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Not really sure in that part of the building but I'm thinking pretty hot. I was thinking since it was still bolted up and somewhat covered it may made it through it. Most of the paint is still on the housing but it did get hot enough to bend the saw blade a little. There were 4 really expensive...

Hey guy's I was wondering if it would be worth trying to reseal a F11 motor that has been through a fire. My shop burned down taking just about everything in the way of tools I ever had along with it. This pump was on a saw head that I bought a year or so and it was going to be part of the new...

Those pics bring back long ago memories. My dad was a mechanic and had a small shop not far from here. I got most of his tools when he passed and they were all craftsman tools back from a time when a tool was really a tool and not like the stuff they are putting out now. I had one tool box in my...

Yeah me too, that's one good thing in all of this. Same here with regard to questions about the stuff I had. They wanted as many before pics as I had but a lot of the pics I had were lost on the computer I had in the shop. I have been dragging out stuff for the past week and taking pics of them...

Yes it is quite overwhelming to say the least and it's also mind boggling to realize just how much you can accumulate money wise over the years. I believe I gave her a base idea of what I paid for each thing then she depriecated them at 25%. Some items a little more like 4 wheelers and lawn...

Yeah I got wacked pretty good on my motocross race bike. I had enough parts to rebuild two bikes along with with one that was all put together and ready for the track. I had 3 race motors that I had over $2,700.00 each in + what I paid for the base motor to begin with. Then add in all the gear...

Yeah I'm having to do the same thing but the lady that's handling my contense part has been a great help. I guess they have done enough claims to know what the basic items are in a shop, building like this. We stayed on the phone for like 4 days adding items to the list. She basically did the...

Well neither the fire marshall nor the insurance investigator could determind the cause. I threw my idea out to both of them and both blew the thought off. That was my own idea that I came up with so I really don't know for sure. But I'm thinking that is a pretty good guess. That's funny because...

I have a border collie that has taken it on herself to be my gardian angle. She hates it when I leave her and I have to put her in the house when I leave because I'm afraid she would follow my truck down the driveway. Once I'm gone my wife will let her out then she will spend the next 1/2 hour...

I never would have thought in all my years that it would happen. I had 6 fire extinguishers, one in pretty much every room but if you ain't there they are worthless anyway. I wasn't in the building much at all that day because I was hunting. I got home at around 5:30 and unloaded my gear then...

I thought I might post up a few pics of my fire. look at the third and forth pic, notice the metal beam to the left of that old case the third is a before view of the same beam.

Man, that looks bad too so sorry for you too. I'll try to post some pic of mine as well.

Some of you may remember what I went through building my pole barn that turned into my giant man cave. It was my place away from home that I spent many hours in playing with all my toys. I had all my most sacred things that I had gathered over my life time. All my machines, two lathes, my mill...

I would say no to your last line. Also I have never had a problem running reg unleaded in anything I own. I had a Stihl 044 that I had for almost 30 years and it never ate anything but reg gas and I never once drained the tank or let it run until it ran out of gas. The same with all my lawn...

Yeah back in the 60's and 70's you never heard much at all about PTSD and it wasn't until the guys started coming back from Iraq and Afganistan that the ball started rolling. Also the VA has really improved in the past few years and now they are reaching out to help those that may have fallen...

I have though about it til I'm blue in the face. I have a wood burning stove in the back that I use to heat water to pump through my floor. I hadn't started it up for the season yet. If it had been running I would maybe something went wrong there. I store about a weeks worth of wood in an open...

When pretty girls ask me how old am I, I just tell them, old enough. But since we are all friends and neighbors I'll just say I'm the ripe old age of 75 but I really feel more like 45 or so. I didn't slow down until a couple years ago to about 85 to 90 MPH, before that I was WFO all the time...

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I have a couple things that may be a problem for me. One I never got a permit for the pole barn. I checked and was told I didn’t need one for a pole barn but it turned into a little more than just a barn. By the time I was done building it turned into a 5 room...

Heck, I've done tree work, pipe fitter, welder, jack leged machinist, a rigger, done electrical work, a boat and car mechanic, done AC work and probably a few other things in my lifetime and when I needed a tool I went out and bought it. My shop was loaded with tools and equipment that a lot of...

