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It was 8 years ago that i bought a municipal heavy duty flail mower, from a guy who mounted it on his wheeled 13 ton excavator but took it off again when it turned out to be so heavy that it kept pulling him towards the ditch. He bought a much lighter model on his excavator, so i got the mowing...

Off course you guys in North America have .25 rimfire rifles to kill anything sized between a rat and a cat. In Europe we need to be member of a shooting range, the other guys must vouch for you that youre sane and want a gun for the right reasons, before you get a weapons permit. Then the...

The owner of British chemical company Ineos is a fan of the Landrover Defender, and like many other hardcore fans, are disappointed by the new Defender, which is more like a mall cruiser than a utilitarian offroader. So he buys BMW inline six diesel and gas engines, a ZF 8 speed automatic, and...

I have a 500kg Hitachi chain hoist on a beam in my shop, but my friend decided it needs a trolley before he helps me rebuild a tractor 😉 The used beam is flame straightened, and this week it will go under the rafters. I was wondering, how does everybody have their umbilical power supply to the...

Ford is having the F-Max over the road tractor built in Turkey, in their joint venture partner Otosan which also builds the Transit It sports a 12.7 liter 500hp Ford designed engine, with a 12 speed automated manual ZF gearbox: Though work is carried out on a Ford/Otosan gearbox. I see Ford of...

....if so, what make and model was it, Whats the weight of the tractor pushing it, and how long and how intense have you used it ?? I'm thinking of making one. When i makes one the way i think it's right, it won't budge. But my tractor cant lift an idiot proof machine so i'll have to do some...

I finished my outdoor stove last week. My friend used one of these brake drums as a simple fire pit, but it was too heavy to pull around in a town backyard. I picked it up, and found the other one also in a farmyard of another friend. The problem with these things is that you can hardly weld...

10 years ago i bought an old glue table from my employer back then, for 90 euro. It was used to hold a sheet of plywood on stainless steel table tops with some big air cylinders holding it tight while the glue cured. I ground off the upper frame to use it as a workbench, welded M36 nuts under...

Ive seen these Polish loggers with their Zetor Super 50 (made between 1956-1968, 4.1 liter 50hp) tuned to 70hp, wheelie-ing logs out of the bush. 2 years ago they posted a video of the transmission rebuild of their 25.000hr plus tractor, and last week i found they keep modifying it: Home made...

Because most people ask money for wood you can saw on the ground, but if you have to take it off height (tree trimming) its free, i decided to build a highlift manbucket. 1st photo: This is how we got by last summer, putting the forks upside down on the pallet board to gain another 2 feet, and...

Here in Holland you cant buy guns unless you apply for a shooting club, or are a wildlife game keeper. Air rifles however, are free. New high power air rifles however, have more power than a .22 gunpowder rifle. Daystate Wolverine .303 vs. Benjamin Rogue .357 - YouTube Hog Hunting with Gamo...

When Googling what an Iseki TX75 looks like in the thread: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/300089-towing-unbaked.html I came across this: ISEKI SX 75 TRACTOR | SX75 | | For Sale | Buy | Turners Auctions Looks like you'd rather not be sitting on that when that happened...

Has anyone ever seen a firewood processor with a big multiwedge split knotted oak ? All the Youtube videos in product demonstrations, they are splitting straight grained pine. Where all i'll be ever splitting is knotted oak. What are your experiences, is it worth the effort to build my own given...

I am borrowing chainsaws too much, when i wear my brothers down i'll have to buy him a new one so i'd rather buy one for my self right now :) However my employer is reorganizing and my job will end by the end of the year so i dont want to spend big bucks right now.. Anyways i'm deciding between...

In Holland, a new trend is slowly getting liftoff: In search for more efficient means of transporting dirt, while maintaining the max legal width of which dumpers can be transported on a lowboy without special permits and guidance vehicles, a contractor in cooperation with the Volvo importer and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86NeDYC7wY Looks like a new project for GuglioLS after he added a rotator to his boxblade a while back ?? ;)

Our cordwood saw is wearing blades way too fast and it doest cut fast enough. i was thinking of having a saw blade laser cut from a 3 or 4mm Hardox 500 plate, and bend the teeth out by hand. (my uncle is an expert on setting sawblade teeth) Has anyone ever tried that before ? and what is a good...

