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Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
3 years 3 months ago #228702
by Deebo
Thought this might be of interest to those who've not seen it. They just don't make machines like these anymore..
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Thought this might be of interest to those who've not seen it. They just don't make machines like these anymore..
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3 years 3 months ago #228704
by Mike Meyer
Replied by Mike Meyer on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Nice to see you again Tony, thanks for the link, how are you getting on with your D4 project?
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3 years 3 months ago #228718
by Deebo
Replied by Deebo on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Hi Mike,
All good here, still working away at the D4, flywheel housing in the process of being replaced as mine was cracked across a bolt hole and had a couple of repairs.. Hope you're well!
Tony
All good here, still working away at the D4, flywheel housing in the process of being replaced as mine was cracked across a bolt hole and had a couple of repairs.. Hope you're well!
Tony
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3 years 3 months ago #228720
by Mike Meyer
Replied by Mike Meyer on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
My D4 7J had a crack from front to back on one side of it's bellhousing too, some bright spark previous owner had decided to hang the blade off the radiator when he wanted to get rid of the overhead cable frame, sadly I don't think that was a good idea, the bellhousing was then taking a lot of load.
Nice to see you are still making progress on your D4, keep up the good work.
Mike
Nice to see you are still making progress on your D4, keep up the good work.
Mike
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3 years 3 months ago #228721
by neil
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Neil
Pittsford, NY
Replied by neil on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Mike,
my cousin's Twenty-Two had a cable blade fitted and the CCU (basically a hand-cranked worm drive winch) was mounted on top of the radiator. Needless to say we're very careful with it on the rare occasions it gets used. Not sure if a spring or a weak link would be best on the cable if the blade dropped. I think I'd go with a weak link?
my cousin's Twenty-Two had a cable blade fitted and the CCU (basically a hand-cranked worm drive winch) was mounted on top of the radiator. Needless to say we're very careful with it on the rare occasions it gets used. Not sure if a spring or a weak link would be best on the cable if the blade dropped. I think I'd go with a weak link?
Cheers,
Neil
Pittsford, NY
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3 years 3 months ago #228735
by Deebo
Tony
Replied by Deebo on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Thanks, Mike. Ouch, Darwin Award right there! Seems to be a lot of cracks caused by broken main springs too.. putting too much strain through the pan onto the bell housing.. my spring broken too. All good fun!My D4 7J had a crack from front to back on one side of it's bellhousing too, some bright spark previous owner had decided to hang the blade off the radiator when he wanted to get rid of the overhead cable frame, sadly I don't think that was a good idea, the bellhousing was then taking a lot of load.
Nice to see you are still making progress on your D4, keep up the good work.
Mike
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3 years 3 months ago - 3 years 3 months ago #228742
by Mike Meyer
Replied by Mike Meyer on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
My main spring wasn't sitting properly on one track frame either Tony, the spring pack clamps were not holding the individual leaves in place in the pack, so they were sliding around and one side wasn't even resting on it's pad, they had welded a bit of offcut steel onto the inside of the track frame to try and create another pad for that end of the main spring, plus there was a nasty hole punched in the bottom of the tranny housing in the main clutch area, supposedly after the poor ol tractor was landed on a rock.
Some people shouldn't be let near machinery, lucky there's fool like you and I prepared to do the hard yards, and spend the hard earned money, to try and save the old girls, because most smart guys here are shipping them off to China as fast as they can at $300 a tonne, but then you will never hear me bragging about how smart I am........LOL
Some people shouldn't be let near machinery, lucky there's fool like you and I prepared to do the hard yards, and spend the hard earned money, to try and save the old girls, because most smart guys here are shipping them off to China as fast as they can at $300 a tonne, but then you will never hear me bragging about how smart I am........LOL
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3 years 3 months ago #228754
by Ray54
Replied by Ray54 on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
The kind of thing to give farmer engineering a bad name. Good luck there Mike. But unless you get someone to cast you parts some (wink, wink, if only I was computer knowledgeable I could give the real emoji) Cat will have to die to make that one live. Looks past the bale wire and duck tape holding it together.
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3 years 3 months ago #228765
by Deebo
Replied by Deebo on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Glad it not just me! That broken casting is brutal! Funnily enough I've a D4 parts backend that would have done for that but shipping to Australia would be a might expensive.. it certainly wouldn't fit in hand luggage if they ever open up travel again.. We'll keep soldiering on.. fun isn't it?My main spring wasn't sitting properly on one track frame either Tony, the spring pack clamps were not holding the individual leaves in place in the pack, so they were sliding around and one side wasn't even resting on it's pad, they had welded a bit of offcut steel onto the inside of the track frame to try and create another pad for that end of the main spring, plus there was a nasty hole punched in the bottom of the tranny housing in the main clutch area, supposedly after the poor ol tractor was landed on a rock.
Some people shouldn't be let near machinery, lucky there's fool like you and I prepared to do the hard yards, and spend the hard earned money, to try and save the old girls, because most smart guys here are shipping them off to China as fast as they can at $300 a tonne, but then you will never hear me bragging about how smart I am........LOL
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3 years 3 months ago #228766
by rax200
Daryl
1937 RD4 4G4368
1940 D4 7J3717
1942 D4 7J9915SP
1942 R4 6G2550SP
1944 D4 2T6584SP
1945 D4 2T8978SP
1946 D4 5T6271
1956 D4 7U37855
1954 DH226 S/N 89 Howard Tug
Replied by rax200 on topic Some great sounds on this YouTube video!
Hi Mike,
I have a bare spare backend if you need one, it will save on hand luggage fee,
Regards
I have a bare spare backend if you need one, it will save on hand luggage fee,
Regards
Daryl
1937 RD4 4G4368
1940 D4 7J3717
1942 D4 7J9915SP
1942 R4 6G2550SP
1944 D4 2T6584SP
1945 D4 2T8978SP
1946 D4 5T6271
1956 D4 7U37855
1954 DH226 S/N 89 Howard Tug
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