm diameter, it would just go anywhere it wanted, so took far longer than it should and my fingers ended up being sore from trying to guide the wire.
so today before I went back I ended up making a very simple jig to make it an easier and quicker job to do. the jig is just a flat piece of steel with a tapered slot cut in it (using a slitting saw) to guide the copper wire (while filing it). the slot tapered from 1.00mm deep to nothing, and the slot is 50mm long
a simple solution and its pretty effective.......its my version of recreating the industrial revolution (making things faster and better) in the industrial museum.
so starting off with a piece if copper wire 100mm long x 0.7mm diameter, drawing it through the draw plate lengthens it to approx 120mm long x 0.5mm diameter. To me thats obvious, but some some people almost think its magic and kids some kids just have a confused expression on their face afterwards.
using a drawing plate with tapered holes in it like this (these plates are normally used for reducing the size of small lengths of silver and gold wire for jewellery making.
but the end of the wire needs to be tapered to feed it into the hole. I was told that to do this the wire would need to be filed against a wooden block, but as the wire started off at 0.7mm diameter, it would just go anywhere it wanted, so took far longer than it should and my fingers ended up being sore from trying to guide the wire.
so today before I went back I ended up making a very simple jig to make it an easier and quicker job to do. the jig is just a flat piece of steel with a tapered slot cut in it (using a slitting saw) to guide the copper wire (while filing it). the slot tapered from 1.00mm deep to nothing, and the slot is 50mm long
a simple solution and its pretty effective.......its my version of recreating the industrial revolution (making things faster and better) in the industrial museum.
so starting off with a piece if copper wire 100mm long x 0.7mm diameter, drawing it through the draw plate lengthens it to approx 120mm long x 0.5mm diameter. To me thats obvious, but some some people almost think its magic and kids some kids just have a confused expression on their face afterwards.
cmon then what moisture and what weight? poor crops allways ripen faster,lol.
Anything ripens faster in this weather lol we have spring barley at work just turning but desperately in need of rain to fill the grains out
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Yes and, AFAIK (I was on the baler and didn't hear too much swearing coming from the combine), yes.
cmon then what moisture and what weight? poor crops allways ripen faster,
Think it's come off at about 16%. Not a particularly good yield, maybe barely 2t/acre.
The field had strawed carrots in it the previous year so nitrogen robbing's been a problem along with the drought hitting at just the wrong time (light, free draining, sandy soil on a slope).
Spring barley's not looking too happy either.
Problems and all it's still an easier harvest than last year!
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EVERYTHING is needing rain right about now!
We've had to abandon the idea of taking a second cut from our silage ground
Wallace
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EVERYTHING is needing rain right about now!
We've had to abandon the idea of taking a second cut from our silage ground
Nothing prepares you as a townie child for standing next to a silage dump while you watch your brother in law fix a puncture on a tra-tor!
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Do you mean Slurry (cow manure) as silage is just grass, albeit a bit smelly when it's off or well fermented!
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To cut a long story short all I could say was Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra when I went to replace a pair of blowing downpipe gaskets last week, found these as downpipe to cast iron manifold flanges.
With heatproof Aluminium paint the downpipes look new to the untrained eye and were recently fitted.
They are also too short having been cut and welded so were hitting the chassis. Stainless pipes with mild flanges.
Temptation was to plasma cut a pair and Mig them to the existing flanges, kind of what I ended up doing.
Plasma cut some scrap and flap wheeled the dross off, impressed they’re both within 0.5mm by eye!
Tack all the corners together, mark and drill the bolt holes then centre on a faceplate in the lathe. Hog the centre to 48mm with a holesaw.
Bore to 57mm.
Rasher down to shape on the mill using MkI eyeball and scribe lines.
Fettle on linisher to shape.
Tig braze to original pos fanimold flanges.
The calibre of bolt cutting exceeds the parts supply!
With heatproof Aluminium paint the downpipes look new to the untrained eye and were recently fitted.
They are also too short having been cut and welded so were hitting the chassis. Stainless pipes with mild flanges.Temptation was to plasma cut a pair and Mig them to the existing flanges, kind of what I ended up doing.
Plasma cut some scrap and flap wheeled the dross off, impressed they’re both within 0.5mm by eye!
Tack all the corners together, mark and drill the bolt holes then centre on a faceplate in the lathe. Hog the centre to 48mm with a holesaw.
Bore to 57mm.
Rasher down to shape on the mill using MkI eyeball and scribe lines.
Fettle on linisher to shape.
Tig braze to original pos fanimold flanges.
The calibre of bolt cutting exceeds the parts supply!
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He called it silage and it was steaming from memory, covered it tarps and old tyres.
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Nice workTo cut a long story short all I could say was Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra when I went to replace a pair of blowing downpipe gaskets last week, found these as downpipe to cast iron manifold flanges.
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With heatproof Aluminium paint the downpipes look new to the untrained eye and were recently fitted.
Temptation was to plasma cut a pair and Mig them to the existing flanges, kind of what I ended up doing.
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Plasma cut some scrap and flap wheeled the dross off, impressed they’re both within 0.5mm by eye!
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Tack all the corners together, mark and drill the bolt holes then centre on a faceplate in the lathe. Hog the centre to 48mm with a holesaw.
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Bore to 57mm.
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Rasher down to shape on the mill using MkI eyeball and scribe lines.
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Fettle on linisher to shape.
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Tig braze to original pos fanimold flanges.
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The calibre of bolt cutting exceeds the parts supply!
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Yes that's silage. Might have been wholecrop (chopped up maize) as it really does stink. Silage is only bad really when it's a wet crop. Love how I've been modded, though manure is more polite than my s word with a 1 in it it's not correct, Slurry is liquid, usually a min of poo and wee and rain water from the dirty yards, which is spread once mixed onto the land as fertiliser, manure is usually a mix of the above minus the water but added to start used in dry bedding in a barn. Which is left to rot for a year or so, then spread as fertiliser. I know of no farm that piles poo up as a solid.
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EVERYTHING is needing rain right about now!
We've had to abandon the idea of taking a second cut from our silage ground
We have just taken a second at work my boss asked what he should do because his intension was to leave it to bulk up I said take it because before long it will start getting less after they had cut it he came and said he was glad he had as some of the dryer ground was getting less we now need around 150 acres of 3rd cut to fill things up because both 1st and 2nd have been lighter than normal and we had no Carrie over from last year there will be whole crop to come in as well
Whole crop is wheat or barley taken before it is ripe ( the grain is ideally still soft and milky )othough with modern foragers with in bolt crop prossesers that crush the grain it can be taken at a later growth stage .maize silage is made from maize usually taken later on in the year as the plant starts to die back the corn on the cob will be ripe and the dry matter going up due to the plant dying back
