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Post by jkor on Apr 9, 2020 9:02:28 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video!
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Post by drez on Apr 9, 2020 9:12:27 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video! EWWW ... TMI! |
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2020 9:15:18 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video! Hey, what you YOOOOOOOOU doing here?  Welcome. |
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Post by chils on Apr 9, 2020 9:35:11 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video! Well here ya go then. This was right after I fabricated a hitch to mount a Swisher ATV bucket on my Cub GT. I rebuilt and installed used spool valves and used off the shelf hydraulic cylinders. Had hoses fabbed to mount to the spool valves and used off the shelf hoses from the QDs to the cylinders.
Picking the right cylinders and getting the angles and mounting points were the hardest things, especially the angles for the curl cylinder.
Had a little trouble on the rock vid due to running the right front tire in a hole--kept pushing my bucket upwards and messing up my angle of attack.
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Post by jkor on Apr 9, 2020 10:01:25 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video! Hey, what you YOOOOOOOOU doing here? Welcome. I was recruited. Also, i was promised a recruitment bonus...so... |
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2020 10:08:22 GMT -6
Hey, what you YOOOOOOOOU doing here? Welcome. I was recruited. Also, i was promised a recruitment bonus...so... I'll check to see what we have in the account.  |
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Post by jkor on Apr 9, 2020 10:10:15 GMT -6
I love a good tractor video! Well here ya go then. This was right after I fabricated a hitch to mount a Swisher ATV bucket on my Cub GT. I rebuilt and installed used spool valves and used off the shelf hydraulic cylinders. Had hoses fabbed to mount to the spool valves and used off the shelf hoses from the QDs to the cylinders.
Picking the right cylinders and getting the angles and mounting points were the hardest things, especially the angles for the curl cylinder.
Had a little trouble on the rock vid due to running the right front tire in a hole--kept pushing my bucket upwards and messing up my angle of attack.
Nice! You made the loader attachment? That's a heck of a project. I've been eyeing some bucket teeth for mine. The bucket/loader works great on loose dirt but trying to break up fresh ground can be tough, especially if it's got roots and whatnot entangled with the dirt. I have a fair bit of digging to do this year so the teeth will be well used. |
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Post by chils on Apr 9, 2020 11:10:16 GMT -6
Well here ya go then. This was right after I fabricated a hitch to mount a Swisher ATV bucket on my Cub GT. I rebuilt and installed used spool valves and used off the shelf hydraulic cylinders. Had hoses fabbed to mount to the spool valves and used off the shelf hoses from the QDs to the cylinders.
Picking the right cylinders and getting the angles and mounting points were the hardest things, especially the angles for the curl cylinder.
Had a little trouble on the rock vid due to running the right front tire in a hole--kept pushing my bucket upwards and messing up my angle of attack.
Nice! You made the loader attachment? That's a heck of a project. I've been eyeing some bucket teeth for mine. The bucket/loader works great on loose dirt but trying to break up fresh ground can be tough, especially if it's got roots and whatnot entangled with the dirt. I have a fair bit of digging to do this year so the teeth will be well used. Yep, scratch built the hitch and pieced all the hydraulics together myself. The GT had 1 spool valve and I stacked 2 more on it to give me the bucket lift and curl hydraulics. The bucket and arms were meant to be lifted with an electric winch and had a trip dump mechanism that I tried and removed--took about 1 hr of use to tire of that.
Here are a few pics during fab and adding hydraulics |
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Post by chils on Apr 9, 2020 11:16:34 GMT -6
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Post by jkor on Apr 9, 2020 11:57:58 GMT -6
You've got a nice little machine going now. I love my tractor to death. I've gotten so much use out of it.
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Post by chils on Apr 9, 2020 13:19:02 GMT -6
You've got a nice little machine going now. I love my tractor to death. I've gotten so much use out of it. Thanks. It's amazing what you can do with these little guys if you ballast them out properly. I use mine at least once a week out here. You should post some pics of yours doing work.
I make mine earn its keep. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2020 14:23:52 GMT -6
JKor, are you done with your patio yet? I don't remember seeing finished pics of it.
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Post by jkor on Apr 9, 2020 14:26:12 GMT -6
Not yet!  I have the stones laid out in the patio area (mostly), i need to level them now. I'm hoping to pick it up this weekend. |
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Post by matt6150 on Apr 10, 2020 13:18:29 GMT -6
Sweet tractor and weedeater chils. I love the bucket design. I could really use a tractor around here. I have been clearing some land for the past few months. Lots of tree cutting. Stumps is my biggest issue. I can pull anything about 6" or smaller with my uncles Suburban but bigger than that I'm not sure yet. I will probably pay to get some ground.
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Post by chils on Apr 10, 2020 14:56:40 GMT -6
Sweet tractor and weedeater chils. I love the bucket design. I could really use a tractor around here. I have been clearing some land for the past few months. Lots of tree cutting. Stumps is my biggest issue. I can pull anything about 6" or smaller with my uncles Suburban but bigger than that I'm not sure yet. I will probably pay to get some ground. Thank you sir! If you have a sleeve hitch and middlebuster on the back of that Sears you could dig around the stump pretty well. I use a Brinly cultivator on my rear hitch to loosen dirt up before attacking it with the bucket. |
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