Now they are telling me that I cant touch the building until their fire investigators take a look. At first they told me I needed to start getting a list of the stuff I lost. I told them to do that I would have to dig through the rubble which didn't bother them at the time now they have changed...

I have USAA and they were good to deal with when we had storm damage a few years back.

That's another thing I was wondering about. I don't really run a business out of the shop. I do build things from time to time for other people. I do charge them for materials and consumables and if they want to chuck in a few extra bucks I don't turn it down. Most of my machines are old but...

When this happened I did trip the breaker to the shop but forgot to cut off the water and it ran for like 7 hours and now all I can get out of a pipe is mud.

Yeah me and my dogs are going to miss that building when it gets cold and wet.

Yeah I've been waiting for 4 days for them to come out. There is no way I could remember all the stuff that was in there all I can do is shift through the remains to find the pieces. I have found some stuff but I'm afraid to go in too deep before the adjuster does come out. All I can say is...

Fire Marshall said there was no way to determine just too much damage. All the could figure is that it must have started somewhere in the rear of the building.

My Wheel Horse, old Gravely and 4 wheeler was but the tractor was in another shed.

Who here has ever dealt with a insurance co? I think I need help.

Yes I have found several PK FB pages but from what I have seen they are mainly for selling parts or parts tractors. I'm going to keep looking though. Thanks

I done some research and found that the owners manual was printed wrong for the 4 speed transmissions. If you have a 3 speed then please disregard. It states to fill the transmission to within 1 inch from the fill opening 1 to 1/2 pints of gear lube, (Thats for 3 speed trannys only). For the...

I have this mid 70's 2414 PowerKing tractor that seems to be losing tranny oil and at the same time it seems to be making gear oil in rear differential. Last summer I replaced all the fluids on this tractor and at that time everything looked ok other just being dirty. Now fast forward about 15...

I don't know............ 20 gals of fluid is going to cost about the same thing as the new pump I just bought. Also if you go by what the engineers say with regard to tank size a 16 GPM pump will require roughly 40 gals of fluid to operate properly and that would really be costly to do every...

I just replumbed That whole line and almost added one in while I was at it. Another thing I was worried about is something hitting the valve and shutting off the supply while splitting wood. Once I finish all my wood I plan on making a few changes to a couple things that I don't like. That will...

I had thought about putting a valve into the supply line but decided not to because I was worried that it would maybe be an unwanted restriction. Also, I had no idea that all those parts were going to fly out of there like that. If I had known what to expect I would have been ready with some...

Yeah I've had some lulu stories from a few customers of mine also. Well I tried to get some help but there was none to be found. American company too, most stuff like this comes with some kind of documentation, a diagram, parts list or something. Sometimes when you can't get help you just have...

I gave up on trying to get this pump to work. I saw one post that someone did that said to remove the cap on the suction side of the pump and turn the screw two turns one way or the other and see what kind of effect it had. Well, I took some tools out to the splitter and unscrewed the little cap...

I built the tank out of a piece of 10" schedule 40 iron pipe that is roughly 5' long. The oil level is higher than the pump inlet. The in/ out/ vent is all on one end of the pipe. The inlet pipe goes through the cover and extends 3/4 of the way to the back of the tank. I have a 45* fitting on...

Well I finally got the 1" hose from surplus center and put it on the spliter but it does the same thing as when I had the 3/4" hoes on it. I also had a strainer in the line that I removed also so I'm pretty sure it's not starving for oil. I also checked to see how many caps were on the pump and...

Oh, I couldn't see it in the link. I've seen them done like that before but it looks like to me something would always be in the way. I was wondering how tough pieces of wood would split with the blunt edge that is on your wedge. Though sometimes a really sharp point will cause problems too...

What are you lifting it with?

Ask a hundred different people how to slow down a cylinder and you'll get a hunnard different answers.LOL On stuff like this I have always had better luck with an adjustable flow valve. With a fixed orifice sometimes it's a hit or miss kind of deal and you will never know until you try one size...

Yeah those 4/6 way wedges do make a lot of trash wood and one that is adjustable is a lot better. I may add another cylinder for the lift this winter just don't know if I want to spend the time though. I made all the brackets and have a cylinder, I even cut the notch in the bottom of the wedge...

