sequoyah101
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- Joined
- Nov 13, 2009
- Messages
- 144
- Location
- East Central Oklahoma
- Tractor
- CaseIH 50A, CaseIH JX95, CaseIH JX80, Allis 190XT, Daewoo DD80L Dozer, Schaeff SKL831 Loader, Komatsu PC40-7 Trackhoe, JCB 210S TLB, JD750, JD820, Kubota FR3680, Kioti Mechron
First posting of stuff made though I have made a lot of things over the years.
Made this for the JCB 210S this afternoon. The first one was too light and I tore it to pieces trying to rip up some iron ore road.
Finally found a good source for weld on teeth. These are Fabco 2A adapters and heat and beat teeth. My JCB is not pilot controlled so I am anxious to get this on the PC-40 track hoe. That should be a grading machine but the JCB is a little jumpy and takes some getting used to for grading. Still, it does a decent job but doesn't have much reach. The track hoe can cover a lot of ground from one place with its reach. I may have to build a new bucket hookup for the track hoe. Pin on would be best and I may go ahead with that later for both machines. My plan is to build skid steer hitches for the JCB and the track hoe then put everything but the buckets on skid steer plates. Next project though is a skid steer adaptor for the JCB loader so I can put the bale hugger, grapple and tree shear on it. I'm also planning to build a grader and landscape rake to go on the JCB.
The cutting edge is an old one I had lying around. it is worn on one side really bad and the other side is straight. Need to get some plow bolts to make it right. You can move an amazing amount of dirt with one of these. It doesn't take long to get a pile big enough that you have to turn the loader around and move it! Ripping first then grading works well and the rippers make an OK seed seed bed. In the right hands it can rake out roots and junk pretty well.
The thing bolts onto the bucket attachment so I can put a different blade on it that is lower profile that I use to clean dirt out from under the fences (when the wind blows dust the fence causes a velocity drop and the dust falls out over the years and varmints build burrows and stack up dirt). I put lots of gussets to resist the moment. Have not caught any roots but had it in a good bind and lifted the machine easily without bending. So far so good but it confirms I need to rebuild and bush the bucket pins and holes!
When I graded the dirt and gravel in the new barn I took an 8' piece of 4-1/2" pipe and cut slots for the bucket teeth on the PC-40 to stick into then used chain and boomers off the end of the pipe to stabilize it back to the bucket in a triangle affair. It was plenty stiff. Grading the 4,000 sq-ft nearly dead flat, for rock, worked out pretty well.
I also put teeth on the old faithful 750 JD loader. I cut the notches in the tooth adapters so that the teeth fit flush with the bottom of the bucket so I can still back drag flat. Made it like a new machine and I will never have a loader without teeth again. Next to cut off the edge of the JCB and put a new one on with teeth this time. Next the 4 in 1 on the Schaeff and the JX95 after that. I may even put teeth on the scraper! I should. It'll cut a lot better.
If you weld on pre-heat to about 400 F to prevent cracking of the hardened steel cutting edge and sometimes high strength bucket. Works just fine. Fabco has welding instructions I think. I gave up on tempsticks long ago and use an IR thermometer.
My project list will probably outlive me. It has for the last four decades anyway.
Made this for the JCB 210S this afternoon. The first one was too light and I tore it to pieces trying to rip up some iron ore road.
Finally found a good source for weld on teeth. These are Fabco 2A adapters and heat and beat teeth. My JCB is not pilot controlled so I am anxious to get this on the PC-40 track hoe. That should be a grading machine but the JCB is a little jumpy and takes some getting used to for grading. Still, it does a decent job but doesn't have much reach. The track hoe can cover a lot of ground from one place with its reach. I may have to build a new bucket hookup for the track hoe. Pin on would be best and I may go ahead with that later for both machines. My plan is to build skid steer hitches for the JCB and the track hoe then put everything but the buckets on skid steer plates. Next project though is a skid steer adaptor for the JCB loader so I can put the bale hugger, grapple and tree shear on it. I'm also planning to build a grader and landscape rake to go on the JCB.
The cutting edge is an old one I had lying around. it is worn on one side really bad and the other side is straight. Need to get some plow bolts to make it right. You can move an amazing amount of dirt with one of these. It doesn't take long to get a pile big enough that you have to turn the loader around and move it! Ripping first then grading works well and the rippers make an OK seed seed bed. In the right hands it can rake out roots and junk pretty well.
The thing bolts onto the bucket attachment so I can put a different blade on it that is lower profile that I use to clean dirt out from under the fences (when the wind blows dust the fence causes a velocity drop and the dust falls out over the years and varmints build burrows and stack up dirt). I put lots of gussets to resist the moment. Have not caught any roots but had it in a good bind and lifted the machine easily without bending. So far so good but it confirms I need to rebuild and bush the bucket pins and holes!
When I graded the dirt and gravel in the new barn I took an 8' piece of 4-1/2" pipe and cut slots for the bucket teeth on the PC-40 to stick into then used chain and boomers off the end of the pipe to stabilize it back to the bucket in a triangle affair. It was plenty stiff. Grading the 4,000 sq-ft nearly dead flat, for rock, worked out pretty well.
I also put teeth on the old faithful 750 JD loader. I cut the notches in the tooth adapters so that the teeth fit flush with the bottom of the bucket so I can still back drag flat. Made it like a new machine and I will never have a loader without teeth again. Next to cut off the edge of the JCB and put a new one on with teeth this time. Next the 4 in 1 on the Schaeff and the JX95 after that. I may even put teeth on the scraper! I should. It'll cut a lot better.
If you weld on pre-heat to about 400 F to prevent cracking of the hardened steel cutting edge and sometimes high strength bucket. Works just fine. Fabco has welding instructions I think. I gave up on tempsticks long ago and use an IR thermometer.
My project list will probably outlive me. It has for the last four decades anyway.
