JazzDad
Gold Member
I think we now know why the Scrapheap Challenge (in the States, Junkyard Wars) started where it did!
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Hi from the UK
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Metal Chicken,
So you must before the traffic lights on what was the 3 lane road they just resurfaced, and after the round about.
If memeory serves theres a JD dealer further back from there (if You turn at traffic lights)
I will be along there Monday on way to Chester for a Jobs fair somewhere near the town hall market area.
Just thought why not buy a longer ptp shaft cheaper and easier than converting- but maybe not as interesting.
Mith
Hydraulics supplier is www.howford-hydraulics.co.uk
email is either Sales@ or george@ If you do contact please mention me to him (John from Crewe) - His service is great
and he is practical and very knowledgable. I am not connected to him in anyway just agreat guy to deal with
I have been fortunate to find scrap cylinder £5 ea in a ex-ministry specialist scrap yard - that was about 2 yrs ago had a whole pallet full . Only 8" stroke d/a with unusual ball end on cylinder. these were unused surplus, unfortunately I only had about £20 on me at the time and I wanted a gerry can £5 as well!
Have you any details on that scarrifier - spring tines in particular where have you sourced them from.
I have not been back since but suspect will be well gone, must really take a ride out.
MC & Mith -- a thought - any milage in a 'small bulk' import of cheap bits from the US agri-fabs etc uk pricing is a pain.
Or indeed some of euro ones -Italian etc.
Have either of you been to the IOG show at Windsor - usually in first week september - meant to be trade but will let anyone in if you pre-book on the web and its FOC!!!!
Lots of great ideas and kit to look at + buy (sorry daft thought!)
To everyone else.
Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome, I will post some photo's of varoius bits - when I have mastered the digi cam on the right pc.
So you must before the traffic lights on what was the 3 lane road they just resurfaced, and after the round about.
If memeory serves theres a JD dealer further back from there (if You turn at traffic lights)
I will be along there Monday on way to Chester for a Jobs fair somewhere near the town hall market area.
Just thought why not buy a longer ptp shaft cheaper and easier than converting- but maybe not as interesting.
Mith
Hydraulics supplier is www.howford-hydraulics.co.uk
email is either Sales@ or george@ If you do contact please mention me to him (John from Crewe) - His service is great
and he is practical and very knowledgable. I am not connected to him in anyway just agreat guy to deal with
I have been fortunate to find scrap cylinder £5 ea in a ex-ministry specialist scrap yard - that was about 2 yrs ago had a whole pallet full . Only 8" stroke d/a with unusual ball end on cylinder. these were unused surplus, unfortunately I only had about £20 on me at the time and I wanted a gerry can £5 as well!
Have you any details on that scarrifier - spring tines in particular where have you sourced them from.
I have not been back since but suspect will be well gone, must really take a ride out.
MC & Mith -- a thought - any milage in a 'small bulk' import of cheap bits from the US agri-fabs etc uk pricing is a pain.
Or indeed some of euro ones -Italian etc.
Have either of you been to the IOG show at Windsor - usually in first week september - meant to be trade but will let anyone in if you pre-book on the web and its FOC!!!!
Lots of great ideas and kit to look at + buy (sorry daft thought!)
To everyone else.
Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome, I will post some photo's of varoius bits - when I have mastered the digi cam on the right pc.
surfran
Platinum Member
Densleigh and MetalChicken,
I'm not from the UK, but I did spend 6 months in 1991 and 3 months in 1995 in the Deeside area just North of Chester. I really enjoyed my time over there. Great people, great beer, and great pubs. Oh and I enhoyed the Golf and Football as well.
I'm not from the UK, but I did spend 6 months in 1991 and 3 months in 1995 in the Deeside area just North of Chester. I really enjoyed my time over there. Great people, great beer, and great pubs. Oh and I enhoyed the Golf and Football as well.
Densleigh, thanks for the link. Looks good, but expensive /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif might go for the second hand option.
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personally no. if you look on ebay UK search for 'tractor' you will see some new garden tractors at the top at low prices. the people who sell these are US importers of bulk garden equipment. they may be able to ship you specific stuff ect...
i look forward to those pics, hoping for ideas. do you do anything with smaller garden equipment, ride on mowers ect. this is more my area and im looking for ideas as to what to make.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( any milage in a 'small bulk' import )</font>
personally no. if you look on ebay UK search for 'tractor' you will see some new garden tractors at the top at low prices. the people who sell these are US importers of bulk garden equipment. they may be able to ship you specific stuff ect...
i look forward to those pics, hoping for ideas. do you do anything with smaller garden equipment, ride on mowers ect. this is more my area and im looking for ideas as to what to make.
