What did you BREAK this week?

[kenmbz]

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.

ouch

 

[bsekf]

Spindel assembly on a Woods PRD8400 (7ft finish mower) sheared 1/4" bolts that hold the bushing and sheave together. Trying to get them apart so I can use an easy out.

 

[rontaki]

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.

Sounds like you win this week's prize for breaking things, unfortunately. I don't think you even get a hat or t-shirt for the honor.

 

[Hay Dude]

Sounds like you win this week's prize for breaking things, unfortunately. I don't think you even get a hat or t-shirt for the honor.

Sad part about this is it just broke by itself

 

[CliffordK]

I bought an old International tractor in the early summer. I'm not going to claim that I broke anything new on it.

Unfortunately being "field ready" meant it was ready to be put out to pasture.

So I'm simply fixing what was already broken.

The guy claimed that the brakes were a little weak when I bought it. I don't think it has stopped using brakes for 10+ years. So I now have the brake packs rebuilt. But everywhere I look, there is something else.

In the brake packs, one of the actuator studs was so rusted that the head didn't hold the rod in place, so I've done a temporary fix welding a washer onto the head. It seems to be holding.

In the process of doing that, I decided to look at the weak right running board. One of the supports had been broken, welded, and broken again. So it is now welded again and ready to go back on the tractor.

I'm just trying to decide what the next can of worms to open will be.

The fixing part for the stud for the aircleaner prefilter was pot metal and half broken. I think I may be able to still use it, but it will take some improvising.

Of course at some point I'll have to start hunting down oil leaks.

Do drive through car washes allow one to pull a tractor on a trailer through the carwash?

 

[rontaki]

^^^"Unfortunately being "field ready" meant it was ready to be put out to pasture"

 

[Hay Dude]

“Been through the Shop”

=BS

 

[Alan W.]

Broke a track on the rental excavator. The owner brought a replacement track and I helped him change it out.

 

[swa]

A sort of never-ending question!

• Stripped and cleaned Land Rover Vacuum Pump as the brakes were suffering
• Stripped and cleaned the EGR assembly - man, that's inaccessible!
• Restored my ~100 year old garden roller with a paint job and turned some new oak handles (first time on a wood lathe and no prizes won!)
• Bought an old Stihl MS200T in poor condition at a farm sale, now need to get some parts and rebuild
• Serviced the 3 ton Kubota digger

 

[svobronco]

Broke and almost broke. 1950ish Ford 901 rotary mower.I wish the spline adapter exploded BEFORE the shaft twisted....
I'll set up the slip clutch a bit looser in the future.

 

[steve tym]

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Broke a track on the rental excavator. The owner brought a replacement track and I helped him change it out.

Just did that myself, except it was my excavator.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Guess it's more, what didn't break! Farm life

 

[grsthegreat]

Just yesterday i broke the water line and electrical going accross the street to my pasture. It runs electric fence and supplies water to the horse water trough.

But i have an excuse.

There installing fider to the neighborhood. My pipes were 24” below grade (summer water only) and there pulling cable 36” deep. So i dug a hole to expose pipes, broke pipes and pulled out wires and cut water pipe.

Ill repair it after the fiber gets layed next week.

I do hate having to do this again.

It seems like im not really breaking stuff each week….just fixing stuff each week. I have a new shower faucet cartridge sitting next to my keyboard for basement shower…..next fix

 

[Jaygyver]

Early summer replaced 2 of 3 blade spindles, and 2 pulleys on my 20+ year old JD 155c riding mower. Checked over the others to make sure everything was fine. It's been retired to bagging the leaves and first spring cuttings of grass so not a lot of use anymore.
So in the middle of bagging the leaves last week before the rains hit the deck idler pulley spring decides to commit Hari Kari. Checked Amazona and it was hit or miss for crap springs, so much for overnight/2 day shipping, so had to buy OEM online and a week later got it installed for the second round of leaves.

JD/Pape decided they didn't want a compact tractor/mower sales/repair shop and a HD commercial shop in the same town so they got rid of the small shop after building a new outfit barely 5 or 6 years earlier. Commercial will not even order parts. Hour drive north or an hour south for parts now.

 

[Engineer42]

Broke and almost broke. 1950ish Ford 901 rotary mower.I wish the spline adapter exploded BEFORE the shaft twisted....
I'll set up the slip clutch a bit looser in the future.View attachment 4266435

Yeah, I'd loosen that slip clutch just a tic

 

[DutchInNZ]

It is spring here, so yesterday, gloryfully sunny, was time to start doing the garden, first time in 8 months. First found the hedge cutter, but that little plastic piece in the rope starter, that comes out and grabs the flywheel, broke. There is no replacement part anymore, so I will have to become inventive. OK, then let's go and prune the thicker branches with the chain saw. Same plastic starter piece problem here, although repair part still available. A lot of hours left, so what else is there? Some pressure washing things around the house maybe? Yeah, dhuhu. As Hondas do, this one started fine, but the brass high pressure outlet of the pump housing got a small split, enough to immediately soak everything around all over. After that I was so desperate that I just went and against all my principles washed my car, imagine that. My buzzer toothbrush later on did still work well, though.

Anyway, repair time this weekend.

 

[dodge man]

I don’t believe in witchcraft, mind reading, Voodoo or curses but this thread might be a curse. I bent my top link today. I have Pats on the bottom and disconnected them but forgot the top link. My ballast box tipped over. The box tipped over and bent the top link, new one a little less than $40. I had an old one that I took the threaded end out to use but it was the wrong thread direction.

 

[Hay Dude]

I don’t believe in witchcraft, mind reading, Voodoo or curses but this thread might be a curse. I bent my top link today. I have Pats on the bottom and disconnected them but forgot the top link. My ballast box tipped over. The box tipped over and bent the top link, new one a little less than $40. I had an old one that I took the threaded end out to use but it was the wrong thread direction.
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That ain’t bent.
That’s just “well used”.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I call that a Peyronie’s top link.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My "hyper tough" chinese bar clamp broke just now, but I managed to make a dolly for my new stump grinder.