Recent content by Jim Timber

I've got 3 empty SCV's out back when the snowthrower's hooked up. I have a 2-spool valve dedicated to top & tilt, then I have a 2-spool I use for my stump grinder. It'd actually be more work hooking up an electric device. Not the best pic, since it was taken at night: Had to make some 90ｰ...

I tacked a piece of 2" scrap into the bore of the sprocket, then clamped that in my super spacer's chuck.

Thanks! I'd be lost without my shop. :laughing: I don't even do napkin drawings for 3/4 the stuff I make. Since we've got a storm coming, I moved the tractor and took some pics of the motor mounted up.

I pulled up some others that are for sale to show the original configuration.

The first picture is the OEM contraption removed. The cylinder push/pulled the lever, which swung a half-round "rack" gear, which in turn rotated a pinion gear, whose shaft turned a pulley, which wound/unwound a cable, which was supposed to be wrapped around the chute base where my driven...

The original chute rotator was seized when I bought my New Idea 7' snowthrower. Normally, I'd just rework the bad bits, but in this case the mechanism had been designed by a disciple of Rube Goldberg and I wasn't about to waste any time "fixing" it. Fortunately, they did one thing "simply"...

Finally put my bush hog into service. Need to grind stumps anywhere the dozer wasn't used first. That'll be my next project - grinding.

Finally got these done and installed tonight. Used a ton of pipe dope because I don't trust the o-rings pressure angles on my banjo bolts since I had no way to install backing washers with how I made them. If they end up leaking (stump grinder is a very low pressure application), I'll change...

More progress: Did some fine tuning from here, but this shows the gist of it. Cleaned up the manifold blocks, and they're getting painted now. Just need to bore the all-thread and drill the cross holes, then turn the o-ring lands, and it'll be time to strip down the valve block and paint...

My neck's been giving me fits the past few days, but I got some work in on the QD's making nipples for the ORB female-to-male conversion. Next up is the manifold blocks and the banjo bolts.

My biggest anti-depressant pill needs his eye fixed and it's not something I can swing the payments on. I've got a Fb fundraiser going, and that's doing OK, but seems to have stalled out at about 1/3 the needed funds. I've also got some friends helping by over-paying for some of my excess...

Three years ago, I installed an extra 2-spool valve on my rear fender for running my 3pt stump grinder. It was super intuitive to manipulate the cutter head with the twin levers and being hasty I never plumbed it into the tractor so I was running it off the rear (3rd) SCV which required my...

Yeah, I know I've had a couple $100 fitting runs to get everything hooked up. Turns out the field replaceable hose ends are 1/3 the price of the assembly charge from any of the local hydraulic shops, so they end up being 2x more per fitting than crimped ends but save $15 in labor for a grand...

A couple hundred bucks gets you a whole extra valve. This is my weekend project that failed because the lady at Graingers hit the wrong line item and ordered -10 hose ends instead of my -8's. I'm mostly dead in the water until new ones can be shipped in Wed. I've got (2) 2-spool valves out...

I got this one from REI, but they're on Amazon too. Fits multiple size bases and odd-shaped cups (high tapers), and the rubber band has multiple adjustment holes for secure tension. Haven't lost a cup yet!