After failing to duck low enough while walking between my truck and GN trailer yesterday afternoon...which resulting in me smacking my melon against it and landing on my back in the parking lot at my local fuel stop...I decided to take it a little easy today. I feel like I got hit by a...trailer.
If you don't duck, you are likely to quack your noggin.
I noticed last evening that I had once again cracked the bucket. It probably didn't help that the bolt on the cutting edge was loose. I'm not a welder by any standards, but I get it done and it holds.
I had my 72" HD bucket crack at the back (heel) of the bucket inside where the weld bead is. I just rewelded with a big ugly fillet and all is good.
I also developed a leak earlier in the day at one of the loader quick connects.
O-ring time! McMasters has them and charges a huge price, but you know they are right when you leave. They also have to sort them and put them into little plastic bags with part numbers. The labor has to be paid somehow. I think I might pick the o-ring out and take it to Purvis Bearing on East McKinney street in Denton behind the post office and across from the City Hall (200 E McKinney St, Denton, (940) 380-9600). They have always been a great source of belts, bearings, and o-rings.
I hadn't seen this monster around here before, so I thought I'd stop and take a couple of pics.
That's the same kind of machine the seismic crews use to set charges.
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