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It's BIG, Yellow and digs holes! JCB 3CX Project 8 is joining the Tractor Shed
awemawson:
Thanks Tom :thumbup:
So off to Ella's place early doors - a very interesting farm yard with a huge American Army howitzer, multiple Land Rovers of all ages in various stages of rebuilds, much farm machinery, and tucked away in a corner Ella working from a small barn.
Concreted into the yard outside she has a steel framework allowing ram eye pins to be tethered, and from her workshop she brought our a humongous Stillson Wrench that was about as big a she was and probably weighed a bit more :bugeye:
One swing on the recalcitrant nut and it turned :thumbup:
Should be ready for collection tomorrow morning - guess where I'll be tomorrow.
I spent the rest of the morning cleaning up the remarkably hard grease from the pins and bushes and clips and also the mounting points for the ram eyes. It really is surprising how hard grease can cake up - I suppose some of it could be 28 years in the cooking.
modeng200023:
I wonder how long it will be before you have a concreted-in peg :clap:
John
awemawson:
I've certainly thought about it John !
Ella called me at 08:30 to say that although the ram was finished and ready for collection she was moving cattle so just a slight delay. Anyway I was back home by 11 am complete with resealed ram in the boot.
Now without that EPCO engine hoist, fitting this ram single handed would end it disaster but with it it went pretty smoothly. Once the top pin was inserted things got much easier (and safer!) and it was all back together by 12:00. I had two pin shims left over - they are not illustrated on the parts picture and don't seem to be needed - someone in the past has probably been trying to eliminate slop. If I find that they are needed it's fairly easy to fit them.
A quick test to full travel both way with the bucket in the air to ensure that the rams are bled, and all seems to be OK - time will tell evidenced by absence of pools of hydraulic oil when I look at it in the morning.
I've still to re-fit the 'return to dig' microswitch assembly - it needs a bit of TLC and a coat of paint but that's for another day.
While I was at Ella's place I had a good 'rubber neck' at the big gun which apparently is called a 'Long Tom' - have some photos.
tom osselton:
Would make a great Punt gun!
Pete W.:
That gun reminds me very much of a toy I received as a Christmas present when I was about ten years old.
It was a nicely detailed model with facilities to rotate the gun in azimuth and elevate it. You loaded it with a wooden projectile and put a percussion cap on the breech. The firing hammer detonated the cap and the resulting gasses passed via a hole into the back of the barrel, expelling the projectile.
I awoke early in Christmas morn and discovered and unpacked this gift. Of course, I just had to try it out. My bleary-eyed father came into my bedroom as I was shooting playing cards off the picture rail! 'Do you know it's only two o'clock?' quoth he!
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