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[Rustyiron]

My last one was tired and blew a seal. I wanted a little longer travel and found a nice cyl. at Surplus Center that had a compact, retracted legnth with a 12" stroke and ends that would take the modifications well. Only $89 plus about $12 for the ball ends. Closed it is 24", 36" extended with my alterations. Both ends had the fabricated clevis, the cyl end was cut to recieve the ball swivel. The 1st pic shows what the ball end looks like (just a spare stacked on for the picture) there was almost 8" available for weld. I made a swivel for the tractor side (top) using the clevis that was on the cyl., a short pc. of 1.25 bar with a 1" hole to pin it to the cyl. and welded a pc. of heavy wall dom 3/4" that attaches to the tractor. Using a ball swivel like on the cyl end made the whole thing a little too short.

 

[parvodog]

Looks great!

I need to add top and tilt to mine.

 

[Gordon Gould]

That's a clever way to do it. Looks good.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I went at it differently, I wanted to be able to use the cheeeep cylinders I already have around, so I made an adapter for my tractor.

Best part is, it will work on more than one tractor around here,

And by NOT altering the cylinder, I can use it on other tools I have around here too...

SR

 

[Industrial Toys]

Curious, how you connect that cylinder clevis to the implement top link.