What are you working on today, TFF?

[box]

The other day, I noticed the king pin on the Explorer was looking a bit poorly, so I thought I’d better replace it before something bad happened.

Doing this job outside, of course, because the baler is hogging the workshop, like it has for the last few months.

I‘ve run it up, given it a grease up and I can’t find anything wrong with it (yet)……so why was it so cheap? I guess I’ll replace the missing pickup tines and put some grass it front of it.

 

[glasshouse]

The other day, I noticed the king pin on the Explorer was looking a bit poorly, so I thought I’d better replace it before something bad happened.
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Doing this job outside, of course, because the baler is hogging the workshop, like it has for the last few months.

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I‘ve run it up, given it a grease up and I can’t find anything wrong with it (yet)……so why was it so cheap? I guess I’ll replace the missing pickup tines and put some grass it front of it.

How cheap?

 

[box]

$14,000 NZD including GST.

 

[glasshouse]

$14,000 NZD including GST.

For what?

 

[box]

RF135 Balepack.

 

[Robt]

changed the coolant on this to waterless to help on low speed trails. Wheel off for new tires

 

[box]

Another day, another problem.

I bought a tractor the other day, I went to pull the loader off and I found the stands were missing. The fold down bits are there, but the supports are gone. The loader hasn’t been off for a while I’d say, so goodness knows where they’ve got to.

The local Sigma dealer wanted about 800 bucks for them, so I whipped these up with the plasma cutter……they should work ok?

 

[box]

Got a few more hours in the workshop today, giving the "new" 130 a bit of a tickle up before I put it to work.

Screwed the steering stops in a bit

The rubber stopper that pushes on the handbrake warning light switch had fallen to bits and disappeared. I priced up a new one, 30 something dollars and had to be ordered in.....so I made one out of a block of wood and glued it in

Put in a new aircon thermostat

And I got underneath and replaced some worn/missing gear lever bushes, which miraculously gave me 1st and 2nd gear again. Not really sure how the last owner was driving it, finding gears was like stirring porridge. It's still not great, but it's useable now at least.

I also got the temp gauge going again (fixed a broken wire and relaced the faulty temp sensor with a Mitsubishi one I had lying around).

Like the baler, I haven't really figured out why it was so cheap. There must be something major wrong with it?

There's still heaps to do on it, but at least it's ready to put in a days work now (I think). Got about 25ha of silage to mow tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.

 

[Gerbert]

Well having driven sames, I know why it was cheap .
Just messing with you, but they are not everyones cup of tea.

 

[box]

I liken them to Alfa Romeos. Not particularly good, not particularly bad......just something a little bit different, with a cult-like following.

4 wheel drive, 4 wheel braking and 4 wheel diff lock - they do everything I need them to do.

 

[box]

Clutch cable broke on the Yamaha (again). Good thing it did because the chain was so loose, it was about ready to throw itself off. The chain was quite dry too. I’m sure I only oiled it not long ago Probably hasn’t seen an oil can since the last time the clutch cable snapped.

New one fitted, I figured I may as well refit the front mud flap that got ripped off by an asshole bull. Then I thought, why not fit a bigger one? It’ll save my feet and legs getting covered in muddy sh!t when it’s raining.

Now I just need a bit of rain to try it out. It’s supposed to be raining today (hence no mowing silage), but, well…..it’s not.

 

[box]

So the “new” tractor went well, mowed the silage and didn’t go wrong, nor did it burn any oil or coolant (which is good news because I suspected it may have had a porous liner). Another piece of the puzzle has fallen in place, I’ve got a cheap reliable mower tractor.

Today I finally got around to mounting and wiring in the baler monitor, got that side of things working and ran the baler through its paces through the controller. Sadly there‘s no grass to put through it at the moment, I did have a bale to wrap though so popped that into the wrapper and ran it up, no issues so far

 

[Will 1594]

lent hedge cutter out for doing a ditch to find drains
came back with rotor bearing gone
been that hot , it fused it to shaft
so had to turn it off
and nearly finished the scrap heap tine drill .
new edge on a small bucket and brackets on so it’s dedicated bucket for brush

 

[box]

How big is the lathe? Looks like a decent setup.

 

[benny6910]

Finally got around to making the pallet tines fit on the digger today, had to cut the brackets and re weld at the right centres. Happy with the end results.

 

[bkg]

Finally got around to making the pallet tines fit on the digger today, had to cut the brackets and re weld at the right centres. Happy with the end results.
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Done a good job has, Avo

 

[benny6910]

Done a good job has, Avo

No I’ve managed this on my own, he’s busy building my roof extension

 

[Sausage]

Rather than buying more forks why not make a digger to loader adapter.

 

[benny6910]

Rather than buying more forks why not make a digger to loader adapter.

Forks were cheep enough to cut up and make fit I thought. Won’t use them much but will be handy.

 

[hendrebc]

Sometimes I wish I had never taken an interest in spanners so i wouldn't be expected to do sh!t like this at 5am in the rain on shitty concrete outside the cattle shed.

Then I remember how much mechanics cost and that this exhaust cost less than a weeks finance on a new one and then I don't feel so bad about it.