Yeah it can be a pain sometimes. That is the problem with using stuff you have laying around. I had those two pieces laying on the floor and all I had to do was cut the bevel and before I knew it they were welded on. I had seen wedges like that but never tried it before. Now I do wish I had just...

Right now it's not adjustable I had to get to work splitting next years wood so I put that part on hold. I just drilled several holes through the wedge and one in the two horizonal pieces of 1/2" that made up the slide. If I need to lower or raise it I just pull a pin and raise or lower it. Not...

Here is what's left of the box wedge.. And I thought I had pics of the 4 way I built that is on it now but they are not on this computer if you want to see that I'll try to get pics off my old computer

That makes sense I guess but there are ways to do that without having to cut the web out. I'm not saying it won't work like you did it I was just wondering is all. I just finished mine last fall and I'll post a couple pics of the way I did mine. My first try with the box wedge didn't work out to...

I have suspected air from the start and there is a possibility that my suction line may be the problem. It doesn't seem to show any leakage on the outside but it is an old piece of hose. I was going to put a new one on when I pipped it in but when I went to the hydraulic shop to buy one they...

That's kind of what I was thinking so I guess I might try turning it CCW a little to lower the shift point and see what happens. I can't remember now but I don't think there is but one plug cap on the pump. That may be wrong and when I go out I'll look at it again.

I may have wrote that wrong. When I first hit the lever to send the cylinder out the needle hardly moves until it hits the piece of wood then the pressure builds to around 600 lbs and sits there for what seems like an eternity, 7 to 10 seconds +/- depending on the rpm I'm running. then all of a...

oldnslo....... The guy at surplus center said those parts could be adjusted but he noted that if I removed them it might effect any warranty that might be left. At this point I don't give two shitskies about any warranty so I might just try that and see what I see. He also said that I could...

I had thought about air in the system somewhere but I don't see how that could be. I have run the thing enough to split probably 10 or 12 cords of wood and it seems like any air would have been evacuated by now. The only place I could see any air might be trapped would be in the cylinder itself...

Yeah my old splitter I built 35 years ago worked great still I just wanted something faster and a lift table. That one had the 3000 series valve an a 8 gpm pump and it would switch with hardly any hesitation at all just a smooth transition like an automatic transmission in your truck. Even with...

Thanks......I have a gauge in the system and from what I see as far as the gauge goes everything looks ok. Rod out the reading is 500/600 lbs when it finally kicks in the low speed it reads what ever it takes to split the wood up to 3000 lbs if needed. When I first got everything together and...

I built a new splitter last fall that works pretty good but I have a small problem. I put a 16 gpm pump on this one and one of those newer two spool 5200 series Prince valves. One of the spools operates the log lift table and the other works the splitting cylinder. The problem I'm having is that...

Well it's been a long time since I started this and had planned on a follow up some time back but I got really busy. I thought I would post up the end results of how the system is working out. I worked on this thing for a long time trying to get this ol girl to working it's best. I re-plumbed...

Not sure what feedback linkage is or if there is such a thing on this old tractor.

Just my thoughts.....Most Any insulation needs an air gap between what you are insulating and the insulation itself. Moisture is your enemy of course the foam could probably hold up to the moisture form any condensation that may form but I don't know what's going to happen to any wood that might...

Cool...I like that but i'm wondering why you cut out the beam like that and not just add the slide parts to the end of the beam. Oh I just went back and reread your first post. I can see that now because you would have to move the cylinder forward to make it work. It just looks like to me that...

I have an old Powerking tractor that I love. I can't remember if it has done this since I've had it of if it just started. I built a grader box to spread and level dirt, gravel or anything else I want to make flat. It's a pain in the back end when you are moving along with a box load of material...

I bought these two pieces of equipment several years ago thinking I would be able to use them some day but that ain't working out. One is a chipper screader and the other is a snow thrower. There is a tag on the chipper that says BIO 100 it has a tag also on it with the company name which is...

Has anybody ever tried to connect a BCS snow blower up to an old model L gravely. I came across a Bio 100 chipper and a snow blower awhile back and I surely would like to at least use the snow blower. That 10 spline shaft seems to be throwing a monkey wrench in my plan along with the BCS 2 bolt...

