feature night?

[larry@stinescorner]

tonights feature night is sugested by Royce,,,he says ...show any homemade tools or let us know about some you have made

 

[rrlund]

My home made sleeve puller. Crude,but it works just fine.

 

[gtractorfan]

While working in a job shop I tack welded nuts to the jaws of a couple vice grips at an angle, then cut the nuts in two. This was handy for using with threaded rod and T nuts in mill or drill press tables with slots. It allows quick locating the nut to the toe clamps, then close the vice grip, give it a twist and the hold-downs are tight.

Yesterday you had a thread about protecting mailboxes, I had some smashed until I used expanded mesh on a post next to the mailbox. I leave this up year round and haven't had any trouble since. Also have a spring pop-up flag for when the mailman opens the lid to show the mail's there.

 

[Mike (WA)]

Here in moist country, clutch disks often stick to the flywheel on our tractors, if they are used infrequently. Most of the solutions I've seen on here involve starting the tractor in gear and running it into a tree, driving around with clutch pedal tied down until it either breaks free or you run out of gas, etc. Others advocate splitting the tractor, which of course we all enjoy.

Easy method is to remove the starter, and use "the tool" through the hole. "The tool"? Get the thinnest, crummiest butcher knife out of the Mrs. knife drawer, preferably whilst she is otherwise occupied. Take it to the shop, heat it about 2 inches down from the point, and bend it 90°. Make sure it is dull, we don't want to put any cuts in the clutch disk.

After taking off the starter, use the tool through the starter hole. Work it in under the disk, in the gaps in the pressure plate, and rock it back and forth to free the disk from the flywheel. Rotate the flywheel to the next gap with a bit screwdriver, repeat. By about the third one, it will break loose all the way around.

Reinstall the starter, and you're good to go. You can still run it into a tree if you wish, but with the clutch freed up, it kind of takes all the fun out of it.

 

[Kerry50]

twine cutter, my grandad made this one. Great for keeping on the tractor and cutting the twine off round bales.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I built this fork lift to move lawn mowers etc.

 

[Greg K]

Splitting stand for smaller tractors.

 

[FLOLDFORD]

Here is just a few I have around the shop. Brass hammers that I made out of a brass pump shaft I got from work and a knife I made 30 years ago from a file it stays on my work bench and is as sharp as a razor. One of the best is the portable air tank I made from a old compressor my brother was throwing away. Don't know how I did it but you can put a 100lbs of air in it today and it will not leak down in 6 months. The tool holder for my lathe was built by a master machinist years ago and given to me by his son after he passed

 

[Hemi]

Pulling hubs off tapered shaft

 

[uncle henry]

made this for the mail box bashers

 

[Adirondack case guy]

Just a few tools to make wood handling easier, once it is stacked away for the heating season. A bolt on woodrack for a 4 wheel wagon, it holds a half face cord, and carries wood directly from the attached woodshed to my work shop where the boiler that heats my house is, and the dumbwaiter that lifts my firewood from the walkin celler up to the first floor for the fireplace.
Also a bench system made from steel Kubota shipping crates and plywood, in my tractor shop.
Loren, the Acg.

 

[onefarmer]

Tractor is a tool right?

My JD 620 is beginning to feel ill and has been asking for a trip thru the shop. But I need to plow snow and feed round bales.

SO I made these brackets.

To mount this loader on the Farmall.

On which I had made the bale spear on the front of. I just a few weeks ago had put the blade on it with the spear. Now it serves both functions.

 

[Royse]

I was changing a serpentine belt the other night, that's what made
me think of this. I have a store bought belt tool now, but before
they became so prevalent I built the one in the top of this picture.

Its just two different sized sockets ground down short and welded
to a fairly thin but strong piece of strap steel. It has served me well for
years and on some applications still works better than the store bought tool.

The second "tool" is a valve spring compressor I made for Tecumseh
single cylinder engines like the one I had in a Sears Suburban.

Always love to see the ingenuity you guys have!

 

[larry@stinescorner]

thank you,very much

 

[fixerupper]

I'm not home to take a pic so an explanation of one of mine will have to do. I did some cutting and grinding on an old C clamp Vise grips and made it into a tool that will pull roller chain together so the master link can be installed. I have used it many, many times. Works on # 50 through #80. It's size does require a little more room but most times there is room available. Jim.

 

[JD John]

I don't have any pictures of it but I built a sand blaster from an old air compresser tank. It was a 30 gallon vertical tank and holds 240# of sand. Bought all the fittings from hardware store and nozzle off ebay. Only problem is top of tank is a little high for lifting 80# bags for filling.

 

[Royse]

JD John, you reminded me of another one.
This one isn't actually home made, but saved a ton of money.
When I wanted to put a spray-on bed liner in a pickup, the spray
guns for that stuff were quite pricey.
After studying them, I decided they were much the same as the
cheap hand held sandblaster guns with a hose that sticks in a bucket.
That turned out to be true. It was a one time use deal as I didn't
ever figure out how to clean it very well, but it turned out great and it was only $10!

 

[Paul from MI]

Not tools, but doll furniture I made for my granddaughters.

 

[Royse]

Very nice work Paul! And a super cutie of a granddaughter!

 

[omahagreg]

I built me a thickness sander. It can take up to 25" wide by 4' long stock, up to 5" thick. Click on the image, it is a video. I have since made safety shields!

 

[Alan K]

The only picture I have on this computer at the moment is the engine stand I made for my MM M5 engine Im overhauling. Have to make splitting stands for my other M5 when time permits. My dad built the cherry picker in the picture years ago when I overhauled my car motor. He was always making things. He bought a welder in the mid 1950s after he got back from Korea and kind of taught himself to weld. My uncles and their boys always brought things to him to fix. He made a wheel set up for the stationary Stan-Hoist wagon hoist so they could transport it on the road. When they got it to where it needed to be you could remove the 2 wheels in about 2 minutes.

 

[Alan K]

That is a neat looking set up. I need to make some splitting stands for my M5 MM.

 

[DeltaRed]

'Farmers pliar'. There are lots of homemade tools in my tool box.From extra long deepwell sockets to special; wrenches to speciallty tools that I've made for a particular job.Sorry I dont have any pic of any of it.....

 

[sms]

Press to remove master pins from dozer tracks

 

[Dick L]

My latest homemade devices was a jib for my engine lift. Because of my disabilities caused by age and accidents I build devices to get things done that the old body will not cooperate in.

Another one was the trimming stocks I built to get the horses up to where I can set on a stool to trim hooves because of my neuropathy.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Loren;Enuff alreddy,A DUMBWAITER??? This game should be called under the 10 run rule!!!! LMAO

 

[dpendzic]

built 2 of these 4 wheel carriages to haul boats out of water

 

[ShepFL]

I like that idea. I have a D10 with stuck clutch now. I will see what I can sneak out of the house with