I bought this T-Mech Industrial Beam Scales to make a cattle weighing scales using an old Nugent portable cattle crush. The old crush was in poor condition and the original floor had rotted away completely. I consulted my fabricator friend Robert about folding up a new floor for the crush and he kindly offered to […]
This is a simple meal bin that I made today. I needed extra meal storage for the new BEEP-S scheme. I got a damaged IBC for free due to its bad condition. So I cut the top of of the bin. Removed the insert and straightened out the cage. Finally, made a timber frame for […]
My Brother Joe and myself spent Saturday replacing the timing case on the 698T. First we had to disconnect all the hydraulic pipes, radiator hoses and wiring harness and split the front of the tractor. I ran the engine for a while and there is no sign of any oil leaks, so hopefully we can […]
This was my Dads New Holland 370 Baler, it was bought in the 80’s and used until the mid 90’s, but was left rotting in a field for years after we changed to round bales. About 15 years ago I decided to pull it out of the weeds to see if it could be salvaged. […]
After replacing the broken balancer unit, the engine ran without any strange noises, but there was a bad oil leak from the front of the timing case. At first I thouhgt it was a bad seal with the gastket on the sump, so I dropped the sump again, checked the gasket and applied a fresh […]
Built on top of my previous water bowser project, a mobile solar pump. It can easily be moved from one outfarm to another. I built a fairly rough box out of scraps of wood that were lying around to contain the battery charge controller and an electric fence unit. I mounted a 100W solar panel […]
In previous posts I used mostly off the shelf IOT devices from Tuya, Sonoff and Shelly, these are great becasue they are cheap and easily integrated into many projects. The issue though when you want sensors for custom applications is there are not many cheap off the shelf options. Thankfully there are a few well […]
This was one of the first Automations I implemented on the farm and it was quite a simple addition. Here is a diagram provided in my Gliderol Motor manual. As you can see there is a single button wiring option, so a simple smart switch with inching can control the door. Alternativly you could use […]
Home Heating might not strictly be farming related but much of this can be modified for all sorts of farming automations, from milk tank temprature monitoring, automatic calf milk mixers to green house automations or frost protection. I Stated off with 2 of theses Smart Thermostats from eBay and a smart boiler switch like this […]
I started a home automation project in Dec 2019 because our heating system was not working correctly and I thought it would be a good time to convert to a smart heating system. Our heating controls were poorly laid out with a boiler time switch at one end of the house, zone valves in the […]
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