Weekend equipment maintenece

[NIsaacs]

Yup, missed out on a really good grill and hood brow, $120 less. They do have a nice reconditioned fuel tank for about half price, I will keep that in mind. Mine is dented up pretty good, no clue how they did that...

Thanks again.

 

[NIsaacs]

Told you I had a bushel basket of parts ordered Still need a few small items I overlooked and I want a canopy. I might go aftermarket or go oem for a newer model tractor. They are cheaper and more simple. The 970 oem is high dollar and fancy. Note the fan blades, with the right hand engine skirt missing the sun cooked it, the overflow bottle and the plastic fuel canister. They just crumble when you touch them. I need to run to Ace and get some JD green paint.

 

[NIsaacs]

It has been a few years since we trimmed the trees around here, so it is time again. Sick, dead and storm damage. I have a JD 970 4x2 that is going to work great with the 7" chipper. Anything over 3" is firewood, so the little 33 hp will do fine.

Just one tree netted 1/8 cord of firewood. Dang shaggy bark juniper limbs are gnarly, no straight trunk to feed with, hard to get them started into the rollers. Then they are dirty with blow sand that actually is grown in, so the saw chain gets loose in about 5 minutes, really hard on chain.



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[NIsaacs]

Both JD 970's got chrome stacks yesterday Hard to find them that small 2.5" finally found them on a "RED" tractor site

 

[Jdorfmeyer]

I would imagine those stacks should double the horsepower easily!

 

[NIsaacs]

Installed the new canopy yesterday. Seems high quality, fiberglass not plastic. Looks good too.

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[NIsaacs]

When you are a vehicleholic you are changing batteries or tires all the time The JD 970 got a group 31, 950 cca and the 4320 got a group 24, 800 cca. Bobcat loader, 3 new tires, 14:00 x 17.5 14 ply, one was fairly new. Front axle on the 4320, 10:00 x 16.5 10 ply. Rear, 17.5L x 24 12 ply are still on the freight truck somewhere. I did buy the Bobcat tires from the tire shop because I did not want to hand mount those stiff suckers. The tractor I am doing myself, the shop wanted $200 just for mounting plus quite a bit more for the tires. I can save $460 ordering and mounting myself, so it was no brainer. Won't be long and I will need to have them do it all

 

[endoscott]

Yah, recently paid Schwab $250 for a front tire on the B-21. Had to get back to work on the project. I remember getting mad at my FIL for paying for stuff he could easily do before, but now I'm pushing 70 I get it...plus...you can't take it with you.

 

[NIsaacs]

Finished up the tires. I went ahead and ordered them from the tire shop and paid to have them installed, money ($65 each) well spent I think. Carlisle Ground Force 600 R-4, 12 ply. The vendor that I ordered from wouldn't ship to a home residence. Tractor rent went up

 

[NIsaacs]

Changed oil in my shop air compressor and went with Royal Purple full synthetic. Good thing it only holds 1 pint and only change it once in a great while. $27 quart at Napa Standard oil was on sale at $3.59. It is 30 yrs old so I thought I would give it some love...

 

[Cummins12V98]

I have use the AMZ/OIL Compressor oil in my 80 gallon compressor for at least 25 years.

 

[PerryEX]

Told you I had a bushel basket of parts ordered Still need a few small items I overlooked and I want a canopy. I might go aftermarket or go oem for a newer model tractor. They are cheaper and more simple. The 970 oem is high dollar and fancy. Note the fan blades, with the right hand engine skirt missing the sun cooked it, the overflow bottle and the plastic fuel canister. They just crumble when you touch them. I need to run to Ace and get some JD green paint.

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That's a beautiful machine!

 

[NIsaacs]

Changed oil and fuel filter in my '01 yesterday. Only 4k miles but 23 months so it was due. My new truck is also due, 11k miles but 11 months.

