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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.

Last Wednesday (my "resting day" because of my head injury) i put the headstock in the shop, so i can look at it when im drinking a beer in the shop when i cant sleep at night

Yep. 1 inch web, 4 inch flange. 60 tons of ballast, on a barge offshore. 2 years ago a customer threw our one size smaller, the 180 ton and 20ft wide over the tracks, on its side. Only structural damage was a dent in the counterweight. 😏

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Under/overestimating its own competence in relation to peers is well documented in the field of psychology by Dunning and Kruger, even though it was noted thousand years ago. A Greek philosopher already said " the fools speak with...

My trailer weighs 2000 pounds empty... :)

I design (among others) excavator chassis for high reach demolition rigs. Thickest flange i used so far was 4" For booms we like full bevel on longitudinal welds too, just to avoid the fatigue crack initiation point in the root of a simple corner weld. I know the case, it often appears on...

Ive built tilt decks in the past but i only like them single axle behind a farm tractor with a mini excavator on top with 20 to 25% tongue weight. For high speed use and 5-10% tongue weight, torsion axle tandem, all they do is rattle. Built my own trailer on lower 195/50R13C wheels to get the...

Ive seen the local farm machinery manufacturer slide from their No.1 position in silage trailers. They used to build a very robust silage trailer in the 80s and 90s by using the next size up in C channel that their competitor used. But they stuck with the mindset of using big beams. An...

For your information, www.zetorworld.com is officially back since last month. It took Joachim a while to find a programmer who could automate the process of transferring all the old content to a new database. Http://www.zetorworld.com

What did you load, steel beams flat on the deck, or a tractor ? I definately wouldnt want to drive a high center of gravity load like a tractor, with a tilt bed that doesnt latch. Even with 1600 pounds tongue weight, the tilt bed can snap up and down at a bump. The rental company just didnt...

I remember being in Canada in 2005 when my cousin had a new neighbour fresh out of Holland, "oh, you dont have a pickup truck yet, eh? How are you going to get the fert spreader at the co-op ?" Well he brought a 40kmh Maxxum 5120 from Holland (its better to bring capital goods when you...

Germans like to flash the high beam and blind you for half a second to warn you that your lights are too high and blinding oncoming traffic. You will adjust them down soon enough.

Cause i like to tow tongue heavy. With adjustable headlights, cops dont realise that i tow 7k when oncoming.

I like that. Adjustable headlight height will compensate for tongue weight. Porpoising ? Then you might consider HD shocks.

No problems so far with my Volvo V70 diesel. Towed 10k, no problem.

Here in Europe the rule of thumb is 5%. Though the 3500kg (7750lb) approved ball hitches have an approved vertical load of 250kg or 550 lb which is 7% In stability, height of the center of gravity is also very important, a high center of gravity at speed can create negative tongue weight.

The only progress so far: My neighbour lathed some hinges and pins, and i welded the head plates to it. June 6th 2022 i broke my skull and incurred a brain injury, which is VERY slow to heal and i barely manage to spend half days at work. It has its constant ups and downs. But rest assured, i...

...either way, i would first consider mechanical play and elasticity on your main pivot and swing cylinders before blowing money on hydraulic tightness, trying to get the sophistication of an excavator on a simple backhoe.

Then you would still have the elasticity of the lines connecting the two cylinders. Check valves should be mounted on each cylinder with steel lines to make them as stiff as possible. What happens AFTER the check valves is irrelevant, you can use hoses to connect both checkvalves to the main...

Your LaRo engine, the 2.5 is a 5 pot or a 4 pot ? Industrial engines have a different governor, with an rpm corrector which gives more fuel when the rpm drop under load. A 4 cylinder fuel pump from a tractor would be easy to find when down the road, you find the on-road governor doesnt work...

You will definately need a 2 to 1 box because that LaRo engine doesnt do it at 1100hp... it has no coolant flow and it doesnt have the airflow to spool the turbo. At 1100rpm it may have 25hp without the turbo spooling. At 1800rpm youre right at peak torque where the engine runs clean, lean and...

I pushed my first boss after graduation to the point of almost hitting me, when he couldnt win the argument about the promises he made when he hired me. I laughed at him and invited him to hit me so i could file a complaint and bring him some serious trouble. That job lasted two days. Sometimes...

...and you came back pretending it never happened ?

