The Continental Op wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:52 pm
Used plenty. In the UK they used to be used a lot for hanging wooden gates. I can't be sure of the sizes but I think its 1inch you use for the top adjustable hinge to bore right through the wooden post and 3/4 to part bore a hole for the bottom hammer in hinge.
I was given that by my neighbour. He saw me putting holes in gateposts /strainers, the drill I have is not great. He knows my brother does a bit of welding so dropped that up and said your brother might be able to do something with that.
Come to think of it any old forks, shovels or picks seem to land into me. I put handles on them if they are not too bad. Think I've got about 6 shovels at this stage
I hate looking at something without a handle on it.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:29 pm
Anyone ever use one of these ? Beyond repair I'd say.
Spend a few days on YouTube and you'll surely find someone who's fixed one ... probably using a home-made blast furnace and a few industrial grindstones scavenged from their local stripmining company!
Actually I've a tool I have no idea what it is used for. Again a friend of mine his father passed away and he dropped it in and said I may have a use for it. Must root it out and throw up a photo if any of you have any ideas.
Its not beyond repair if the rust is only superficial. But I would say that the fact that you managed to break it, either means its very rusty,
or you have super human strength and need to be given a wide berth when an altercation takes place..
I don't know who broke it. There was a man that we used to work with for my neighbour when we were younger and he did have super strength. Probably himself that done it.
Will just leave this here. Had to cut some background out of it but basically there's a couple of sheets of galvanise as the trailer floor. The wood is all rotten in it. Was probably first time used in a decade. Myself an brother were doing a job for my neighbour but the gates were stashed on the other side of the farm, and the metal posts he promised were in one of the sheds, were not to be found. Ended up using one of my metal posts and a 9 foot esb strainer I found in one of his fields ( I cut it about 6 months ago so knew where it was stashed )
Haven't feckin eaten all day. I'll probably be given that trailer as payment... Anyway he's a good neighbour so no problem helping him out a bit. Just have to be very resourceful with materials
But isn't it irritating when that quick, cheap job you do for a neighbor lasts so much longer than a similar job you spend money on and take time and care with for yourself.
The Continental Op wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 9:18 pm
But isn't it irritating when that quick, cheap job you do for a neighbor lasts so much longer than a similar job you spend money on and take time and care with for yourself.
We were expecting it anyway Continental. We have the worst part of the job done anyway. He's got about 30 absolutely lunatic cattle going over the next two weeks and just making loading area a bit safer for him. His other cattle are lovely and quite. He's helped out our family plenty of times over the years so we'll happily return the compliment. We'll get paid for it but the money is not why we are doing it in this case.
The Continental Op wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 9:33 pm
If the tyres, bearings and axle are in anyway decent shape then its worth fixing provided you need a trailer that size and have the time to do it.
He already told me if I wanted it to take it away. It was half buried in brambles but it probably done 2 kilometres today over rough ground and the axle didn't fall off it. So I might take it now. Would be handy around the place.
kadman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 9:28 pm
Looks like a 10x6 or 12x6 trailer. Lots of work in that alright. But when its done, its an expensive piece of equipment.
Think it's a 12 x 6, as I had three 12 foot gates in it and they weren't sticking out at the back. Only one that was sticking out the back was the 15 foot one. The steel is ok in it. Just the wood is rotten. Wouldn't be bring it in the road or anything like that so might be another restoration project. Am I right in thinking larch is what the use for these trailers ?
I take it this is some sort of sickle / mini sycthe type implement. Found it on my neighbour's farm yesterday when looking for a piece of steel for a guttering job he had me doing.
Did I see this in the Evenflow video on ragwort?
He'd have some great material in the place I was yesterday.
That overall shape, and especially how it's inserted in the wood, is ringing a bell somewhere in the recesses of my mind, but can't quite place it yet.
Edit: following The C-O's comment, could well be something I'd have seen my grandad using on his hay.
Wrong environment but your thinking on the right lines. Definitely an old rural tool but highly specialist. A tool for "harvesting" but sorry I picked one you wouldn't use on a farm.
Would it be for collecting seaweed / reeds or anything of that nature? Just the backslope appearance of the spike things lead me to think gathering up something which slips out at the wider holes?
Anyway he's a good neighbour so no problem helping him out a bit. Just have to be very resourceful with materials 