A friend of mine wants me to build him a tool that has a hopper for gravel with a channel on the bottom that you can run that black drain tile through that he can drag through each ditch that will lay the tile and also put down the right amount of gravel under and above the tile. I saw one of...

I have a salami gear pump that has three pumps piggybacked together. I knew the drive shaft on the front pump was broken off when I bought it but I got it almost for nothing so I went ahead and got it. I've been looking all over for a place that I could buy this shaft but don't see a listing...

For the past couple years I have been cleaning up a bunch of trees that got blown down in a storm we had. It was slow going at first because the way I was going at it. I was cutting it up in fire wood lengths right where it was at, then hauling it out in my little trailer and piling it up so it...

I built a powder coat oven several years ago and never could use it but I'm about finished with my new building and I want to hook it up. It has 3) 208 volt 10000 watt heating elements in it. I was going to use 3 phase current when I built it and is why I used those elements. When I finished the...

I found a few pics that I took while I was putting this together and maybe they will make things a little clearer.

I've been playing around with different ways to heat my shop for several years now and have almost got it to where it is doing ok but would like to do a few things that would make it better. What I have is a wood stove with a ss tank attached to the top of the stove with the exhaust going out...

I seem to have a problem with trees wanting to fall on or near me while i'm in the woods. I had another thread awhile back about one falling on me while I was cutting wood. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/331426-wrong-place-right-time.html Anyway.....it seems now they are following...

I just bought a 3 spool Cessna control valve that I wanted to use on my wood splitter for a table lift cylinder and wedge height adjustment cylinder. I don't need but two spools but for what I got this valve for I couldn't turn it down. The third spool is a motor control spool and I was thinking...

I went to an auction last weekend and bought a banged up trencher attachment that works off a skid steer machine. It had been backed over by a big excavator and is in pretty bad shape. At first I thought I could fix it and resell it but now that I have checked it out it will cost more to fix it...

The weather forecast was for 8 to 12 inches of snow followed by very low temps for the next 2 weeks. I was just about out of wood so I needed to get enough cut to last a couple weeks which I could easily do in a few hours. I have a bunch of big oaks that have been laying on the ground for over...

I bought this on e-bay a long time ago and I can't remember what the heck it was supposed to be for. I ran across it the other day and was thinking I could it to control my log lift and height adjustment on a 4 way wedge I'm working on. I think it has a power beyond port.....well I guess that's...

I was reading a thread awhile back where someone was looking for one of these. I came across this one this morning on e-bay. I don't know if it's a deal or not but just wanted to post it up in case anyone is interested. New Parker Bent Axis Piston Hydraulic Motor F12 040 | eBay

Does anyone know what the gear reduction is at the PTO on a model L? I've looked far and wide but can't find it anywhere. Thanks!!!

I have been having trouble with my Millermatic 252. I had it in the shop for almost 2 months and finally got it back but I didn't have a chance to use it until last week. I have been rebuilding my old wood burning water heater and had to put in new tubes in the heat exchanger. Right off the bat...

I just came across an old mortar mixer cheap but it doesn't have an engine on it. I was wondering if I could convert it over to an electric motor. I have a 5Hp electric motor I could use. The only problem is that the motor is 3 phase which I don't have but was thinking about building a phase...

I was wondering if any of you guys ever had to get warranty service done on a miller welder they owned. I bought a new millermatic 252 a couple years ago and awhile back I started having problems with the wire feed and the wire burning back into the tip. I did all the usual stuff checked the...

I was wondering what a good start price for an old Massey 50 tractor. It's the tractor only, been sitting a long time, for sure needs 1 rear tire. It's one of those......it was running great when we parked it kind of deals. I'm sure the engine is ok because I remember them using it to cut hay...

I've been collecting parts to build a wood processor for a long time. I've come across several motors and pumps that I figured I could use for one part of the build or another. I was at an auction last week and they put up a junk with all sorts of stuff packed in it and at the bottom of the box...

I wonder what's going to happen to the pex in my floor now that it is all but frozen solid? Well, let me step back a bit......I guess it's frozen cause I checked the surface temp with one of those laser temp guns and it is reading between 26 and 34 degrees. I had been working on my...

