Tractor backhoe - homemade

[BFreaky]

Can't complain for now. And yours?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I am blessed, although I would have a hard time getting my wife to clean up welds or even step foot in my garage for anything like that. But she brings me good coffee, and tends to the kids.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When a person reads home built they don’t usually expect to see this quality of work, I’ve seen my fair share of home made/home built attachments and this is far from what I was expecting to see.
Again job(s) well done!

Jim.

Kind of like people who say "I'm building a house" and when you ask, you find they have a builder building it, and they are watching. When i say I'm building it, I'm building it.

I could never build a backhoe, nice job. Well above my talent.

 

[mpsmith60]

Wow! Very impressive! You've got some serious skills and that thing looks like it will be really heavy duty! Looking forward to following your progress!

 

[BFreaky]

Thanks. Well it has to be up to the job. You can't pull stumps or roots and do any serious digging with a light duty machine... this machine is generally not gonna be as heavy as rk 525.

 

[Oldpath05]

Made threads in those holes...it took me an hour, 22 holes in total, M20. Hinges welded in place and a little fit test...

How is the tap size change on this threading tool or is one size fits most?

 

[Code54]

Looks great!

 

[KubotainNH]

You never cease to amaze me with your work.

 

[BFreaky]

Oldpath, if you ask about the holder, I had to weld the handle because my original adjustable holder can't open up wide enough to catch M20, max M16. I have to buy a bigger holder. So since this thread is done in 3 passes this was the first and hardest one so I needed long handle to make it. For the 2nd and 3rd pass I managed to hold the tool with a wrench because it takes far less power to do it

 

[Oldpath05]

Oldpath, if you ask about the holder, I had to weld the handle because my original adjustable holder can't open up wide enough to catch M20, max M16. I have to buy a bigger holder. So since this thread is done in 3 passes this was the first and hardest one so I needed long handle to make it. For the 2nd and 3rd pass I managed to hold the tool with a wrench because it takes far less power to do it

Over here thats called red-neck engineering, I can relate to that. Isn't it funny sometimes most times, an answer will just create another question, I've done some 1" tapping and I did it in ONE pass, so why what's this three pass deal to make threads for a bolt?

Curious, I'm asking this at 4:52 pm Sat., wondering if answer will correlate the time posted