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

28 Mobile Structural Survey Tools

You need

• a remote controlled helicopter
• very small laser-or-sonar-assisted measuring device
• wireless or wire transfer or real-time input to computer
• camera
• gps

Use a hand-held computer with software that could

• show plan or layout
• generate interior pictures
• execute 3-D modeling

of structure

Assembly

1. Conveniently and securely attach measuring device to the helicopter and orient the device; dial the device in. Link the device to transfer set-up.
2. Conveniently and securely attach camera to the helicopter and orient the camera; dial the camera in. Link the camera to transfer set-up.

Operation

Turn everything on. Pilot the helicopter throughout the structure. Record structural measurements and transfer the data. Record structural pictorial input and transfer the data.  


2012.02.28

27 Cart Frame Stop

 Easy-Haul carts are excellent debris transporters that come in different sizes.  The largest cart is called a Jumbo Cart.  The cart tends to slide into a 3-yard dumpster when you lift and dump with it.  I noticed that the right side of a cart had a stop from the frame bending slightly forward.  I noticed that the cart is easier to control when it stops at that point as I am sliding it onto the edge of the dumpster.  I placed a new hose clamp on the left side of the cart frame at about the same point as the right-side frame-bend stop.

Jumbo Cart

Frame bend stop

Close-up of frame bend stop

Hose clamp stop

Close-up of hose clamp stop

26 Portable Water-filling Tool

Portable Water-filling Tool

This is a tool made from

1. a stock tank float-valve water-filler
2. a lower inline hose valve
3. a flexible hose protector
4. an upper inline hose valve
5. a flexible hose connector and
6. attached to a water supply hose

You can set this tool in place and generally expect that it will stop dispencing water when the float-valve closes. You have to make sure that the float-valve level will close when there is enough water in the water container.

This tool will mount onto a variety of containers and you can move it easily from container to to container.

When using this tool, make sure that the supply hose leans away from the mounting clamps

Disposable Toothbrush

Toothbrush with toothpaste in bristles.  Activate by immersing in water, use, throw away.

Event Ideas

Yard sale poker run:  contestants pick a card at start, one each at three in transit stops, and one at the finish stop.  Best hand(s) win(s).  
Contestants can also compete to buy best deal at yard sale(s).  Purchase(s) may not be more than $21.00 to be judged.  Best deal is worth a ribbon.  2009.11.01

H-D Stator Tester 2000

Mount stator to spinner powered by motor with AC to DC rectifier

Cable Pin Clamp, 2000

Teflon tubing around drilled and tapped stock

Service Ideas

1. Opportunity evaluation service- check out revenue-generating systems and report on results


2. Signed version of success programs-

Cap 2000.06.30

beret crown cap with visor that could be used inside or outside the crown

Clamping Nut 2000.09.02

to hold threaded bolt still without stripping thread  
outside of nut serrated to match vice grip jaws

Outside Notions 1999

• Couples dance hall:  for couples to go and dance, where hitting on other partners is pushing for trouble
• Pooch park.  This has been done.  I thought of this before I found out that pooch parks do exist.

Cookie Holder 1999.06.12

Cylindrical spring loaded cookie holder made like a coin dispenser, for Oreos or similarly shaped cookies

Tools

1. hand-held harrow: a lot like a rake [1999.06.06]