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  1. FarmWrench

    Everyone knows how to do that

    Except I don't. What is the proper way to fit and mount backhoe teeth particularly 230 held on with the little pin with rubber in the middle. My Case 580SM is struggling to keep teeth on the bucket. ( Haven't run it without teeth.) Dad went digging out trees and the ripping up roots got a...
  2. FarmWrench

    Trying something I've heard about on here

    It's not the sanctioned brand but I've never found Stockholm brand.
  3. FarmWrench

    Waste wood

    Not a typical question but I'm hoping to mine the experience pool. Tree surgeon work is about the only thing making any money with a saw. Right of way, road lifting, deadfalls, homeowners, Ash tree death are keeping crews busy. What to do with the wood? Wood stoves are banned for new...
  4. FarmWrench

    Old manuals

    Local mobile mechanic passed away and his kids had a garage sale. In making a deal on a portable press, several storage totes of old manuals was worked into the deal. He couldn't bring himself to throw out the books and I was happy to get service and parts books for TD15, a long line of Deere...
  5. FarmWrench

    Series III Panther Spicer 1010

    Got a Steiger ST310 that's in really poor condition. I didn't go to the auction and told Dad that if it went cheap, get it. Looked better in pictures. The transmission is missing a knob. Shouldn't there be a splitter? Internet says it's got 20 speeds, but with a five and the two speed...
  6. FarmWrench

    Bedding bolt on cutting edge

    580sm with clam bucket. Broke the dozer blade cutting edge. This had been a municipal machine used mostly for loading salt and moving snow. Very rusty mounting surface. I'm beating off bug chunks of rust and wondering if there isn't an epoxy or other type of bedding compound to help support...
  7. FarmWrench

    Must remain strong...... can't fight much longer

    Picking up a tractor part at the CaseIH dealer and saw a clean looking Td 8 come off the truck. Like a moth to a yard light I was bouncing around it moments later. I've wanted a dozer for the farm for a long time. They want $14k, td 8e, 4500 hrs UC is pretty good, dry berco not turned...
  8. FarmWrench

    The state of our forests.

    Heading South on i77 and discouraged by the condition of the trees. Lots of broken tops, dead fall, widow makers, poor shape, unthinned, BAD looking woods. (Disclaimer*** 1. Bad time of year for a farmer to head out for a little vacation, but the kids are off on break and we have a free place...
  9. FarmWrench

    Looking for under 10yard pull scraper

    Before you cut up that old Laplant Cholate (so?) C44 give me a chance. Thanks. Closer to Buffalo NY the better.
  10. FarmWrench

    Bucket care

    Got this 36" bucket almost new when we got the tractor, 580SM Case, this is maybe 250 hours of work. I swapped outside teeth and am now discarding them putting next one in on the corner and some spikes in there place. Bunch of dumb questions. 1. I'm right to swap them out since there is...
  11. FarmWrench

    Clearing with Chain on a small scale.

    Lots of information on clearing land with the biggest available dozers and a chain off a battleship.... But does it work and on a smaller scale? In particular I am looking at reclaiming an old gravel pit. Lots of sumack trees and multi flora rose. Could a much lighter chain and some...
  12. FarmWrench

    Broken bolts changing undercarriage

    A logger friend has 7 bolts break on 450h rollers on an undercarriage change. Rental shop running 3 450j have had one bust off on the last 3 sets. A diehard Dresser man claims trouble free changes on his td8s and TD 15 e. "Always one" says the Cat guy. My plan for my first farm dozzer is...
  13. FarmWrench

    Raised a pagan, Looking for religion.

    I have heard of the saving graces of Preventive Maintenance and want to learn more but I am from a family of mechanical pagans. I have a used copy of Herbert Nicholas "Heavy Equipment repair" on order, do you have other recommendations?
  14. FarmWrench

    Big welder?

    Looking for added capacity. Currently have a Bobcat 225 amp, a Hobart tigwave 300max/low duty cycle, and a handy little 110volt mig but no bigger mig and no carbon gouge. I'm considering adding a used cv600 with a wire feeder. 600 amps @100% duty cycle 80 or so as a minimum. CC/CV will do...
  15. FarmWrench

    Wire Rope

    I searched the forums for "wire rope", "steel cable", "winch line" "cable" to avoid asking this question. How do you treat or use wire rope? Is it a vital part that you get specifically and when it is used up it gets scrapped. Like dozer sprocket? Shovel hoisting line? (Purchase Made...
  16. FarmWrench

    Fixing a woods

    I have 75 acre of hemlock the result of a hundred years of grazing and high scale harvesting. Stand is terminally thick. When I can I have just dropped the little junk to thin space for thefew hardwoods and push other hemlock to saw size. Here in Western New York hemlock has dropped to...
  17. FarmWrench

    California Dreamin'

    I'm in NY. I've been reading about California air resources board (CARB) putting the requirement of a particulate filter on older construction equipment starting in Jan2014. A lot of trucks are just never going back to the state but dozers and the like that may cost more to make compliant...
  18. FarmWrench

    Good Shop.....Bad Shop

    Some things make a lot of difference. What has made or wrecked the productivity of your shop or "someone's"? I need to build but "bigger"and "brighter" just leaves me busted.
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