Home built hiller

[Car Doc]

Yeah I have some rotors that fit perfect only prob is they are 11" or so I had my doubts they would be big enough? The parts guys at JD are looking around for me a couple 16 take off discs.

They don't have any discs in the shop being rebuilt now but there may be a couple in a corner somewhere or in the iron truck I will look there tonite after work and look myself. I hope they have some I am ready to get in the dirt looks like I could this wknd if I had it ready so I am going to kick it in high gear. :thumbsup:

No prob on the side conversations Clemson things come up and take off in directions unknown fine with me that's pretty much how I live. :laughing:

Glad you have good insurance hang onto it you are one of the fortunate ones and use it keep your health as long as you can! I am going to keep my true beliefs about the new insurance rules to myself it would get my thread deleted before I can post some garden pics of a working project. :laughing:

 

[clemsonfor]

Other than some secret tax revenue things that were just finding out about it all the new bill is, is that it forces you to buy insurance. I have heard that its going to cost about 18K for the median road plan. If you make to little which I don't think has been specified you will get some degree of subsidy depending upon a scale and your income. You may get a small subsidy even with what I envision your income being but it may not be much, say $200/month. I think I heard that even a family of X making 60-80k gets a subsidy. They would have to, or else they would have insurance anyway???

I wil pray for your health Doc. My uncle got forced into early retirement and too decided not to pay the $1000/month insurance, he then had a heartattack that first year and had like triple bypass. Now he is left with like $200k med bills that he basically pays a similar amount a month on???

 

[Car Doc]

Thanks for the kind words! I will be talking to my accountant when he has our taxes done for the year and see whats in store for us or me anyway I am stubborn and will fight it all the way just on principle I don't like socialism.

Actually I have an accident plan and a major medical plan thats is for cancer, heart attack those kind of things. In my line of work everything that happens to me is an accident of sorts or at least thats my story. Wont know what my fine will be for a little while yet if any but I wont be paying it if I can find a way out.

 

[clemsonfor]

at least u have the major stuf covered it sounds like, we can all find a way to pay for broken bones or a bad gall bladder but those bypasses are what can make u loose it all.

 

[Car Doc]

Yup it can happen any day to any of us all we can do is hope we stay well. I read this on a motorcycle guardian bell: "Don't ride faster than your angel can fly." I thought that was a good way to look at it.

 

[Ginormous]

Here are some pics of my 3pt frame/toolbar I welded together yesterday to mount my hillers on and also to use as a cultivator. I loosely attached a hiller and set an s-tine on the bar to help the imagination. I think I'm going to paint it first, so I don't want to attach things and then have to take them off to paint. It's still too early for much gardening here in Ohio, so I have some time.

 

[winston1]

Ginormous, that looks good. :thumbsup:

 

[Car Doc]

Can I borrow it while you are waiting on warm weather? :laughing:

Looks great man really simple and strong I like it I hope I can do something that nice! :thumbsup:

 

[Car Doc]

I got a couple used discs they are wore down to 19" I am real happy to have them to get going on this project. Its also getting ready to storm for a couple days with lows in the mid 20's highs in the 60's. Storm chasers from Okla are situated in north central KS since yesterday that is never a good sign.

Dang this Kansas weather cant get a break least I have a few extra days to build it thats the only good thing and some moisture but we don't need hail and tornadoes.

 

[M E Race]

Just wondering why you welded the tool bar to the 3ph frame? With clamps you can have different tool setups on toolbars and just unclamp one and clamp on the next without breaking setup an readjusting each tool. Saves time and work when you mount a simple pipe stand to support tool when unclamped

 

[Car Doc]

Are you referring to Ginormous? I cant answer for him but I plan on welding my front (main) tool bar to the 3pt hitch assy also it will be a lot easier than building brackets and drilling holes etc. I may use spreader bars and add a second tool bar later that will be all bolt on but I plan on doing pretty close to what he did if that answers your question? (I do follow your train of thought btw but its not how I intended to do this one fwtw)

 

[M E Race]

sorry about that, I got caught in the middle of thought and had to cut it short. What we did on a one row I-H was build the 3rd point hitch with clamps for the tool bar.That way we just mounted diff tools on separate tool bars with simple pipe stands to hold them upright when unhitched.It acts like a quick hitch, you drive away from one setup and back into the next with only installing the clamps. No more manhandling tools or needing a tape measure to put shanks or sweeps back in the right spaceing. It is much easier to slide a tool bar into a heavy tool than it is to slide a heavy tool onto a tool bar. Second thought was his welds look to be profesional so don't think I was badmouthing his work, but, without heat treating the bar after welding the weakest point on the bar is just outside the weld. If you were to hook a rock or some other immoveable object you could end up with a bent or broken bar. Then it's back to the drawing board. We had everthing from plow to planters to cultivators set up like this and could change tools in under 10 min.

 

[pbulling]

What type of toolbar clamps did you find? I'm looking for a bracket/clamp/sleeve to attach two 22" shanks, with Blanton style disks, to a 2 x 2" toolbar. The shanks are 1 3/16" diameter. Anyone know where I could order something online? Thanks much.
Paul

 

[M E Race]

We used a stock U bolts made to clamp 2 in. Springs to trailer axle. Square socket on 3 ph for bar rest in with 2 holes on each side for clamps.

 

[pbulling]

We used a stock U bolts made to clamp 2 in. Springs to trailer axle. Square socket on 3 ph for bar rest in with 2 holes on each side for clamps.

Sorry but I don't understand "Square socket on 3ph." See you're from Port Barre. My dad grew up pretty close to there in a little town called Palmetto.

The clamp I'm looking for is the square to round in the attached picture.

Paul

 

[M E Race]

My bad, what I was refering to was to clamp the tool bar to the 3ph adaptor rather than weld it solid. A square socket or notch to prevent bar from turning up or down under load.

 

[pbulling]

Got it. Thanks.

 

[M E Race]

If you look close at pics posted by Ginormous his setup looks to be about the best one I've seen for round to square. Simple design, and no welding required. The old I-H single row tractors, such as the A's and Super A's came mostly with a tool bar instead of 3ph. All the clamps that I've used or seen for them were cast iron and used a giant lug wrench to loosen or tighten. If you get around Palmetto drive toward Bayou Rouge and you will probably see one or two old tractors up in the weeds. You might just find some treasures.

 

[M E Race]

That's not a scrap yard, that's a flea market for tractor junkies! There is no such thing as scrap steel, only not currently being used stock.

 

[Car Doc]

I got a break yesterday up until someone stopped by for a few beers but I got the tool bar roughed in so I have the platform to work off of. I will hopefully have more time today to finish at least the hillers and attaching parts.

You can see how I marked the old discs with an old rotor that fit my hubs and simply spray painted thru the holes to transfer the exact hole spacing so I can plasma cut them clean.

I decided I was going to go ahead and weld a second bar on behind with a spreader bar between for no other reason than to make this thing sit upright on its own when its parked so I can just back up and quick hitch it. I am just thinking ahead and then I can build different tools as I dream them up.