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MaxxForce 13 was the same engine, engine is fine. It just wasnt a good idea to force feed an engine its own sh*t like Navistar wanted. A high temperature combustion produces little soot and is therefor more complete and efficient. It just causes oxygen to bond with the 75% nitrogen in the air...

https://www.internationaltrucks.com/trucks They dropped the MaxxForce nametag altogether. The DT466/530/570 line by the name of MaxxForce 9 and 10 are discontinued, the MaxxForce 13 is renamed A26 alike its European cousin it is based on, the MAN D2676. The S13 is the new Traton worldwide...

Most trucks and trailers use it for decades. Sometimes even directly to the brake boosters, instead of plastic to a fixed point and then rubber to the moving brake boosters. In industrial pneumatics plastic is the norm too.

Claims from customers nearly put Navistar out of business too, in 2012. They still didnt fare well a decade later, so in 2021 they became a subsidiary of Volkswagen owned Traton, among MAN, Scania, and Volkswagen do Brasil. https://traton.com/en/company/brands-and-services/navistar.html The...

It was all good and funny, till the annual DOT inspection required a particle counter test to pass. Then i bought a new aftermarket DPF. Later we found that the engine didnt stay running for more than 5 seconds. Eventually we found out the DPF filter was clogged so from now on i drive on the...

Both M59 and Rscotty are looking at this from a chemical engineering standpoint, patenting processes not products. As long as you keep anyone out of your chemical plant, you can safeguard your secrets better than when you describe them in a patent. I worked for a company that made air...

What a nice guys at your quarry. When i picked up gardening topsoil for my fathers flower bed, the loader operator had a big grin on his face to see the scale run up to 5960kg, with my old Volvo S70 TDI. Not that that diesel really cared as it took off by just slowly releasing the clutch without...

Welding or bolting doesnt make much different. Nonetheless, in bending you have compression in one flange and tension in the other. Adding steel to the web adds little in bending. I would weld flat bar to both the upper and the lower flange where it matters most. Did it on my front loader and...

I havent used torsion suspension on really rough ground like trails. But from my days at the trailer builder, i remember Knott having a sinking chassis by having a retractable equaliser bar between two torsion axles. It allowed to step over obstacles without lifting one wheel above the ground...

Not about the International, other than that the CEO nearly killed the company by pursueing what his engineers said would be defying natures law.. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/08/02/death-by-hubris-the-catastrophic-decision-that-could-bankrupt-a-great-american-manufacturer/ I...

Can you do an EGR and DPF delete by having it reprogrammed ? I have a DPF installed at the annual DOT inspection. A barely used DPF passes the particle test each year with flying colours.. just the ECU doesnt know whether its there.

Goats consider apple trees as weeds too. Dont ask me how i know

In 2011 they sold their profitable part to PSA to make quick money

The local alderman had a 300C with a Mercedes V6 diesel. Still never a mainstream car here, Europeans expect more stylish design from a car this size. Thats why it was laughable when they sold the Dodge Caravan (or Chrysler voyager) as Lancia in Europe. Italy is designer all over, and American...

PSA shareholders got 60% of the new company, PSA brought in 4 brands, 5 if you count Vauxhall too (though its just a different badge for the right hand steer models) I am not sure if Holden was part of the deal too. From the FiatChrysler side, there are at least 20 brands, many of them having...

Thats a regular tractor trip in Europe, bringing in silage.

The Italian brands of Stellantis are in the same shape. Only the PSA branch is making money, and Fiat vans (Ram Promaster) sell well here because they are cheap. Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel are doing good. Fiat has been ailing for more than a decade, its a lot of brands with just one or two...

After reading Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares saying he wants to cut unprofitable brands (because FiatChrysler brought a lot of brands into the merger, while PSA shareholders has gotten 60% of Stellantis shares) i now found this...

The problem was localised between the seat and the steering wheel...

The problem is that even when you cool the batteries down to where the plastics dont burn, the damaged cells will keep on releasing energy in the form of heat, so it quickly gets back to the temperature where the plastic parts start to burn again. Some fire corps have a sealed dumpster full of...

My neighbour had the same. He said when he planted that forest 25 years ago, snowfall put the trees to the ground. Then they grew back kinked so he had them chipped for energy production, they were useless for his Wood-mizer, though he planted them for timber.

Interesting... the 5 times taking off on a 12% grade within 5 minutes, was part of the test protocol when we upped the GVW of VW Crafter (same as MB Sprinter yet with VW 2.5 TDI and a VW badge) from 6.3 ton to 7.5 ton. Customer bought a new 3.5 ton single rear wheel, thinking it would have the...

So, you want to weld it against the headgate of the trailer ? It would require exact alignment to the QA plate or it wont latch. And when the tractor wanders around just a little bit during travel, it will be under tension so you'd need a hammer to unlatch it. It just seems an unpractical idea...

There was a guy at my parents neighbour, cutting the underbrush for firewood and chipping the branches. I have heard that Honda jam so many times, in the end the crankshaft broke... a twig mulcher it was, even though the decal said "tree chipper" Yes, thats a chipper.. with hydraulic driven...

