The Official Farming Thread...

[davidwyby]

I spent a lot of time on the ole girl when I was young. One day it started smoking real bad all of a sudden. Been sitting since, a few years. Maintenance mech isn’t too busy so we are gonna get it going. Brakes never worked. Grandpa asked, “What you need brakes for when you have a drag (currently uninstalled) and a bucket?”. We have a few acres of dirt around the shop, use it to keep the forklifts from rattling our teeth out.

 

[davidwyby]

Been using a large or small drag behind my trucks since but the tractor is handier for some areas cuz the drag lifts, plus can move fill dirt.

 

[jakethesnake]

Pictures don’t do it much justice this is the corn the wind and hail tore up. Stalks look like an S

 

[davidwyby]

Ok, farmers can fix anything…this farmer’s employees keep bending the shaft on his cylinder that raises and lowers the axle. Solution?

 

[ajschainsaws]

Don't see many of these around here

 

[ajschainsaws]

Last field on a farm with hardly a straight run all twists and turns

 

[jakethesnake]

Last field on a farm with hardly a straight run all twists and turns

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You certainly do nice work aj

 

[ajschainsaws]

You certainly do nice work aj

thanks appreciate it , we tend too go bigger grade fence posts and make it look substantial and take time to finish off well , as there’s quite a bit of competition around with High tech gear and tracked post bangers but they don’t like fiddly small jobs and
Doing village and town gardens which is a plus for me

 

[JimBear]

It was a tough day today with the rake, also had a bearing crap out on the baler while assessing which bearing was smoking I noticed the weld around where the cylinder pin attaches to the lift gate was all cracked out.

By the looks of the tube, it had been broke on the bottom side for awhile. Me hitting the ditch just polished it off. Fortunately all the parts were at local dealers.

 

[jakethesnake]

It was a tough day today with the rake, also had a bearing crap out on the baler while assessing which bearing was smoking I noticed the weld around where the cylinder pin attaches to the lift gate was all cracked out.

By the looks of the tube, it had been broke on the bottom side for awhile. Me hitting the ditch just polished it off. Fortunately all the parts were at local dealers.

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Yep. Happens

 

[JimBear]

Yep. Happens

Chase’s wife just wanted to buy a new rake, I told her I thought the parts would be cheaper; if they were available…

 

[jakethesnake]

Right nice stuff here fellas

 

[jakethesnake]

Next stop

 

[crowslayer17]

Ok, farmers can fix anything…this farmer’s employees keep bending the shaft on his cylinder that raises and lowers the axle. Solution?

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I'd like to see more pictures of the whole thing.
When does the cylinder bend?
Does the shaft turn freely as in it's not bent and is it greased.
Driving too fast on rough ground.
Could put in a cylinder with a bigger shaft or add some eyes to pin it to take the load off the cylinder.
I would think if it is the correct cylinder something has to be binding or they are running it while traveling on rough ground or just going too fast.
Also is it on correctly? The does the eye for the axle go on top or bottom? It's not binding with the yoke of the piston by chance?
Just throwing out some ideas.

 

[davidwyby]

I'd like to see more pictures of the whole thing.
When does the cylinder bend?
Does the shaft turn freely as in it's not bent and is it greased.
Driving too fast on rough ground.
Could put in a cylinder with a bigger shaft or add some eyes to pin it to take the load off the cylinder.
I would think if it is the correct cylinder something has to be binding or they are running it while traveling on rough ground or just going too fast.
Also is it on correctly? The does the eye for the axle go on top or bottom? It's not binding with the yoke of the piston by chance?
Just throwing out some ideas.

Yeah, I should have included more. It’s not factory/engineered for one thing. It was sent in for us to re-engineer. The cylinder pulls back on the arm and then they lock the arm in place with a pin. They keep either bending the cylinder or breaking the pin. The axle is down for traveling, up in the fields. It’s a corrugator.

I think I have the solution figured…

 

[jakethesnake]

I tore up a 400$ belt yearday Playing around in green corn while it was sprinkling cause of that hurricane creeping up here. Now I’ve got that to fix.


meh. Happens

 

[ajschainsaws]

I tore up a 400$ belt yearday Playing around in green corn while it was sprinkling cause of that hurricane creeping up here. Now I’ve got that to fix.


meh. Happens

yep all these things will try the patience of a saint

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Been a while since I've done any planting, but here's my Winter Collard Patch 2022!

Got some Purple Top Turnip Greens, Georgia Collards and Spinach sown.
Looking fer a Nice Harvest!!
May need to grab some more seed...got kinda heavy handed while sowing!

 

[davidwyby]

I'd like to see more pictures of the whole thing.
When does the cylinder bend?
Does the shaft turn freely as in it's not bent and is it greased.
Driving too fast on rough ground.
Could put in a cylinder with a bigger shaft or add some eyes to pin it to take the load off the cylinder.
I would think if it is the correct cylinder something has to be binding or they are running it while traveling on rough ground or just going too fast.
Also is it on correctly? The does the eye for the axle go on top or bottom? It's not binding with the yoke of the piston by chance?
Just throwing out some ideas.

 

[hoskvarna]

Looks good now [emoji106]


Sent from the Hoskey Hill country