Welcome to TBN. We can always use more members from anywhere! If you've been reading here a lot, you know WE LOVE to see pictures of everything.
Sounds like you have some interesting home makes we'd love to see. Enjoy the site and come back often. John
Sounds like you have some interesting home makes we'd love to see. Enjoy the site and come back often. John
voodoo
Silver Member
Hi Densleigh. Welcome to the forum.
Seems that there is a nice small group of UK members emerging.
If we can get another 100 or so, perhaps we can ask to start our own category /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Nice to know that ingenuity is alive and kicking this side of the pond. Some of your ideas sound very interesting. In my time I have built 3pt pallet forks and land leveller. Also made single furrow 3pt plough from an old No 12 Moldboard.
This forum gave me the idea of a hydraulic top link. Best invention ever made for the tractor since the 3pt hitch was invented. If you haven't yet got one for your machine, might I suggest it is your next project.
Mith is another relatively new member and I have enjoyed his homegrown posts recently. I had a Kubota B6000 as my first compact and previously had many of the questions and answers he has now received.
This forum really is a great place of friendly, knowledgable people from all over the world. Great to be a member.
Perhaps we should start a poll to find out how global membership now is. We know for sure there are members in;
USA
Canada
UK
Australia
Anyone else chip in? I think there might have been someone posting from Poland / Romania.
Is this something for a new thread?
Nigel
Seems that there is a nice small group of UK members emerging.
If we can get another 100 or so, perhaps we can ask to start our own category /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Nice to know that ingenuity is alive and kicking this side of the pond. Some of your ideas sound very interesting. In my time I have built 3pt pallet forks and land leveller. Also made single furrow 3pt plough from an old No 12 Moldboard.
This forum gave me the idea of a hydraulic top link. Best invention ever made for the tractor since the 3pt hitch was invented. If you haven't yet got one for your machine, might I suggest it is your next project.
Mith is another relatively new member and I have enjoyed his homegrown posts recently. I had a Kubota B6000 as my first compact and previously had many of the questions and answers he has now received.
This forum really is a great place of friendly, knowledgable people from all over the world. Great to be a member.
Perhaps we should start a poll to find out how global membership now is. We know for sure there are members in;
USA
Canada
UK
Australia
Anyone else chip in? I think there might have been someone posting from Poland / Romania.
Is this something for a new thread?
Nigel
Hi Voodoo,
Seems to be!
And an even smaller world, my wife is from Portloiase and daughter of a farmer!
From another post the northwest seems to be a centre for free thinking in the Uk as far as 'saving a bob or two'
A uk page would be good as there would be useful uk locations we can all use for our special bits and pieces, until then just drool over the US ease of available stuf at the right price.
Seems to be!
And an even smaller world, my wife is from Portloiase and daughter of a farmer!
From another post the northwest seems to be a centre for free thinking in the Uk as far as 'saving a bob or two'
A uk page would be good as there would be useful uk locations we can all use for our special bits and pieces, until then just drool over the US ease of available stuf at the right price.
Taylortractornut
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Densliegh one source of alot of my material is at auctions. I go to old factory sell outs, and the auto auction every few weeks they take consignments to. Yesterday I bought some 2 inch diameter rams with 4 .5 inch diameter pistons by 36 inch stroke. I bougt 5 for 125 dollars on a skid and sold one before I got home for 125 dollars. they never have been used. It came from a yearly auction at a utility trailer company here. Lots of heavy equipmen repair shops here will also sell scrap items like worn pumps that make good project pumps or if you remove the back flow ball check valves make fine high speed motors.
I picked up a pallet of internal gear hydraulic motors there as well for 3 dollars per motor. I also like to buy the big enclosed crates like that to not sure what your gettin lol. I did thato ne time and found my self with 5000 1057 trailer light bulbs. I sold alot of them at a few truck shops and took the rest to a friends asphault roller and broke all the glass and picked out the brass lol.
I picked up a pallet of internal gear hydraulic motors there as well for 3 dollars per motor. I also like to buy the big enclosed crates like that to not sure what your gettin lol. I did thato ne time and found my self with 5000 1057 trailer light bulbs. I sold alot of them at a few truck shops and took the rest to a friends asphault roller and broke all the glass and picked out the brass lol.
MetalChicken
Bronze Member
Hi Densleigh,
I'm just on the Tarporley side of the roundabout - only 1 mile away.
