Daily Fabrication Thread

[g_man]

Thanks all ! I down loaded that publication BarBender. Thank you. It looks pretty comprehensive.

gg

[barbender]

 I'm always impressed by the Scandinavian small scale harvesting methods, Gman. Things like a radio remote control winch (or a cable controlled one like they feature in the publication) are fairly simple things that would really boost productivity. 

 A lot of old loaders used a hydraulic cylinder tied to a chain, that went around a sprocket that is affixed to the mast. Anything that is powering the crane swing has to be able to withstand pretty good shock loads. 

[g_man]

A lot of good ideas here to think about. I like the chain or cable drive thru a motor (old Warn winch?) or cylinder. At my age production isn't important but making things easier so I can still enjoy working in the woods and having something interesting to try is.

gg

[Machinebuilder]

Thats an interesting publication, i think there is a lot of info that many people could use

[Big_eddy]

Latest Project
Converting my JD855 FEL to quick attach.
Critical requirements were to 1) limit the amount of added weight and 2) not increase the distance from the pivot points. My loader capacity is limited enough as it is. I found a few adapters available on the web, but every one failed badly at 2)

Started with a pair of quick attach plates from the web.
Created a pair of ears from 1/4" plate with some 3/4" S80 pipe.


After a number of careful measurements, welded the ears to the quick attack plates. Bolts for spacers. 





Added a stretcher bar.


 And paint.

[Big_eddy]

Next I built mounts for the bucket



That's where I am now. I just need to cut the old ears off my bucket and weld the new brackets on. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the use of forks.

[Ljohnsaw]

You'll want to add some ears at 45° to the back of the bucket to guide the QA in when you go to book up. I did on mine and went from multiple tries in 5 minutes to usually first try in a few seconds.

[Big_eddy]

All done except for paint