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notjustair

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I've made sorting and catch pens everywhere around here. I'll bet it adds up to miles of pipe fence and hundreds of gates.

I'm adding another sorting pen and was not looking forward to making gates. I hate smashing the ends of the pipe to weld to the uprights. Giving them each about three whacks with the BFH kills my shoulders anymore - and my knees as I hold it on a piece of RR track.

Yesterday I was getting ready to start making gates and had just fed bales. The 886 was sitting there with the log splitter on the back. Ding ding ding! I had all of my pipe bent down in about 15 minutes with that splitter. I even used an old stump and didn't have to bend down. Now why had that not crossed my mind before?? Sheesh.
 

Think we have all had those AH HA moments.

I often think that we do things the way we are taught or have seen as youngsters and sometimes never stop to think that there may be a better way.

Been there too so don't beat yourself up about it. You know what has been said "Necessity is the Mother of Invention".
 
Guess i am dumber then you as i fish mouth and weld , to many roll cages and to many oilfield welds, plus it drive my buddy crazy when i do this, but it makes for a stronger weld. and ok so sometimes i may get a little bigger gap but i can bridge the gap that i get lots of practice on with his butchering craddles since he is always breaking them.
 
Few years ago brother went and bought a press with a hydraulic jack and said if needed any thing straighten bring it up. Told him I have a 20 ton hydraulic press call a log splitter. I have done some pretty stupid things in my life time though.
 
I have 4 steel wagon wheels that are going on a wagon I want to build.
Turns out, I had 3 larger back ones and 1 smaller front one. Cut one of the large ones off the spokes. Shortened the spokes with the torch. Cut a section out of the rim and made it round again with my big homemade log splitter. Took a little while, but it sure was easy.
Richard in NW SC
 
One of my dad's favorite sayings was "too fast old, too slow smart". That certainly applies to me.
 
That sounds like a cool idea. My dad bent the crap out of the cylinder for the bucket tilt on the loader. I took it off and used the two point hitch and wood blocks to straighten it. Have any idea how hard an 1 1/8 steel rod is? I think that is the correct size. I bent it back with just a tiny wiggle cause it had a bit of a double bend. Still working 30 years plus.
 
Everyone does stuff like that, and I'm not claiming exemption.

About ten days ago, my wife said her dishwasher wasn't emptying any water, and called our local appliance repairman. He said he'd be out the next afternoon.

I was driving home from town the next morning and got to thinking about it. All at once I had one of those, "Oh sh*t" moments. I'd replaced the garbage disposal unit a few days before and forgot to knock out the knockout plug on the new garbage disposer where the dishwasher empties into it. The knockout plug is there for units used without a dishwasher.

Thankfully I got it fixed in time to cancel the appointment with the appliance repairman, and avoided suffering the embarrassment of him finding it.
 
notjustair,

Your title seems like a challenge. Hands down, I've got you beat. Need no further explanation, got plenty of witnesses to attest to the fact.

D>
 
I would definitely agree with Goose, no exception here either. Its usually better for me to take my time. Even then, its no guarantee. Sometimes figuring out a better way to do something is so obvious it does not register LOL, but often times I will think of the smarter way to work in the midst of doing something.

I bought a hydraulic splitter for the same reason, joints don't seem to like the impact/shock from heavier hammers. One thing I like about the wedge on the cylinder on my huskee/speeco made splitter, it is removable and you can use it as a press in some situations, like yours, that should be relatively safe. Only concern about that is if something was able to fly out. I could easily make plate plate/fixture for something like this, use accordingly. Travel speed of the cylinder on mine would make you be very careful with the lever, its kind of fast for this work. I saw somewhere on the web where a tow behind log splitter was built to do many other functions, a press was one of them.
 
too old to think right anymore that seems to be my problem i've done things my way so long i don't know any other way to do it. Ten some smart guy (tall kid) comes along and says dad way are you doing that? i say because that's the way i have always done it. then he says way don't you try this? turns out the wise acre has a better idea than me
that's way i say to old to think right anymore.
 
I can better that. I agreed to revamp the kitchen one winter. I moved the dishwasher to its new spot and it never seemed to work right. Wife finally got fed up and we bought a new one. When I pulled the old one out I realized it had been sitting on the drain hose causing a real restriction. I didn't tell the wife. I just gave the dishwasher to a friend and installed the new one. Happy wife.
 
Let me kick in one. I work on the really big dish machines. Cost like $200,000.oo bucks a pop. They are 240v three phase, AND have 2HP pumps on them. Do you know what happens when you hook a three phase pump up and wires are the wrong way around? Do Ya?? The day shift guy replaced the pump on a C-66 machine and turns it on. Well they will spray water but not really strong. After a while the thermal will trip cause the motor over heats. Now that night when I am on I find the thermal is out. Reset and hear the motor is struggling. Look into the end of the machine and see the water is not strong. Take the motor panel off and swap two leads. Away we go folks with a big shower of water. YEA
 
I did the same thing. Replaced the garbage disposal. Dishwasher didn't drain. I replaced the dishwasher. Dishwasher still didn't drain. I finally thought about the plug in the garbage disposal. My wife got a new dishwasher she didn't need. Oh well!!!!!
 
naw,,. you are resourceful ... you could also straighten pto shafts with mine ,and straighten bent steel with the rite type of stump
 

Does the phrase "young dumb and full of c#*" mean anything? :lol: As we get older we learn that the best muscle to exercise is the one between our ears.
 
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