Just about finished my scarifier apart from the painting which could take a while! The spring tines I used came from Lansdown Farm & Garden who are next door to the JD dealer you mentioned in your post. You want to speak to Ted in the shop there - he ordered them for me at a cost of £1.00 each /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We should hook up. You could help me get the engine off my new project, a Case 4230 BIG tractor I bought from an insurance write-off yard in Winsford! It had been hit by a car breaking the front axle off which in turn broke the engine block and the front axle casting. To repair with new parts would be very uneconomical, but I'm going to use used parts.
[image]http://80.176.149.33/pics/4230_driveway.jp[/image]
This is it (minus the front axle which I'd already moved) blocking my driveway today. My 484 couldn't lift it so a neighbour came over with his JD telehandler and did a fantastic job of moving it around the buildings and into the tractor shed where I can work on it. Here it is being moved:
Don't suppose you've got an engine lift hanging around /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I'm just on the Tarporley side of the roundabout - only 1 mile away.
Just about finished my scarifier apart from the painting which could take a while! The spring tines I used came from Lansdown Farm & Garden who are next door to the JD dealer you mentioned in your post. You want to speak to Ted in the shop there - he ordered them for me at a cost of £1.00 each /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We should hook up. You could help me get the engine off my new project, a Case 4230 BIG tractor I bought from an insurance write-off yard in Winsford! It had been hit by a car breaking the front axle off which in turn broke the engine block and the front axle casting. To repair with new parts would be very uneconomical, but I'm going to use used parts.
[image]http://80.176.149.33/pics/4230_driveway.jp[/image]
This is it (minus the front axle which I'd already moved) blocking my driveway today. My 484 couldn't lift it so a neighbour came over with his JD telehandler and did a fantastic job of moving it around the buildings and into the tractor shed where I can work on it. Here it is being moved:
Don't suppose you've got an engine lift hanging around /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
MetalChicken
Bronze Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'm not from the UK, but I did spend 6 months in 1991 and 3 months in 1995 in the Deeside area just North of Chester.
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Hi Surfran,
I'm hurt.... you didn't call me!!
Who where you working for there? My business does some work for a couple of companies on Deeside Industrial Estate.
Kinda freaky cos in '85 I spent 6 months in Newport RI soaking up the sun and having probably the best time of my life - before children and tractors of course /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Jeez it's a small world /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Hi Surfran,
I'm hurt.... you didn't call me!!
Who where you working for there? My business does some work for a couple of companies on Deeside Industrial Estate.
Kinda freaky cos in '85 I spent 6 months in Newport RI soaking up the sun and having probably the best time of my life - before children and tractors of course /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Jeez it's a small world /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
surfran
Platinum Member
Mine was pre-children and tractors also /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I was doing work for Optical Fibres which has since been torn down I understand.
They put us up in the St. Davids Hotel which was a very nice place. I enjoyed playing golf at their Norhtop course as well.
Traveling to other places is a nice break and gives new perspectives.
They put us up in the St. Davids Hotel which was a very nice place. I enjoyed playing golf at their Norhtop course as well.
Traveling to other places is a nice break and gives new perspectives.
MetalChicken
Bronze Member
I hope you don't have that effect on all the companies you visit or do you work in the demolition industry /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I know the St Davids Park pretty well and played the Northop course last year - I prefer the back 9 to the front 9 although my golf is consistently pants /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Loved my time in the States - looking forward to going again pretty soon. Not Miami though, didn't like that place too much; I don't do bullet holes in lift doors /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I know the St Davids Park pretty well and played the Northop course last year - I prefer the back 9 to the front 9 although my golf is consistently pants /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Loved my time in the States - looking forward to going again pretty soon. Not Miami though, didn't like that place too much; I don't do bullet holes in lift doors /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
coming up you guys way mon-wed, yearly grandparents visit /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
would Burgess in nantwich have an oil pressure switch, 5/8 thread i think it was?
be sure to post on how your tractor goes, i enjoy reading about this kinda project
btw, who needs an engine hoist, you have a loadall /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
would Burgess in nantwich have an oil pressure switch, 5/8 thread i think it was?
be sure to post on how your tractor goes, i enjoy reading about this kinda project
btw, who needs an engine hoist, you have a loadall /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
surfran
Platinum Member
Last I checked I am not in the demo business /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif but then again who knows what the future brings.
I have to agree with you that the Northop's back was nicer than the front, but just the oportunity to golf is ok by me. I understand that they added another golf course a couple of years later but I never was back to give it a go.
