Daily Fabrication Thread

[thecfarm]

Like that wheel you put on. Good idea.

[Bruno of NH]

I like both the wheel and hitch

[mike_belben]

Agreed

[Resonator]

Thanks guys. The wheel is also handy when loading the splitter into my ramp gate trailer. I can hook to the pin hitch, pull with the winch, and it drives itself on.

[tamarackman]

Inspired by an earlier poster, my mini skidder ring chains.

[mike_belben]

Hey those look great, how ya like em?   Howd you make the rings?

[tamarackman]

Hey those look great, how ya like em?   Howd you make the rings?

Thanks - night and day difference compared to just the r4s.

I secured a 4" x 48" round tube to my tractor loader. Drilled a 1/2" hole at the base of it and stuck the rebar in. I coiled the rebar around the tubing as tightly as I could sometimes using a cheater bar. I ended up with what looked like light car springs.

[tamarackman]

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[mike_belben]

Looks good, did you build that freewheel?  What did you use for drive dogs when it does engage?

[tamarackman]

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[mike_belben]

Brilliant!

[mike_belben]

Few yrs ago i "broke" my electric winch pulling tops in with the bobcat and just shoved it in the corner.  Recently tore it down and discovered a screw in the motor drive coupler backed off, dumping the whole load onto the automatic brake to manage alone.  Winch brakes are only rated at half the pulling load, so the break mangled.  



I got a new updated brake for $50 shipped with a welded end lug and built a mechanical positive stop brake for pulling hitches out with the tractor. 















Now to see whats the next weakest link.  Im thinking the housing itself will tear apart eventually. 

YouTube

[mike_belben]

Workin good so far.

[thecfarm]

A winch is a nice piece of equipment to have.

[bushmechanic]

What do you do when John Deere wants 4 grand for a electric motor to rev your engine up to 1750 rpms? You go back to 1970's technology and fabricate a cable throttle!

 

 

[Old Greenhorn]

That looks an awful lot like the ones we used to have on the good (older) firetrucks so you could  regulate the engine (and pump pressure) once you switched the transfer case over to the pump. Nowadays they have all kinds of fancy computer based throttle controls that you can't do nothin' with when you need to. When those first came out we had some really close calls where the throttle would shut down to idle for no reason while we had 4 firefighters inside a burning building. Their hoses would go dry and it got real interesting real fast. It took a while to get the manufacturers to address it (they said 'it just can't happen'), and they did a 'firmware upgrade' after it nearly got a few fellas killed. I never trusted them again.
That's a fine improvement if you ask me.

[mike_belben]

Nice job. 

The thing about old stuff is you can count on it working or count on being able to fix it.  I hate new. 

[mike_belben]

[donbj]

That's awesome seeing that young man learning hands on good things. Not to criticize but if there are no screen guards protecting as machine is operated teach him where the bite of the cable is if it lets go. I'm guilty of this myself many times and remind myself pretty much every time.

[Walnut Beast]

Looks pretty handy 👍

[snowstorm]

What do you do when John Deere wants 4 grand for a electric motor to rev your engine up to 1750 rpms? You go back to 1970's technology and fabricate a cable throttle!

 

my 646 valmet uses a cable. i would like to flip a switch. i looked here but have not bought anything yet. synchro start products.com. would what s used on my portable welder work?

[mike_belben]

That's awesome seeing that young man learning hands on good things. Not to criticize but if there are no screen guards protecting as machine is operated teach him where the bite of the cable is if it lets go. I'm guilty of this myself many times and remind myself pretty much every time.

Oh i agree.

Hes always up my butt to let him do everything..  winding up the hand winch is one of them but i only let him go until its tight then take over.  Ive shown him sticks in the gears, handle taking off, snapped cables around the yard.


All my equipment is old and dangerous .. I make sure he knows everything about it, and that his fingers and eyes are his to keep or lose.  'That machine has no brains boy, you need to use your own.'  
Hes 7 today.

[Crusarius]

Sometimes I think its better to learn safe practices on unsafe junk. that way you learn safety as a whole and don't rely on idiot proofing to keep you safe

[mike_belben]

Agreed.  The more guards i had to fabricate and install at smith and wesson the dumber and cheaper the 'operators' they could bring in.  Quality took a nose dive.

[Crusarius]

they make something idiot proof and here comes a better idiot!