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Recent content by Mark A Weiss

  1. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    I hopped into the cab this morning after breakfast and turned the key and... nothing. Turned it off. Removed key. Idiot lights were on. I've seen this before, so I opened the bonnet and jumped the start solenoid and she fired up. I started to move the machine straight back and I heard a loud...
  2. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    The diesel mechanic was here this morning bright and early and he was able to remove the cab and then found a way to lift the baseplate and gain access to the hydraulic lines. He just got it all back together before dark. It's VERY low on hydraulic fluid, but he'll be back in the morning with...
  3. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    I used to have friends and a neighbor who could help with things like pulling a well pump. I've done that four times in the 58 years since I built the house. But now my friend have passed away, some moved out of the country, and my neighbor passed at 73 in 2019. That pretty much leaves me to...
  4. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    At the moment, the thing that is inconvenient is the almost constant never-ending nose bleeds from the blood thinners. They got me on at least two different ones and just started me on another yesterday. I have to go for a blood test in one week after starting this Losartan. Any time I dab my...
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    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    Oh, not at all. I figured it was a tagline, but is in fact, very true. The only people that are not family that care, are the hospital staff who saved my life earlier this month. What a group of amazing individuals--all very professional and super competent.
  6. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    I will mention about bolting the lines together and using the existing broken line to pull the new one through. But from what I can tell, we can't see where the go after the manifold. I still don't know which line let go, but he thinks it's a pilot line. I myself had a pretty rough 3 months, as...
  7. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    I landed in the hospital ER with my second heart attack on Friday, March 15th. My condition was serious enough that they kept me alive on nitroglycerine and bumped my surgery from Monday to the very next day after admission--Saturday. Long story short, they put a stent in my LAD artery and I...
  8. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    When one is on a fixed income, there's not must elasticity in my ability to come up with money. We just got our daughter's car back from repairs. New brakes, wheel bearing, tires and battery was nearly $2400. So I'm $6400 down between the well, truck repairs and daughter's Mazda, from where I...
  9. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    I'm in CT, over 3000 miles away, unfortunately!
  10. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    At this point, I'm wondering if a mobile mechanic would come out and replace the line for me. I really can't exert much at all. I won't know if I have to go for open heart surgery until I have a battery of tests done. As it is, I'm scheduled for hernia surgery since a month ago. Not a good year...
  11. Mark A Weiss

    Uh-oh.. Hydraulic Line Failure Under PC60-7

    Wouldn't ya' know it.. my first time back on the machine post heart attack and this happens. I don't think it's a pilot line this time as I lost power at the bucket and the first sign of trouble was a hissing noise that is only with the safety lever in the down position. But whatever it is, it...
  12. Mark A Weiss

    Selecting a Manual Thumb for my Komatsu PC60-7

    Yes, that's a given with this, but I still can have it at a good height to work on.
  13. Mark A Weiss

    Selecting a Manual Thumb for my Komatsu PC60-7

    That would be my thinking as well, but the machine has to have aux hydraulics in order to run that extra cylinder. I see no evidence that my PC60-7 has them, so it's pointless for me to consider a hydraulic thumb. Good point on the balancing of logs. To me, that's common sense, but not everyone...
  14. Mark A Weiss

    Selecting a Manual Thumb for my Komatsu PC60-7

    I started with a flux core welder 3 years ago and feel pretty comfortable welding. I've got my heart set on a top of the line multi-process welder (220 amp) and plan to do a lot of practice with stick welding before I attempt it. I can lay down a pretty uniform bead with the flux core (that...
  15. Mark A Weiss

    Selecting a Manual Thumb for my Komatsu PC60-7

    That catalog doesn't list any prices. It's hard to comparison shop without knowing the cost of the unit and the shipping. I was planning to do the welding myself. There aren't any dealers in my area that I know of. I have a budget limit of $2000 for this project.
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