Busy Wife This Weekend

[mike69440]

L39 Mods (cont)
Mods:
Towing shackles
Inner wheel weights and spacers
Outer Wheel Weights
Tool box and weighted center tube
Grill guard, Towing receiver and frond weight (2 Photos)
5mm Upsized Hydraulic cylinders that delivers 12 to 15% more capacity in lift & curl. Lift @ center bucket is good for over 2,500 Lbs, approx, 3,400 lbs at pins, has diverter for plow.
More teeth and bucket forks.

 

[mike69440]

Also not shown is the motor has be fueled up to deliver another 12 to 15% more power as moving an 8,000 lb tractor with 37.2 Hp net is terrible, while having a bit over 40 HP, is at least livable. I based my "Dyno" measurements based on before 4.8 MPH up driveway grade, after fueling up, 5.6 MPH up driveway grade. It roads 15 MPH easy on level road now, where before 14 MPH was tough. Plows snow better also. The hydraulic pressures are set at 3,000 PSI. I installed a 1 pint cushion accumulator to absorb any shock put on the hydraulics.

Weak points.

Front axle
Tiny tires for machines weight. (Sinks in soft ground)
Machine is just clumsy in tight spots.

So what would it cost to have a new L47 ruggedized as such? I know I would have destroyed several lesser tractors, so buying this was a wise decision.

 

[mike69440]

I imagine a lot of us have an equipment build with a small junk yard of stull piled in the back. I noticed the roof of the building was being damaged with tree branches that have grown to touch the roof. Not being one for ladders, it's excavator time. what a crap load of branches.
Meanwhile my wife went to work on her overgrown planting in front of the house. She wanted me to help, but I told her I was working on a project of a litter bigger scale.
That did not go over well.

A few years back I dug a duck pond with the Komatsu PC75UU-2. Dug thru Hard clay rocks then hit Ledge. Over the years it has silted in. Wife said "Fix it"
Not so easy, as there is the geese duck area now built there and landscaping on the other side. I move and rebuilt a bunch of rock to get at the pond best I could. Pond had water in it so the clay what like diarrhea. All in all did not come out too bad. Now we need some serious rain to fill it back up.

 

[mike69440]

Check out this lawn. This is the fanciest home in our town, not mine. Also, I am envious of all his equipment with shiny new paint. Not shown is a Ram3500 dually with triaxle flatbed, and his widebody Challenger Hellcat. In ay case I'm happy with my old stuff, and the cows keep our field down. He does not seem like the kind of guy who raises pigs, geese, etc. either.

 

[cbg8670]

Check out this lawn. This is the fanciest home in our town, not mine. Also, I am envious of all his equipment with shiny new paint. Not shown is a Ram3500 dually with triaxle flatbed, and his widebody Challenger Hellcat. In ay case I'm happy with my old stuff, and the cows keep our field down. He does not seem like the kind of guy who raises pigs, geese, etc. either.

Last pics look better.

 

[EddieWalker]

The best machines are the ones that are paid for!!!

Good to see all your pics of what you've been doing.

 

[mike69440]

Mostly got the equipment serviced, out of the woods, and cleaned up. I used the Komatsu muck out the duck pond & just spread 45 tons of 3/4" of blue stone with the Little Max28. Did less than 1/2 of what I want to refresh, and that stone is expensive!

 

[mike69440]

Wife:
"So wouldn't a nice terrace with a stone wall along the hill slope coming up the driveway that is large enough to park our new camper & extend the awning for a patio as well as leave room to get into the equipment shed be nice?"

Me:
"Do you have any concept of the amount of work that entails? Damn, though, that is a good Idea."

Step 1:
Remove 5 Large Trees.

Step 2:
Dig out current embankment so to get a good footing to build the stone wall.

Step 3:
Get Thumb Cylinder on excavator repaired.

Step 4:
Use stone on hand near by to start wall, prior to walking excavator to stone dump in woods.

Step 5:
Load and haul out near 100 tones of stone 1 to 1-1/4 tones at a time using trusty tractor. each trip is 1/2mile plus round trip.
Still in progress.

Future Steps
Step 6: Walk out excavator out of woods, carrying the one 2 ton rock that is too much for tractor.

Step 7:
Build the wall and back fill

Step 8:
Buy extra fill gravel and churched stone to get level grade

Step 9:
Get 700 used Patio blocks from Brother in Law. (They did a redo on their Pool Area and backyard)

Step 10:
Painfully lay patio blocks.

Step 11:
Move camper and winterize.

Must stay hydrated, Drink lots of beverages.

 

[EddieWalker]

Those "wife" ideas can be very expensive. Also very painful on your muscles and back!!!

What's worse, is when it's actually a good idea.

 

[mike69440]

My terrace for my camper is more or less complete.

My Cost, not counting general wear and tear on my equipment was about $3,500
4 Tri-axle dump loads of 3/4" Stone, about half used on the terrace ran $1,500.
I broke my L39's tooth-bar and to get new teeth and have the tooth adapters welded to a new cutting edge will be about $1 ,000
I tore the end cap off my excavator thumb and to have the cylinder fixed was $300
A hydraulic line on the Excavator boom abraded through and a replacement was $320
I must have used $200 of Diesel fuel.
I believe my lost wallet is somewhere under 200 tons of material.

The good news is I did not squash myself under the machine or a huge rock and the job is off the to do list.
All the machines need a good serving and need to get the snow plow and cab on the L39 for winter.

I have a new cutting edge for my L39 and will repurpose the old edge cutting it shorter to fit the bucket on my Mahindra Max 28
I spent the extra money to buy genuine ESCO teeth and adapters, even though Chinese copies are available on Amazon, using same part numbers as ESCO teeth.

Amazon.com