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Decided to bite the bullet and build a new crossover with armored flex pipe using multiple hold down spacers as needed. The Massey-Ferguson I parked oddly we sold for 500usd. Family in town should have mentioned the Gannon scraper with scarifies and angle rams was not included. The guy got a...

Walked into Sears, went to tools, handed gentleman 1" drive socket wrench that was missing the large end mostly. Bolt was stubborn so I added 6' long 2" diameter thick wall steel pipe. Ok, that didn't work. Fired up JD 300 Industrial loader/scraper and used loader front cutting edge to apply...

Stuck bendix (throws gear forward to crank flywheel) gear could do it. Or hidden corrosion generally on ground side is more common. Hot side grounds out there are usually signs like smoke, crackle, fire, and finally starter brushes. Stranded cable the corrosion works in both directions so it can...

Gannon on MF in picture and box blade with rotating rippers/scarifiers have a spring steel V shape to them. Hammer usually involved. Now if I could only find the 2 lost while road scraping, contouring, tearing up underground hornets nest and clearing drainage 8 to 10 years ago.

I get so lost on hydraulics, MF in picture is closed, JD is open, case 580 extendahoe is closed(?), Cat D6 will flash fire directly under fuel tank but only when 50 gallons just went in, Cat RD2 no hydraulics and got a flat on it one day. No feeling in the world like cranking a turn and one...

40' Holy Schnitzel!

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8" is too big for loader to force into ground most likely. I've used loader to put 4" treated posts in and tried once to use it on RR ties. Not at all with the ties. It made no difference after ruining a chainsaw blade and bar putting a point on. Still looking for name of manufacturer of factory...

Did you check fluid level after it warmed up? Adding the splitter and hoses would draw down reservoir maybe so low the machine won't let the loader work. Dad bought an IMT built in one of the FSR countries, Belarus. It had a 90 degree ball valve inline towards the front loader bucket. To use any...

Rust on button that I usually find on side of starter with a connector bolted to it. Bypass it with a fresh battery and battery jumper cables. Put Negative somewhere w/o paint on splitter metal and put positive to the connector. Generally the negative side doesn't have a solid full wire...

It may be as simple as fouled cable on the drum. Hook cable on a sturdy tree. Back up real slow and easy until you feel resistance. Get out and look for the issue. As to they hydraulic controls I'm clueless. Any powered winch has a way to freewheel. It may be a setting or a notch that fits into...

Flew over it on way to Juneau, AK and it was lightly smoking. On the way back we couldn't see it because of cloud, ash, smoke but had seen a news clip before leaving Juneau after sisters wedding.

A cousin left 2 garden tractors out here equipped with the equipment and some attachments. Now for the thing, you are in Michigan and the smaller tractor is here in California. Is MTD a brand? I think that is the brand name. I've enough problems with full size tractors that can scrape an 8' path...

Such as being in the wrong place at wrong time and watching Mt. Saint Helens blow? Accidents happen when outside of control danger occurs. Personally the worst way is if an orchard or disk pulling tracklayer (think D6) somehow stops and climbs the tracks until it overbalances and drops on its...

While stationed at Almaden AFS near San Jose, CA 2 new Apaches and their pilots came down to show the 'airmen' who knew their stuff. It was AWESOME. The came in slow and low with one on each side of the ridge ops was sited. Then went into a show. We, all base residents and folks on shift were...

Thank you both for giving me idea(s) on DIY replacement. Working on getting measurements and how to attach w/o causing probs on the boom. Thx again.

East Coast gets a lot of rain and that means cloudy days all year. Decreases amount of sunlight so less electricity. All the comments have given me many things to ponder on do I really want to partner (help cleaning up and maintaining) in a solar farm. Until something new taking less input than...

No feeling like cranking a left turn on old orchard Cat D2 and watching the right track head off straight. Sat there a minute to choose words because a bunch of kids were watching. As a temp (15+ years ago) fix added 1" blocks to ram on each side that controls track adjustment. Did the same on...

This pipe is on boom ram and sends hydraulic power to other boom. It has been welded by a shop in Santa Cruz, CA but the owner did not think it would hold long. He was correct. Is this available pre-built or do I need to have it made by local welding or hydraulic shop? 1978 Case 580 CK...

Some apply down force instead of letting gravity and weight do it. When it is a gravity based function they tend to float up as your work/material builds up to the point of pushing a few hundred pounds of steel up. Downward pressure from hydraulic pump(s) will keep the bucket or scraper in place...

Won't the shipping cost be above 5,000usd? The savings just on shipping gives you that money to put towards a tractor already in country. I do not mean to criticize and this is just a thought.

I love my yellow wheelbarrows, 1975 JD 300B and 1978 Case 580CK extendahoe. Nothing beats a self propelled wheelbarrow. (laughing at the thought but dam, they sure do beat a single wheel push by human motor) Old Massey Fergy decided it was too tired and sold it for $500 to a hobby mech. The pic...

Excellent thought and Thank You. In this area everything is high priced about the same as gasoline. Overall USA prices run under $4/gallon. We pay $5.50 and up. The last ram I had rebuilt cost around 85 dollars and like yours has done well. Lol, USAF vet here and have been around planes most of...

Was stationed at Nakhon Phanom airbase in Thailand and learned that choppers do stay in air, mostly. Couple of newest tech, in 1975, (Apaches(?), Blackhawk(?) *I know they were NOT Blackbirds*, (below is an Aardvark trimmed for speed.)) came down to Almaden AFS (last duty site above San Jose...

Or they figure they can get over with that kind of merde. "They" need a wakeup. Pity all the fun/interesting/pyroteknik ones are usually illegal and that ends up sucking mightily regardless of country or state.

Our place got a new tractor in 1960 that I cleaned up and took to Mom's house in SJ for small orchard and rear yard acreage. Sent 4 disc offset and scraper blade with it. Great Aunt had purchased it new. Prices on tractors are like home prices in SF Bay Area, nukkin' futz. Last one was purchased...

Hunters? :))

Parking under cover, what a concept. :) End to end unless you plan on walling off part(s) for any reason. Roll up as gent above mentioned are good idea for economy and ability to raise/lower w/o breaking anything like you, tractor, dog... Seems to be a whole new type of season here near San...

We've had a Miller 220 for over 30 years. It still works well.

Hydraulic fluid spewing from both boom cylinders pretty much everywhere it can. Also the crossover pipe I had welded that worked for a bit. I need to find that pipe already built if possible. Recently the right side of 4in1 bucket ram started leaking. I'm afraid to run it because I know what a...

Start with the closest place from the fuel pump you can loosen a bolt or nut then crank it. Once you get fuel spurts tighten that back up then go nearest the cylinders you can find another nut/bold to loosen and crank again until fuel spurts. If you get no fuel from the start you may need to...

And the weakest hose will let go. Deere John has a metal top and nothing quite as _&(*(^%)*U when it bounces all the warm/hot fluid over you. Coats from top of head down.

I don't know if they are alike enough to use... If you want a pic of a 580CK extendahoe hydraulic routing I can page through manual(s) and take a pic. Mine is losing more hydraulic fluid hourly than it uses fuel and it is not an econo box.

At my last USAF duty site, Almaden AFS above San Jose, CA, 2 new choppers came and gave us an air show. OMG those guys were awesome. They did things that didn't seem possible. Upside down figure 8 for example. Unfortunately I cannot get on a chopper, knock me out and throw me on but it ain't...

Put a pic of how NOT to park a tractor.