Had a breakdown!

[Car Doc]

Once I bought an old tractor that had a loader but it wouldn't run and I wondered out loud how we were going to move it.

The farmer just lifted the bucket with another tractor while his kid pulled on the control handle and the loader stayed up so we could put it on a trailer just in case that may help you get it home?

 

[284 International]

Car Doc, that's exactly my plan to get it back, I just have to get it out of the little corner it's in right now: completely inaccessible from the front. I'm fortunate to have enough other machinery to help me, it's just going to be a parade of trips to get another tractor there and everything back home.

It's not really going to be a tough repair, which is nice. It's more of an annoyance than anything. I'll be in it nearly as much time to fetch it everything back home as I will be doing the repair, I'm expecting. Of course, now I jinxed myself....:laughing:

 

[California]

I just have to get it out of the little corner it's in right now: completely inaccessible from the front.

Can you back it out of there with the bucket down? The bucket should just toboggan along.

Or maybe use a farm jack to raise the bucket. As CarDoc noted, once the bucket is up it should stay up. That might even be sufficient to get it on the trailer under its own power without taking a grua ('towtruck') out there.

 

[Neat 1500]

Neat, new shafts are avaliable... They cost as much as the tractor (almost) though!

i have not tried Yanmar Australia to see if i can get them here. can you get them there? whats the damage ( cost:laughing: ) of both the PTO and drive shafts? if i can get a drive shaft i could make something up out of the old one for the PTO so that would reduce the costs as it is worn out in the spline. the uni's are OK.

 

[Kernopelli]

I think California hit the nail on the head. Use the tractors existing system. Some hose from the Farm supply store and a couple of fittings and you're done. Based on our local Rural King you could plumb this in for under $100 easily....probably considerably less and it's simple and clean. I plumbed mine by cutting the pressure line but if your tractor is set up with the diverter block it will be a quick and simple install. Sounds like 2 hoses (at R.King- 3/8" x 8' hose is $15.99 each- add or subtract a dollar per foot as needed on their hoses and 4 fittings at probably $5-$8 each). Looks like Tractor Supply has a little higher but similar prices.

 

[284 International]

If I'm able to salvage the pump, I'm going to keep the system I have. If I have to replace the pump then I will plumb it to the tractor.

Living in this area has some nice things to appreciate, but the cost of living and doing business isn't one of them. I envy those who have a choice of suppliers locally for their equipment parts. I finally found a place to make a short (under a foot) hydraulic line for another machine. It ran me something like $100.

I can source components through mail-order, and will be doing so, one way or another, whether it's for the sprockets and chain or hydraulic lines.

Thanks for the input.

 

[Car Doc]

The pto pump may be better than the tractor pump anyway for a loader mine sure isn't anything to brag about.

imo my loader is slow and I am the impatient type when I work maybe.

 

[winston1]

The pto pump may be better than the tractor pump anyway for a loader mine sure isn't anything to brag about.

imo my loader is slow and I am the impatient type when I work maybe.

My 2002d is slow also, ok at high rpm but slow at low rpm. I too, sometimes am impatient.

 

[Neat 1500]

My 2002d is slow also, ok at high rpm but slow at low rpm. I too, sometimes am impatient.

me 3, trying to dig a hole and move slowly but needing quick hydraulics is never gonna happen with these machines i had the revs up but using the clutch slip and it was better but not for the poor clutch :ashamed:

 

[284 International]

What you're talking about is why I want to keep the auxiliary pump. I've never had any complaints about the speed of my loader hydraulics. I don't know what the output volume of that pump would be, but it's enough to operate the loader without being slow.