We replaced my mates 1971 plank floor last week, for double OSB with insulation. As soon as you take the planks off, you could smell the tar they painted the beams with, 50 years ago.

Local contractor had a plywood box trailer sitting behind the barn for years. After buying it, he realised that a box trailer has a much lighter frame. Later he still made a bale trailer out of it, by cutting it from the standard big rig trailer length 13.60m to 10m, still able to load 25 ton of...

Sounds a lot like Bill Gates buying OS 86 from Seattle Computer for 25.000 dollar and becoming the worlds richest man, while SCP got in financial difficulties because Taiwan produced cheaper memory banks than them. I never knew it wasnt Elons idea...

Yeah thats a right honest man. And Dirt Perfect. I just read WD saying the cybertruck video brokr records already. Andrew Camarata reserved to buy one too, we already know hes going to say that "it broke for no reason" because people love that.

It depends. Once you stumble upon crap like that and click on it, the algorythm proposes more of the same. I dont follow WhistlinDiesel normally, his immature hang for destruction gets old fast. And off course every Youtuber with money, wanted to trash a Cybertruck, this was so predictable.. I...

Off course WhistlinDiesel is a spoiled brat who wrecks things for a living, yet the rear frame crossbar shouldnt break off like that. Ive done much worse to a Volvo (yanking out the rear seat by running a chain through the ski hatch to a fencepost on the rear bench, and tying it to a tractor...

Luckily that horrible trend of putting parquet floor boards on cars, passed Europe.. Oh wait, Mini did it 10 years back.. but those are British, always odd 🤷‍♂️

First tell me what a pull trailer is ? A wagon, or a mid-axle trailer ? When hauling scrap after a huge farm cleanup with two loaded hay wagons behind the Deutz D50, the fan bearing broke. It was on the way home empty, so my brothers Mercedes 300D towed the combination home. So my guess is...

A lump of flatbar on a hydraulic motor will also vibrate. Small and cheap motor, you need speed not power.

Yes, the 1st gen was notorious for failing the "moose test" (evading a moose by quickly steering to the oncoming lane and back) because they rolled it every time and it went viral. A and B class are both Mercedes unworthy. A class because it isnt much of a car, and B class... too. Theyre just...

20 years ago we had a ferry to catch after a traffic jam. With a Volvo 440 1.9 turbodiesel, 90hp. We were speeding at 190kmh when there was a matt black Merc AMG flashed his lights behind me, meaning i was holding him up in the left lane. I blended in the middle lane at 160kmh, and two more matt...

I would say fuel economy, but since your half ton is a gasser and your one ton most probably a diesel, that wont fly...

People who pay a couple of grand for a patent with the intention to teach others, are insane. Business isnt an altruistic environment, businesses only do charity if they get recognition for it. Now a poorly formulated patent can have that side effect: you teach them how to solve a problem, yet...

If he compares his wifes grocery getter half ton without tow package nor suspension upgrades, to his 3/4 or 1 ton, he has a point. Standard half tons are equipped for comfort, but too soft in the suspension for heavy towing. But a suspension upgrade makes it a whole different animal.

I dont agree with that. The purpose of a patent is to create exclusive rights for the innovator to sell his invention. If a small innovative company spends its resources (time, money) into developing a product that can improve the world, a patent is there to give the innovator a chance to...

Same thing here in Europe, a short wheelbase 3 door Nissan Patrol has 3.5 ton or 7700 pound tow rating, yet it isnt exactly safe. High sidewall offroad tires, smooth offroad suspension, and a short wheelbase, make it swerve all over the road. My V70 takes it better. Here in Europe, 10 ton 5th...

It wont help the image of them in YOUR mind. (Nor mine) Yet in THEIR mind, they are someone if they make some noise with their V8 pickup. Same as the retards who kick their VW Rabbit or Honda Civic with inwards leaning wheels and an airfoil still in gray primecoat, and their license plate...

All right, the USA is big, it has 333 milion inhabitants. Despite having that much heads to choose from, they still have two elderly stumbling for president (you cant call that "running" for president when they are aged 75+) I dont know Harris, i dont have a dog in this fight, but i hope the...

I hope it dampens some resonance in this 1970s tractor cab..

Thats why, when i rebuilt and regalvanised my 1991 Hapert trailer, i went with 195/50R13 commercial grade low profile tires, for a deck height barely exceeding 2 feet, with ramps. We've used it to haul wrapped square bales, drop the sides and nothing is in the way. The Nissan Navara at work...

My trailer is lined with 3mm aluminium diamond plate, to protect the epoxy resin coat on the plywood floor. Its only through TBN that ive heard of Rhino liner. I will order some to spray on the inside of the mudguards of the tractor i am restoring... 👌

Our Rangers may actually be a Nissan Navara, jointly built in a Nissan factory in Spain..?

Lots of Americans say they want a heavy tow vehicle or they feel being a passenger despite holding a steering wheel. In Europe people think that when a trailer has brakes on only one axle, its because you didnt maintain it properly. That it came from the factory with only one brake axle, is...

