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18th Jul 2017, 09:20 PM #31Golden Member
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I did mention it " dangerous " . I was talking the average house not mansions . The space they do have is just allocated to something newer . As long as the steel is clean of corrosion or at least the rust has been converted it should be good . Are you going to leave it out in the paddock ? If so a canvas cover would be a good idea .
The volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' is given by pi z z a.
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18th Jul 2017, 11:09 PM #32
When I first made it, I put it in the imp shed, but now there is a lot of junk in there. I am hoping to get rid of some of it and hopefully have room for the splitter. I will need to fill in some holes tho. There have been rabbit digging burrows under the floor and then SWMBO's dog gets in there and it is not safe for a vehicle anymore. I walked into the shed one day looking for him. One of the other dogs was there so I thought he would be. I could not see him. Then he backed up out of the hole he had dug. He is a large Golden Retriever / Lab cross and the only lab thing about him is the broad beam and a slight face resemblance. He was completely underground.
Dean
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18th Jul 2017, 11:33 PM #33Most Valued Member
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Are you sure he's not Golden Retriever / Lab cross/ Wombat.
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19th Jul 2017, 12:42 AM #34
I wonder sometimes, but he is a bit faster than them. He can disappear in a blink of an eye and then you see him a couple hundred metres away. He does keep the rabbits pretty fit. He is still a big kid at 7 yrs. Never gunna grow up. We got him at about 3 from a couple in town when they had twins. Well she did. They realised that he would be too much. He has been really well brought up and had no bad habits other than what I have mentioned.
Dean
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19th Jul 2017, 07:42 PM #35Golden Member
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19th Jul 2017, 09:56 PM #36
Dogs are almost as bad as rabbits here. The corner of the shed nearest the big hole has a post about 250mm diam. SWMBO's previous dog dug around this post until the bottom of the post was hanging in the air. It was rotted off, but she still did a good job. I had a look at that post today and the hole has washed back in to cover the post base. A few places have caved in where a burrow ran underneath. I'm glad it is not wombats.
I haven't seen any evidence of calicivirus here. There is certainly no shortage of rabbits.
Dean
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20th Jul 2017, 12:44 PM #37Golden Member
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That's interesting because the virus was released down that way to start with . Maybe it's effectiveness is slipping .
Don't know much about how the virus works , I wonder if it's the weather down there . I know mixo is transmitted by mosquitoes but I'm not sure how calici spreads , never bothered to look it up . My Brotherinlaw was a pro rabbit shooter near Lake Frome in SA for some years for Aub Ali until calici made it unprofitable .The volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' is given by pi z z a.
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21st Jul 2017, 11:50 AM #38
The virus was developed on an island on the west side of the York Peninsular which is across the gulf from Adelaide. I have forgotten the name of the island. The virus was released unintentionally or whatever. Not at the planned time. It was released early and may have lost some effect due to not spreading as fast as it could have and so allowing some resistance to be developed. I believe it is mosquito borne, hence the timing. It is mostly active during spring.
Like all viruses its effectivness has reduced over the years.
Dean
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22nd Jul 2017, 12:12 AM #39Most Valued Member
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Dean, York Peninsula Is in Qld, Yorke Peninsula is across from Adelaide, the Island is Wardang just out from Port Victoria. It's Myxomatosis that is spread by the mosquitoes, Calicivirus is transmitted between rabbits by contact Insects such as rabbit fleas, with another infected rabbit and by contact with excreta contaminated with the virus. On a good day I could see Glenelg from my house opposite on the Peninsula.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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22nd Jul 2017, 12:48 AM #40
Misspelling there. Yeah I thought it was Wardang, but wasn't sure. My family have a beach shack not far from there. I am related to a big percentage of the peninsular.
On a good day I could see Glenelg from my house opposite on the Peninsula.
More painting done. Went to Mt Gambier yesterday and got some red paint. Not far off now. I can start putting it back together.
Dean
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22nd Jul 2017, 08:11 PM #41Most Valued Member
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I lived at Wool Bay and helped build 2 lots of the silos there, would have been about '69 and '71, as well as Ardrossan and Wallaroo Silos
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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22nd Jul 2017, 11:05 PM #42
Good memories. Seeing Tommies carted off in a wheelbarrow. My brother caught 21 squid in half an hour. We didn't even know what they tasted like then. If only we knew. We only used them for bait.