...Using a skid steer, angle grinder, chainsaw and rock hammer to cut it loose... Looks like these guys literally have their work cut out for them ;) Fordson 7V 7478 Salvage in Malta. - YouTube

Since August i rent a place with a workshop. That means, its a chicken barn with a wooden roof structure that was severely sagging, despite previous patchwork. Together with some other folks who have a section of that barn as workshop for their derby racing cars, we started to fix this section...

Does anyone know what size they are ? i can buy one cheap, for 250 euro. It is missing two cylinders but i can replace them with some standard ones from (the dutch equivalent of) HF. I was planning on welding 3pt brackets on it and use it behind my 3011 to replace the shovel on many smaller farm...

Does anyone have some good tips on bodywork sheetmetal working ? I need to weld some pieces into the mudguards of my old 3011 but i'd better ask here first, before i try to make custom shop press dies... I need two rounded edges, thats not so hard to bend over a piece of wood. But it also needs...

Hi, my brother is at a cousin in Manitoba, Canada. They have a problem with their recently purchased Fiat Allis 605B. It wont pull, they think it must have a low gear range but cant find a gearlever. I think it has an Allison transmission with two stage torque converter that shifts...

I am allmost finished repairing the worn bearings of the front axle pivot pin of the 5245 (with frontloader) so this week i'll start building a muck fork: I need a muck fork for two tractors and two different operation methods: We have converted a pig barn to stall our 6 foals, meantime the...

YouTube - ????? ??????? ?????? These guys have GUTS !!

I have problems starting my tractor. Charged the battery for 3 days, putting out 12.8 volt, but still not fast to start. My brother let the ignition key on, and when we wanted to feed the horses this morning it didnt crank. Battery puts out 12V and 0.5V when the starter is engaged: Measured at...

Pettibone I found this Pettibone loader because of a picture on a John Deere OEM engine leaflet. I am interested in it, and how its used. The swivel head concept is very popular in Holland, only not for railroad work, but general earthmoving in urban areas, where there isnt room to turn a big...

TATRA, a. s. Tatra announces a cooperation which will combine the unique Tatra backbone chassis, with Navistar engines, into the North American offroad and defense market.

I have decided to bite the bullet and buy a torch set: I could get a plasma from 350 euro onwards, but the dealer i regularly buy stuff from, offered me a small professional quality one for 1750 euro, he said he wont sell the cheap ones because he has to attach his good name to anything he...

YouTube - inter vastgereden met maishakselen This guy cant figure out why he's getting stuck, the land is dry.... just watch and laugh :p

In 2005 i built this loader: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/85834-home-building-frontloader.html 3 weeks ago, the addition i welded to the boom brackets to mount the parallel rods, broke a weld on one side, causing it to kink the parallel rod as it was now supported off...

With the takeover of American Jawa by Zetor CZ, the name changed to Zetor North America and the Kukje tractors no longer carry the name Zetor, for at least 2 years. I doubt if more than a handfull of Kukjes are actually sold as Zetor... Maybe change this forums name to Century/Branson/Kukje...

Not that i want to buy one, but after seeing one on YouTube, i wonder what the durability of the JCB mono boom skid steer digger with side door, is.. The boom is mounted off center, does it ever twist or crack after a couple of hundred (or thousand) hours ? The side door seems a revelation to me...

I am looking to buy a plasma cutter and a MIG. I put a bid on a Miller 280 (i know Miller is -THE- brand in the USA) a Tico (Dutch brand, good quality copper spools) and a Kemppi, all 3 are barely used, and regular machines so i am not afraid that i cant get parts for them, like with the first...

Hi folks, I am in the market for a new welder (250A or more i guess) because my brother built a new workshop and wants to take his 180A welder there. The 180A machine runs hot when i do heavy welding, and stops untill the thermal sensor switches it back on. I also want a plasmacutter. What...

