I know we can cut small and big simple gears like marine and turbine stuff. The gearcutting outfits i've spoken to say automotive gears are specialist and the heat treating too critical. Happy to be proven wrong if someone in this country can do it..
They might cut gears for a mf35 or a crash box zetor crystal.. Seriously specialist job making synchro hubs to exact oem spec hardness ect.. When I asked about, was told no-one in the uk had the gear to replicate the german gearbox components.
You can weld the door frame. You can't repair worn synchro parts and shafts in the gearbox. You can't fit tired parts back into the transmission and expect to do another 10k hours of hard work.. Parts must be available at half reasonable prices or the brand fails long term.
With our dealers charging £80+ an hour and absolutely ripped off for parts, running to big hours might not save much money? Recently priced a l/h door frame for Bald Ricks old Deutz 6.61 I bought off him.. £4500!!
If having a trailer built I'd spec the following
Heaviest commercial brakes possible (150mm wide shoes?)
Good axles (granning) not chinese
Widest mini super singles, duals just ball up with mud
Axle length specced so tyres run right to edge of trailer
Spring packs set as wide as possible which...
The dozer and track shovel really is an art.. you can't see what's hoping on, it's all done by feel. By the time you feel it in the seat, it's too late.. Hats off to the skilled men that built the infrastructure we have now with these machines.
Hmm, Dozers and track shovels are a very skilled job to make a proper job of smoothing out a road. You are much more likely to doze out a trough which then fills with water and potholes straight away. I can't do anything accurate with the shovel (apologies if you can) but get on much better with...
Just like Cat.. Probably the toughest machine in the world now spoilt by cheaper components getting fitted to increase profit margin. It's probably an alloy rad which on the old ones was copper and saw the machine out.. Hopefully no major bits go wrong but the little bits are just so annoying.
Local contractor had a Targo, Had a few issues but probably down to previous owner. Much better to drive than JCB with it's light servo joystick versus jcb's stiff numb controller..
We don't know the expected work really or hours intended. An old Matbro with sound engine and trans might be more than good enough.. There was a telestar advertised recently with genuine 3k hours for that sort of money. He didn't say he needed a bluetooth radio and aircon!
Finally got the jig borer fired up to bore out bucket bosses. Made quick work of it, but a few issues to sort out before can use it seriously. Should be a handy tool.. Will try and remember a photo tomorrow
We had them too. They were good but the Granit ones are just as good if not better, they have a good range of sizes and specs.Getting the best fitting one is the trick
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