When i've burnt a drill bit in a hole, i always flip the workpiece in the vise after sharpening. This way the work hardened hole surface doesnt have to be drilled at once, but with the 118 degree top angle from the other side means the hardened surface is at 124 degree angle to the drill bit...

It will never be ideal, at max stroke the cylinders will always counterpush, but since they are almost dead on the boom swing hinge it doesnt really matter.

Not much progress. Last week i put a new garden gate in my friend and his neighbours garden wall, but in the 60s they put the foundation less than a foot deep and 8 inches wide. Now we cut the 1960s door opening of 3 feet to 4 feet, the T part of the wall isnt stabile enough and shakes, so early...

My neighbour just drags a rebar mesh behind his Kioti to flatten mole heaps and to spread the goat **** after a pasture is grazed.

Because of town fair, my shop neighbour (who lives in town) didnt pick up his phone so i had to get my lathe work done elsewhere. When i picked up an arm full of bearings and seals, i asked the young self employed farm equipment repairman if i could rent his lathe. He said 30 euro an hour. I...

Chinese tillers, mowers, anything, is suitable for little Kubotas. My neighbour bought a finish mower which he uses for pasture topping behind a Deutz D25 two pot. He burns a belt every season....

So... after grinding the weld off the spline sleeve to which the previous owner attached the hydraulic motor, welding an M16 nut to it and screwing an M16 rod in it to push the sleeve out, i found that they had it drilled out so there is no splines of any sort to work with. Also, the bearing...

She will settle for a pet, though in the rain she stinks like a wet dog. 😏

Picked it out of the nettles, put it in the shop and put the least noisy angle gearbox next to it. Before sunday i want to know the splines of the rotor, whether i can slide the 6 spline PTO shaft right in, or that i will have to make an adapter from 6 spline farm shaft to single key...

It was 8 years ago that i bought a municipal heavy duty flail mower, from a guy who mounted it on his wheeled 13 ton excavator but took it off again when it turned out to be so heavy that it kept pulling him towards the ditch. He bought a much lighter model on his excavator, so i got the mowing...

....and double the noise... We had a sawmill made of an old fodder beet cutter, our neighbour had it running off the threshing pulley on his first tractor. We welded a car hub with rubber tire against the belt and bolted a PTO stub between wheel nuts and rim. With the tractor in ground speed...

I had a breaker bar which i tore the half inch square in a half inch to 3/4" adapter with a 36mm socket trying to unscrew a driveshaft. I welded a pipe to it and found it much easier to bring the blow to the nut, so since then ive made several of these socket wrenches from surplus half inch...

I suppose you mean 17 grain (1.1 gram) Good to hear that the 10 round magazine holds up. Can you use any size of pellet, or can the magazine only take standard pellets ?

I know, i read all about it last week. .177 bullets will fire supersonic and will be inaccurate when they become subsonic again. You dont want the sonic transition, you want to travel the trajectory either subsonic or supersonic, so pellet weight must be adjusted to the guns energy. Meaning...

Yup, but they are all banned. Only certified pest controllers can buy it since January 1st, which means that nobody baits rats anymore, they all wait for the neighbour who has most trouble from them, to call pest control. Which means that there are a lot more rats around.

Nobody said whose life. I wonder that with Snap-on too, guarantee for my lifetime, or will they say "well its dead. Warranty expired" 🤣🤣

I just thought lets Google BB ammo... its just ordinary balls ! Well that clears it up. I dont think they even sell that here, unless its plastic balls for Airsoft shooting...

In Holland, they are very fussy about fire arms, but there is no regulation on air guns, unlike neighbouring countries. Just to be clear: My nephews in Canada had BB guns, but they were shooting the same diabolo type ammo as we shoot an air rifle. Is there a difference between pellets and BB ...

Thats why the Merc Sprinter (and any other vehicle in the same weight class i have been around when i worked in body construction) has a load adjuster, which adjusts rear axle brake force to the load (spring deflection)

My neighbour has a Weihrauch HW97 which is an under spanner (you dont pull the barrel but a handlebar below it) which weighs 4kg and shoots remarkably stable and true. Its 24 Joule i believe. Older springers often get sloppy in the barrel lock and therefor shoot all over the place, which is why...

Looks like the grease pot on the water pump bearing of my Zetor 3011. You just turn the pot half a turn every week to relube the pump bearings. After it went after 50 years, the modern replacement has sealed-for-life bearings.

