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    Making haylage video!

    Moisture Do you have any idea what percent moisture do you chop the hay? Does the hay ferment in the silo? neat video
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    JRB Quick Couplers

    farm_boy, Do you know of a model that I might be able to modify (without totally building from scratch) to fit the Cat 916? We use the Cat on our ranch, and I need to change from the bucket to the hay head often. I'm hoping to find or modify a quick attach without making the whole thing or...
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    JRB Quick Couplers

    I found a JRB quick connect for a JD 544H, does anyone know if this would be reasonably adaptable to a Cat 916? I guess the main thing to the general size and if the pins are the same size. Thanks for your time
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    best grease?

    I like red tacky greases in the summer and moly grease in the winter. The tacky grease seems to hold really well on pto shafts and U joints in the heat. the Moly seems to retain it's flexibility better in the winter. We used to use Mystic JT6 and Mystic Moly grease in the winter. After...
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    Pettibone Mercury forklift

    I have a friend that needs a schematic for this electric forklift. The spec plate reads: Mercury Industrial Truck, Model # 401SC, Ser #87353. Machine won't reverse. He was told it could be cheap or really expensive, but "mechanic" needs schematic. If anyone has any experience with this...
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    Hay Loading

    Tonka, Where are those photos from? I see you are from New Jersey, but they look like the type of California forklifts shown in some of the photos here in the ag section. Does this one have 2 steering wheels so you can drive in either direction? Who makes these forklifts? Also, I can't see...
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    Ratcheting or Snap Binders?

    Everyone around here says the rachet binders are or will shortly be illegal from the DOT, (don't know why?). Just got a delivery from a trucker in Penn and Ill and he said the same thing. Has anyone else heard this? The truckers who move our tractors always use snap over. On rubber tire...
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    Wheel loader buckets

    I have a rookie question. We just got a Cat 916, bucket is useable, but would like to get a quick connect and use other attachments. I see buckets and quick connects advertised for Cat 938's, 936's, 926's,etc. Are buckets that machine specific? I realize that there are some machines that have a...
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    Anybody ever done this?

    Speedy, Tell me if I understand you right, you are talking about sleeves that fit over the end of the boom arms and pin in place at the previous pivot pin. Then further down you use donor ends from another boom to make the new bucket pivot point. If I understand that right, I'll have a few more...
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    Anybody ever done this?

    The height is great, but they are really proud of those buckets. $4000 for one of those buckets(what I've seen), add another 4 and the 920 and he should be able to get an IT. For me, it would be really handy to have the longer booms, I would like the extra reach to stack and handle hay. I...
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    Anybody ever done this?

    As the pit silo gets used up, your loading zone moves with the feed, at the end of the season, you would be travelling a long way to get to your ramps. Also, in ag, you get used to farm tractor loaders that often have a reach of 13'+, It would be really handy if the heavy loader had some...
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    Anybody ever done this?

    I have a friend that has a Cat 920. There is about 11'6" from the pins to the ground at max height. It would be real handy if the pins were around 12'6" to fill the new feed trucks. Has anyone ever extended the booms? or seen the booms extended. He is loading cattle feed so there isn't a lot of...
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    My first backhoe - 580B

    tresslers, I have had very good luck getting used tires at the tire store. I let the guys know I am looking and check in every week or so. I got a "new" set of 4 that was much better than what was on there for about $250. These are tires for a backhoe and this included good used fronts for the...
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    Backhoe snowplow wing

    It can be argued that the stabilizer/outrigger is the strongest part of a backhoe. It has to support all that the backhoe pulls and lifts while supporting the weight of the rear of the machine at the same time as stopping the forward and rearward motion of the entire machine, many times in shock...
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    Backhoe snowplow wing

    I came across an idea I thought was so good, I needed to share it with the forum. I've never seem this idea before, if it's old news, humor me. A friend plows alot of roads with a blade on the front of his hoe and was tired of making several passes. He took an old pickup snowplow blade and...
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    Making stabilizer cleats for street pads for 580

    tresslers, glad you understood me. That is a very good idea to put a plate underneath, it will make it a lot more sturdy in the middle. I know what you are saying about the direction on the factory cleats, but I don't think it really makes any difference, as long as the actual cleat part isn't...
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    Case 580 (not-so) Super D

    Finally got the 2 halves of the hub apart:thumbsup thanks for the advice. Now lots of clean up and new seals and bearings. Can now see the light at the end of the axle. As soon as it can move under it's own power again, I'm going start on the curling bucket. Thanks so much Melben about the...
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    Making stabilizer cleats for street pads for 580

    tresslers, I know exactly what you are talking about, I've got he same issue. Asked a mechanic about what to do and he told me how to make a set of cleats. Take the pavement pads off and use them for a drill pattern on 2 large pieces of angle iron. Bolt those 2 pieces on to the stabilizer...
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    ASV Control conversion

    A friend just bought a ASV 4810 and was wondering if there is a conversion made, or how big a job it would be to swap out the 2 lever drive controls of the 4810 and replace it with the joystick controls of the newer RC machines? Could it be done, and could you afford it? Is it a...
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    Case 580 (not-so) Super D

    Update on the on the never ending story..:Banghead Took the whole axle end off. Took out the kingpins and put the whole thing in the press and got the sun gear free...now outer hub us stuck to inner hub, bonded by yet another splined gear. Problem now is I can't figure out how to get any of...
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