I once bought a tractor dumptrailer. Borrowed my neighbours SUV because it is legal to tow 3500kg. But never again, its a short wheelbase with soft suspension, we didnt drive faster than 70km before the tail began to wag the dog. I have pulled heavier loads with my V70 which has a longer...

I didnt know that. I do know that theres an Indian legend about a ship in the desert. That comes from an era when explorers could sail from the bay of California all the way to the Salton sea. https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/08/09/lake-predated-salton-sea-colorado-river-changed-course

I know, the same applies here, when moving from the old land into the "new" land. The difference between Holland and North America is that American reclaimed prairie is above sea level 🤣

Here, in the Flevoland polder (sea bottom reclaimed between 1933 and 1967 ?) infrastructure is pretty much like North America: Drawn with a ruler on the map, dividing it into... i think 16 hectare blocks. The clay soil is so fertile that the going rate is 200.000 euro per hectare, or 86.400...

Here in Europe, bales get typically hauled by a 50kmh tractor with cab and front axle suspension, on a big rig flat bed trailer with a dolly. On rural roads, it barely pays off in time if you can drive with a truck, some longer stretches of road faster than the 50-55km top speed of the tractor...

When i have a small load and a 150km trip i borrow my mates 2x1 meter single axle trailer. Its tricky to back up because you dont see it in the mirrors, but it doesnt cause much wind drag either. Once a heavy truck was trying to overtake me when i was doing 100kmh (he obviously had disabled his...

Yes, i used to have a neighbour who put shetland ponies in the back of his Toyota HiAce van... needless to say that it smelled like horse **** all summer.. 😂 I keep a rubber trunk mat in the back of my V70 all the time. Spilled chicken feed, gas, chain oil, it doesnt matter, just hose off the...

Thats exactly my point. Theres a guy half a mile away who lives in the nearby castle. That was his youth dream, to live in a castle. He made his fortune selling high end pet food, produced at the big manufacturers of cheap bulk petfood, packaged and branded premium, sold at a premium price in...

Yes, self employed construction workers can live in trailers. They do haul for a living. Every stereotype has exceptions. Well this customer, despite being fond of US trucks, didnt like the way they handled and insisted on suspension upgrades. Off course 2008 is 16 years ago and sway bars and...

Read the rest of what i said: For those living in a rental home on a poststamp sized lot in the suburbs, its ridiculous that they have a full size pickup. Their financial priorities dont add up. If you live rural, you clearly have good use for its capacity. Even though i would most probably add...

Yes, but i am wondering what the requirements are for those specialised drawings. Line weight, perhaps ? Patent drawings are always in bold, much bolder than production drawings. I want to build a prototype soon, then test on stubble, next spring test on greencrop and when it works as...

At the trailer manufacturer i worked untill 2008, we had a customer who bought trailers from us, legally 7500 pound but loaded mostly 10.000, carrying a pressure washer, buffer tank, grit tank, they were specialised in graffiti cleaning, and they had a thing with US pickup trucks. When they got...

Why would i do that ? Thats what trailers are for. 🤷‍♂️

My brother had a Ford Mondeo 1.8 diesel, 70hp. To keep up with traffic he had to rev it high. It did 15mpg on short runs, where my 2.5 TDI with double the horsepower, upshifting at 2000rpm, did 30mpg. A smaller engine only has less friction if you can keep the RPM down at the same level.

Haha this reminds me of two old bachelor neighbours 30 years ago. Their farm was full of nettles and my father warned me not to comment on that as a 7 year old when we brought them the hay we sold them They traded their JD 2250 for a 6200. When asked, Gerhard said "yes, we needed 4wd because we...

Not exactly impressive loads. I haul that with my V70 diesel. Last week i picked up a stranded medium family car of my mates BIL. Blasting past a row of big rigs at 120kmh in 6th gear, at 30mpg.

In the states, yes. A half ton truck is a ridiculous poser object, it doesnt have the suspension to tow anything useful, just like the 2.8 ton (gross) Sprinter we get in Europe (but you guys dont) even if you use it to just haul styrofoam, it still doesnt have enough suspension stability to stay...

To me, a granted patent is only a deterrence for those who are scared of lawyers or their fees. Only in court you find out what a patent is worth... When interested, read this textbook example of patent justice: https://w3.abdn.ac.uk/clsm/eupillar/public/case/682

Did you invent them, or did you file them ? My development at a previous employer was patented. The patent attorney asked to supply a description, to which he only added periods and commas: I literally wrote the patent. He charged 7000 Euro. AFAIK filing it at the national patent office sets...

Well in my previous post i answered that, and you just acknowledged what i was asking in reply to your previous post. No matter how much you pay into an insurance system, theres always a flawed human being deciding whether youre a fraud or seriously disabled by misfortune. The more i am going...

Tell me.. if you think it might cause social unrest here, PM me... i'd love to hear your point of view, respectfully.. After my skull fracture at 6th of June 2022, it will be next week Tuesday when i meet the insurance doctor who will decide if i get a penny back on my 23 years of paying into...

