“Disappearing” Lynch Pins

[shooterdon]

I am inexperienced but it seems to me a lynch pin should not pop out if installed correctly. Two guys were running tractors at deer camp this weekend and had a spreader and rototiller come off the 3PH. One swears he had the lynch pin installed and it must have broken off....that seems unlikely too.

Seems more likely it was not snapped closed

Opinions?

 

[ptsg]

I lost one with the rototiller once. Luckily I caught it in time as the pin was half way out of its position.

It's like these things always find a way to either pop off and be lost forever or to smack your fingers really bad, preferably with cold hands.

I used to have lynch pins on the backhoe bucket as well but of course, I was constantly losing those. Now I put a piece of wire through the holes and bend the ends so it doesn't come off.

 

[MossRoad]

I have lynch pins holding the spindles in on the caster wheels on my mower, brush cutter, and snow plow. I lose several a year on the brush cutter. So much so, that I buy a half dozen and keep them in my toolbox on the trailer that I haul the machine on. If doesn't take much for a stick to grab them and pop them open, then it's just a matter of time before it's gone.

 

[4570Man]

I’ve lost a bunch of them especially in my backhoe bucket pin. I was bolting it but one method I discovered by accident that hasn’t failed me yet is heavy gauge wire bent through it and you can undo it by hand. I bought a heavy duty lunch pin for the backhoe bucket pin but it didn’t make it past the first job before it was lost to.

 

[Hay Dude]

Lose them of the CX-15s so bad I went to this type.

https://content.speedwaymotors.com/ProductImages/91045567_L_1cbe8cef-041c-4dac-8667-51a991116b86.webp

 

[newbury]

Try a "rue ring"
google

They are like a paper clip mating with a key ring.

 

[TractorGuy]

They get snagged by brush, unlatch, and fall out.

I have replaced some with large cotter pins.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I guess I have been lucky, never had one come off, done a good bit of farming and tractoring thru the years.

 

[yanmars]

I have lost a few over the years also.

 

[Sergei1]

Same here with loosing lynch pins, so I finally put some on the drill press and added a hole for a hitch pin, problem fixed.

 

[WranglerX]

Lose them of the CX-15s so bad I went to this type.

https://content.speedwaymotors.com/ProductImages/91045567_L_1cbe8cef-041c-4dac-8667-51a991116b86.webp

This type?

 

[i7win7]

I replaced most o my lynch pins with QH bushings

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[MossRoad]

Lose them of the CX-15s so bad I went to this type.

https://content.speedwaymotors.com/ProductImages/91045567_L_1cbe8cef-041c-4dac-8667-51a991116b86.webp

Thanks. I might try that.

 

[Williy]

I would use this type: Fastening Pins-Snap Pin | Knickerbocker Russell
If this one don't hold drill the hole a little larger and use a bigger one

willy

 

[5030]

Only time I loose them is when I sit them down on a tire and drive off. I always have a bunch in the shop anyways.

 

[Dwellonroof]

This type?


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I've lost several of those from my JD mower deck wheel so I replaced it with a bolt and locknut

 

[shooterdon]

Same here with loosing lynch pins, so I finally put some on the drill press and added a hole for a hitch pin, problem fixed.

That seems like a good idea and cheap as well.

 

[RjCorazza]

I used to just replace the Lynch pins on my mower deck wheels until the caster came off and got run over by the mower deck. Had to replace the yoke, wheel, and one blade. I now have a bolt and locknut holding the casters on all of my mowers.

I don't recall loosing 3 point Lynch pins though.

 

[PILOON]

I've lost several of those from my JD mower deck wheel so I replaced it with a bolt and locknut

A man after my tastes!
I've done the same thing on my 3 pt linkage arms and my snow plow arms!
Elsewhere instead of lynch pins I have used heavy gauge copper wire and make a few wraps.
Where space allows, it adding a washer B4 inserting a lynch pin seems to have helped.
On other locations I've enlarged the pin hole to accept 1/4" bolts with lock nuts, a pain to do/undo but worth avoiding damage to equipment.

 

[MagicMM]

Don't buy the cheap pins, but rather use the ones labeled "heavy duty" etc. If you don't have to be careful to not snap your finger when you unlatch it, it ain't good enough.