I also played Old Padeswood a couple of times and another small course in the area that I don't remember the name of.
I do remember that the pubs in the area sure were fine! You ever go down to Churtins in the Wrexham area? How about the Spinning Wheel?
Ah the fond old memories of roundabouts, wrong side of the road driving /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, and 'B' roads barely wide enough for my bicycle let alone a car /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ......
Those were the days. I really need to get back over for a visit some day. Chester is a beautiful City and the Country side in that area is splendid as well.
I have to agree with you that the Northop's back was nicer than the front, but just the oportunity to golf is ok by me. I understand that they added another golf course a couple of years later but I never was back to give it a go.
I also played Old Padeswood a couple of times and another small course in the area that I don't remember the name of.
I do remember that the pubs in the area sure were fine! You ever go down to Churtins in the Wrexham area? How about the Spinning Wheel?
Ah the fond old memories of roundabouts, wrong side of the road driving /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, and 'B' roads barely wide enough for my bicycle let alone a car /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ......
Those were the days. I really need to get back over for a visit some day. Chester is a beautiful City and the Country side in that area is splendid as well.
MetalChicken
Bronze Member
Hi Mith.
That's scarey..... I've just got back from Burgess in Nantwich getting some ignitions keys for the 4230 so i can see how many hours it's done (1718 as it turns out /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif). I'm sure they'd have what you needed.
I'm going to put all the tractor restoration pictures on my web server and will post the address soon.
That's scarey..... I've just got back from Burgess in Nantwich getting some ignitions keys for the 4230 so i can see how many hours it's done (1718 as it turns out /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif). I'm sure they'd have what you needed.
I'm going to put all the tractor restoration pictures on my web server and will post the address soon.
cmhyland
Platinum Member
MetalChicken,
If you ever make it to Newport again drop me a note andI'll take you sailing... We keep our boat in that area.... Just above Newport.
Maybe some chowder and an adult beverage at the Black Pearl..
Regards,
Chris
If you ever make it to Newport again drop me a note andI'll take you sailing... We keep our boat in that area.... Just above Newport.
Maybe some chowder and an adult beverage at the Black Pearl..
Regards,
Chris
MetalChicken
Bronze Member
</font><font color="blueclass=small">( MetalChicken,
If you ever make it to Newport again drop me a note andI'll take you sailing... We keep our boat in that area.... Just above Newport.
Maybe some chowder and an adult beverage at the Black Pearl.
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Regards,
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Chris, that's a date. I`ll hold you to that one
My brother in law works in Boston MA 1 week a month so we're hoping to go over for a few days some time in September/october. I`d love to show my wife Newport and Marthas Vineyard (did the regatta there - lots of fun!)
Where do you keep your boat? Ahh, the Black Pearl.... the memories come flooding back. Is The Arc still there?
I was there racing with a chap called Ken Read who I met over here the year before at a world championships. He won, we were fifth, we all got slammed and he asked me to go race with him /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ted
If you ever make it to Newport again drop me a note andI'll take you sailing... We keep our boat in that area.... Just above Newport.
Maybe some chowder and an adult beverage at the Black Pearl.
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Regards,
Chris )</font>
Chris, that's a date. I`ll hold you to that one
My brother in law works in Boston MA 1 week a month so we're hoping to go over for a few days some time in September/october. I`d love to show my wife Newport and Marthas Vineyard (did the regatta there - lots of fun!)
Where do you keep your boat? Ahh, the Black Pearl.... the memories come flooding back. Is The Arc still there?
I was there racing with a chap called Ken Read who I met over here the year before at a world championships. He won, we were fifth, we all got slammed and he asked me to go race with him /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ted
HI Densliegh I have a Gutbrob 1032 and I am hoping you might be able to help me. I was searching through for info on the Gutbrod and saw that you were selling parts etc. I have a problem and I hope that you might be able to help. I started to repair my seating area, unfortunately due to health had to postpone all repairs. Now that I am trying to put things together I can't remember how the mudguard/seating go back on to the chaise. Also I am after a wiring diagram for this Tractor as the electrics fell apart before I could make a note of it. I am not best with these things to work out on my own, I am one who needs a manual, diagram or pictures to assess how to do things so I am hoping you might be able to help. I live in Wales and the phone no 01570 493620
Looking forward to hearing from you E-mail tsbennett@tiscali.co.uk
Tony Bennett /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Looking forward to hearing from you E-mail tsbennett@tiscali.co.uk
Tony Bennett /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