I thought only Leopards did...

In that case it should become mandatory on bicycles but not on motorcycles. The bicycle is part of Hollands culture for 150 years. Helmets are not. Though both my parents and their neighbours have bought helmets with their electric bikes after my accident, because you have a whole other...

As soon as you get collective healthcare, it becomes everybody elses business, what risk of injury you take. As a European, having payd 20 years worth of revenue into a social benefit system, and now its the question whether i get a human or a nazi as medical specialist to decide over my...

There was a guy locally who cut out the side of his push mower so it could get rid of brush better. When hitting a stump, the blade broke off which took his foot from underneath him. Theres a reason for bush hogs and flail mowers....

I made a 3 point and a rear bucket on my pedal go kart when i was 13. Spent weeks cutting berms and filling potholes with it.

European Volvo FH16 doesnt have a jake brake, it has a hydraulic retarder which dont grunt, just produce a faint howl.

Mercedes had the 402/403/404/405 series engines from the mid 70s onward. It was a weight optimised naturally aspirated engine family consisting of V6 of 9 liter, V8, 10 up to V12 for special applications. They all shared the 90 degree block angle optimal for the V8 There were later iterations...

With the G140 9 speed and 7.7 liter 299hp, 1200Nm (885 Ft-lb) OM 936 engine 16 ton GVW and 26 combined. Or 53.273 vehicle weight and 57.320 pounds combined.

T he piston vacuum will always cause more air to leak along the valves held closed by just the valve springs, into the cylinder, than there is leakage at the exhaust stroke when compression plus valve spring pushes it shut. Either way its a suboptimal solution...

Yes, you can keep the intake valve closed to reduce the amount of pistons sucking against the throttle valve vacuum at low engine load, yet you have to keep the exhaust valve open too, because otherwise the piston sucks open either the intake or exhaust valve against the valve spring pressure...

In the EU product finder, i cannot specify a G56 equipped Atego anymore, even the 816 with 7.5 ton GVW and 156hp at 1800rpm lists a G90 six speed. The Atego ranges from 7.5 to 16 ton gvw with four and six pots from 156 to 299hp Off course in a pickup truck is a much lighter duty application.

After i bought it, i found that i bought the right year of Volvo D5 diesel. They prescribed 0w/30 low friction fuel saving engine oil from 2006 onwards, had cam wear problems, and they increased the lobe hardening from 2007 onwards. It used quite some more oil with 360.000km than my previous...

Guy i know has a Ram 1500 Hemi. He had cylinder deactivation, deactivated, because he says its a source of expensive breakdowns... And its not near as efficient as downsizing + forced induction because that piston is still displacing air when its slamming up and down 25 times per second at 1500rpm.

It should have. Because it totally misses the point of the trend of replacing a V8 by an iine 6 which is downsizing + turbocharging to partially eliminate throttle loss. I used the diesel reference to illustrate throttle loss (which a diesel doesnt have) and that downsizing and forced induction...

And why is that ? A compression brake is called compression brake for a reason... and so is an exhaust brake. When Clessie Cummins invented the Jake brake after he sold his engine company (And had the Jacobsen drill chuck company produce it, hence Jake brake) it was 1957 and turbocharging wasnt...

Theres also ZF Passau. Same company, but their construction and agriculture production location. I havent dealt with Friedrichshafen, only with Passau.

Cool story, but they forget the most important reason: Apart from the lower thermal efficency inherent to a lower compression ratio, the other big factor in efficiency difference with a diesel engine is, that a diesel controls its speed by adjusting the fuel delivery, and gasoline engine...

Only in North America, where you got the gas derived Oldsmobile 5.7 diesel with barely more power than a 3 liter Mercedes OM617A of the same vintage but barely a third of its lifespan, and Cummins and Cat made cheap undersquare high speed V8s in the late 60s for medium truck buyers who rather...

Off course Benz began selling the Sprinter under Mercedes Benz name when they quit cooperation with Chrysler who sold them as Dodge, so when FiatChrysler started to sell the Fiat Ducato as Ram ProMaster, i guess they didnt want to help their now competitor... I think Ram also used a manual 6...

Yup, Italian companies like to have a mailbox in Holland so they can evade tax. Italians use it against us everytime we bail out their banks or sponsor their government and we tell them this wouldnt happen if Italian citizens payd the same tax rates as Northern Europeans...

Saab operated at a loss when GM bought it and they couldnt change that. So in 2010 they sold it to Victor Muller, a millionaire who thought he could make his supercar brand Spyker profitable if he could purchase in bulk. But within a year, Saab went bankrupt, and Spyker went in and out of it...

I have built that reputation too... yet now i have to live up to it 😏

The Hilux and Landcruiser you guys cant get... Now, how American built Toyotas got that reputation, thats the question...

My neighbour took delivery of one in March. He had to wait a year for delivery.

Another hitch failure. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/wDX5oqDvdmqQSGUz/

Ive seen chunks of beam tore out of the frame because the air spring hangers were wrought out in turns, because no gussets were added in the I beam above them.