Off course you guys in North America have .25 rimfire rifles to kill anything sized between a rat and a cat. In Europe we need to be member of a shooting range, the other guys must vouch for you that youre sane and want a gun for the right reasons, before you get a weapons permit. Then the...

Quality control is still a human activity. When i order a custom excavator slew bearing in Southern Germany, right next to the Czech border, our supplier calls me and tells a dowel hole is .053mm out of tolerance. "Do we need to rework that, or do you give permission to carry on ?" Then i tell...

It DOES work perfectly on a cleared runway... Actually it works perfect in every situation except braking in fresh snow on summer tires. Since i keep a set of winter tires with soft rubber and different thread for the odd week it snows here, ABS hasnt bothered me anymore when driving on fresh...

The French plant of wheeled excavators for Cat couldnt keep up with demand, so they moved assembly of the most popular model, the M314, to China where their tracked excavators are made too. A service tech of the Dutch importer said they noticed the warranty and service calls of the Chinese...

I bought some rail wheels for a sliding barn door. One of thems bearings didnt roll smooth when new so i replaced them. I thought West Germany, thats odd, Germany has been reunited for 34 years. Looking better, i read "Welt Germany" with which the Chinese apparently do not infringe any laws...

That makes sense. Some people are willing to pay the price if they have a say in the design, especially when you have some other builds that show your style of work, as a reference.

If you put it up for sale, you would never get payd for the hours designing it, perhaps just break even for the materials bought at retail prices. Thats why i let others (our salesmen at work) take care of selling my design time, and at home i work with just a sketch and use whatever scrap steel...

That was what i noticed as well: dry loose clumpy dirt doesnt cut nor roll well. Miskin even put an air blast in the blade to make it roll into the scraper bowl instead of drag in front of it.

Your projects remind my of my Canadian cousin who took part in the local tractor pull with a Massey Harris 44. He got his hands on a cracked cylinder head, put it under the mill at work and milled it untill the coolant channels became open. Then he took his good head and milled slightly less...

My mate has ordered a brand new selfloading silage wagon for season 2024. He ordered it with combi boosters so he can pull it with both tractors as only one has air brakes. https://www.indi.nl/nl-nl/p/Remcilinder-dual-T24-EPL25/60-stang-25mm-L-185mm-BCDT2425 Often, new farm trailers with air...

True, since a year or two, the EU mother regulation took effect with regards to brake pedal force versus stopping power. More or less every farm tractor has air brakes as standard now. Costs a bit but saves lives as everything runs 50kmh and may weigh up to 60 ton (though some weigh 75 ton...

Thats what i meant. And when youre in a densely populated country, which means mostly city driving, with city drivers cutting you off, you want to feel secure.

Indeed. They never functioned good for long in our experience and i find all these systems hack jobs. The North American systems that do get sold here are electric over hydraulic, albeit at a different price level. Good. No need to ask me questions of which you dont want to hear the answer...

Whether you like it or not, ALL current US truck engine technology comes from Europe: Detroit builds Mercedes engines, Navistar produces MAN designs, Volvo is Swedish anyway, Paccar engines are developed in my home country by Daf. And Cummins took the lead when the other American manufacturers...

Yeah, thats a counterproductive rule... Here in Europe, we have air brakes on just about anything, while America is sticking to (most of the time) barely adequate electric brakes... When i read people on TBN say that a one ton truck is better because the truck is doing most of the brake work...

Putting the top link at the lowest hole kn the tractor and a high hole on the ripper will cause it to not properly engage: the points will swing forward when you drop it to the ground, so the draft force will push it out of the ground. Ive also had when the left lift arm rode in the top of the...

Draft control wont help you subsoiling, the legs extending so far down puts too much pressure on the top link to make it do other than simply lift your implement. A plough is much longer, creating different draft control dynamics.

"Where we haul a lot of loads" i guess the OP doesnt run grain trucks or 300hp tractors on row crop tires in his veggie plot, so he doesnt have packed headlands... What kind of ripper do you use, a pull type, which puts the weight of the soil being lifted on the implement wheels or crumbler...

Have you used it already ? It pulls easiest if you make the 3rd leg staggered, which makes it easier to compress the soil sideways inbetween the shanks. We used to borrow a grassland subsoiler with a disk coulter in front, and a foot wide steel roller behind each leg. It was a two leg machine...

