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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!

Took the Deere up to the local car wash to get 3 years worth of dirt off. :laughing: Then some guy walked up to me as I was about to get started and asked if he could take a video for their social media site? I asked "what site?" and he said "the car washes". Oh, sure. lol I thought I was...

Started doing the clean-up from the aspen harvest when I was up last week. I'm going to need to run my stump grinder just to get all the crap off the ground so we can grow prairie grasses and flowers as intended. Ended up with a wood carpet.

The guy has at least three of them, but there's no labels on anything in the pics. Came up at local auction, and at least looks to be well built despite the PTO shaft being installed backwards. :laughing:

I got my Woods grapple because I happened to see them at a Cabelas and was taken by how well they were built. After a bit of discount stacking, I got a great price on it and was able to inspect my unit before I signed for it. 3 years later = no regerts! :p

This years gun time is going to be limited as I just had my rifle range cleared of the obstructions. :laughing: I still need to dress the edges a bit and then it's going to be a few hours of stump grinding.

I have two of these on my fenders, and found the Jensen too weak to power them, so I got a 50x2 amp cheap on clearance from Best Buy and now have as much sound as I want. I mainly use my bluetooth worktunes, but the stereo is handy driving on public roads where ear muffs aren't adviseable.

This thing's somewhere north of 3,000#. That's as high as the boom would lift it. Thankfully I had some curl before the rear end popped up so I did get it on my trailer. :)

Been sitting on the 1" thick chunk of AR400 for my shank for this for a while, and decided I'd build it as a project while running my STD production this week. Yesterday I started by adding the eye tabs to the cross tube, and gusseting them. Then today I started working on the upper section...

I made my own pistol holster 6.5 years ago for my then 1911, and now 2011 (which I also did the assembly/finish machining and parkerizing of), and it's held up great. I had a guy who owned a leather shop sew it for me, but he decided our insane MN taxes were enough and retired to Puerto Rico...

The ones I'm finding don't have provisions for the spokes. I want to wrap the spokes all the way to the airbag cover - two seams, no unsewn edges.

I got a new to me truck a couple weeks ago and the hard plastic wheel has a blister at 4:30 that's bugging me. Today while trying to find some repair parts for my Tahoe (bounced a deer off the grill), I pulled a steering wheel from another ford (new truck is a F350) that has the same cruise...

Not quite. :laughing: I did use the drop from shortening the rod to extend the fixed eye though. The adjustable draft sensing doesn't leave much room for the cylinder at the tractor, so it needs to be poked out or you lose the use of the bottom holes (and all your automaticness).

The last welds I made: Post yours. :rolleyes:

I don't have mine quite centered, but it's within about 1/2" from one side to the other. 5" stroke

It must be in the air or water or something. I've been a chevy guy most my life - not because it's what daddy had or anything, but just because I liked 'em better. Ended up buying a '01 F350 CC SB SRW 4wd 7.3L last week to replace my trusty '00 Tahoe 4wd 5.3L. I couldn't get into a 6.6L that...

Still need some fab work for the diverter to run it, but the tractor's back in action.

I decided that I'm just lazy enough to do this modification. :laughing: After finding out the lift links on the 3pt were partially cast iron, I was extra nervous about what on God's green Earth they made the cast actuator arms out of for my SSQA. So after several spark tests (couldn't convince...

Even A500 puts up a fight on a dry cut saw. I'm pretty sure the structural shapes I cut are why my blades go dull so fast. The 14" Dewalt has been one of my worst purchases for cutting only second to my plasma cutter (too dirty for my needs and extremely expensive for inches cut per consumable...

Rogers - they had a good selection of everything from the drive-by I did. I was actually meeting a buddy to get some stuff from him in the lot.

I'm starting to think about designs for a dual use heavy flatbed. I need something to haul my tractor (7100# without implements), and machines weighing up to 10,000#, but also bunks of lumber and whole logs. I have a Class 6 Chevy straight truck that can pull 10T, so that's not an issue...

Yep, the dead end is always pinched by the u-bolts.

The latch arms are a heavy cast part that dwarf most other's designs. Post up yours.

The timing bar at the bottom is a common axis the top of the pads are free to rotate as they want. This is from the manual and doesn't even have the timing bar in this one.

My tractor's SSQA adapters aren't fixed to the same plane, so if one is rubbing on the attachment and not lined up right the other will move out of sync. Other than cost, why are they made this way, and is there any reason to not fix them together? The reason I'm asking is that I want to put a...

Funny you should mention that - I have a debris pile I want to dig up and relocate. I figured I'd use the root grapple, but maybe I should run through it with the ripper first. :) I'm not subsoiling in the ROW. I nuke it with roundup to kill everything since my neighbor's across the street...

14 gauge 1.25" round tube "T" with a stub leg fish-mouthed onto the long leg. The two horizontal sections need to be parallel within a couple degrees, but it's not mission critical. Would you make a "V" base to lay the three sections into which allowed access to the joints from both sides, or...

I got a 1x6" chunk of AR400 today for my sub soiler shank and now the question is whether or not to bevel the leading edge above the tooth or leave it flat? Does it make any difference?

Been in service almost a decade, and still as good as it was the day I built it. Looking around google, it appears the idea caught on. :D

It wouldn't burn clean unless left to dry for a year. The stems are too thick.

A buddy of mine asked me about doing a job for him this spring, but I've never run a bush hog and don't currently own one either. He wants to get it cleaned up enough to plant it to grass for pheasant and grouse. He's not worried about the roots or debris. I'm thinking spray it with gly when...

