Another Restoration Project

[aircommuter]

Break something OMG. Check out my old thread with my other crawler loader used 30 years in my business.
Title: my wife painted my tractor with a brush now what. Case tractor sold in 2016.

 

[Sportsman762]

The quality of your work is top notch. I really enjoy the detail you put into your projects and never settling for less than perfection. Your ability to re utilize stuff and making it look like factory is awesome. Keep the pictures and updates coming.

 

[aircommuter]

To answer an older question, what is the next project?

 

[aircommuter]

Well, I finished the VFD conversion on my lathe. So that allowed me to make the lower pins for the clam cylinders. I had reamed the worn cylinder base holes and the ears on the bucket as well. The pins are now ready made from 4160. Oversize to match the reaming and I drilled them and grooved them for grease fittings. Now to make the other stainless tube that supplies the clam cylinders.

 

[EddieWalker]

Loves seeing all your detailed photos of you work. To me, it's almost like science fiction seeing what you can create!!!!

 

[aircommuter]

Well working on the Massey has been on the back burner. Thinning trees and burning while the season permits is a front burner item. I did install the clam cylinders and hoses. Not much but more soon. I did make a poor video of it running. No one to operate the camera but me so it’s not great quality but at least it sounds good.

 

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Well working on the Massey has been on the back burner. Thinning trees and burning while the season permits is a front burner item. I did install the clam cylinders and hoses. Not much but more soon. I did make a poor video of it running. No one to operate the camera but me so it’s not great quality but at least it sounds good.

I never knew Massey ever made a crawler.
As usual, your work is as if you’ve caressed every part of the rebuild to have gently but decisively brought back the original glory of the machine.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like a brand new machine. Way too nice to get dirty!!!!

 

[aircommuter]

The poor Massey is awaiting my attention. Been doing stone work while the weather permits. While this isn’t a Massey it’s worth a couple laughs. This was my first restoration without many pictures since it was before the digital age. This was 1977. The original stabilizers didn’t fold up rather they came up part way then you had to manually telescope them in. So I made the ones you see including the cylinders. This was a four stick machine and I made linkage and levers to convert it. I also made the linkage and levers to make the loader one stick. Waukesha powered. The pins and bushings were so loose I cut out sections of the boom so I could put them in the lathe for repair then welded them back in.

 

[EddieWalker]

It scares me to see a backhoe without ROPS. Do you still have it?