Back on the Ol Hoe last few days. I decided to weld up the existing tank and hope for the best. I spent 1/2 a day sunday welding and in place black-smithing. I used a piece of 3/16 steel I had and plug welded it to the tank.Then I heated what became a flange with my acetylene torch and persuaded it with my 3lb. hand sledge. Not the prettiest but Hey, It is better than it was. At least I can use it now. I need to make a spacer to space the loader arm out a bit.
I tested the loader today for ~ 3 hours moving a pile of dirt from out front to out back. The dirt was very loamy and dense. I figure if it didn't break I did ok.
The case-omatic acts weird. Sometimes it has good power as soon as I let off the "clutch" pedal,and other times it will sort of move the tractor and all of a sudden it acts like something engages and then it has pushing power. When it does that, even engaging direct drive doesn't help. Not sure what that is.