...without gusseting the I beam so so all the weight pushes into the vertical flange..

It sure looks like it. The weld broke clean off the plate, with little penetration. Looks like a top down weld instead of an underhand weld with the trailer rolled in its side for access.

For those who dont know them, Mato of Germany makes screw type grease cartridges, that you just screw the endcap off, screw it into the grease gun and start greasing. De aeration is seldomly required, and if it does i put it over a pipe to press the air through before the pump sucks the grease...

Kids are like birds: The young squeel like the elders sing. My friends 4 year old yelled through the open window about a guy in a pickup with open pipe at the traffic lights next to them "Look pa, that guy has a small wiener !" Guy sat there waiting for a green light with a **** eating grin 🤪

Some care about looks, others dont. Ive hauled 10k behind my V70 diesel, though 7k is still safe for the highway. Its not a race, i can keep up with the big rigs and i dont want to hurry more than that either when hauling heavy...

No but you have missed the bucket quick attach. Once you have that, you hardly take the loader off, just drop the bucket off to gain manoeverability. And once the quick attach is on the loader, you will start fabricating pallet forks, jibs, brush forks and what not, for it.

The rim is folded over (thick) enough to weld some rails to it. The drum itself, when i wanted a burn barrel i used use the stick welder as a thermal lance to burn the endplates out. Thickness of a barrel is really nothing..

That has to do with the ratio between what your steering orbitrol puts out per revolution, and the volumetric capacity of your steering cylinder. So your steering cylinder is a bit small compared to thr JD 318 On fast roadgoing tractors you wouldnt want less than 3 revolutions lock to lock or...

Those 200w panels will have their own controllers ? Putting different capacity, or even just different age panels on the same inverter/controller, will draw them all to the capacity of the lowest panel, i am told.

I just slide them off, slide back on upside down and yank them back the same way i bent them. When doing that right away, you'll have a good feel of how much force is required.

A page from "Soil dynamics in tillage and traction" issued January 1968 by the US department of agriculture

Back in the old days, people made dumpcarts by putting a gravity dump box from old narrow gauge rail trolleys that were used to manually dig canals. They took WW2 army surplus axles, scrapped the rail wheels and put the dumpbin on that axle, to move earth at reparcelling operations in the 60s...

We used to have a belt driven firewood saw which used to be a fodder beet cutter. We cut off the wheel arm of an old Fiat, welded that wheel against the belt pulley and flanged a PTO stub between the lug nuts and wheel.

Just add another one on the back to bend it back. Or put another forklift under the bend, the truck is scrap anyway.

And they still couldnt grade into the corners...

My last S70 had that option. When the wiper arm broke i took both off and tied the washer fluid hose shut with a zip tie. My 850 and previous S70 didnt have them.

In that game, mud runner, or truck simulator, anything is possible...

Thats not bent pipe, thats a 90 degree hose fitting, of the shelf.

In Europe we have the oak processionary, caterpillars whose hairs cause a burning rash when they drop down on you, or suffocate dogs when their throat swells shut when they eat them. Municipalities suck them up with a slurry tanker half full of water, or use orchard sprayers to jet a mist of...

The ticking you hear is a sideshift hose ticking against the PTO shaft, so i turned it off before it grabbed... otherwise no funny noises😅 I just need to install an extra remote valve before i can stick those sideshift hoses somewhere safe 😉

All right i made it dirty. Luckily the rotor wasnt bent, it ran without vibration. The reduction gearbox from the silage spreader didnt make weird noises either, now its ran at 5 times the output speed. Now i can take the pitman arm out of the folding mechanism, paint it, and drill grease zerks...

Barely broken in. Not comparable to the plow truck Haydude is looking for.

At 300rpm the power surges are less than a baler at 75 strokes per minute. Next to that, they are usually belt driven which softens driveline vibrations.

My mate was helping another mate who married to the West of the country, which is more or less city to city with a single farm between them. His inlaws said, it seems youre getting used to the city west ! No, he said, tomorrow night i take off with screeching tires back east. They looked...

Sounds like France: Its a beatiful country actually... unfortunately, lots of French live there.

Its just protecting the ignorant from getting in way over their head. Here in Holland theres a TV show called "help, my husband is DIY" where the wife calls a construction crew with a camera crew to help finish stranded house remodeling projects. And those are simple projects like adding a...

At my apprentice company they welded cow fencing for the neighboring firm (nowadays its outsourced to Poland) and they used such positioner to weld self feeding fence main posts. Just a high reduction industrial reduction with motor, a lathe three-jaw and a potentiometer to control the speed...

If you have to ask the TBN community if you can, you cant. You dont get the discounts a contractor gets at the wholesalers, youre going to make costly mistakes, such as pouring concrete floors first and find out you forgot some plumbing or conduit that had to be cast in, and the such. Once...

I developed a slurry macerator for a company 8 years ago. I also built the exhibition model, opened to show the inner workings, running by a small hydraulic unit inside its pedestal. I contacted my first employer, a maker of stainless steel restaurant and canteen kitchens. I remember they could...

