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    Cracked thumb JD 200LC

    Thank you for all the advice, gentlemen! I picked up some 5/32 7018's on the way home tonight. I wish my 250A Lincoln gen welder wasn't burning more oil than fuel right about now! I think I am aways past "farmer welding" , (blobs of worm holed molten metal piled thicker than the base material)...
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    Cracked thumb JD 200LC

    Cylinder pressure may be an issue. I've had to rebuild the thumb cylinder twice in the last 2 years. While I've got the welder out I need to scratch my head a lil and figure out a stop for the thumb so it's not possible to hyperextend the cylinder. It seems to be subordinate to the bucket, but...
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    Cracked thumb JD 200LC

    Howdy all! In lots of Google searching and YouTube watching, I am amazed I couldn't find a similar situation that I find on my 2000 John Deere 200LC. It has very serious, matching cracks on the sides of its CWS hydraulic thumb. I bought it a few years ago to stump out my 20 acres and for general...
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    CAT 225. Rebuilding bucket cylinder in the field? Or just not worth it?

    I'm just Joe Farmer, but last year I hyperextended my thumb cylinder on my JD200lc trying to roll over a stump. I just watched a few youtube videos after getting quotes of $800-1200 to rebuild it. I spent $70 on a rebuild kit and tore into it. A 3ft pipe wrench with a cheater bar worked just...
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    JD 200lc track pad bolts

    Doing some much needed maintenance on the old girl and about 1/3 of all the pads are loose enough to jiggle a little. Is this a big deal for a farm machine or are there more serious long term consequences to letting it slide? A couple cans of PB Blaster later and they are stuck where they are...
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    The most entertaining "school me"thread... My 1st piece of H.E. Two 80ton Hoes

    I would REALLY like to see the aftermath of this. My kinda guy. The main reason I built a 3800 sq ft home with my own two hands when I was 25 was because everyone told me I couldn't. That's what America needs more of............the "hold my beer and watch this!" kind of attitude! Hats off to you...
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    Home made attachments

    What worries me is that between my neighbor and I, we have a couple hundred 3-4 foot doug fir stumps and hundreds more 1-3 footers harvested with a feller buncher so they are cut flush with the ground. Only having evenings and weekends to work on it I figure every minute I can go faster on each...
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    Home made attachments

    I've seen that set up before for dual purpose hard ground digging. Unfortunately, this may prove a bit cumbersome for stump removal.
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    Home made attachments

    The nice thing is that it has a Hendrix quik coupler on it so I can probably fudge the pins just a touch, i.e. not machinist perfect. I was surprised in all my intar-web searches how few home made attachments I could find. Do I need some special super steel? My dad spent 20+ years at an...
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    Home made attachments

    First off, thank you to all the users that make this a great forum. I've got dozens of hours invested reading my search items and thanks to what I've read I just bought a tight and dry 2000 Deere 200LC to stump about 20 acres of mine and a neighbors property. New septic will be in the works as...
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