I have ordered gaskets and bought a valve polishing suction cup to rebuild the heads of my 3011 this summer: I was thinking i might change the piston rings as well, because it ran 11000 hrs since 1967. I know a change of piston rings requires a cylinder hone to restore the cross hatch pattern...

YouTube - John Deere Custom Built Track Vehicle Its amazing what retired people do to kill time ;)

I've seen plenty of distribution trucks that crushed their plywood box under an overpass, but these Polish guys win the demolition prize !! YouTube - wypadek-dobrodzie?

My brother is thinking of getting a compact farm helper: A skid steer is not an option because of my father: A. because of the jerky controls, and B. because i dont see him, age 65 having arthritis, crawl over the loader arms into the cockpit every day. An articulated loader is far more...

YouTube - Scraper Menck Frutiger I have never seen anything like this before: Its a bulldozer that has a scraper bowl inbetween the tracks...

Does anyone know a better construction to build a tractor drawn grader, that goes inbetween the standard 3pt grader and the motorgrader ? i want the functionality (tilt, swing and offset) but not the cost of slew rings and many pivots. I have made some sketches, but i'm not sure how to attach...

Does anyone use a Hud-Son band sawmill ? I want to build one myself. Hudson seems to have the lightest and most simple design. I was wondering if its any good ? The timberline also is a 4 post design, though a lot heavier. I have several lengths of 100x40mm tubes around which i could use. It...

I have a very old single axle trailer with a steel floor, which needs new lights. I use it for scrap, i haul it off whenever the trailer is full. That means its never available for the odd jobs. Because of its condition, scrap hauling has to happen at saturday morning when there is no police on...

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.. i got 13 Eurocents per kg last saturday... :) :) It has been 3 cents two months ago, and 35 cents a half a year ago... The scrap trader said, bring it in quickly, because the prices will drop soon... I dont think so, as the price of new steel hasnt dropped a penny since the major crash of...

http://www.everytime.cummins.com/assets/pdf/4951315.pdf Cummins Cummins is getting into European sized Diesel engines with the new ISF series. The ISF consists fo 2.8 and 3.8 liter four cylinder engines, which they say is based on the B family of engines. They say that most probably to create...

Does anyone use a muck spreader with vertical beaters ? How do you like the spread pattern, shred of straw, spreading width and consistency ? I'm thinking of cutting up two old horizontal beaters (one is bent due to foreign object, cut in the middle where the bend is) to make 4 vertical beaters...

I allways wondered how the American ratings of trucks work : half ton, 3/4 or one ton. The Mercedes Sprinter dually is sold in Europe as a 5 ton truck, the single wheel version is 3.5 ton. Which is respectively 5 and 3.5 ton GVW. In America it is sold as Dodge Sprinter 2500 and 3500, rated as...

Because of the financial crisis, which has spread over the world in the past month (the Dutch government has bought one bank into state owenership, and did capital investments in another two) the scrap prices are next to nothing: Before summer i got 28 eurocents per kg. Right now the price is 2...

if i wanted to build a jaw crusher, what material thickness would i need to get a machine that reaches its optimal output when powered by 50 to 70 PTO hp ?? In my area, all rubble recycling is done in some centralised plants. I want a small PTO powered crusher to recycle old pig barns, and then...

http://kund.kreativbild.se/alo/lang.swf Look at the factory automation ! I though they'd only produce cars this way ;)

My father took a small road, when bringing one of the mares back from the Vet for pregnancy checkup. He took the corner too tight when taking a right hand turn onto a small, pre-fab concrete bridge over a stream, and hit the side edge of the bridge with the right front wheel of the trailer...

I think most Dodge purists will sleep better after reading this: Fiat Group (CNH) and Cummins are pulling back from their joint venture: Cummins will rule the North American continent, and Iveco will mind their own business on this side of the ocean. This means that Cummins will rule again in...

Sorry guys, i didnt take pictures from the start :p My brother bought a road sweep for 100 euro. The brush rotor was 80% but the machine itself was an old, French built Gustin hay tedder. It might have been doing hay for 30 years before it was converted to road sweep, i dont know if it was just...

