The old iron, down the road

[Entropy1]

I used to work for the submarine recycling group. I remember seeing those engines being pulled.

How exactly did you interpret my comments to be a perceived jab towards an unrelated home-build thread?

 

[stinky64]

What's with the douche bag factor throughout the entire site lately? I'm thinkin' that new fangled AI crap is starting to infiltrate our happy world.

 

[Entropy1]

When you turn on the TV and see a new face reporting the evening news, consider the possibility that what you're watching isn't even a real person (video/audio stream that's AI generated within the 7-second broadcast delay - to appear as if it's live). Sound crazy? Maybe, mabye not?

I suspect that in the not too-distant future audio/video recordings will be inadmissible as evidence in a court of law.

 

[skyking1]

I've got no idea, @stinky64
I've met with lots of folks here face to face. We are more than some anonymous internet community where the ether between us promotes the degraded interactions common to FB or what was once Twitter.
Maybe it's just the winter doldrums. Seasonal Disaffective Disorder, so to speak.

 

[Truck Shop]

What's with the douche bag factor

There is a song with that in it.

 

[Truck Shop]

Pretty obvious what it is and when it started, but that can't be addressed from any angle
so it's live with it and don't utter a word.

 

[skyking1]

All the iron in my first two posts is gone, except for that little funky ford loader. It is sitting on a lowbed just the same, no wheels. It will be gone Monday most likely.
That yard is full of construction fence panels now. Farewell 224B, big Komatsu dozer, and a gaggle of crawler loaders.

 

[skyking1]

today's old iron. loving this baby Allis Chalmers grader.




Not armstrong steering, no steering at all. Note that those two hydraulic cylinders are it. Manual table, manual everything else.

 

[JaredV]

Love it! I wish the door was closed, though. The steering box is probably missing because parts are expensive if you can find them. I've got one but can't find any pictures of it. Mine has leaning wheels and the steering box is pretty sloppy which teaches you what wheel lean does for steering.

 

[Tugger2]

I just passed one of those on to another friend that has more time and resources than i do. The steering box was missing and it was steering using the ripper circuit and a hyd cylinder .

 

[skyking1]

yours was in Much better shape. That tube on the one I saw today had been welded several times.

 

[JaredV]

Tugger, do you have any pictures that might show how the hydraulic cylinder was adapted to the front end? I've been scheming on an elegant way to convert mine but there's not much room where the steering box lives.

 

[oarwhat]

I owned one of those. Great little machine for fine grading.

 

[Tugger2]

Tugger, do you have any pictures that might show how the hydraulic cylinder was adapted to the front end? I've been scheming on an elegant way to convert mine but there's not much room where the steering box lives.

Ill try and get a picture of that setup .Its not the greatest and made for pretty wild steering . Id search far and wide for a steering box .Or if your set on hydraulic maybe a cylinder combined with a marine helm pump would give better control. Working the steering with a lever that moves fore and aft instead of side to side had its challenges to.

 

[skyking1]

I like the helm servo idea @Tugger2

 

[56wrench]

What you need for full hydraulic steering is an orbitrol controlled by a steering wheel

 

[JaredV]

I'd use an orbirtol valve for sure. I built a hydrostatic steering setup for my tractor that works very well. The tricky part with the grader is to build something that won't interfere with the wheel lean or hang below the axle.

 

[Truck Shop]

I know where one of those AC graders is setting, has Detroit IIRC. Plus there is a fairly
large AC crawler, don't remember the model but pretty good size. All just setting out in
the long lost rhubarb near Monumental Dam on the Snake River. Actually there is a bunch
of scrap iron setting there, it's where I bought the 1980 Freightliner cab over for engine
rear drives I used in the Mack. Lots of rattle snakes to keep your attention. There was
also a Thornton rear drive setting in the weeds.
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