Good morning!!!!

[dave1949]

Bushings will be something I'll be looking for on the next tractor. I've been lucky on this project to be able to disassemble everything far enough to get it under the mill for boring, but I don't know how you'd do that for a FEL bucket with the pivots welded on. Probably have to fabricate new brackets (bushed, of course), and replace the old ones.

Haven't measured the pins yet, but there are obvious wear marks on them as well. The DOM tubing I'm using for the bushings is 1020 carbon steel, and I suspect that the pin material is A36 as it was being used as a tensioning rod in an earthquake retrofit project. No idea how they'll wear together, but you can bet I'll be using a lot of grease!

Maybe with the correct portable line boring machine?
https://www.google.com/search?q=lin...%2Fproducts%2Fportable-line-boring%2F;360;288

I have an acquaintance who does line boring in the field but I've not priced what he would ask to do the job. He would bore the holes out, weld in new sleeves that incorporated replaceable bushings.

The newer NH loaders (mine is a 2003) have light ~1" long pin bushings with a shoulder that insert from each end of the sleeve. They are not expensive and treated as a consumable maintenance item.

My bucket is also fatigued and cracking, I've welded the corners together a couple times. Plus it's not a SSA quick attach loader. My loader really doesn't owe me anything it has been used a lot and hard. I'll just keep using it until something forces me to replace it I think.

 

[wngsprd]

RNG, nice job on your loader so far.

Got chased off the lawn mower by a pretty hard shower. We needed some rain. It's been several windy warm days since the last one.

 

[sodamo]

Did the bears get Drew?

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[buckeyefarmer]

one side of my backhoe the holes do not line up very well.

why do people get so excited about a Sink of de Mayo?

 

[Larro Darro]

A few minutes on the tractor digging out the trenches one more time. A few hours on my Georgia Backhoe scooping out the dirt, then laying lines and putting in spigots. {and one fast trip to Lowe's for 3/4" couplings, which I could have sworn I had already bought} I'm keeping my spigots just below ground level. See my high dollar solution for covers. And I'm putting in plenty of shutoff valves. Less I will have to worry about dripping next winter. Didn't get through, but got a lot done.

 

[chad22]

They say only the good die young 8)

I need to stop being good and get into some trouble. I took a death test and it said I'd be dead at 76. The Death Test | OkCupid

I was a pretty bad kid and gave my parents lots of he double hockey sticks. So much that I'm surprised they didn't shoot me dead then. NO they would never do that. But I did get spanked a lot.


I grew up and started being good. I need to reverse that and be bad at least a little bit so maybe I'll live longer. lol

I took one a few years ago and it said I'd be dead at age 25. Well I'm 27 now so I made it past those years. I don't have much faith in them tests. xd

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Back in MO after putting an offer on a house. Inspection Saturday hope it's good. Weather was low 60's in TX, hit 84 on the trip back with some spot showers, rain forecast for THursday PM Friday Sat. Sunday and Monday morning. Gotta get lawn mowed and high top van ready to sell.

 

[dave1949]

Good evening all. Back in MO after putting an offer on a house. Inspection Saturday hope it's good. Weather was low 60's in TX, hit 84 on the trip back with some spot showers, rain forecast for THursday PM Friday Sat. Sunday and Monday morning. Gotta get lawn mowed and high top van ready to sell.

Good luck. Don't want you to be homeless. If you can find an existing house that fits your desires that would be my choice over building new. Less expense and less hassle all around.

 

[dave1949]

Did the bears get Drew?

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

Are bears counted in that Death Test? I'm sure Drew is up tree by now.

 

[RoyJackson]

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43 right now...77 will be today's high...