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| ieezitin:
Hello guys Well! My last hog blew up and was unsalvageable and returned back to mother earth from where she once came from so I have 8 acres to mow and I need a new hog. I perused the net for a new one and was astonished at the prices and figured I would rather poke my eye with a stick ten times than buy new one so off to the auction I when and I came home with two. One is a real Bush Hog which is a quality machine and the other is a Chinese knock off. I checked what used prices were going on Craigslist and I figured if I buy the two rebuild both and sell the Chinese knock off I would come out of the deal with a Bush Hog that I have spent no money on. So here is what we have. So i started with the Chinese heap. Here is the right-angled gear drive which has been sprayed battleship grey but will be another colour Here is the undercarriage with the blades. For those of you who do not know these blades are held on by bolts and a slight gap is left between the fit. The reason is when the blade hits a stump or brick it articulates and swings back for where it absorbs the shock and does not transfer the power through the drive train. Here is the PTO Drive shaft that connects to the tractor, this blighter was fused together so i had to weld it to the table and spray Kroil on it connect it to a 2 Ton comealong take up tension and smack it with a mallet to loosen. This is the new base plate that will seat the Right -Angled gear drive. i used a bit of 10" c_Channel trimmed down the height punched 4 holes in and cut the flange hole in with a cutting torch. This is the tractor that will be pushing it. It is a Case 385 50Hp 3 cylinder diesel made in England, its cost me a pretty penny over the years in parts as the Brits make them duel coded meaning half metric and half imperial, i cant even make the stuff easily in my machine shop because dies etc are hard to come by here in the US. Well thats it for now gotta have it ready soon as we have just had a drenching rain and the grass growing will keep me up at night. More Later Anthony |
| t20:
Hi ieezitin Nice tractor great idea i look forward to seeing more pics mike |
| MadNick:
Hi there, --- Quote from: ieezitin on April 22, 2012, 05:19:09 PM ---This is the tractor that will be pushing it. It is a Case 385 50Hp 3 cylinder diesel made in England, its cost me a pretty penny over the years in parts as the Brits make them duel coded meaning half metric and half imperial, i cant even make the stuff easily in my machine shop because dies etc are hard to come by here in the US. --- End quote --- I have heard this from a few different people. Which type of tooling is difficult to get hold over there? Nick |
| ieezitin:
Nick. there is no such thing as BA or Whitworth here. the Americans do work in fractions and metric is not common here but the Americans work to there own standard. No4 No6 No8 are small size bolts or screws but mean nothing to you Europeans. the thread angle is different 60Deg verses 55 deg. the only standard is metric through out the world. its a mess. this country will not adopt metric. Anthony. |
| MadNick:
Hi there, Its a similar mixture of regimes over here but it does seem quite easy to get hold of tools to cut obscure threads. I would be more than happy to hunt out some BA and Whitworth tooling for you and send it over, you see this stuff going for nothing at car boots sales and the like. Nick |
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