35 Plastic Fork Repair

Plastic manure forks sometimes break. Clean the break where parts join together. Read the instructions on the glue container. Hold the parts apart enough to allow you to apply the glue. Apply the glue. Clamp the parts together until the glue cures. Remove the clamp. Use the fork.

use this glue or equivalent

here is a view of a scoop fork break

here is a fox folk break

use a clamp to press the parts together

repaired scoop fork

back view of repaired fox fork

front view of repaired fox fork

 

34 EZ Haul Jumbo Cart Review

The cart works well for us. For longer life, we suggest loads of no more than half-full for animal debris, especially wet debris. These carts have a rated capacity of 11.5 cu ft which works out to a bit more than 86 gallons. Water weighs about 8.34 pounds per gallon. Wet debris weighs more than water alone. A full load of wet debris would likely weigh over 700 pounds. This cart is rated at 600 pounds carrying capacity. So, a half load of wet debris would likely weigh 350-400 pounds.  

more information about this cart is at https://tinyurl.com/y6ygsjtl

33. Breath-secured Safe

Secure with your breath. You can program the lock to refuse to open if your bac is above a limit, or if there is some other condition that you want to regulate. 

parts 
a computer
software to analyse breath input
breath analyser 
lockable container

32 Improvised Carcass Transport Set-up

Here is one way to set up a move of a carcass...

I moved a sheep carcass over very soft mud to firmer ground using fence panels, a hand-truck, and tie-down straps. I show the set-up only.

carcass at path-start

carcass at path-start. see how muddy the ground is?

fence panels that formed the path. I laid these panels down on the mud to make a path-way

 path-way from carcass to viewer

 path-way from carcass to exit, right by wheel-barrow 

hand-truck and tie-down straps

hand-truck and tie-down straps

hand-truck in position for me to lift the carcass onto it

tie-down straps in position to go over the carcass 

hand-truck and tie-down straps

hand-truck and tie-down straps

I simply rolled the carcass over the path-way to firmer ground, and then to a trailer to await disposition. This could work with any carcass that can fit on a hand-truck. The fence panels provided support for the loaded hand-truck. I did this to more cleanly move the carcass. I just could not drag it through the mud and then along the ground.

31 Butter Tip.2013.05.11

Lori and I keep butter in a refrigerator.  Cold butter does not spread well.  

Here are a couple of ways to soften butter for spreading without using a microwave.

1. a) Put the plate with the patties that you want to soften on a saucepan when cooking something else

1b) Use the heat until the butter is soft enough

or

2.a) Put the plate with the patties that you want to soften on a platform outside in direct sunlight

2b) Cover the plate with the patties

2c) After ten minutes, the butter is usually soft enough to spread; repeat steps 2a) & 2b) as needed

30 Battery Holder 2012.11.07

This is for holding two spare AA size batteries. 

1.    Get a 5/8" ID heater hose 6 3/4" long. Get two non-conductive plugs and a 1/4" non-conducive spacer with a OD of 5/8". Cut about 1/2" off of each end of the heater hose and push the free portion onto its plug. Plug one end of the holder. Slide a AA battery positive end out into the holder. Slide the spacer in next. Slide another AA battery positive end out into the holder. Push the remaining plug into the holder.

2.    The assembled battery holder

3. The battery holder in a quart-sized baggie

29 Improvised Horse-Blanket Repairs

Improvised Horse-Blanket Repairs

Sometimes blanket components will break and you gotta fix 'em now. For example, a front buckle will break away from its retaining tab. So get a snap, and route the strap through the snap and through the buckle. Improvise a loop using twine through the buckle retaining loop.

1 This is the first looping of the strap on the off-side of the horse through the snap and the buckle. Make the twine loop and push the knots into the buckle retaining loop on the near-side of the horse.

 

2 Here is another view of the repair. Note how the strap on the off-side of the horse is looped over the standing edge of the buckle. A better way is in the next picture.

 

3  Here is how the repair looks with the off-side strap looped through the snap and under the the standing edge of the buckle. This is a much better improvised repair.

Or, a girth-strap snap will break and the strap is sewn around the slide adjuster blocking a simple replacement. Pictures #4 & 5 show the situation. Cut the thread from the strap end sewn around the slide adjuster. Remove the strap end from the slide adjuster. Remove the broken snap as need. Thread the strap end through a replacement snap and through the slide adjuster. Pictures #6 & 7 show the situation.

 

4  Here is a sewn up girth-strap.  

 

5  Another view of the sewn-up girth-strap

6. A view of the repair. Route the running end of the girth-strap through a replacement girth-snap and through the slide-adjuster

7. The repair is functionally indistinguishable from the factory construction

2012.03.25