Recent content by MortOz

Hi John Sorry, but I think your reasoning is wrong. To analyse this, you need to think of the tension in the chain (the force exerted), and the directions in which it is pulling. It is a vector problem from upper high school Physics - if you have a 10kg weight hanging from a single vertical...

Got a very pleasant few hours in today recovering some old abandoned machinery before it got scrapped. Eventually destined for a museum, this is an old combine planter that has survived flood and fire, had to be pulled out of the black clay it had sunk into.

Ironbark is a favourite firewood in a lot of Australia where it grows (generally, the open sclerophyll forests between the arid regions and the wet regions have eucalypts as their dominant species, with the exact variety varying with soil type and aspect). We have quite a few on our block that...

Hi all An engineering kind of question - I am in the process of installing front and rear cameras (link) in my Kioti FX751 cab tractor. For the monitor, there is an unused bracket with a nut attached already welded to the ROPS top left in the cab, and then a corner brace as shown in the image...

Just wanting someone to confirm some numbers please. The somewhat dodgy owner's manual for our new (secondhand) Kioti FX751 gives the rear tire pressure as 1.8 kg/sq cm, which is a long way from any unit I have ever used for pressure. The front is 2.4-2.6 kg/sq cm. These numbers convert to...