Xmas breakdown

Had a call this morning from a young employee "there's been a disaster", you can imagine my first thoughts- tractor and feeder turned over, loads of pigs out or an isolated tornado has wrecked the arcs.
All he'd done is leave the tractor lights on and flattened the battery so it wouldn't start this morning. Easily sorted, a cock up rather than a disaster. If that's the worst thing we've done very well.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
My turn this morning. Who's idea was it to hold on pto shaft with bolts!

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Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Nightmare....what tractor is it on? Is there dowels as well looking at the picture?

Its a t2 6480, luckily they all came out okay. Dare say they must have slackened before they broke. Strangely had enough spares in toolbox. Put them in with locktite so hopefully won't slacken and break again.
 

sawdust

Member
Location
Argyll
Its a t2 6480, luckily they all came out okay. Dare say they must have slackened before they broke. Strangely had enough spares in toolbox. Put them in with locktite so hopefully won't slacken and break again.
In cases like that, use Nordlock washers before using Loctite, they need allegedly 3 time the torque to slacken as were tightened too.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Looks like you may have a oil leak going by that photo
Yeah its the bedder tractor, doesn't get a lot of TLC. Need to get it and bedder in workshop on a wet day and go over it all. Slip clutch on pto needs adjusted. Its kicking in too hard which will be linked to them slackening I'm sure.

Do you know how to calibrate pto clutch on t2 6480?

I'm just bedding everyday over xmas, new year. Normally away doing something else.

First day i was on it, light was on for air filter and it was running hot. Wonder why!?

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e3120

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I would ask my self ,why have they come slack ? , and work back to solve the issue
A couple of hours on a little kuhn rake with a sticky pto shaft was enough to slacken mine. I may have, Err, locktited them in 3 years ago :nailbiting:. It's also the bedder tractor, so has done many thousand pto starts since then.

If @Chae1 you find any way to calibrate the pto, I would be all ears, as this one is very harsh and needs 2 goes. I suspect it may have been doctored in the past to give an immediate start. Is it any gentler using the fender switch? I reckon my one (6470 t2) is.
 

Speedstar

Member
Location
Scottish Borders
Yeah its the bedder tractor, doesn't get a lot of TLC. Need to get it and bedder in workshop on a wet day and go over it all. Slip clutch on pto needs adjusted. Its kicking in too hard which will be linked to them slackening I'm sure.

Do you know how to calibrate pto clutch on t2 6480?

I'm just bedding everyday over xmas, new year. Normally away doing something else.

First day i was on it, light was on for air filter and it was running hot. Wonder why!?

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We have T2 6480 on the bedder as well,you need a man with a laptop to soft start your PTO ,did ours years ago and is good
 

dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
Sounds like we're not the only ones!
Christmas Eve girlfriends Corsa flicked plastic piece of gear mechanism off, 2nd time in as many days, I thought it would hold out 2 weeks!!! What a job but parts ok!
X mas day 3rd service buttons finally gave on telehandler!
IMG_20191225_182534.jpghad 1 in stock as we've bodged the old enough times!!!
Tank washer fudged up before Xmas!
Parlour augers wouldn't feed other day, now working plugged into different point???

Roll on normal times!
 

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