California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 16,833
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
(expression I learned from an old Carpenter buddy when things aren't going well). 
Late yesterday I put the 40 yo little Yanmar in my shop. Pulled the bucket-lift lever, got the bucket pretty high.
Then. The lift hydraulic hose ruptured and sprayed high pressure hydraulic oil all over the hood, muffler, and across to the workbench and floor.
The bucket descending after I let go of the lever pushed out more oil. Huge mess. The workbench is wood, and absorbent. Oil went on the grinder, a fan I had there, into tool drawers that have a cutout handhold, and on miscellaneous stuff piled all along the workbench. (old photo, not recent, that shows the area). Dribbled onto the tractor front tires. I estimate a half gallon of oil went flying.
Today I went back and wiped down the tractor, tools I was using, and things on the workbench. Decided to discard the runner carpet in front of the workbench, and low value junk like frozen dinner plastic trays. Swept all the floor dust onto the oil on the floor as a first step of absorbing it, later I'll scrub with paint thinner and apply oil absorbent. And roll out the tractor to pressure wash it.
The good part of the story? By chance I had a spare for that exact hose, a random flea market purchase 'just in case' years ago. The tractor is functional again.
Bah humbug.
Late yesterday I put the 40 yo little Yanmar in my shop. Pulled the bucket-lift lever, got the bucket pretty high.
Then. The lift hydraulic hose ruptured and sprayed high pressure hydraulic oil all over the hood, muffler, and across to the workbench and floor.
The bucket descending after I let go of the lever pushed out more oil. Huge mess. The workbench is wood, and absorbent. Oil went on the grinder, a fan I had there, into tool drawers that have a cutout handhold, and on miscellaneous stuff piled all along the workbench. (old photo, not recent, that shows the area). Dribbled onto the tractor front tires. I estimate a half gallon of oil went flying.
Today I went back and wiped down the tractor, tools I was using, and things on the workbench. Decided to discard the runner carpet in front of the workbench, and low value junk like frozen dinner plastic trays. Swept all the floor dust onto the oil on the floor as a first step of absorbing it, later I'll scrub with paint thinner and apply oil absorbent. And roll out the tractor to pressure wash it.
The good part of the story? By chance I had a spare for that exact hose, a random flea market purchase 'just in case' years ago. The tractor is functional again.
Bah humbug.
