Breaking in my new toys... from Yeehaw! to Uh oh!

[Spiveyman]

Thanks Rob, I'm not in a big rush to replace it, and might try beating it back into a more correct shape. I finished what I was doing last night with it like that, still does the same basic job, just a little further over. I don't really have a set up anywhere to work with it. I presume you'd put it in some kind of vice, or hit it on an anvil??

I was thinking about that deal you put on yours. If you make the scarifers stonger, then when you hit something really solid the next weakest thing breaks. So you fix that and beef it up, then the next weakest thing breaks (or eventually you stop hitting things like that, or your implement is stronger than the rocks/roots). I'm thinking maybe it's good to have a weak like like a scarifer to bend/break. At least they are easy to replace if need be. Kind of like a sheer pin almost.

 

[sandman2234]

I agree with the leave it crowd, as I have similar modifications to mine. In this soil, running in third gear, you can pretty much forget catching my JD before it bottoms out. If I hit something going that fast, the tires dig fast enough to get you stuck before you hit the clutch. In low range, not a problem, just high range.
Those scarifers aren't that expensive, although a little more than your typical shear pin.
David from jax

 

[Spiveyman]

sandman, you pull your BB with scarifers in 3rd hi??? Wow! Holy cow you're hauling you-know-what. How rough is the ground? Are you just dragging a roadway or something? I started in 1st gear low crawling over the mounds so that I didn't feel the need to work the clutch all the time. I did much better at just letting the gear control my speed. I did catch myself wanting to rest my foot on the clutch conveniently, but after a couple hours I think I pretty much broke the habit. After things started smoothing out I worked my way up through 2nd, 3rd, and then eventually to 4th to cover more ground as the sun started getting low, all in low range though. 4 Lo is still not moving that fast, but sometimes I wondered if I should take it slower.

On the scarifers, are the one's sold at TSC as good as any other?

 

[srsu99]

Hey spivey what kinda tranny do you have in your tractor is it a 3 speed with a high- low lever. If so than 4 low is faster than 3 high. At least it wasd this way on my old Ford 4000. Just wondering.

 

[Spiveyman]

It has 4+R on one shifter, and hi/lo on the other. It is geared such that 1 - 4 hi would literally be the same as 5 - 8. In other words, 1 hi is faster than 4 lo. The manual gives speeds at 1000 rpm as such: 0.80, 1.00, 1.76, 2.40, 2.89, 3.58, 6.28, & 8.54 mph on gears 1 through 8 respectively.

 

[3RRL]

Spiv-
The TSC scarifiers are very good.

 

[Spiveyman]

Great! I'm always looking for an excuse to go to TSC!

 

[sandman2234]

3rd high is way too fast for me to be pulling a box blade with the teeth down. I didn't know which gear you were running it in, and was afraid it was 3 high, not 3 low. I will pull the box blade in 1 high just to knock the top off the dirt road going to my Sister in laws house, but I do that with the teeth retracted.
David from jax

 

[Spiveyman]

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, 3 hi would be crazy with scarifers cutting. I kept it in low gear so as not to bog down the engine too. I want to keep the RPM's at a decent speed.

 

[john_bud]

I would try heating and hammering the scarifier back to straight. They are made soft, so that they stress is expended there and not in more expensive areas.

But, go ahead and get a couple spares!

jb

On edit,


Did my eyes deceive me, or did you write that someone was coming out to install the tooth bar for you? You do know that it is just 2 holes drilled in the sides of the bucket and two bolts, right? Or is yours different?