My advice: Ask a price to build the house casco: Wind and water tight, then you can finish the rest. The contractor is responsible for the structural things such as, that the building is footed on solid ground (my sisters house they had to dig to 6 feet to find solid sand, because they hit an...

Got the roller mounted, and the new flails.had to grind through the rollpins and smash it in the middle to break the rust fit free, then i could tap them out. I replaced them with M12x90 class 10.9 bolts, so next time i have less work taking them out: A single stroke of the grinder should...

Thats how plow trucks end up.

Yeah, they were definately used up..

Got the gearbox mounted: I stuffed the 6 splined PTO sleeve full of copper grease, so that it wont slam out overtime. The thick stuff did make it necessary to use a rubber hammer. Anyways, i'll touch up the paint when its all done anyway. You can see the Hemos flail head is intended for an...

Snow plowing sounds to me like a job for a beater. I welded new structural tubes and somr floor sheets in an International 744 XL cab a few years ago. Guy bought it off a contractor who used it on a salt spreader. He asked me to make it safe again because he bumped his chin when he stepped on...

I drive 36.000 km a year on my Volvo. I bought a rubber trunk mat with upward edges for it, so i also use it like you guys use your pickup trucks. When the mat gets mud or oil on it, i just throw it out and hose it down. I meant, 36.000km sounds a lot if only used for vacation trips. Unless the...

Install bow thrusters on the F350 for manoevering, an aircraft carrier has them too..

What year ? 36.000 miles to just pull a camper a few times a year sounds like a 5 year old truck ?

Most cars come with that from the factory nowadays. Only Ford did a recall on Modeos and Focuses the let the dealer coat the inside of the doors because some rusted before the warranty expired. The commercial underbody coater is extinct here for 30 years...

I only wash it in spring. My previous Volvo was 23 years old with no rust on the panels, and just some minor rust on the unibody reinforcement rails where the towhitch is bolted to. Rust is a problem found in Europe only 20 year old cars when environmental rules forced manufacturers to try...

Unimog ? Or wheel loader ?

Got the topcoat on ! Tomorrow my job calls again. Saturday it will be dry enough so that i can mount the rotor. The headstock with side swing must wait till later, because i need it to run at January 13th. The road here, has no verge, the asphalt borders directly to privately owned bushes and...

Thats a dirty mess you dont want to be involved in. My father (going on 81 in March) says your reputation is your most prized posession. If you prove yourself trustworthy to a lot of people, slander behind your back will simply not be believed when it comes from the mouth of untrustworthy...

You pass to the next round ! Flawless ! I bet your heavy duty build (sheer mass) and your hydrostatic transmission with inching capabilities help keeping it much more stabile than i ever imagined.

Hmm i hear rats between the roof... oh no, Kira just woke up under the steel rack..

I lit the heater with open doors. Darn how dusty, brushing the rust off the inside with a wire wheel... People are already lighting firecrackers which the dog hates, so she was under the old tractor cab in the back of the shed. When i went for coffee at the neighbour, i went back for the dog...

Here in Europe we have the same problem with legislation from Brussels (European Union) They even limited the power of vacuum cleaners to 1700 Watt, to enforce lowering energy consumption. And now the sucker wont suck !!

True, in Europe, Scania even offered both EGR/DPF as well as SCR solutions for Euro 4, the customer could choose. Both systems were equally and thoroughly evaluated in real life, years before the US. During the same time, Navistar was filing complaints at the EPA that SCR systems proposed by...

IH could comply, but the CEO was stupid stubborn by going against his engineers. Cummins luck was that they had aquired experience with SCR because their European branch adapted to the local market. All other US engine manufacturers quit or were bought by Europeans. Deere changed their mind...

Are you implying that the EPA is an enemy of the people per say? They might invent new rules and legislations because they want job security, but think of this: Whenever i drive behind an 80s carbureted car, i either overtake them or follow 50 meters behind them. Sometimes i need these...

https://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/04/only-in-california-politically-correct.html?m=1 The EPA, the IPPC, and other organisations for which alarmism means job security, are certainly not without controversies. Now dont get me wrong, once you dive into the alternative news sources, you read a lot...

I used to have my brothers welder at the workshop at my parents farm. It could be operated at either 230 or 400v, however it just shifted the null to another phase, making it a 2 phase welder. My brother payd 700 euro, and i payd 350 euro repair cost in 3 years. When i got a loaner, a 3 phase...

It used to be 220/380v depending whether phase and a null (220V) or three phase (380V) Later it changed to 230/400V. I am not sure but they might be aiming for 240V meanwhile, but they do it gradually so people wont notice why electrical appliances start failing...

When we built five beach landing wheel loaders for the military back in 2012, jet fuel compatibility was one of the demands. The JD Tier 3A common rail engines could handle it, when an additive was mixed in to lube the rail pressure pump.

