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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
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- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
Kinda off-topic but this seems like a good thread to post this in for someone to find in the future.
Here's the rear forks assembly I built, it's the blue part.
In this photo, I'm carrying a back blade ('Carrington Terracer') that came with the first YM186D ten years ago. I hauled the back blade up to the shop to see if I could modify it a little to use with the q-hitch. No, impossible. A second set of 3-point pins on it would have to be so high that I couldn't lift the blade off the ground. New pins much farther forward might work.
One thing I learned using the blade: Adjusting the 3-point doesn't do much to make the left or right end of the blade dig in, to crown a road. I will need to put ballast on the side that I want to dig in.
So far I've used this toy only a few minutes, over several years. Anybody need a back blade?

Another photo of the Carrington Terracer. Ain't she purty?
Ok, carry on.
Here's the rear forks assembly I built, it's the blue part.
In this photo, I'm carrying a back blade ('Carrington Terracer') that came with the first YM186D ten years ago. I hauled the back blade up to the shop to see if I could modify it a little to use with the q-hitch. No, impossible. A second set of 3-point pins on it would have to be so high that I couldn't lift the blade off the ground. New pins much farther forward might work.
One thing I learned using the blade: Adjusting the 3-point doesn't do much to make the left or right end of the blade dig in, to crown a road. I will need to put ballast on the side that I want to dig in.
So far I've used this toy only a few minutes, over several years. Anybody need a back blade?

Another photo of the Carrington Terracer. Ain't she purty?
Ok, carry on.