YouTube - Motoniveladora en un Mallín These two guys seem to be out grading on an isolated area, somewhere in south America... They got 1 grader stuck and ooops.... let the chain in the garage, miles away from the worksite... Then what do you do ? travel hours, or take the risk ? p.s. mind...

YouTube - Truck Blown Away found this on YouTube, its taken in the western netherlands near the sea (where the wind is usually a bit stronger than in my area.)

i have seen plenty of home made bandsaws on YouTube, made with some frame, a rolling saw portal, and 2 old car tires to drive the saw band around... the log stays in place and the bandsaw portal moves through the log. But they are all low power, gas or electric powered... Older circular...

We had a customer, a drainage contractor, that was too tight to pay for a registration fee when he bought a new 2 axle trailer, 20 years ago, to pull behind his Landrover. Since a few years, all trailers above 750 kg need to be tagged and licensed. Because this trailer was never registered and...

I have a problem: I bought a brand new Magneton alternator for my 5245 Zetor. Its the model that was fitted on the 5245 from 1991 onwards. The tractor, as well as my workshop manual, are from 1986. At that time, an older type of alternator was fitted, with external voltage regulator, so my...

Who can give me any ideas on a whole bale feeder for horses ? I want to drop them in from above with the loader, and i want double fence so they have to stick their heads in before pulling hay out of the bale. Otherwise i see them tossing around and still wasteing most of the hay..

I have a question: When i was a kid, i read about scrapers in kid's picture books. So i knew they existed, and CAT makes them. Recently i've been watching some videos on YouTube, and i saw them working in the wild. However, i have never seen one, sitting or working, not in the Netherlands, nor...

I have a co worker who is into classic USA cars, and he knows his way into the parts trade. I was wondering, if i found a cheap Hydramatic transmission, would i be able to get some hours out of it if i used it in a home built wheel loader or a bulldozer, with a 100 hp engine in front of it ...

some photos of my recently bought 3011: After i took it home, i found that the 4th gear made a noise like flick-flick-flick Closer inspection showed that a teeth of the 4th gear is missing. I need to pull it apart in 3 to remove the gear from the transmission layshaft. Photo 1 shows the first...

As some might remember, i work at a Dutch trailer manufacurer. In cooperation with an importer and a factory we are developing a new axle based on a standard torsion suspended axle. this new axle uses the same brakes but without the crappy bowden cables, which are a PITA because they stretch...

Me and my friend have collected various car parts to build a dirt buggy: The cars we used for our Dukes of Hazzard style jumps, usually lasted only a day, because the engine mounts ripped off from the bounces.. (the Dukes used about 3 Chargers per filming day... :p ) Because petrol is allmost...

i still didnt start my 3pt road grader project as i'm spending all my 2 weeks of vacation dismantling sow cages, welding on the dirt buggy, and welding on the tandem hay trailer i'm building. Anyways, during the tedious tasks it's good to think about the next project: I was looking at a Komatsu...

I have been looking to build a bale shredder, basically the idea was to convert an on field flail shredder with a 3pt hitch feeder bunk, to chop straw bales. I tried the flail shredder on a bale by driving into it, but the horses were all coughing and it generated so much dust that vision was...

I need an unbiased opinion on brakes: They told me that disk brakes, though having the weight advantage (lower weight, more payload) have little mass to dissipate the heat into. This may result in exploding tires, especially on smaller sized brakes and 13" light duty axles. At the company i...

I had a customer call today, for a 9 ton multifunctional trailer. He is deciding between Iveco, Renault (both European brands, i guess you dont know them) or Isuzu or Mitsubishi, because he likes a front steer cab because it is shorter and more manoeuverable in tight suburbs. Because our...

I ran across this YouTube movie: this guy was saved by miracle on an excavator rollover. The flimsy ROPS collapsed and he was trapped in his seat for a couple of hours it seems. The guy survived, know that to comfort you before you look at the scary ROPS and seat close up !!! YouTube - Worker...

hello, Before manure spreading season starts, i want to smooth out the road to save my back, and machinery during the many trips to the field. What works best ? just a drag level, an angle scraper blade or perhaps a single plough share to plough up the edge of the road and create some sort of a...

