Home-made attachments...

bakerg · Jan 21, 2014

Like your cab, is that homemade also?

gwdixon · Jan 21, 2014

7879fordman said:
Want to sell that drill head weigh thing . You got $40,000-$50,000 or more set'n there . Thats what a local guy would pay for them as the are .

Them heads are worth a Minimal of $10,000 each the highest dollar Counterbalance I have ever seen .
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You are joking of course. Used drill bits around here are discarded or sold for scrap.

300UGUY · Jan 21, 2014

bakerg said:
Like your cab, is that homemade also?

Cabs look great this time of the year, don't they?

7879fordman · Jan 21, 2014

gwdixon said:
You are joking of course. Used drill bits around here are discarded or sold for scrap.

Nope there's a guy here that pays big money then rebuilds them and sells them at new price . There really worth that much . I would take all I could get for scrap price so I could sell to him . The last I seen his price list he was paying $100-$12,000 for wore or used heads . And I know them are on his high side .

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PhysAssist · Jan 23, 2014

Hi Gordon,

Nicely done!

I notice you made it with a swinging rear gate, how does that work?

Thanks,
Thomas

Gordon Gould said:
I hope you get lots of stuff posted here. This is where all kinds of ideas come from.
This is my LPGS built in the spring of 2010.

PhysAssist · Jan 23, 2014

I saw some of various lengths on ebay for what looked pretty reasonable to me, depending on what length you needed.

Thomas

Gordon Gould said:
Bought flat cuttig edges for a 5' back blade from tractor dealer ( now out of Biz ). They are 3/4" below skids.

PhysAssist · Jan 23, 2014

Could you post more detail pictures please?

Do you use it going forward like debrise forks or in reverse like a rake?

Thanks,
Thomas

Industrial Toys said:
I made this for cleaning up tree branches after felling a tree. The tines can float to follow terrain or be arrested. I cut off part of my finger when pulling this thing off in the dark and finding it had a nasty pinch hazzard on account of that floating design.

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PhysAssist · Jan 23, 2014

ovrszd said:
I've built several, some good, some not so good.

Hi Richard,

I almost forgot how jealous and hateful I feel toward you...

Nicely done, all of them.

Thomas

PhysAssist · Jan 23, 2014

Hey GW,

Nicely done, that is one massive boom!

What are you planning to lift with it?

The rest are similarly massive too.

Thomas

gwdixon said:
OK, you asked for it:

Tor Arne · Jan 23, 2014

this is a winch I converted from the type you had to bolt to the rear of the tractor to quick connection category HMV which we use in Norway

ferrari99 · Jan 23, 2014

Tor Arne said:
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this is a winch I converted from the type you had to bolt to the rear of the tractor to quick connection category HMV which we use in Norway

What do you use the winch for?

Tor Arne · Jan 23, 2014

ferrari99 said:
What do you use the winch for?

Logging firewood i sell and timber i take to the local sawmill.
I have also used it to pull trucks out of the ditch.

Gordon Gould · Jan 23, 2014

PhysAssist said:
Hi Gordon,

Nicely done!

I notice you made it with a swinging rear gate, how does that work?Thanks,
Thomas

Thanks
I put it on as an experiment to make it act as a box blade. There are a couple stop pins that the tail gate hits against. I can hang it behind the stops so when I back up the tailgate acts as a blade to push stuff and it is heavy enough so that it will also hold light material like sod in the box when grading. Makes sod on road edges and in the road easy to deal with. If I swing the gate up and over so it hangs inside the stops I can collect material in the box and move it just like (almost) a box blade. I find it useful. For just grading a gravel road w/o sod in it it is just there for decoration as it adds little.

ovrszd · Jan 23, 2014

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this is a winch I converted from the type you had to bolt to the rear of the tractor to quick connection category HMV which we use in Norway

Very cool. I'd like to stumble onto a winch like that!!!

Tor Arne · Jan 23, 2014

ovrszd said:
Very cool. I'd like to stumble onto a winch like that!!!

Sandvik 3000 stil get parts for them

ovrszd · Jan 23, 2014

Tor Arne said:
Sandvik 3000 stil get parts for them

Hmmmmm... That name sounds familiar. I run a Road Grader. We have some rotating toothed blades that we use a couple times a year to reclaim gravel. I'm pretty sure they are made by a Company named Sandvik. Wonder if it's the same Company???

Tor Arne · Jan 23, 2014

Sanvik makes all kind of stuff from hand Tools to rock crushers. They used to produce most of their stuff about 1.5 hours drive from where I live. Now it's just the office that is left of what was a large Norwegian group, moved out of the country because of production costs

ovrszd · Jan 23, 2014

Tor Arne said:
Sanvik makes all kind of stuff from hand Tools to rock crushers. They used to produce most of their stuff about 1.5 hours drive from where I live. Now it's just the office that is left of what was a large Norwegian group, moved out of the country because of production costs

I don't know why, but that really surprises me!!!! We've suffered with that problem for quite a while now, probably close to 20 years. Never would have thought you'd have that problem in Norway... A high majority of our medium sized to small sized production has went out of the country.. It's really hurt our middle income families. A lot of educated people working in fast food places or some sort of retail sales. No production jobs to be had. Pretty sad.

Tor Arne · Jan 23, 2014

ovrszd said:
I don't know why, but that really surprises me!!!! We've suffered with that problem for quite a while now, probably close to 20 years. Never would have thought you'd have that problem in Norway... A high majority of our medium sized to small sized production has went out of the country.. It's really hurt our middle income families. A lot of educated people working in fast food places or some sort of retail sales. No production jobs to be had. Pretty sad.

I know, I am a graduate electrical mechanik and licensed for construction equipment and I can not even get a job in a grocery store I've searched over 200 jobs in recent months and have not got a job. there are simply too many people applying for jobs. I have sometimes wondered if I should bring a shotgun to the next job interviews and "persuade" them to give me the job

ovrszd · Jan 23, 2014

Tor Arne said:
I know, I am a graduate electrical engineer and licensed for construction equipment and I can not even get a job in a grocery store I've searched over 200 jobs in recent months and have not got a job. there are simply too many people applying for jobs. I have sometimes wondered if I should bring a shotgun to the next job interviews and "persuade" them to give me the job

That sucks. Did you ever think it would be like this??? In our Country our wages grew to the point of driving jobs overseas. It's hard to believe that an attachment of my tractor, such as a Quick Hitch, can be made in China and shipped halfway around the World cheaper than it can be made here.

I saw a picture of a container ship coming into a harbor in California recently. It had 250 containers sitting on top of the deck. Not sure how many more below deck. The article was complaining about traffic congestion and ships importing into USA having to wait days just to get to the dock.