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caught you looking ya perves :) lol

actually the sort of rubber skirt I am after is a piece to go round the bottom of our slasher (grass cutter behind tractor). We live on gravel, and if you hit a dip, wow ee is it painful as your back, legs and even head are pelted with gravel. The slasher is ancient, but obviously once did have a skirt on it. Any ideas where to recycle a skirt for it again?

A section of lighter weight trailer tyre might do the trick. Most car tyres would be of too heavy a construction, but domestic trailer tyres tend to be much lighter. I have six spare, but NZ is a bit far to throw them...

Failing that, conveyor belt rubber would do the job.

I don't think the tyres would do the trick, it is quite a big thing, but thanks for the suggestion about the conveyor belt, have put a request out on our local freecycle to see if anyone has any.

possum wrote:I don't think the tyres would do the trick, it is quite a big thing, but thanks for the suggestion about the conveyor belt, have put a request out on our local freecycle to see if anyone has any.

I've actually seen a pair of tyres used in this way since posting. One of the farmers hereabouts was out with his tractor and slasher. He's used what looks like two 12in deep section of tyres by cutting off their side walls, cutting through the two tyres at one point and then boltng them to the slasher so the tyres are flattened into two long strips. They're definitely tyres as you can see the tread.

Unfortunately, I was on the trike and didn't have a camera with me.

possum wrote:caught you looking ya perves :) lol

actually the sort of rubber skirt I am after is a piece to go round the bottom of our slasher

THAT'S NOT FAIR!






Nev

I was thinking it was a clothing suggestion too...
I was going to sugest that PVC (with the fabric back) is much easier to deal with than rubber...

the.fee.fairy wrote:I was thinking it was a clothing suggestion too...
I was going to sugest that PVC (with the fabric back) is much easier to deal with than rubber...

Mmmm, a fairy in PVC...

Possibly some butyl pond liner? I don't know if it would be strong enough but if you could get some free bits it might be worth a try.

Wassail

Karen

On a slightly more serious note:

What about the skirt on the bottom of tents? I got an old canvas tent from a freecycler that was no good (i wanted it for the material anyway), and it had a thich pvc/rubbery type skirt on the bottom.

Don't know if that would be strong enough for you though

i know the bit you mean, good suggestion, but not strong enough, here is a picture of the grass cutter note hubbie is wearing full bike kit and helmet as protection against the gravel

aaaah...

Not strong enough...

well we finally found a solution, hubbie found a large pice of rubber lying by the road, so it should do the job once it is cut to size