Rod in Forfar
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- Joined
- Apr 10, 2010
- Messages
- 568
- Location
- Forfar, Ontario, Canada
- Tractor
- 1960 Massey Ferguson 35 (Perkins), 1995 TAFE 35DI, 1980 Bolens G174, 2005 Kubota B7510, 2020 Kioti Mechron 2200ps UTV Troy-Bilt Horse 2 1988 Case IH 255 4WD with loader and cab
The one I bought used from a farm contractor in the Ottawa area was advertised on Kijiji as a Wallenstein 4" pto chipper, and he had it set up for the same Kubota model as mine, a B7510. He said it worked well so I made the deal. The chipper did fit my tractor well and I had a great time chipping brush until the plate beneath the rotating spout became a problem. It shattered. Turns out it was made of black plexiglass.
I downloaded the Wallenstein BX42S Chipper Parts Manual, located the replacement parts, and ordered them from my local dealer. They arrived and I bolted the black metal pieces on. No problem.
I had paid more than the new price for a well-worn counterfeit, but it worked well. A niggling problem was that despite all of the decals on the chipper, it had no serial number.
I decided that I'd better check the torque of the nuts. The bearing nuts were all of different torques. One of the studs holding a cutter was loose, and another was sufficiently stripped to be questionable. A couple of others were way too tight.
It was time to turn the knives over, so last week I ordered replacement nuts from the catalogue. They came in promptly, but they were too large. The manual describes Z71372G8 as Hex Bolt 3/8NF X 5/8 G8, but Wallenstein sent bolts which fit a 14 mm socket and measure 10mm at the points where I measured 13 mm and 8mm on the one I took out. When my dealer called the manufacturer, their parts guy insisted that they had sent the right bolts.
So I need to find some bolts which fit. On the other hand, the counterfeit has done a pile of work over the last two years. I maintain a large yard and 14 acres of black walnut trees, and do a lot of chipping.
But still...
I downloaded the Wallenstein BX42S Chipper Parts Manual, located the replacement parts, and ordered them from my local dealer. They arrived and I bolted the black metal pieces on. No problem.
I had paid more than the new price for a well-worn counterfeit, but it worked well. A niggling problem was that despite all of the decals on the chipper, it had no serial number.
I decided that I'd better check the torque of the nuts. The bearing nuts were all of different torques. One of the studs holding a cutter was loose, and another was sufficiently stripped to be questionable. A couple of others were way too tight.
It was time to turn the knives over, so last week I ordered replacement nuts from the catalogue. They came in promptly, but they were too large. The manual describes Z71372G8 as Hex Bolt 3/8NF X 5/8 G8, but Wallenstein sent bolts which fit a 14 mm socket and measure 10mm at the points where I measured 13 mm and 8mm on the one I took out. When my dealer called the manufacturer, their parts guy insisted that they had sent the right bolts.
So I need to find some bolts which fit. On the other hand, the counterfeit has done a pile of work over the last two years. I maintain a large yard and 14 acres of black walnut trees, and do a lot of chipping.
But still...
