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Don't procrastinate on repairs you know you will need to do. I know this but still it happens ??? Late last winter I jammed a top link hose into a severe bend. The outside layer of the hose cracked in several places and exposed metal. It didn't leak - yet. Plan was to get thru winter and fix it during mud season. Plenty of time then. It didn't happen. Yesterday, with long waited for great working conditions in the woods, I went around to the back of the tractor to winch in a tree and saw a lower lift arm covered with oil. A steady heavy drip from the hose. So now I can't fix it on my own time it has to be done now. You all know about this. Luckily I had an old hose I saved that only has a very slow drip. Usable until new hoses are procured - like today.

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I just fixed a leak under the tractor. it was a hose that allows for the tractor to be split more easily. It’s about 2 inches long. Because it was underneath the tractor, I never saw it and only spotted it after bush hogging about an acre of field and then parked it in the garage. Went to have lunch and saw this big oil stain underneath when coming back. Normally l park it in the wood shed which has a dirt floor and would disguise any drips.

The hose was difficult to get to as l didn’t want to take a loaded rear tire off. When I finally got this pesky hose off, l lost about a gallon and a half of fluid in the catch pan.
Thinking I only had to put the gallon and a half back, I poured that amount in and was totally short. The tractor ended up taking an additional 4 gallons of hydraulic fluid,
The capacity for this tractor is ten gallons.
I bush hogged with 4 gallons short inside the case and fortunately, didn’t damage anything

 

[Gordon Gould]

I just fixed a leak under the tractor. it was a hose that allows for the tractor to be split more easily. It’s about 2 inches long. Because it was underneath the tractor, I never saw it and only spotted it after bush hogging about an acre of field and then parked it in the garage. Went to have lunch and saw this big oil stain underneath when coming back. Normally l park it in the wood shed which has a dirt floor and would disguise any drips.

The hose was difficult to get to as l didn’t want to take a loaded rear tire off. When I finally got this pesky hose off, l lost about a gallon and a half of fluid in the catch pan.
Thinking I only had to put the gallon and a half back, I poured that amount in and was totally short. The tractor ended up taking an additional 4 gallons of hydraulic fluid,
The capacity for this tractor is ten gallons.
I bush hogged with 4 gallons short inside the case and fortunately, didn’t damage anything

Wow - good thing you pay attention to lunch time and didn't keep mowing !!

gg

 

[John_Mc]

I had a hydraulic blow-out while cleaning up storm damage in the woods. I caught one of my loader curl hoses and broke it while using the grapple. The tractor and I got a bit of a hydraulic oil shower. I guessed I had only lost a couple of quarts. Managed to drive it back home with the bucket dangling down. It appeared that no more oil was coming out as long as I did not try to use the curl function. I guessed I only needed a couple of quarts to top off. Got to the store figuring I'd buy a gallon jug and have some left over. They were out of gallons (and quarts), so I bought a 5 gallon jug. I figured I'd use it sooner or later. If I recall correctly, it ended up taking about 3 gallons of hydraulic oil. Glad I did not have to drive far: the hydrostatic transmission uses the same sump as the loader.

 

[fruitcakesa]

This hemlock lot had not been cut for at least 60 years and likely never before that. So it was very dense and overstocked and consequently the trees tended to grow pretty straight although the twisty turnys were far more common and many were very small. So they are all getting cut to release the bigger better trees.
I am accumulating a good stash of saw logs for milling in addition to the pulp that will go to the mill.

 

[deezler]

I had a hydraulic blow-out while cleaning up storm damage in the woods. I caught one of my loader curl hoses and broke it while using the grapple. The tractor and I got a bit of a hydraulic oil shower. I guessed I had only lost a couple of quarts. Managed to drive it back home with the bucket dangling down. It appeared that no more oil was coming out as long as I did not try to use the curl function. I guessed I only needed a couple of quarts to top off. Got to the store figuring I'd buy a gallon jug and have some left over. They were out of gallons (and quarts), so I bought a 5 gallon jug. I figured I'd use it sooner or later. If I recall correctly, it ended up taking about 3 gallons of hydraulic oil. Glad I did not have to drive far: the hydrostatic transmission uses the same sump as the loader.

Next time (hopefully never) find the corresponding connector for the hydraulic circuit on the loader (where you would unplug to remove the loader), unplug, and you can stop the leak completely.

I had a branch snap over my bucket once in the woods, blew a bucket curl hose right off the fitting; was leaking horribly so I simply had to unplug that one, and drive back to the garage with a floppy bucket.

 

[Thomas]

Figured it's that or tannerite...

 

[WinterDeere]

I had a loader lift cylinder hose blow out while lifting a mower deck to clean under it. Everything in a 60 foot radius got a hydraulic oil shower, including me and my truck.

I always figured a loader would take at least a second to bleed down after a hose failure, given they never go up or down very fast, but that wasn't the case! The bucket and mower deck came crashing down like a pallet of bricks dropped off a roof. Quite exciting, for the few milliseconds it all took.

This was all several years back, but I think I just reversed the tractor around to the barn and backed it in, with the loader bucket dragging on the ground the whole way. All-new loader hoses were ordered the very next day.

 

[groundcover]

Thank goodness you weren't working under it at the time, you wouldn't be here posting!

 

[WinterDeere]

Thank goodness you weren't working under it at the time, you wouldn't be here posting!

Yes, for sure. It was a heavy old 1980's Woods M4 brush hog chained to the loader bucket.

I'm infinitely more cognizant of reaching under a lifted loader for anything, these days.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I finished my crane last week and mounted it on the Farmi JP290 winch today. This is the top mount, bottom mount, and hinge pin.

The boom is a 3-1/2 X 2-7/8 channel made up from 3/16 bar. This is the under side. You can see the bottom pulley, 4 slider hanger hooks, and the top pulley and cable guide.

It weighs about 80 lbs. This is how I mount it. Slide it off the truck and place the hinge post on the ground. Back the tractor up to it.

Rotate it up and place the hinge post on the bottom mount.

Adjust the winch angle with the hydraulic top link if necessary to align the hinge post and mount holes. Then drop in the tapered hinge pin.

Feed the cable thru the pulleys, hang the sliders, close the cable guide around the cable, and hook up the trailer

gg