The Russian tank engine is 90 years old. In the T-90 they use the same basic engine as in the T-34 that fought WW2. It was designed as an aluminium 4 valve per cylinder diesel V12 originally intended for aircraft, however it turned out to become too heavy to fly.The Soviet refineries could not...

To be powered by a Cat C3.6 diesel genset at 140hp. Accelerating it can deliver far greater power from the battery, but at cruise speed the generator only runs at peak efficiency, with far easier enission aftertreatment because of constant engine rpm, when needed. The batteries arent intended to...

Political power is already hitting a brick wall in Europe. They subsidized solar panels and heat pumps. Works fine as long as the government forces the energy company to take back your excess solar for the same price as they sell a KwH when the sun dont shine. Because the fixed cost of a grid...

Me neither, but from my payloader days i remember them having 20% less capacity due to the buckets own weight. Especially with a triple boom with extended reach, i would save the lift capacity for payload.. Especially the moving jaw of a 4 in one, has to be double walled for strength, thereby...

Thats just a gut feeling: In the end of the day, your cab is your safety structure. A hood and a radiator arent much of a crumple zone. Especially when, apparently, rear underride prevention bars on the back of a trailer arent mandatory in North America...? In Europe a 5x5" square tube is...

4 in 1 buckets are much heavier, they reduce the capacity quite a bit. You know the thumbs that are very common in North America? In Holland its either a wide ditching bucket for grading, a skeleton bucket for stone digging, or a sorting grab for other jobs, we dont have thumbs, but its...

On your backhoe ?

Around New York there are still a bunch of Scanias sold there from 1985 to... mid 90s. The problem was the weight, as Europe allows higher GVW as well as higher axle weights and the trucks are built accordingly. Therefor Scania focused on states with higher GVW ratings in 1985, but they never...

Navistar is now owned by Traton, a VW subsidiary that also owns MAN and Scania. Undoubtedly the other MAN engines will end up in Navistar as well. And given the hype around Youtuber Bruce Wilson, who imported a Scania from Europe through Canada, the US may be ready for a re-entry of Scania...

Are you going to insulate it with fire brick? I built a shop heater two years ago, double walled with Perlite around the core. This aft i discovered that the baffle to deflect the flame into the heat exchanger, made out of 4mm (5/32) plate, sags down because it got so hot that it became...

What is your background, if i may ask ? Auto or aircraft environment? I dont know many people who actually torque stuff, most just hit it with the impact gun while mumbling "thats not goin' anywhere" 😆👍 I cant wait to see a video of your test run !

As promised, sloooooww progress. As said, the previous tilt arm bracket pinhole drilled 30mm turned out 31mm. So i picked up steel to make a new one, drilled 29mm... to measure exactly 29mm hole diameter.🙈 So i ground my 30mm drill precise, drilled the hole out with lots of lube, and got a...

https://verachtert.nl/graafmachines/snelwissels/snelwissel-cw CW system too, but its built more compact, with less loss of breakout force. Its an earthmoving oriented system: With heavy shears and crushers in demolition works, (lifting rather than pushing) it is loaded the wrong way, and...

Here in Holland we predominantly have Verachtert CW system, in different sizes. Cat bought the company, it serves the home market under its old name and worldwide markets as Cat Worktools. Traditional pin grabber couplings like you have in the States are next to nonexistent, though the...

Very interesting !! I have been thinking about building it simple like that, but thought it wouldnt work. All stump grinders here in Europe are heavy duty commercial ones with outriggers for a firm stance. And it works good on a 20hp compact too.. i have 60hp at my disposal. I am just not...

I hope for you that it works the way you envision. A chainsaw has depth gauges, preventing the chisels from biting too much and stalling the engine. I dont have experience with stump cutters, but i would rather have a slip clutch in the PTO shaft as driveline protection, and have the cutter...

Got the gearbox mounted. I need to take it off together with its mounting plate, so i will bolt it to the body with three M16 bolts. The mounting plate will need some reinforcement ribs because the four XPB belts will pull harder on it than a PTO shaft would, in the gearbox' original...

Whats the plan with this hinge, do you want to tilt the cutter head a bit to provide controlled depth of cut, without using the tractor gears ?

Try swapping the tilt and lift lines on the valve block. It is very likely that the valve sections have a safety relief behind the valves, so that it releases oil if you exceed the cylinder pressure by mechanical advantage, just like earthmoving machinery has. Swapping the hoses at the valves...

Because i use a smaller diameter pulley, the belts are going to get too close for comfort, to the bolt heads of the guard bracket. I was thinking of machining down a drill shaft so i could drive it through the M8 hole, or lathing an adapter with thin shaft which clamps the drill with a bolt...

My colleague at work milled a hole in the gearbox mounting bracket. Or milled it clean after i torched the center out. Then i had to torch another hole in the mounting plate so i could undo the bearing clamp in the future.

....so i cut the rearmost arm off to move it 1 1/4 inch forward, and chamfered the forward arm because it was already on the front edge of the mower body... This time the shaft lines up nicely.

Nice work !