Thats allmost the same as the 9 shank Jako cultivator we borrowed from the neighbour. It took all 55 hp of our Zetor 5245 to bury it to the frame. Off course it weighs 3 times as much as this Landini which aids traction... Given the tape measure he holds beside it, its barely putting the...

As a rule of thumb, you need tine spacing roughly equal to the intended working depth. So you'd end up overlapping half passes to break up the full field. The chisel must have a point edge (beveled upwards) and be at 20 to 30 degree angle, which is the optimum between draft resistance, and...

I once rear ended a car in a highway traffic jam. The guy braked very hard for a chain crash in front of him: So hard that he only got damage on the rear and saved his front. The five cars in front of us were not so lucky, one bumped under the rear of another and the driver let himself slide...

Wrong. Hit the back of your head at the brain stem and you'll die on the spot, because the autonomous nerve system controlling breath and heart resides there. I knew a woman who fell from the stair while visiting her elderly father and died instantly. Her stepmother, also in her 70s, died the...

If your vehicle wasnt there in front of them, they wouldnt have damage at all... Dont know about the law where you live, but here the one rear ending another is fault, unless the vehicle rear ended was backing up or can be proven to have been brake checking the other. In some instances the law...

A Unimog has portal axles for that reason. Although the diff is still the lowest point, they are lifted high enough to not get the chassis highcentered on a bump. Ground clearance under the axle is important, but especially on a long wheelbase truck, isnt what gets you stuck on a trail.

My friend drove behind a milk collection truck and saw him ride an oncoming car off a narrow road on a dike with big oaks on both sides. The car had to duck between two big trees to avoid collision and could barely stop before hitting a tree, and continued to lean over in the corner after the...

20 years ago i worked a few months at a local branch of road paving contractor. One lowbed driver consequently put a classic 60s era bicycle on the middle of his trailer, tied down with four heavy straps, just to catch stares and smiles 😅

Yeah we brought home a heavy Welger baler like that. My S70 busted its alternator so we took dads Mondeo. We didnt go past 70kmh because the off center of gravity made it ride unstable in crosswinds. Anyways it was loaded in reverse so the pickup stuck out into the road side and it was dark so...

Saw a load of sheetrock gypsum, tied down over the front board. The top sheet broke under the strap and was blown over, and the rest followed before the guys noticed. It was a mess.

Mine is rated 3970 pounds too, here. Manages 10k fine though...

You dont want a sticky load that doesnt slide off, to lift the back of your truck or tractor when dumping. I had that twice, once with a load of stumps that got stuck behind the tailgate, and once with a sticky load of topsoil. You get that dumb look on your face when the tractor rear end slowly...

You will receive much hate from the green left proletariate in Holland. Much, much more than in North America...

Yup.. Last time i was cut off it was by a middle aged man in a small Renault family wagon/minivan. I was thinking he must be the office *****, taking his agression of being pecked on by colleagues out into traffic....

A V70 diesel here in Europe is concidered a big luxury vehicle, just under a big SUV. Driving an older BMW or Merc or Audi in the same class will get you hate, because those are bought by status sensitive types and you will be assumed to be just that. A V70 doesnt have that general...

A gray Volvo V70, like me 😄👌

At a certain length, wheelbase gives no more benefit in ride quality. Independent air suspension front axles do. https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-stories/stories/2013/mar/development-of-ifs.html

I'd say lack of driver impetus. Ive been to places with the FWD wagon folks with an SUV avoid... such as bringing a tow chain to the corn field where my friend has buried his 3700 gallon slurry tank with cultivator up to the axles. The ability to drive, and read terrain, makes a bigger...

I suppose hitches arent fatigue tested before approval in the USA like they are in Europe... This design simply wouldnt have made it, unless the single gusset was changed to two that were welded to the sides of the receiver tube on the neutral bend line. This gusset was a hell of a crack...

Ford F 750 ? Model 2024 with a max GVW of 37k ? Then the truck weighs 2.5 times the 14k trailer. The crane of 80 ton weighs 22 times the 3.5 ton tool trailer.

In Europe hitches are rated with a D value and an S value: S value is vertical load, D value is calculated from the weight of the trailer and the weight of the tow vehicle. For example, where i worked we made trailers to tow a concrete prefab slab clamp, a concrete hopper and some rigging bars...

