Subsoiler build

Jim Timber · Apr 15, 2016

Thanks!

You mean like this?

It's hosted on Photobucket and embedded as HTML code instead of uploaded to TBN's server. I have this build on 3 sites, so it's a lot easier to just cut and paste the whole works over instead of uploading all the pics to the different servers 3 times each.

Sure is windy out there to be painting, but I don't have room for this thing inside.

Mysfyt · Apr 15, 2016

OK, thanks! Makes it a lot easier and fun to follow a build thread with those large embedded pictures.

Finally got some weather where a guy can paint outside, right?

Jim Timber · Apr 15, 2016

Yep, I don't like the way TBN's hosting works either. It's not as smooth as just reading and looking and reading when you have to click on the pics and then scroll through them to figure out which is which. The down side is that if I ever have a problem with photobucket this thread becomes worthless.

Being able to open the doors out in the shop is great. Being able to go up North and play in the woods is even better. I have my taxes, a customer's machine to finish, and a doc appt Wed, then I'm outta here!

Xfaxman · Apr 16, 2016

Mysfyt said:
OK, thanks! Makes it a lot easier and fun to follow a build thread with those large embedded pictures.
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I agree on viewing a thread with the large embedded pictures. :thumbsup:

The problem with offsite photo hosting is at some point in the future the pictures can be unavailable.

Here is his picture posted full size from my computer using this procedure: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/photos/107314-photo-posting-how-3.html?highlight=#post3967120

Jim Timber · Apr 16, 2016

Too slooooow.

Jim Timber · Apr 22, 2016

Got it put together yesterday, but I've been working on the power SSQA upgrade and parked is as far as the subsoiler got.

Jim Timber · May 2, 2016

Put the SS to work Saturday.

First cut (hard to drive straight looking behind you)

Found some rocks

Lots of roots

Several stumps

Which eventually bent my cutting point

But that didn't seem to slow it down all that much. Then I tried tugging an oak stump that wasn't ground down, and wasn't all that rotten, and it broke the blade at the lower bolt hole. After that it didn't dive well at all, so I gave up trying.

I managed to bend my hydraulic top link cylinder eye during the pulling, so I'll need to fix that and as such, I left the SS up North this week. I'm probably going to get a ripper tooth for a excavator bucket to replace the cheap cutting edge. I had a feeling that one needed more support, more mass, or both.

And some action footage in 3rd gear:

I could've gone faster but I was on trails barely wide enough for the rear tires, so piloting the machine dictated the ground speed.

Mysfyt · May 3, 2016

A few tweaks and you've got another nice addition to the family. Looks great!

Jim Timber · May 3, 2016

Thanks!

I'm going to see if Zeigler has any used excavator teeth I can grab, and if not I've got a good bit of 1/2" AR400 drops from cutting out IPSC targets that I can use to fab up a new one.

sixdogs · May 3, 2016

Excellent work.

Jim Timber · May 3, 2016

sixdogs said:
Excellent work.

Thanks!

shovelrider · May 4, 2016

Very nice build, will be following ur builds. Keep em comin

Kyle_in_Tex · May 4, 2016

shovelrider said:
Very nice build, will be following ur builds. Keep em comin

Ditto!

Jim Timber · May 4, 2016

Stopped by the local Cat dealer hoping to do some dumpster diving, and instead was given these after I explained what'd happened and what I was looking for to fix it.

sixdogs · May 5, 2016

Jim Timber said:
Stopped by the local Cat dealer hoping to do some dumpster diving, and instead was given these after I explained what'd happened and what I was looking for to fix it.

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You would be shocked how much those things cost new. $200 to $300 each is a wild guess, maybe more.

jacain · May 5, 2016

Nice fab work and nice welds! Btw, do you ever mess with spray transfer on the mig?

Jim Timber · May 5, 2016

SD, I'm sure they're north of $100, but even a whole ripper shank for a D5 is only $300 (which I thought was remarkably reasonable considering it's only $2/lb). I was offered more points, but I wasn't there to take advantage of them - I really only wanted a peek in their scrap dumpster to see if there was one I could weld up. :laughing: I didn't even get dirty.

Jacain, first, thanks! As to spray: I have in the past but it's been several years for my personal stuff. Getting up into globular is as hot as I run most of the time. I've done pulsed spray at a job briefly, but not enough to be any kind of expert on it.

I still have my 98/2 bottle, but it's stuffed in a corner behind a bunch of brake rotors I've been holding onto for target stand bases (I should clean those out and put them in a ballast box). One of these days I'll mess around with the pulser on my MIG and work on that. I've always been more of a "I know I can make a good weld with short arc, so I'm using that" kind of guy. Getting fancy isn't as important as a good job that'll hold up to me.