Ed's 77 Terex 72-41 Wheel Loader

[mountainguyed67]

We found and fixed leaks, one on a quarter inch tube attached to the transmission, the other was the hose attached to the bottom of the steering tank. I plugged where the tube fitting was with a grease zerk, then brought ferrule and fixed it the next time up. The steering tank hose was just a little loose, tightening it stopped the leak.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I’ll check it. I can’t see inside the horn, because of how they’re mounted. I was hoping that’s what it is, but could be internal.

Horn was just clogged with mud, I cleaned it and it works great now. I sometimes bump it, it’s a floor button. I was used to not having to avoid that area with my feet all this time.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Did the rear brakes, they both got new wheel cylinders.

 

[mountainguyed67]

This happened in August. Turbo cooling line was leaking, had to remove air cleaner and hood to get to it. Most turbo clamps and bolts were loose, I tightened it all.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I also tried to clear one of the pivot (articulation) pin grease zerk holes, grease won’t go through it. The one that’s clear puts grease on the bottom of the three plates that contact the pin, I’m assuming the other goes to the top. I pushed something up there until it hit metal, it wasn’t clogged. I guess the cross hole is clogged. I got a Porta Power pump and hose to push the dried up grease out with, and the correct adapter fitting.

 

[mountainguyed67]

We don’t get much action video because we’re working, I know thats disappointing. Here’s one we got. It broke off at ground level when pulled from higher, so I dug down and got a choker around it.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Rear brakes won’t bleed, fluid is barely spitting out of the master cylinder. I brought the power cluster home and dropped it off to be rebuilt, they said three weeks.

Finally decided to see why the front brakes quit working a few years ago. Lifted the wheels off the ground and they wouldn’t spin, two of us could barely move them. Started checking the adjustment, and it felt like it was too tight already. Backed them off and then they freewheeled. Doh! My now deceased friend adjusted them, and I remember doing what the book said to do. So I try bleeding, and fluid shoots out good, no air. Now I’m thinking the shoes and pads are glazed over and they won’t grab. That means pulling the front wheels off again.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Our current and only burn pile has gotten too big to add anything else. We don’t have another area to burn, so I started making one. A neighbor commented that the fire spreads through duff under the snow and is really hard to stop, I’m thinking “duh”, that’s why I only burn with bare dirt around the pile.

 

[mountainguyed67]

We’re doing some thinning too, and used it to move this stuff.

 

[mountainguyed67]

This had been in the future burn area, I drug it up the hill and pushed it out of the way.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I broke three 1/2” cables on the last two trips, pulling stumps. I‘m looking at increasing cable size to avoid that. I did some research. 1/2” cable breaks at 19,000 lbs, 5/8” breaks at 29,000 lbs, and 3/4“ breaks at 40,000 lbs. I’m thinking the only limiting factor is I don’t want the cable stronger that what holds what it’s attached to onto the loader. All three breaks went away from the loader, two being thrown past the stump up in the manzanita. It has me thinking about expanded metal over the back window.

 

[mountainguyed67]

The tilt cylinder I resealed in the spring was leaking bad again. My son and I went up yesterday and got it. I already got it back together with a new gland and different type seal. It had v packing, I put in a u pack (I think that’s what he called it). I eliminated the end play by putting a convex/flat v pack against the v machined into the end of the bushing. it worked perfect. Hopefully that does the trick. I’m tired of dealing with it.

 

[MossRoad]

We don’t get much action video because we’re working, I know thats disappointing. Here’s one we got. It broke off at ground level when pulled from higher, so I dug down and got a choker around it.

Love that engine sound!

 

[MinnesotaEric]

It is amazing at what these machines can do. Where I've always wanted my driveway to the northland of my spec property, I simply drove my payloader through the trees, knocking them over willy-nilly. While making a straw-jacked mess, at least the trees my tractor couldn't tackle are all on the ground. I cut all the stumps off and they are in process of drying out waiting for my tractor of grapple them off. The Payloader will stump everything the next time it shows up over there along with a few neighbor trees I've got lined up along the way.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Love that engine sound!

My friend with a Case 580 was amazed at how effortlessly my loader handled that stump.

 

[mountainguyed67]

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Nice loader. I wanted a Payloader 530, but couldn’t find one in this half of the country.

Edit: what does your machine weigh?

 

[mountainguyed67]

It is amazing at what these machines can do. Where I've always wanted my driveway to the northland of my spec property, I simply drove my payloader through the trees, knocking them over willy-nilly. While making a straw-jacked mess, at least the trees my tractor couldn't tackle are all on the ground. I cut all the stumps off and they are in process of drying out waiting for my tractor of grapple them off. The Payloader will stump everything the next time it shows up over there along with a few neighbor trees I've got lined up along the way.

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Do you have video of removing stumps? Did you have to dig that one out? Our stumps really don’t want to come out, unless I use the loader to push the tree over.

This was a 28 inch cedar.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Do you have video of removing stumps? Did you have to dig that one out? Our stumps really don’t want to come out, unless I use the loader to push the tree over.

This was a 28 inch cedar.

So far the stumps I've gone after have been smaller than what you're describing but in my short experience, I've just shoveled under the rootball's edge of the stump and started lifting. The video below was the very first time I ever used my Payloader after fixing it up enough to put it to work.

 

[mountainguyed67]

So far the stumps I've gone after have been smaller than what you're describing but in my short experience, I've just shoveled under the rootball's edge of the stump and started lifting. The video below was the very first time I ever used my Payloader after fixing it up enough to put it to work.

I watched your video, I liked it. I like what you said about making a way to tell if the bottom of the bucket is level. You were removing twigs compared to my video that you watched, no offense. You were working in a pretty soft dirt, ours has a lot of rock and is dry right now.

 

[MossRoad]

Curl your bucket all the way back.
Lower it to the ground and float it.
Dump the bucket forward and watch the rear edge.
It should move forward in a smooth motion until the teeth/leading edge of the bucket hit the ground. At that point, the bottom flat surface of the bucket should be flat on the ground, and the rear of the bucket will change direction of travel and start to lift.
Back it up a bit and your bucket is now level to the ground it's on.

Unless the bottom of the bucket is a perfect curve and has no flat surface on the bottom, it works.