Hi, i have some jobs to do, currently rebuilding a car tandem trailer. Usually the conservation of the workpiece suffers from the lack of time (patience) so the paint is blown over half rusted iron. I'm just too lazy to remove rust from hard to reach spots with a wire brush or a screwdriver...

I have several projects going on in my head, and i need a heavy duty angle gear. A truck rear end would be strong enough, but i am afraid that most truck rear ends have too much speed reduction to run a mulcher at sufficient cutting speed. Is there any other cheap and commonly available source...

Hello, Does any of you have ever seen a self steering tag axle with a load rating less than 9 ton ? Here in Europe we cant find any, most manufacturers only sell self steering axles of the big sales volume series, the 9 ton axles.

My last project was building a front loader... Now when it's done, i have the ability to handle large 3'x4'x8' square straw bales very easily, which are a lot less work to stack and put under a tarp, than to put a couple of hundred small square bales on the attic. The best thing would be to...

After considering a plasma cutter or a band saw (i dont want all the shop space, and finance to be occupied by 2 machines) i decided i need a band saw. The few jobs that need a plasma cutter, can be done at the company i work. i dont think i need recommendations on particular makes or models...

I remember someone talking about a brake press unit to be powered by your standard workshop press. I just stumbled across this webpage: http://www.wikco.com/2020.html Somewhere at 3/4 of the page, you can find a nice unit to bend sheetmetal on a workshop press. I thought i'd post it here...

I think it's my turn to share some project photos: My brother had an old Deutz, a D50 built in 1964 somewhere, no powersteering, no 4wd, with a classic front loader that once started its life on a Ford Major. After having rebuilt a manure spreader 3 years ago, and using the old Deutz to load her...

Hello folks, It seems that the compact utility tractor has catched on in NA way better than in Europe, so i'd thought to ask here. anyways, here's the background story, than the question: My neighbor has a son, who has a mental handicap. He cannot read so a car license is no option for him...

Hello, I have a new job, changed from drawing stainless steel kitchen cabinets :P to something more interesting: :) trailers for small trucks (Or actually Vans that are modified to 5th wheel tractor, so they can still be driven with small (B) drivers license, without the need fo a 5000 Euro...

I can buy an old 3pt mounted cutting/feed dosing bunker for 150 Euro. I think it will be a good base to start from, building my bale shredder. Mostly the loading/cutting arm is either bent or the saws are worn out, but that's no problem because i will only use it for straw bales. FYI, these...

I bought another Volvo 1.9 liter turbodiesel car in March because my previous one (exactly the same 1995 440 TuboDiesel) jerked out some transmission bolts and as a result, broke a piece out of the aluminium clutch housing around the three remaining bolts.... A cause of failure just sounding...

Hi, Around our property, we have lots of fence rows, and ditches that are overgrown with branches and brush. I want something that slashes the brush, small trees and dirt away, back into the fence row. In the northern provinces of the Netherlands, water plants and sludge that is dug out of...

We have an old 4 furrow one way plough, a Massey Ferguson 160 which is originally a 3+1 furrow 16" plough manufactured by Huard, which is taken over by Kuhn. It is worn pretty badly and because it doesnt bite into th ground anymore we have bolted off the 4th furrow to be able to plough on...

I was thinking about the chainsaw sharpener i've seen at the local smith and the workshop of a national infrstructure company where i worked a few months.. It looks very simple, just a grinding disk mounted under a specific angle, on a pivoting plate that grinds the chain. Would it be do able...

Hello, I just decided that the oil heater (burning old engine oil) has to make place for a burn-all heater. On a cold day i can burn 40 liter of old engine oil, which is 1/3 of my annual rate. We're surrounded by forest, giving plenty of wood to burn. Now my question is: What is an advisable...

Hi there, I have just built a loader on my Zetor 5245, mainly to be used with pallet forks and bale grab for big wrapped square bales. This loader i bought has no self-levelling though it is very useful for the above mentioned tasks. I could also use some extra lifting force as 950 kg on the...