building a wood post driver tractor mounted

[dieselscout80]

Did you buy or make the part that I circled in the attached pic.

If you bought it where at?


ps Cool build!!!

 

[BHD]

I made that part, on my JD 4000 / 4020 tractors, there is not enough space to use a double EYE cylinder, one can get bushing stock from a machine shop, I was out of the sizes I wanted, so I took some shaft and drilled to the size I wanted, 1" and then welded them together to make the part, ( I would guess John Deere would sell the part, as it its part of the top link on old 20 series tractors,

 

[MNBobcat]

Any progress of late? Anxious to see how its coming along.

 

[BHD]

sorry I had to take a break the real world work called,

I have been working on it again the last few days,

the swing arm that will raise the weight, the steel in the tube was a little lighter than I thought it was so I added the angle brace,



head and pulley for weight drop,



grease Zerk in bushing of the swing arm



swing arm lay out



brackets for swing arm, need some extra clearance so the 4"x4" by 1/2" think spacers/reinforcement bushings

 

[BHD]

here is the swing arm lay out



Clamping and squaring up brackets and swing arm





Cylinder for swing arm



Brackets for swing arm




miss planning, was going to use cable clamps to tie ends of rope. the clamp was much wider than the head was and would have caught,
so I made a wedge to hold the rope end that will lift the weight,




parts for wedge,



clamped up ad ready for welding




Test fit of rope and wedge

 

[BHD]

page two of project, building a wood post driver tractor mounted page 2

 

[mickeyw]

Hey BHD, do you still have the photos of your build?
Looks like this thread has been hit by the recent Photobucket changes

 

[BHD]

If one clicks on the photobucket picture, it will take one to photobucket and most of the pictures will show, I see photobucket will still block some of the pictures, I currently do not have time to repost them again here, and I am not paying Photobucket the money they want,