I remember awhile back there was a way to tell what a pump or motor would supply by measuring something on the pump itself. I have a motor that I need to find out the specs on but the numbers on the motor don't come up anywhere. I was thinking I could identify it by looking at other brands and...

I just bought a bunch of stuff at an auction and there is a hyd motor that one of the guys there said was a hydraulic saw motor. I have looked all over and can't find anything on the number that is on the tag attached to the motor. All that I can read on the tag is PT no 400391 and below that is...

I posted in a thread over on the projects page titled "The wood lot". Reading it I got to thinking about how I learned how to a lot of the things I do now. While I was deep in thought my memory took me back to a time when I was real young helping my dad work in the woods behind our house. I...

Anybody have any idea what a 20' 316L I beam would be worth? It's size is 240 X 120 X 6.2 X 9.8 MM -Laser. Also a 316L Rectangular tube 9.5" X 43/4" by 1/2" thick, both are 20' long.

What do you use in the hydraulic system. It seems they want you to use Lucus 15W 40 magnum motor oil in the hydraulics. Every oil company says their oil is the latest and the greatest but is there really a need to use this oil? I use Rotella 15W 40 in just about everything with regard to oil in...

I just got my hands on an old wood stove that has a boiler sitting on top of it and was wondering if anyone has ever seen or owned one of these type stoves. There are a few pieces that are missing that I know I'll need before I fire it up and I need to get some information on it but I can't seem...

As old Junior Samples used to say, ifin' it wernt fer bad luck....I'd have no luck at all. I'm still cleaning up around the place from the last hurricane almost two years ago. Here lately I have been trying to divide my time between working on my pole barn project and completing boo boo's that...

I'm finally getting to the point where I can set up my welders in my new/old pole barn. It's new but the way it's been going it will be old before I finish it.:laughing: I finally was able to get my big oven off the trailer it's been sitting on for three years and into the building where I can...

I'm about getting to the point where I want to paint my pole barn and make it all one color. I thought about rolling it but after trying a small spot that is going to be almost impossible to do. I've been looking around but everything I've looked at is either too cheesy looking or too expensive...

I built a splitter about 25 years ago.........holy cr@p am I that old already???? Anyway it has split hundreds of cords of wood over the years but I have always felt it didn't produce the pressure it should. I played around with the adjustments but never could get it to work right but at one...

I had my concrete man come back yesterday and cut in the expansion lines into the floor. It's hard to believe how much dust came out of that fresh cement, It completely covered the whole place once it was done. It didn't take but about an hour to cut the lines but it took the rest of the day to...

winding down............ I had a little sealer left over from another job so once they had finished for the day I sealed this section just for grins. That's all until tomorrow.........

A few more....

Baby cooperhead no match for a big Mack concrete truck. Third load, which makes 27 yards comes up short by about 1/2 yard and had to send truck back for 1 yard min. They didn't charge me extra though I just had to pay for the one yard of mix for $105.00.

Second truck comes and goes....

Well it's all done now and tomorrow I'll cut my lines and then seal it off. the crew arrives and checks out the site. Truck arrives and the show begins.

Tomorrow morning the concrete trucks will drop off 25+ yards of concrete to cover up my pex tube and make me a nice smooth place to walk on in my pole barn. Hopefully by this time tomorrow the finishers will have done their thing and all I will have to do then is cut a few joints in and then...

The first project after I get my building done is to build a firewood processor. I've found a bunch of sites showing the basic layout but they don't give out much detail on the nuts and bolts inner workings. I'm always looking for anything hydraulic that I can use for different things I might...

Who has the best price for tractor tires? Looking for 2) 13.6-28 and 2) 6.5-16 tires for a 4x4 2525 JD tractor.

Thanks! Yes, I have read ten thousand pages that say you don't have to install new gr rods for a sub panel in a detached building.....other than of -course the gr rods required at the SE of the detached building. I am good with that but my installation is a little different than most as I have...

I'm trying to save a little on wiring in my shop. What I want to do is add a couple small 6 space sub panels in two spots in my shop. I picked up a 70 amp 6 space sub panel yesterday that has no breakers in it. I picked up a ground bar kit also. When I prepared my floor for concrete I laid...

