the 'todays job' thread

[AHPP]

For anyone interested in nuts and bolts, I can recommend this bloke's articles. They've been enormously useful to me over my past few months' impersonation of an industrial designer.

 

https://www.boltscience.com/pages/info.htm

 

[monkeybusiness]

Maybe worth considering through-drilling a couple (particularly if some have damaged threads now, which may be likely for the last few that let go) and replacing with longer bolts and visible nylocks that you’d at least be able to see? 

[Mick Dempsey]

14 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Maybe worth considering through-drilling a couple (particularly if some have damaged threads now, which may be likely for the last few that let go) and replacing with longer bolts and visible nylocks that you’d at least be able to see? 

True, also might be worth putting it back together, putting a bit of lipstick on it, and selling it on for what I paid for it, buying a digger and subbing out the grinding.

[JLA1990]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

True, also might be worth putting it back together, putting a bit of lipstick on it, and selling it on for what I paid for it, buying a digger and subbing out the grinding.

When you get the digger only slew clockwise, if you go counter clockwise the cab will fall off! 

[Stephen Blair]

On 05/12/2025 at 20:55, openspaceman said:

I had assumed it would be easier to pull the whole shrub then cut and feed a chipper.  So cut and chip then go over the ground to pull roots is better?

It would be easier but it’s what equipment is available and how it works.  The shears are fixed in place with 3-4 big bolts and nuts.  So taking on and off is a pita.  Larger shears for larger machines are available with retractable shears on a button but Ive never 1 for the mini diggers.   Hopefully wrong!