PS: Hauled two loads of chips last week. On the way to the job site, we have to pull a 6% grade, dang if my driver didn't almost pass me with her '91, I was in the '21. Made me mad

 

[Christopherwin]

Welp, I modified the stop bar again I was told in the interest of safety, I needed to have stop, forward. Even tho I am one of those guys that have to stick my hand in a wringer washer to see what happens...I fixed it again...so now forward is stop. I reinstalled the bell crank which changes the throw of the valve. I did leave off the stupid handle.View attachment 121600
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I recently did the bx102. Don’t understand the design on the stop bar. Like your modifications. Did you have to shorten PTO shaft? Have 5 different JD tractors all cat II 3 point hitches. All 18” from tip of PTO to center of draft arm ball. Guessing PTO needs shortened 8”. That was some big stuff guy put into this on you tube video.

 

[NIsaacs]

Yes, the pto is cut to fit. That should be a dandy chipper. Do any of your tractors have 1000 rpm pto's? All my JD's are small, so only 540, but they still work fine. For high performance, the 1000 is better. I do have a Case/IH 995 with 1000 rpm pto but have never used it. It is my dedicated power unit for my tub grinder.

Keep an eye on your chipper knives. On mine, they used like, grade nothing bolts and they were all mostly stripped, which allowed material to get behind the knife. That forced them away from the flywheel and they would make contact with the flywheel housing. I changed them all out with high grade stainless steel from ACE.

I agree, the safety bar is problematic. The limbs are always hitting it and stopping the machine. I didn't like it at all. I understand, it is a requirement to sell the chipper in Germany. I guess they have a certain safety requirement.

 

[Christopherwin]

Yes, the pto is cut to fit. That should be a dandy chipper. Do any of your tractors have 1000 rpm pto's? All my JD's are small, so only 540, but they still work fine. For high performance, the 1000 is better. I do have a Case/IH 995 with 1000 rpm pto but have never used it. It is my dedicated power unit for my tub grinder.

Keep an eye on your chipper knives. On mine, they used like, grade nothing bolts and they were all mostly stripped, which allowed material to get behind the knife. That forced them away from the flywheel and they would make contact with the flywheel housing. I changed them all out with high grade stainless steel from ACE.

I agree, the safety bar is problematic. The limbs are always hitting it and stopping the machine. I didn't like it at all. I understand, it is a requirement to sell the chipper in Germany. I guess they have a certain safety requirement.

 

[Christopherwin]

Thanks for the reply. In my 68 years on this farm never saw equipment that could run both 540/1000 without a gear change. Hard to imagine that 434 lb. 37” flywheel spinning 1000 rpm. What could possibly go wrong. All my JD’s have 540/1000 pto.Will definitely check those knife bolts. Now to shorten pto, chopsaw and rat tail file should do it. Will try to upload some images.

 

[NIsaacs]

Since all your tractors are category 2 and 540/1000, that indicates they have lotsa power. If you don't need/want the 1000 rpm performance, you can throttle down and still pull the chipper. At 540, the chip blower is a little weak, depending how far you need to throw them. Do you have both pto shafts? I only have the 540 so that is another reason I have never tried the Case/IH. As we age and slow down, 540 works for us

Yes, I like pictures and maybe some of the wood you have.

 

[Christopherwin]

Since all your tractors are category 2 and 540/1000, that indicates they have lotsa power. If you don't need/want the 1000 rpm performance, you can throttle down and still pull the chipper. At 540, the chip blower is a little weak, depending how far you need to throw them. Do you have both pto shafts? I only have the 540 so that is another reason I have never tried the Case/IH. As we age and slow down, 540 works for us

Yes, I like pictures and maybe some of the wood you have.

Have both pro’s. How you feel about installing some sort of hyd filter, as system is all self contained? I checked knife bolts, they show 10.9 which supposed to be same as grade 8 but made in China Now looking for 1000 pto yoke, guessing u-joint is metric.

 

[NIsaacs]

Have both pro’s. How you feel about installing some sort of hyd filter, as system is all self contained? I checked knife bolts, they show 10.9 which supposed to be same as grade 8 but made in China Now looking for 1000 pto yoke, guessing u-joint is metric.

So, the chipper was shipped with the 540 pto shaft? This yoke (series 35) might fit from TSC. I don't know much about PTO physical sizes. The 1000 might be bigger overall than the 540? Good on the high grade bolts. Hydraulic filters are always a good idea. Even a system as small as the chipper. My wood splitter has one and it is a small system. My chipper is an older model, so it operates off the tractor remote.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...-35-series-na-1-3-8-in-21-spline?cm_vc=-10005

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