Welding these up wouldn't be bad, but cutting the links would take a long time. Probably another couple days unless a fixture was made for a chop saw (which is what I'd do) or the U's were purchased from a place capable of forming them off coil stock. There's also versions that use small...

How in the world does anyone see out of these machines? :rolleyes:

Not another set of home-brew tire chains... These are different Scored a good deal on CM G43 high-test chain on clearance so I decided to whip these up. The pattern is 16" across, and my tires are 16.9, but close to 16 across the lugs. The side straps go out another 8" for a total of 32...

I've really enjoyed using mine in the last couple years since building it. The trailer will handle more weight than the atv will, but I can load boulders on it with the tractor and not worry about doing any damage. I was planning ahead. :) Here's the build thread...

What if you skipped the compressor part of the system and just circulated ground temp fluid through a cement slab when the temps were above or below where you wanted them to be? Would having that much thermal mass at least temper the temperature in the building? So in the winter, it would...

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So imagine this is my shop, only the middle is roughly twice as wide, and a bit taller on both levels.

Think these'd work? :laughing:

I'd love to do something like this, but the balcony end would be exposed to our predominant winds and the floor sealing (water) would be a nightmare.

This is just an engineering problem right now. I'm not ready to buy anything, just trying to get the imaginary ducks in my head lined up. :) I'd like to build a monitor style barn for my workshop, with a timber frame out of red oak. I want the center span to be 24' clear down the middle...

I agree about the trusses. At least do a gambrel or something that gives you some added storage. I really like the timber frame, myself. It might cost more for the raw materials, but it uses less wood in the end and you don't need to have a crane to put them up.

So you're saying you're a ? :laughing: J/K! I would likely have the same excuse. :D

I'd love to build one of these with a 24' center bay and 24' sides. I'd put a temporary house upstairs in the middle and my shop on the main floor.

I built a stump grinder that seems to swing the cutting head a bit more than the 30 degrees from center when raised and swung to the shortest side (the PTO shaft extended has no vibrations on the long side fully raised or lowered). Even though the drive train isn't under any load at this angle...

12" fir's biggest issue is going to be cleaning out all those branches so you have some space under it to work. :) The Coos Bay on those is probably fine. I don't like them on larger trees because when you don't have the sides lined up perfect it affects how and where the tree falls based on...

I've been giving serious though to adding a stereo to the tractor and found they have Bluetooth amplifiers which pair to your phone and skip needing/using a head unit at all now. :thumbsup: The issue is what kind of range do they get and how durable are they in a rough environment? Most seem...

I've got a hydraulic motor I'm not going to use for a skidding winch after all, and I just bought a 21x3/4" steel disc for my wheel (76#). I'm going for a loader mounted unit (SSQA) and will run the motor off the rear remote via bungee and will use my 3rd function to swing the arm. It's pretty...

I wasn't happy with my added button on the joystick arm for the diverter I installed, and didn't like the little pear shaped factory knob either, so I made a bit of a change. The lower part is female threaded 7/16" and will use a jam nut and some loctite to hold it's position on the factory...

I can get used to this! :D

I got the last one of these motors SC had based on the impressive torque numbers. Now I'm wondering how exactly to implement it? 15.1 CU IN HYDRAULIC MOTOR New VON RUDEN model MLHPQ250C5A hydraulic motor. Cast iron housing. SPECIFICATIONS ç–‹isp. 15.1 cu. in. / rev. ç*†otor Type Gerotor...

I'm in the process of getting final approval for a road through a wooded swamp (should have my last signature Friday). The base is about 4' of muck over 3" clay with sand under the clay. Rather than guaranteeing I need 4' of fill brought in, and risking peeling out the clay and draining the...

You'd need to recirculate your fuel while the tractor is parked, given that you have access to 120v, this is a very simple predicament and easily rectified with an electric pump. You could even run 120vAC solenoids to ensure that the valves for your recirculation were closed when not plugged in...

I got some oil to water heat exchangers in an auction and am wondering if I should use one to preheat my tractor's fuel? I've read a bunch of reports of mixed opinions on the matter: from it being a power enhancer and increasing fuel economy to being harder on the injection pump - so which is...

I'm in need of a power beyond adapter for a Walvoil SD5 valve # 3XGIU527470. My local Kioti dealer has them (special order) for $25, but I'm wondering if I can find someone willing to sell it for closer to the $10 it's worth? There's a few places online who offer them, with prices ranging from...

The problem with these small winches is that they're only spec'd with short duty cycles, and on top of that they're very sloooooow when loaded to rated pull. Using one to dead lift logs so you can get a chain around them isn't very hard work. Using one to yard logs is going to prove hard on...

I'm in the design phase of what will be a utility shed on the main floor, and a bunk house/ lounge on the second story. I'm thinking 16' wide would be nice, but only want to make it 20' long. I want a full 8-9' ceiling on the ground level, and at least a 7' ceiling upstairs. I'll probably be...

I've got a stand of timber that's in need of thinning. The trees that need removal are primarily firewood size, but I do have a pulp possibility with Sappi, so I need to be able to load a truck with at least 5-6 cords at a shot. That's yet to be ironed out, as their buyer is super busy this...

Hey guys. Long time lurker, and looking at buying my first tractor this spring. I have a little over 80 acres of hardwood timber, some of it is low/swamp. I'm looking at getting a machine for doing some thinning cuts and some clear cutting for buildings and other recreation, as well as...