Xmas breakdown

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Straw bedder floor chain has decided to jump on the sprockets not the end of the world but why holidays or weekends bedded by hand this morning till I get time to realign
They always do. Had to dig a coupe of tonne of silo out of ours the other weekend as it did the same, our own fault really for not checking the chain. Cut a link out and re tighten and good to go. ordered some u bolts, bones (for the slats), blades (£12 a pair!) are already in and she’s running sweet.

Don‘t know which make you’ve got but watch those u bolts that joins the chain/slats as they give a lot of slack and crack when they wear.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
New one: pipe blown on the jcb bendy, the teleram pipe. used a screw in hyd pipe connector and a trailer tipping pipe to make a proper bodge until someone comes back to work to make a new one.
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Had ours today. Mother and fathers BMW (potential disaster) looked as though a mouse had chewed through most of the sound proofing on top the engine and one of the fuel return lines between the injectors. Fortunately we have a supply of JD fuel pipe which is the same bore.

Disaster averted. Would never have thought that would happen, car is used most days.

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Last night fitted new front bearings to the FRONT axles of the skidsteer

Scraped out 2 sheds this morning... Big Crunch a REAR outside wheel bearing had collapsed and likely took the chain out with it making it 3 wheel drive with a very wobbly wheel :confused::scratchhead::cry::cry::cry:
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Last night fitted new front bearings to the FRONT axles of the skidsteer

Scraped out 2 sheds this morning... Big Crunch a REAR outside wheel bearing had collapsed and likely took the chain out with it making it 3 wheel drive with a very wobbly wheel :confused::scratchhead::cry::cry::cry:

The feckers know it’s Christmas somehow!
 
The feckers know it’s Christmas somehow!
The front ones don’t last long because the bucket I have is to big really :ROFLMAO:

buts it’s 7000 hours and first time a back one has gone and I no for a fact nowhere will have the correct oil seal in stock because I had to order in the front one last week :cry:
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
The front ones don’t last long because the bucket I have is to big really :ROFLMAO:

buts it’s 7000 hours and first time a back one has gone and I no for a fact nowhere will have the correct oil seal in stock because I had to order in the front one last week :cry:
Back to the brush and shovel/wheelbarrow for a few days then
 

aled1590

Member
Location
N.wales
Luckily last week (or unlucky) the boom on my merlo completely snapped. By the end of the day it was welded back together by an excellent welder/engineer im friends with
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