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hotponyshoes
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There are plenty of vets who will know more than you think about this.Why the hell are people consulting vets over the shear strength of bolts???
Despite the advances with treatment options cures for broken or deformed bones still commonly involve cutting the animal open and bolting a plate or bar into it.
If you use a bolt that's too small/weak and it breaks the consequences can literally be life threatening.
Use one that's too big and you'll increase the risk of complications with surgery, prolong the recovery and unnecessarily increase costs.
There are some pretty intensive training courses you can do for the implant products that go into a lot of detail on the choices available and the tools used with them.
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I was being facetious - mainly because both sets of parents* have been quite heavily involved in the more "classical" definition of AI so AI in our household means something completely different
* - my father was a zoologist, mother was a vet, mother-in-law breeds prize cattle and father-in-law is a vet
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Because they probably know a bit about shearing?Why the hell are people consulting vets over the shear strength of bolts???
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I was being facetious - mainly because both sets of parents* have been quite heavily involved in the more "classical" definition of AI so AI in our household means something completely different
* - my father was a zoologist, mother was a vet, mother-in-law breeds prize cattle and father-in-law is a vet
As tangents go these are fairly tangential.Because they probably know a bit about shearing?
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That only applies to a small portion of the whole.
Yes, vertical loading is not the issue, any side load, or lack of triangulation is crucial, as is the tensile strength, rather than shear strength of an m6 bolt. Unless this is a exercise in not drilling holes above 6mm I wouldn't recommend using them...
Ahh, the long gloved variety of AI...I was being facetious - mainly because both sets of parents* have been quite heavily involved in the more "classical" definition of AI so AI in our household means something completely different
* - my father was a zoologist, mother was a vet, mother-in-law breeds prize cattle and father-in-law is a vet
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We had a couple of Sows, bought some man pig straws, how difficult can it be. Bit of google, bit of utube, and on with the wellies into the piggys enclosure!
All will say was miss piggy didnt see the utube video. So with me at the head end, my Mrs at the business end we set about things. I have never laughed so much, getting thrown off, pushed over, rolled in the mud. Thankfully we only had two sows.
115 days later we had 8 piglets, the other must have missed the target.
As for the bench, design it to be slot together, so any old bolt will do as all its doing is stopping the legs falling off.
