Cooks flat 8 sledge - lazy mans modification 😁

I finally got round to having a go at i job I’ve wanted to do for ages! This isn’t a new idea but I think it’s a great one. Hopefully it will make my life a bit easier and for the old guys who say I don’t need it as they did have it... you didn’t have phones or the internet but your using it still 🤪🤣.
Hope you enjoy 🙂

[@DJC995]

Hi Casto you need to make baling as easy as you can years ago dad tried fitting a ram on the back of the old browns sledge Thanks and have a good week

[@casto-]

I’ll always try to make like easier if I can 😁. Thanks, I hope you enjoy your back holiday weekend 👍

[@tonymorgan3526]

Great video, I hope the mb trac comes out to help with the bailing 🚜🚜😁😁

[@casto-]

Thanks Tony 🙂. Hopefully she will be out but not sure which jobs or baler she’ll be on 🤷‍♂️

[@antonyfarming]

Good idea 👌when putting the hose on baler you could put a quick coupler so you can unplug it when unhitch Never had sledge so I don't know what i'am talking about 😂have a good Monday holiday

[@casto-]

Cheers mate. 🤣 for someone who doesn’t know what there talking about you said exactly what I was going to do 🤪. Hope you get baled up ok 👍

[@antonyfarming]

@@casto- cheers all baled and wrapped 90 in total 11 arces which is ok Got to work out how to do baling vid better though difficult driving and bale same time

[@johnsheahan7914]

great video as always keep up the great work casto

[@casto-]

Thanks John 🙂

[@sakisbeis2777]

Hello sir I am sending you in response to the sledge you published on KZbin. I was wondering if you have any plans you could share with me so I can can build one myself.

[@casto-]

hello, sorry I have no plans. many of the sledges were built in the 1970s and many remain in service and for sale in the uk

[@muddyweb]

I've just picked up an old Cooks sledge (to replace our awful Browns one) and I'm about to do exactly the same type of thing!

[@casto-]

haha, funny how people have the same ideas! unfortunately I never got finished so couldn’t test it 🤦‍♂️. only good thing on a browns is how the draw bar folds round to change positions. it’s a pain in a field changing a cooks over

[@muddyweb]

​@@casto- To be fair, my motivation was mostly because I saw the 'official' hydraulic release system and was too tight to shell out the cash for something I figured I could make myself :-D

[@casto-]

@@muddyweb I never knew there was an official mechanism, even if I did I’d still have made one🤣. I really need to get it tested and working this yesr

[@muddyweb]

@@casto- You can see it on the Ritchie website, but it's no more elegant than the solution you put together. I'm planning to get started on mine this weekend.. I'll race you :-D

[@casto-]

@@muddyweb haha, I’ll have a look! Yeah, I think you’ll beat me, I’m busy working all over the place at the min!

[@HootMaRoot]

The difference between a good welder and a bad welder is a grinder, as a grinder can hide a thousand sins

[@casto-]

Haha, I’ll remember that! On the other hand, I’m not too fussed, it is what it is. As long as it holds I’m not bothered 😁

[@jimcox6687]

I live in US and i have like it

[@casto-]

thought you would have more flat 10s rather than 8s?

[@jimcox6687]

@@casto- most bigger hay farmers have 15 on edge. What country you from?

[@casto-]

@@jimcox6687 I’m in Yorkshire, England

[@jimcox6687]

@@casto- do you make a lot of hay?

[@casto-]

@@jimcox6687 depends what you call a lot, it’s a lot in a bad year! Doing about 40acres

[@golod6134]

Огромное спасибо за видео, я если вам не сложно размеры бы могли дать ?