Ideas born in farm shops...

MBU · Mar 18, 2009

Almost every farm I visit I see farm implements or tools that have been built or modified for special use by the farmer. Most of them are very useful and very clever.

So... what equipment have you made or modified on your farm/ranch? Pictures would be nice too! Also, don't forget to "brag" a bit - you deserve it!

Thanks...

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2009

Get yourself a subscription to Farm Show magazine, Ideas Born In Farm Shops is what the whole paper is about!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2009

Farm Show magazine never knew there were that many uses for old combines and school buses.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2009

At my work they made a self feeding straw blower for seeding. Mounted parts of combine forage blower manure spreader and chopper on a flatbed. Holds 5 large square bales. Works really well. One person drives and another rides in combine cab on back shooting straw. Pretty neat for a hobbled together mess. I think its about 18-20 years old now.

old · Mar 18, 2009

Best thing I ever built was the V plow for moving snow. It pins to the loader bucket so it is easy on and off and you leave the normal bucket in place

usetob · Mar 18, 2009

most of your farm implements were built by farmers first

MBU · Mar 18, 2009

(quoted from post at 14:28:00 03/18/09) Get yourself a subscription to Farm Show magazine, Ideas Born In Farm Shops is what the whole paper is about!

DiyDave,

That's where I got the title for this thread! I just thought a bunch of people wouldn't take the time to forward their work to that publication and besides, this will give me the opportunity to talk with the inventor.

RickL · Mar 19, 2009

was just in thelast magazine again. Curent projct thzt reallly get s used alot is quick hitch adapter that now goes on skidsteer or back on tractor like originally designed really works slick. As of last week this same adapter will now also go on the front of my large forklift.

thurlow · Mar 19, 2009

For about 40 years, we had a farm rented which had a few pecan trees on it(no commercial pecan groves here). Built a three-point hitch 'shaker' out of the right-angle drive train off an old pull-type combine. Had an eccentric shaft on end; loop of 3/8 inch cable (liberally greased) on shaft and other end hooked to tree. It worked great. No longer have the farm and the shaker is somewhere in the junk pile.........

Anonymous-0 · Mar 19, 2009

A farmer friend of mine attached an old Montesa motorcycle transmission to his one speed drill press and just shifted the motorcycle transmission to change drill speeds.

random_farmhick · Mar 19, 2009

I havnt really built anything, but the stories my grandfather has told me. Him and his brother built their first two hay and corn elevators, and even more genious was that they built a manure loader for a minnie moline ztu without hydraulics. They used an axle from a model t ford, hooked it to the pto on the tractor, they could apply one brake and it would go up, switch and it would hold, then just feather it to go down. its sad that all three of those were lost in a barn fire

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