Twose cambridge rolls

[Flat 10]

I should start a new thread really but is it possible to buy spacers to go on Cambridge rolls like cousins have that just slip over with out taking bearings off?

 

[Exfarmer]

I should start a new thread really but is it possible to buy spacers to go on Cambridge rolls like cousins have that just slip over with out taking bearings off?

Umm well Cousins perhaps! Used to be able to buy them for different sized bar from the likes of Spaldings

 

[Exfarmer]

To slip new washers is not difficult though, run the roll round in a circle to get the rings to one side. Jack up frame remove bearing slip on shims. Takes ten minutes

 

[jd24]

Seem to remember us having same problem and came up with a bit of a bodge switch bearing to other side so pressure is on good side weld up worn side jobs a good un

We ended up having to cut the axle and shorten it. We also had to take 1 ring off

 

[New Puritan]

Thanks all!

Sorry @Exfarmer - you are correct, it's imperial, it should be 6 3/4 inch not 17cm...

@fermec860 - brilliant tip - I have done as you suggested and reversed them, which should get me through the last few acres this season. Meanwhile, thank you @jd24 as I now have Agricast on the case looking for a replacement for me.

This forum is bloody handy.

 

[jd24]

Its like a farming interactive handbook

 

[Donkey Oaty]

If it's Orwell blue that would be well handy as I already have a tin! Obviously it doesn't need to be perfect (and it won't...), but I thought if I was going to buy some, I might as well get the right colour.

I can't believe that a Puritan would say that it doesn't have to be perfect!

 

[New Puritan]

@Donkey Oaty - my username is tongue in cheek, or at least sort of. There is very little here that anyone could describe as 'perfect'!

 

[New Puritan]

Just a follow up post to say there has been a happy ending. Thanks again to @jd24 for pointing me in the direction of Agricast. They were really helpful (and patient), and I have now replaced the bearings on the roller. Good for another 50 years now hopefully.

Now I just need to paint them with that old tin of blue Ransomes paint I've got somewhere (as discussed at the start of this thread) and they'll be quite flash...

 

[Exfarmer]

Just keep pumping the grease in but they will not last as long as the firsts as the shaft will be worn and the grease will not last long and let the dust in.
However depending on your age, I would suggest in 50 years time, you will be glad to park them in the nettles and replace them with a hydraulic folding set
At 30 I was quite happy them about but by the time I was 40 they had gone to the a scrapyard, thank you Mr Cousins

 

[New Puritan]

@Exfarmer - hmm. I'm 42 - but I started farming late, at 39. Perhaps I'll be done with them by the time I am about 80?

 

[Exfarmer]

@Exfarmer - hmm. I'm 42 - but I started farming late, at 39. Perhaps I'll be done with them by the time I am about 80?

If you have any sense, I would send them scrap now. Sorry but they are guaranteed to give you a bad back sooner or later. No offence intended!

 

[90hp farming]

Yocking up gang rolls is an art. Another one of those skills lost to modernity.
In a previous life, we used to have a big heavy set of three 10ft Rundle ring rolls on permanent `loan`.
By the end of the drilling season I was mustard at coupling them up. Used to carry a block of wood on the crawler to prop the drawbar of the `pup` whilst circling round with the front roll. Normally get her within two inches of the clevis hole then there was just enough slop in the wing arm to lift it and drop the pin in.
Doing this in the moonlight with the old BTD6 took a real man!

( I will add that I now have a hydraulic set - lots of little fields and roadwork )

 

[Exfarmer]

Yocking up gang rolls is an art. Another one of those skills lost to modernity.
In a previous life, we used to have a big heavy set of three 10ft Rundle ring rolls on permanent `loan`.
By the end of the drilling season I was mustard at coupling them up. Used to carry a block of wood on the crawler to prop the drawbar of the `pup` whilst circling round with the front roll. Normally get her within two inches of the clevis hole then there was just enough slop in the wing arm to lift it and drop the pin in.
Doing this in the moonlight with the old BTD6 took a real man!

( I will add that I now have a hydraulic set - lots of little fields and roadwork )

Been there, done that, pull in field do a loop. Drop off roll another loop drop the other just 20 feet away then back up to hitch both, its that last little bit , on a hot day, bending over and the last little push, and that little click as the back goes out

 

[New Puritan]

Ha - @Exfarmer - they're too useful for scrap, yet. Plus I am only on a little farm, no roads to take them down, and wide gateways. They live on some hard standing where manually rolling them about to hitch up isn't too bad, but get towed to the fields in gang formation. As things are, I can live with them.

 

[Exfarmer]

Ha - @Exfarmer - they're too useful for scrap, yet. Plus I am only on a little farm, no roads to take them down, and wide gateways. They live on some hard standing where manually rolling them about to hitch up isn't too bad, but get towed to the fields in gang formation. As things are, I can live with them.

I guess far more gateways were widened to accomodate Cambridge rolls than wide Combines

 

[fermec860]

I guess far more gateways were widened to accomodate Cambridge rolls than wide Combines

Hyd fold set make life a lot easier with away ground and going out after tea in the dark stil have gang rolls in the nettles used to take four pallet boards made life a lot easier younger then though and seem to remember pushing gate posts over trying to squeeze through still at school then though

 

[e3120]

Valuable couple of days in the workshop a few years ago. 8ft pups were no fun.

 

[New Puritan]

Valuable couple of days in the workshop a few years ago. 8ft pups were no fun.

Have you got any more photos of that please? And is it just the back one that has the extra weight from the stones?

 

[e3120]

Just this one I'm afraid. The stone tray was just stuck on as it was cut off the front one and blocking the workshop door. They've gone now in favour of a modern set with paddles/loads more weight.