What did you BREAK this week?

[etpm]

Mine came up, her's didn't. The handle broke!

Gotta love strong women!
Eric

 

[gstrom99]

There's a What did you BUY this week? thread, so why not this?

Well the "you" part may not be right. How about what did "you, others, gremlins, time or somebody/nobody" break?

I didn't break my welder. I went to turn it on and the feed didn't feed.

I guess time broke it.

 

[Gordon Gould]

All my stuff is old, like me, and I find things break in bunches. I've got a wooden culvert in a tractor road down in the woods that I put in over nine years ago.

Here it is 6 years ago during the spring run-off. The only time it usually flows.

But now it is living beyond it's time. The sides washed out some in a huge storm last summer and the planks are punky and broke without any support under them.

Last week I decided to do a half-azzed band-aid fix to to see if I could get a couple more years out of it. I headed down into the woods with some pre cut planks, screws, my old 14 volt DeWalt driver, and a half bucket of gravel in the M5640. After about the third screw the DeWalt just quit - bang - like the drive gear stripped. Call that broken number one. No problem - I walked back the the house got my 120 Volt drill/driver, hung my portable generator on straps off the L3010's bucket and headed back into the woods. I set the generator up on the ground and pulled the recoil starter. Second pull - bang - the starter rope jammed. Would to move in or out and I could see the spring all uncoiled inside the housing. Call that broken number two. Starting to get irritated I packed up the generator and drove it back home. When I got there I could smell gas in the garage and saw the generators plastic shut off valve was bent over and dripping gas. Apparently in my frustration I was not careful how I ran the straps under it coming home. So that is broken number 3. All in one morning.

I bought a new driver. Replaced the gas tank bushing and shutoff valve, and fixed the recoil starter ( the screw that holds the spring and pulley together came unscrewed ) on the 25 year old Generac 5000 and "fixed" the culvert yesterday.

gg

 

[BravoXray]

Nothing, but then I really didn't do much last week, so that kinda lowered the possibilities.

 

[jk96]

Grapple....again. Need to get the welder out. The new trackloader is just too much for it. Going to need an upgrade or I'm going to ruin this one.

 

[oldnslo]

My knuckles trying to replace a bad O-ring on an O-ring face seal fitting on the 9570R.

 

[rontaki]

I just leave things on Autobreak, at least that still works.

 

[Racer4]

Broke my pitman arm puller trying to pop the steering stabilizer out of the steering link. Going to try the tie rod press tomorrow.

 

[bigdeer2000]

Broke a cast spacer between discs on my heavy disk. Got it back together today. Spacer i found wasnt exactly same size but i think it will work. Length 9 inch and shaft size 1 1/2 were correct but ends not quite as wide.

 

[Hay Dude]

Broke automatic lube system on my big square baler. Greaser grenaded inside and pushed bits of plastic up into the main distribution block, which cannot be saved.
Greaser $1,050.
Dist’n block $950
Calibration of sensor for distn block $800
UPS shipping of parts $75.

$3 grand up in smoke and still not done baling. Still waiting on parts. Plus it rained for 5 days, further delaying finishing baling.

We are hoping bits of plastic didn’t make it past main block. If they did, I might have to replace the rest of the system for $ thousands more.