The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: colliewoman on November 21, 2012, 03:21:00 pm
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Any ideas peeps?
Have seen a FAB hay feeder made form and old tyre cut around the circumference, some sturdy wire netting and a bit of concrete....
I have all the ingredients but no idea how to cut the tyre!
Angle grinder? Hacksaw?
Any ideas gratefully received.
Thankies :-* :-*
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do you have access to a reciprocating saw?
you need a relatively slow blade speed to get it to cut, dont forget the tyre has wires in as well a fairly coarse metal cutting blade or a demo-blade will do it.
you could do it with hacksaw but you will take a while!!!
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I shall ask my mate if he has one, thank you :-*
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or a jig-saw would do it, with ia metal blade on it. drill a starter hole first then off you go. you can make rubber 'planks' this way.
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or a jig-saw would do it, with ia metal blade on it. drill a starter hole first then off you go. you can make rubber 'planks' this way.
Now i DO have one of those :thumbsup: Fab! thank you :thumbsup:
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Any ideas peeps?
Have seen a FAB hay feeder made form and old tyre cut around the circumference, some sturdy wire netting and a bit of concrete....
I have all the ingredients but no idea how to cut the tyre!
Angle grinder? Hacksaw?
Any ideas gratefully received.
Thankies :-* :-*
more knowledgeable people are advising about cutting the tyre, but can you describe, or even better put a photo up, of the hay feeder? Presume for outside? I put hay in a crate and of course it gets one foot put on it then 'its too dirty for us to eat' ::) .
(Ideas for saving hay inside woud be welcome too, my girls like to bed themselves down rather too well)
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When built I shall post a photo sure! Basically take half a tyre split as described with the inside bit facing up. roll enough of your mesh to make a cylinder that will fit snugly inside the tyre and fix together with clips or cable ties. Pour some concrete in the hole in the middle to form a base/weight this may need a wooden bas to sto the concrete escaping, I will report back. Fashion a lid (a rubber dustbin lid will work for my size :thumbsup: )
Fill with hay. The tyre makes a circular feeding trough with the hay rack in the center :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
With my bolshy sheep I like circular troughs cos if the get too push they just go round and round rather than hurt each other :idea:
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Ta.
So obvious when the brain is gently pointed in the right direction
Looks like another project for the list. ::)
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I wonder whether it would also be possible to take a whole tyre and cut a hole in the sidewall and fill the inside with cement/concrete - then bucket could just sit in the tyre middle, like normal but the concrete will make it too heavy to move? that way no having to cut the tyre up a lot? dont know tho!
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If you just fill the inside of the tyre with mud it'll be too heavy to move, but with the bonus that you can scrape it out again if you do decide to move it.
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I'm liking the idea of using it as a feeding trough as well, if you cut the sidewall somewhere near the tread should be a nice deep trough? It would also catch the hay so the goats may deign to eat it fromthe trough - doubt it though
I have some old Ford escort wheel + tyres (snow tyres put on spare wheels for quick change in bad weather - never used and now perished ::) ). So wondering how I could use them. perhaps I couldn't get the 'hay rack' wide enough, I'll have to find where the goats left the wheels ;D .
There again, I couldn't cut them out for a trough could I. If I can wire the mesh in at least it woud make a quick hay rack? off to try that today.
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could you not also make a mexican hat style feeder, wheel with tyre still on, minus one sidewall??
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could you not also make a mexican hat style feeder, wheel with tyre still on, minus one sidewall??
would the tyre come loose fromthe wheel rim? then nothing to stop the feed getting flipped/pushed between the wheel and tyre?
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i wouldnt know without trying, just an idea..
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We have loads of tyres so eagerly await pics - maybe I could go into business :innocent:
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I think ours look to small :(
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Freecycle!
I bet you can get whatever size you want from freecycle :thumbsup:
I've got an old landy tyre I'm going to try with ;D
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Pity you are so far away - I know somebody locally who wants to get rid of lots of them - all sizes!
A lot of farmers will still have stacks of them, from the "good old times" when silage was weighed down with tyres... These days is costs money to get rid of them, so they'd be happy to let you have them!
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*drumming fingers on table top in anticipation mode... * :-J
How's it coming on? I am itching to see photos of this self-build project.
Please, take step by step photos, Blue Peter style :excited:
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Don't try using a circular saw.
It works but is ridiculously dangerous particularly when it hits the wire reinforcement in the tyre and kicks back. A man in the pub told me this obviously, I wouldn't be stupid enough to try it!
Seriously, this is makes a great feeder but if you haven't got any fingers to pick up the bag of feed then it will be no use. Stay safe...
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Hi, we have cut old tyres using a pocketknife slicing around the side wall just where there is a line on the edge, just below the tread, by using it attached to the hub you can then with a bit of an effort turn it inside out giving a sort of urn effect. We have used this for planters at our gate until the OH donated them to the church for entrance in to the church. But getting side tracked you can them fill the hub with your concrete ballast.
Hope this give you an idea
Tala
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Thanks for that, still trying to cut the blooming thing at all so will try cutting where you suggest :fc:
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No help with cutting them up.........but our lambs love to use tyres as night time shelters. I plonk a dollop of old hay in each tyre and we have a nursery area where the lambs choose to snuggle down and sleep. A couple of mums keep watch and use the tyres as headrests :D . Sorry, no pics (I know, I'm useless) ::) .
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brill - LOads of tyres - off to make a lamby playground/nursery!!!! And looking forward to feeder pics too :)
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I just run a angle grinder threw the tyre when we are cutting them , does it nice and quickly
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I got a cheap Sawzall (reciprocating saw) would probably work really well. Mine isn't a Milwaukee or anything fancy but it takes the abuse pretty well.
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would love to see a pic of the feeder....