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    cleaning fuel tanks

    Here's one to get you by to finish the job. Screw the the discharge line out of the bottom of the fuel tank, solder a piece of copper tubing in so it creates a standpipe about two inches tall, screw it back in. You won't be able to get all of the fuel but just don't let it get that low. All of...
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    Blown Engine

    I may have found something, after about 20 phone calls I found a rebuilder in KS that can supply a complete rebuilt eng. dyno tested ready to bolt in less starter and flywheel with a one year unlimited hours warranty so we will probably go that route. After a little research I found out that...
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    Blown Engine

    Thanks. Ive made a list of re builders this afternoon, going to start calling tomorrow.
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    Blown Engine

    Was not a good day yesterday, finished up grading a township road and was headed for the house, heard a little rattle and thought is was the cab fan no warnings or anything, reached up and turned the fan off and about the same time there was a loud band and I looked in the mirror and all I could...
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    Undoing Bolts, nut cracker, torque multiplier?

    The Swench is unbelievable as to what it will do, I've twisted bolts for thirty years and never heard of one until about a year ago. Needed to get some blades bolts loose on a side boom brush cutter and didn't have my big air wrench with me when the owner said he had something that would break...
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    Roadbuilder question.

    I have another explanation. The grader moving down the road creates a vortex that goes up in the atmosphere and causes it to rain the following day after you blade a road.:) Seriously if we waited until there was no rain in the forecast sometimes we would never get any grading done, just have to...
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    Antique Horse Drawn Grader

    Here is a shot of one of the ones that belongs to an Amish farmer in my area. I had to do a little work on it for him.
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    Antique Horse Drawn Grader

    In my area the Amish farmers have several of the old horse drawn graders and use them quite a bit. They are always looking for a real good one to repair and put to work.
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    Stirring The Sod

    grandpa. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try that this winter. I have a lot of roads that look exactly like the one ovrszd posted in his video and others that have been neglected for several years and there is a five or six foot strip of sod and berm between the road and the ditch.
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    New JD770G

    VERY NICE. That should make a long day seem a lot shorter.
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    Stirring The Sod

    Thanks all. That's pretty much what I've been doing. Just thought someone might have magic bullet that would turn the sod into rock:D ovrszd. I'm in the western edge, right up against the Kansas state line. Vernon, Co.
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    Stirring The Sod

    Anyone else have to deal with messes like this? Haven't been at this too long and just wondered if anyone had a good way of dealing with sod. Township work work and can't afford a loader and dump truck so stir it back and forth to get some of the rock out of it then push it off and grade it...
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    Repair Surprise

    Scrub Puller. I understand what you are saying. On this particular problem it was obvious that the metal on both the original frame wore down paper thin before it cracked, kinda hard to tell from the picture. Also the plates they welded on had worn through on the outside bottom edge. The reason...
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    Repair Surprise

    That's exactly what I did. It's upside down right now but I laid the bottom piece on and tacked it in place with it an even margin along the inside edge, then clamped the outside plate in place and scribed the bottom plate and cut the curve and when I put the side plate back on I had my open...
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    Repair Surprise

    Update Holes and crack welded up. Plates installed, and a few more passes to be welded. Don't look to close at the weld beads, the old body ain't as steady as it once was. Pictures out of order, don't know how to move them around without redoing the whole post.
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    Repair Surprise

    Thanks for the comments and advice. I plan on getting back at this thing tomorrow or Friday and will try to get pictures. I will probably use flat plates although the angle is a good idea, but I am afraid there is to much curvature to use angle. T-1 was what we were thinking about using, but...
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    Repair Surprise

    I plan on welding up the crack the best I can as it is worn pretty thin in a couple of places, then welding 1/2" x 4" plates top and bottom with an open corner where they meet and weld that full with several passes.
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    Repair Surprise

    I had what I thought were just replaceable wear plates on this dozer. Well when I got them cut off I found a big surprise, or maybe an "oh s**t". I cant believe somebody put these repair plates on without first welding up the cracks that were already there. There is not a rush on the fix...
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    Spring Thaw

    plowking740 Thanks for the reply. Thats where I thought I saw it but over the last few days I think I have gone through every one of his post and can't find it, but I did get a lot of good information. There was an old pipeline welder here in my home town that was the best I have ever seen and...
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    Spring Thaw

    Grader4me thanks much. I found that one but I was thinking (which usually gets me in trouble) that I saw another one where it was being used to pull mud out of a ditch that was too wet to pull normally. Maybe I imagined it.
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