My mother was born and brought up just outside Minlaton. My grandfather had a farm that he continued to run in part until he was in his mid 80's, all on his own. Loss of sight finally forced him off the farm.
Dean
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31st Jul 2017, 10:22 PM #43
I have finally got far enough along to do another post. There have been a few holdups and one of the other projects I was working on at the same time ended up taking up quite a bit of my time. More on those projects in the "Your Latest Project" thread shortly. The splitter has been on the move quite a bit as I position it near the workshop for convenience and then move it back to the implement shed due to rain, rinse and repeat several times.
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The new livery. There is some touch ups to be done. The masking tape pulled a bit of the green paint off.
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I needed to go into town to buy some more fuel hose so I could complete the motor. Luckily I decided to finish removing the cut off length of cylinder rod from the old clevis first. Quite a while earlier I had cut it off and then cut some flats for a big shifter to grip. It took a lot of effort and some heat to break it free, but then I left it sitting on the bench until just before I went to town. I had about 900mm of leverage and I could still just turn it for about half of the thread length. I was a bit confused about the reduced diameter of the thread that was inside the clevis. I couldn't see it until I had undone it a bit. I was starting to worry when I remembered that this was the way the shaft was when I got it. There is a short length of 1 1/8" x 12 tpi and a longer length of 1 1/4" x 12 tpi thread. Phew, all good, except that I either had to buy a clevis with 1 1/4" x 12 tpi thread or rethread it on the lathe.
I went to the same store that I bought the original clevis from and thru some extreme luck they had exactly what I wanted. It was the only one they had in stock and was even cheaper than the original, about 15yrs later. This one has a thread clamp to prevent movement and it also allowed me to open the split so I could screw it on. I have no way to hold the ram except for stillsons or the vice with ali jaw covers. I have of course now used Never Seize on everything that could need it. I really do need to make or buy a strap wrench.
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I fitted an over centre mechanism to the lift table lock. It is much easier to operate as it will work when the table is part way up and click into place as it becomes level. This took me the better part of 2 days while I experimented with an expansion spring first and then realised that a compression spring was the only way I could get it to work properly.
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This is where I finished today. There is still some painting of new work to do, plus the touch ups. I was intending to fit a hook under the knife slide, with an over centre mechanism to operate it. This is to hold the knife up when the splitter is not in use. The cylinder slowly drops down over a period of weeks, exposing the ram to the weather. It may be chromed, but I don't want to risk rust. After the previous struggles with the lift table lock I decided that a simple Pad Bolt would be much easier to fit. You can see it just above the knife slide. I also have to derust and paint the old wheels. The ones on the splitter are PU filled and are not capable of supporting the weight. The bottom of the tyre gets very squashed and pushes the tyre upwards.
I have fixed one loose nyloc nut with the hammer and have 2 more to do I think. It worked well. Now I want to fit some HDPE strips to the table and lift table to help the wood to slide, I hope. Sitting on the lift table is part of an old HDPE container which I plan to use. It is about 6mm thick. Once these are fitted the splitter will be operational.
Dean
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31st Jul 2017, 11:04 PM #44Golden Member
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It's looking great now . More solid than it was before . Never seize is a great idea for things that may stand out in the weather a bit . I use it on all wheel studs it's magic stuff . I got my fire going tonight it's nice and cosy now. My supply of split wood will just scrape through this year which is good . God be very careful holding the ram don't mark it where it goes inside or it might wear the seals . What about machining a heavy aluminium collet with flat sides and split it down the middle . Then wash the mating surfaces , collet and ram well , with shellite and allow to dry then dust the inside of the collet with rosin powder and put the collet halves on the ram shaft and tie some string around it just to hold it in place and then clamp the flats in a big vice . It's kinda like how a barrel vice works.
The volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' is given by pi z z a.
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31st Jul 2017, 11:52 PM #45What about machining a heavy aluminium collet with flat sides and split it down the middle . Then wash the mating surfaces , collet and ram well , with shellite and allow to dry then dust the inside of the collet with rosin powder and put the collet halves on the ram shaft and tie some string around it just to hold it in place and then clamp the flats in a big vice . It's kinda like how a barrel vice works.
Dean
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