I rebuilt my trailer a couple of years ago. Started the towbar right in front of the axles, acting as a cross tie for the entire trailer. Towed triple the rated tow load of my V70 more comfortably than a tin foil trailer at rated load. Fishtailing is worsened by the lack of lateral stability in...

Box trailers with a 1500kg capacity tailgate are a b*tch. To keep them on the road empty, you need the axle to the back to keep some 5th wheel weight. But people start loading them all the way to the front, overloading the tow vehicle rear axle when partially loaded. Back in my time we moved...

By the way, Daf trucks Australia is doing a field test with 10 Daf trucks equipped with the brand new Cummins X15D at 660hp. Though European trucks are getting more and more popular at long haul operators due to their automobile level finish and luxury, Daf was lagging behind the Germans and...

Norwegian Brøyt excavators had rubber wheels on the rear axle, and spiked steel wheels on the front axle. When it was blast day in the quarry, you could just push the bucket down into the bed of the rock truck and drive it away from the blast zone. At the load site it would just push itself...

Wheel wells. Pretty common on equipment trailers when a low loading height is required, but you dont want to haul the heavy chassis of a lowboy with its wheels behind the load https://www.broshuis.com/technique/wheel-wells/technique-wheel-wells

Heavy haulage is done here with Volvo FH16 750 or Scania R760 V8. Mercedes with the 15.6 liter OM 473 six pot (allmost the same as Detroit DD16) and the MAN D3872 at 15.2 liter up to 660hp generally do the heavy haulage up to 60-70 ton gcw. The Paccar MX11 at max 440hp is popular for tank...

Big rigs have 430hp to tow 80k gross. Pickups have 430hp to tow 25k gross and people complain about being underpowered. Then in Holland they haul 110k and in Scandinavia 132k

I assume those hills are only so steep on backroads where the speed limit is 30 anyways ?

When your only tool is a hammer, you go to see every problem as a nail. When your only vehicle is a pickup with a fragile and impractical tin foil bed, you want to put everything on a trailer. When you drive a commercial Isuzu with a real bed, you dont use a trailer often... (Or like me, when...

With electric motors and welders its about the ability to cool. With diesels, you can add radiators all you want but you will still wear piston rings and valves if you exceed the duty cycle too much. Thats exactly what Isuzu does: use a 5.1 liter long stroke engine at relatively low redline...

Diesel pickup trucks have Class 8 power, but they dont have the torque at cruising speed and neither the longevity. The NPR has an industrial duty diesel engine. Look at its CONSTANT POWER rating of 173hp at 1800rpm, despite its modest peak power of 190hp. This engine isnt made to drag race...

I only take the loader off for the local tractor pull. Otherwise i only take the QA bucket or pallet forks off.

Or you make a drawing to scale, and use a pair of compasses to determin where two radii meet at min and max stroke.

The size is irrelevant, only the combined thickness of the plates at the weld, the carbon equivalent, and the heat input, to determin whether preheating is advisable. AR400 is comparable to Hardox 400 i believe (Swedish Steel AB) but i dont have the CET and m my calculation sheet is Metric...

That sounds like my farm tractor exam at age 16. At age 18 you didnt need a license. Since a year or three there is a real tractor drivers license which takes practical lessons and exams (remember they drive 50kmh and often 50 ton GVW here and often take part in city traffic ) and the pool of...

My European perspective: Here in Europe we have a rule that the total combination of tow vehicle and trailer may not exceed 3500kg (roughly 7500 pounds) AND the trailer weight may not exceed the tow vehicles weight. Beyond that and you need a trailer license. And still, you see horse girls...

My foldable jackstands are my tire chocks. They fold against the rear light bar made of 3mm steel (at a previous employer we used exactly the same profile as DOT approved rear underrun protection) so they really only fold one way. So theres alaways weight on the jacks that prohibit forward...

I made foldable stands that can only fold forward. This way they never fold up when i drive onto the ramps so the combination cant take off. When i really load something heavy on uneven terrain, i simply reverse till they fold up, but usually they only touch the ground when driving on.

By whom ?

Short trailers are a b*tch to back up. 6 to 8 meter (20 to 26ft) hay wagons are most regular, which are easier because only the triangle will jackknife and not the trailer itself.

Truck frames crack from lateral forces too... just look at the rubber the trucks rear wheels lay down in corners... it needs a 4wd truck to pull it around the corner, because the rear wheels dont deliver much traction when they skid sideways... I'll stick to a hay wagon type trailer... If you...