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.