The torque of a gas engine (none) and no low range, severely limits the usefulness of the N series. Before WW2 most popular tractors here were Lanz Bulldog hotbulbs. They didnt have many gears, but once they stalled, you pushed the clutch, waited for the flywheel to pick up speed, and then have...

Too bad he isnt so active on Youtube. Watching him like this, you see a regular guy without the bla bla from TV.

The European version, of the Norwegian tow truck companies, is still entertaining. Much less added drama than the American version. If you watch Bobby Goodsons logging channel on Youtube you will see how much more real that is. He commented once, that the reason he stopped with Discovery is...

You guys dont have a mandatory tachograph in the trucks, registering drive and rest hours ? Here in Europe they check if you keep your mandatory rest periods, and dont exceed daily driving hours. Too many people got killed by truckers that fell asleep behind the wheel, so since 1974 an analog...

At a car dealership, or at a turbo rebuild specialist ?

No it didnt push him sideways. The car just got under his tires. If the tractor had an H beam around the perimeter preventing the tires from grabbing the side of the car, the tractor would have pushed the car away without a flinch.

He steered his rear tires against the cop car, climbing atop and throwing him over.

I am an engineer, others work by my plans. And sometimes they think theres an easier way and deviate from the plan, to discover later on that things dont work out in the end. I shared my fault in the WhatsApp group from work, admitting that even an engineer should stick to the plan when hes...

The drawback of long drawn out jobs is that you forget the plan: 2 months ago i figured the rearmost arm should be welded against the backside of the existing vertical C channel reinforcement so the gearbox will line up to the pulley. 2 weeks ago i started fabricating, saw that the flail...

We filled the potholes on our companies parking lot this spring with crushed rock: Went well all summer, till it started to rain last week and every hole washed out. I would rather use the ripper to cut the holes out so that the gravel that fills them in, can interlock with the existing...

I assume you know you have to slowly move cylinders back and forth to get oil in them, and not press it with full force against the end stroke untill all air is out ? We once had to repack the cylinders of a brand new wheel loader because the new guy forced the air along the dry piston seals...

Yeah, i was always in awe what they can with a 150 ton demolition rig, compared to how shaky i operate my Bobcat backhoe attachment. Untill i had to take some measurements on a big Hitachi triple boom in the yard and moved the boom to ground level myself... Well, once youve experienced the...

Another saturday of slow progress: after i welded the arms, i welded the bushes on their ends. Whatever the arms would warp during welding wont effect the bushing alignment when i weld them last. Pins installed, the trolley crane is pure joy, even when its only two directional because this old...

Got a little progress last saturday. My coworker milled the radius in the 2 by 4 tubes so i didnt have to do it with an angle grinder, creating large gaps that need to be welded and distort uneven. This still needs some gusseting, and once those welds are cold i will weld the bushings in the...

Here in Europe they sell coil trailers, curtainsiders with a coil trench between the chassis rails. One has to bump it 6 to 8 inches over the front crossmember to have it end up in the cab.

Here, when we give up on the truck parts, we strip the front end and beat the frame rails into a V towbar.

Or urban legend.

Red hot nuts and inner races dont weld together untill you stop so they can cool down and fuse. Then it takes a lot of determination to shear a castle nut cotter pin, with that much resistance when you take off. I have split wheel hubs and even transmission casings when bearings jammed, but...

How can the bearing inner race weld to the nut and not to the shaft, which is already a pressfit ? 🤷‍♂️

Over here, its mostly grossly overloaded, poorly maintained single axle trailers without brakes, light nor tag that gets overloaded by folks that have absolutely no clue what dirt weighs, untill they bust a wheel bearing. Then they turn out to weigh twice the 1500 pounds they are allowed on a...

My brother in law had one when he dated my oldest sister. And a neighbour has one, an 87 1.3 three door swapped with a 2 liter Blacktop engine from a Mondeo. 135hp is pretty wild for an 800kg car.

Thats why i dont borrow or lend trailers anymore. Just me and my mate use it. Got tired with all the surprises on the road with borrowed trailers. Borrowed by me, or borrowed from me doesnt matter, theres always something broken.

An incremental fatigue break looks a lot like a violent and sudden cast metal break. In the 1.5 years i worked in the spring steel plant my eye wasnt trained enough to distinguish initiation point, incremental fatigue crack, and sudden final break like the test engineer could...

One 3/4" pin perpendicular to the travel direction, and two bolts to tighten it along the travel direction, both higher than the height adjusting pin... this will never be tight, there will always be elastic deformation which causes fatigue.

Flight simulator without the weight of 200 lives on your decisions...

We did that all the time in the park when we rode the bicycle 11 miles to school...

Thats lucky... ive seen a car with a truck tire that replaced its left front tire, and further on, a truck that lost a dual. A truck wheel at full speed can make quite an impact, youre lucky if it rides up over top of you, in worst case it comes through your windshield and kills you. In this...

You dont need a mud truck to do that. Ive seen an Opel Astra with its rear wheels on the hood on some sort of Citroën 10 years ago. Both braked hard, the hit helped the Astra bump up on top of the hood.