Brakes on these loaders?

[Driver]

Loads of these machines pop up on done deal at very handy money from time to time. They nearly always say no brakes though? Is it almost impossible to get the brakes going in them? They are dry disk brakes.

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A cheap loader would be handy to be able to handle a big 6ft shear grab in the winter. Have the normal loader tractor and shear grab as back up if it gave up.

The problem with the second one above is that the steel brake pipes have rotted out and been cut off. Would it be easy to get brake pipes made up and the calipers working again?

 

[Abacus]

brake pipes are farley good to do with a brake pipe flange tool set to make your own . Caliper seals and the like may be harder to find

 

[Driver]

How many more parts could be needed to get as far as the caliper. So you press the brake peddle and what happens after this for these dry disk loaders?

 

[Abacus]

Its no s lot different than car but the servo may be air or hydraulic asist it may even be vac

 

[clbarclay]

We used to have a few Michigan 35 on the farm when I was a kid. I don't know the half of the issues, but they basically never had working brakes. Essential they were worn out. I suspect there was more than one thing wrong with them and would have needed lot of parts replacing.

I remember one was "repaired" with a landrover master cylinder which needed double pumping for anything to happen and didn't last that long.

In practice we just didn't use brakes. Flick them into reverse and accelerating slowed them down as fast as you liked and if the ground wasn't level, you always loaded up hill, balancing the revs to hold it still. It was a different era and the transmissions on them were far more robust than the brakes.