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[Egon]

Got careless and broke the stabilizer hydraulic cylinder on the backhoe.

Thinking I can maybe have it welded back up.???

Pictures show bent flanges for the inboard end of the stabilizer and the broken cylinder.

 

[Thomas]

OUCH. ..must have been real hard pack snow drift.

I've seen good welder make such repair to a cylinder..not bent,straight break..little heat w/heavy hammer flanges should be good as new.

 

[Egon]

It got broken out at the play-farm while it was digging out stumps along side the access road.

Our snow fell last night and disappeared this morning.

 

[Thomas]

"Our snow fell last night and disappeared this morning."

..and you live in snow zone to boot..figure the odds.

 

[dfkrug]

Thinking I can maybe have it welded back up.

What a bizarre break, EGON. Must have been a crappy weld. By
all means, weld it up. That will be easier than bending back the
bent parts. The spray of oil must have been dramatic!

 

[Egon]

No oil spray. the weld was OK. The pin holding the stabilizer to the sub frame broke. It showed signs of previously having started to break.

Heated the flanges up and straightened them. Pulled the cylinder apart and had the ram straightened and then the cylinder end was welded back on. All done this morning for $168.00.

A new cylinder was $750.00

 

[Thomas]

"All done this morning for $168.00.
A new cylinder was $750.00 "

Santa elf treated you well.

 

[Egon]

Santa Lives in the Local Shop I frequent. He looked at the cylinder and said "I can fix that for a whole lot less" and he did!

He has some pretty fair presses to work with for straightening the ram.

 

[tugboat-2]

As they say in hockey: "WoW, a sensational save!!! Well now Egon, you can go back and apologize to the ladies, for the things said in haste just after the break and they should forgive you as at least "some" of the words are sort of expected on such an occasion!!

Can't believe your snow disappeared so quick. Ours has not quit in 3 days and if the wind would quit I'd go out and plow. Yes I have a nice warm Cab but its almost sensless to plow when the wind just drifts it in behind you. (unless it gets tooo deep) So doggoned cold out there I just put my 4x4 truck to work if I need to get in and out. A tractor-trailer turned around in my lane and took out my mailbox, snapped the post off at ground.

Not fit for man nor beast to go out and rig a temporary one. Wife's hollerin at me cuz she wants mail,....ho-hum. Spose be nice tomorrow, (Sat) so may get out and get things done,...gotta keep the peace . . . . . . . . .


OK,...got that off my chest!! NOW,...glad you're back in business Egon.

CHEERS!
. . tug

 

[dfkrug]

Well, EGON, nobody should have to pay $750 for a new cylinder. The
dipper cyl in the photo is from a Praire Dog hoe like mine. It buckled when
the whole weight of the tractor fel on the retracted dipper. This is
a 2.5x16.3x1.25" cylinder and I got a new one from the maker for $350.
The owner went to a hyd shop and was quoted $380 to do a new one
from scratch, unpainted. If it were mine, I would have bought a new cyl
from SurpCntr for about $175 and welded on the correct cross tubes.

New cyls from most tractor dealers are insanely priced. Even if nothing is
salvagable from the damaged cyl (as in this case), making a cyl from
scratch is heaps less.

 

[Egon]

Tug; overnight we had a skiff or slightly more of snow fall. So now we got snow again!

dfkrug; it's obvious I'm going to have to locate a source for cylinders. I'll have to ask and find out where they are. The Parts man at the dealership did give me one source in the Halifax area but there should be some closer. Thanks for the advice.

 

[dfkrug]

dfkrug; it's obvious I'm going to have to locate a source for cylinders. I'll have to ask and find out where they are.

It just kills me when these cyls gets shipped. They are usually poorly
packaged, so they often come out of their box. A few weeks ago, the
cyl I ordered did not arrive....but the box did! It was cushioned on the sides
fine, but the end went thru the side, probably on the first or second
toss by the UPS warehousemen. All it takes is taping some cardboard on
the ends....I sure wish they would do it.

The best deals are still from SurpCntr.

 

[dcyrilc]

It just kills me when these cyls gets shipped. They are usually poorly
packaged, so they often come out of their box. A few weeks ago, the
cyl I ordered did not arrive....but the box did! It was cushioned on the sides
fine, but the end went thru the side, probably on the first or second
toss by the UPS warehousemen. All it takes is taping some cardboard on
the ends....I sure wish they would do it.

The best deals are still from SurpCntr.

I hope you pointed out to the UPS delivery driver that something was missing!

 

[pat32rf]

Egon- Its been a while since I've been to your end of the world but around here the logging trucks all have hydraulic components. They know where to go to get parts in a hurry at a reasonable price. Our local machine shop rebuilds and fabricates cylinders. Failing that Princess Auto but delivery might take a week or so.
PS- Where is ERIN? Our snow hasn't stopped in over a week. Almost 20" in my bush....

 

[Egon]

Pat, we have lots of logging trucks around here. The shop I go to has the knowledge of how to do it or where to send me locally.

Thanks.

 

[tugboat-2]

HEY PAT :...."Erin" is 20 minutes north-east of Guelph,..20 min. north west of Georgetown,...20 minutes south-west of Orangeville and ten minutes north of Acton and I'm real close to the JD dealer at 124 and 125. Big "horse" country many stables etc.

I know roughly where you are,..we used to camp at Anstruther Lake years ago.

Still snowing lightly here but the wind has dropped considerably thanks!!!

Merry Christmas up there!!
. . tug