I'm trying to save a little on wiring in my shop. What I want to do is add a couple small 6 space sub panels in two spots in my shop. I picked up a 70 amp 6 space sub panel yesterday that has no breakers in it. I picked up a ground bar kit also. My question is.....do I need to have a separate...

Howdy neighbor...welcome aboard. I live in the Varina area and ifin' you ever have a time that you are just bored to death because you have nothing to do you are welcome to bring one of your toys over this way and play all you want on my property.:laughing: I have a couple pics to share with...

I'm putting lights and fans in my pole barn shop and I have 4 lights and 4 fans. I want to have 2 lights and 2 fans in the front half and 2 lights and two fans in the back part. I also wanted to have them so I can cut them on and off in both the front and back wall. I ran all my wires and marked...

can you switch 240V lights so that they can be controlled in two places? I really want to use my high bay lights in my barn. It would be nice if I could split them, two in back and two in the front and put them on 3 way switches so both sets could be turned on and off from either end of the...

Stumps do present a challenge big stumps especially but green or dry they can be burned completely away with a little TLC. The main thing is you can't get in a big hurry unless you have a large piece of equipment like a excavator or a Cat 955 or larger. If you are like me you don't have such a...

Hopefully you can get what you need from these. But I must be missing something, I'm wondering what the neutral bars have to do with the size wires that the main line 1 and 2 are (the two 4/0 wires that will feed the sub panel in the barn.) They have to connect somewhere in the main house panel...

Sorry for taking so long......MAN!! We have been getting some bad storms over the past week and they have been knocking out the power as soon as they fix it. We still have almost a million people out of service and they are calling for more storms everyday. Just my luck I have had a transfer...

I finally have gotten to the point where I have started to lay out my pex tubing for my in floor heat system and the way it looks now it may be awhile before I can scrape up the money to buy the concrete to cover it up. I was wondering how long the insulation boards and pex tube can stay...

I have a 1250 gal septic tank behind my house that I want to hook into from my new pole barn. I don't want to dig it up right now because it is so wet but I would like to run my sewer line out and away from my building so I can do some grading to get the water away from the building. What I...

I put this big beam up on 4 steel post and cross members in my shop to run a trolley on for a 1/2 ton chain fall. I also want to run some heavy ground wire under the floor that comes up in places all over the shop so I will have a ground leg for my welders no matter where the work is located...

I was wondering if a light broom finish would be an okay surface for an epoxy floor finish? I hate to pay a finisher to put a nice slick finish on it and have to pay someone to sand it down so that the paint can stick to it. What do you guys think?

I have been searching for the past couple days for threads about heating for my building and have almost decided to use the radiant type system and heat the floor in my shop. I read a bunch of post but all I could find were older threads that were several years old, most were way back in...

Has anyone built a firewood conveyer? What a pain it is to have to handle wood three or four times when splitting. I have been tossing around the idea of building something to move the wood out of the way as it is split and was wondering what others have come up with. I'm thinking about...

I have been using a Takeuchi 130 skid steer for a few days now cleaning up trees that were knocked down by the last storm and it seems to have a problem with the hydraulics. It does not do this all the time but sometimes while operating the machine the 4 in one bucket will open up all by itself...

My wife was already complaining that there was too much blue in the garage and now you has something else to fuss about. My dealer called yesterday and said the welder was in and I almost got there before he realized I had dropped the phone, hitched up the trailer and headed off to the...

Thanks to the hurricane I am getting a new roof and was thinking about going with medal. My house is a small cape with a wrap porch that sits in the woods. Well it used to be really woods but most all the trees right up against the house are gone. It is brick and is sort of like the colonial...

I figured that I had hyjacked bearcreep paul's thread enough and didn't want to stink up his thread with my problems even thought ours are about the same. We were talking about wire size requirements for different applications and soon as I said I too will be faced with the same situation as...

A couple weeks ago we had an earthquake that shook the heck out of the house. At first I thought it was an ATF chopper landing on my house to remove my guns from my cold dead hands but then I realized what was happening and calmed down and said no problem it's just a 5.9 earthquake. Only...

Sorry...double posted somehow.

I asked this in another thread but felt like I was trying to horn in on someone else's dime so I started a new thread. This is a low budget project as I am having to move out of a shop I am now renting because of the downturn in the economy. I decided to take advantage of the downturn and slow...