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#161 ·
bruce, Your conversion on the WD45 looks great. I understand AC was developing the Snap coupler before Ferguson came up with the three point but as was often the case they stayed in R&D too long like their cotton picker. Snap Coupler could have been the standard and would have saved a lot of change over down time. Now it is just considered an oddity.
 
#163 ·
skunkhome said:
bruce, Your conversion on the WD45 looks great. I understand AC was developing the Snap coupler before Ferguson came up with the three point but as was often the case they stayed in R&D too long like their cotton picker. Snap Coupler could have been the standard and would have saved a lot of change over down time. Now it is just considered an oddity.
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True Phil,

It didn't take much time to decide to switch over to the standard cat1 three point. Even the guy that gave me the tractor, who was the original owner, didn't have any snap coupler implements. He said he changed the implements over to 3 point so that he could use them on his other tractors (non AC).

BTW, I got the tractor for free. The owner said it hasn't run right in over ten years no matter what new tune up stuff he put on it. It always popped and backfired from the exhaust whenever he put even a little load on it. The day after he dropped it off in my driveway, I pulled the valve cover and noticed one of the valves were not moving. I pulled the rocker and took out the now badly bent push rod. Straightened it out to within a few thousandths, put it back in and the tractor has ran great ever since. I didn't have the heart to tell the guy. I just took everything apart and rebuilt the entire tractor. If the original owner came by, my plan was to tell him I used his tractor for parts for the rebuild of this one. He never stopped by.
 
#171 ·
Last Sunday . . . .

I had one of these $18 bolt-on receiver tubes, from Harbor freight Tools:
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And I needed a 3-pt. receiver hitch for my Bolens, so I scrounged around the garage, found a couple of Cat-0 pins, and some 1.5" sq. tube, and some flat bar, and I made this:
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#172 ·
My neighbor gave me a front mount snow blade for a Simplicity tractor, but I all ready had one.
Decided to make a grader blade out of it.
Sandblasted off the old paint, and cut the blade into two pieces.
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After some cutting,bending & welding....
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Finished blade with dual 40 pound weights installed.
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You can push down with your feet, on the black rubber pads, for more "bite".
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Lift chain.
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All hitched up to the 1969 Simplicity 3112H Garden Tractor.
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These small blades do a fine job on driveways and other small jobs,
turns your tractor into a mini road grader.
Seen several on E-Bay sell in the $175 to $ 250 range.

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All for now.
-John :trink39:
 
#173 ·
Here is my home-made lawn roller.
I think this was either a large air cylinder or hydraulic cylinder.
Its about 5/8" thick and weighs 300 pounds for just the outside tube.
Cost $80.00 to get out of the junkyard.
Has an acess port, and its filled with silica sand (nice and dry) no rust
from water, weighs a lot more too.
Don't have any problems telling what has been rolled, and what hasn't been
with this thing.
If you run it on concrete, it will crush small rocks.
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Some old ball bearing pillow blocks were used here.
You can see how the 2" square tube was "beefed" up so I could tap
holes for the bearings.
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Finished with Rust-Olem 2 part urathane with epoxy primer underneath.
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Here it is behind the '69 Simplicity tractor.
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-John :trink39:
 
#175 ·
cnc-me I agree with Steevo on the on the nice work . I was thinking though the roller is missing one item it needs a scraper blade to peel off material that gets stuck to it , perhhaps a extention to the frame beyond the pillow blocks to mount a strip of light gauge metal across back of the roller and hinged so it can lift if the roller is rolling in reverse should do the trick .
 
#176 ·
That big roller cnc made would just about flatten anything with a vibrator added. Had a look one day at a home made vibrator that was just a small
Briggs with a steel pulley about 6" diameter that had lost the flanges on one side. He adjusted the vibration by engine speed. Seemed to me it would have been better to belt drive a shaft that had the pulley mounted on it. The engine could have been run a lot slower to get the same effect. That unit was used to shake rolled oats out of a dump bed. Got the job done.

Mike
 
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#179 ·
Tencubed said:
That big roller cnc made would just about flatten anything with a vibrator added. Had a look one day at a home made vibrator that was just a small
Briggs with a steel pulley about 6" diameter that had lost the flanges on one side. He adjusted the vibration by engine speed. Seemed to me it would have been better to belt drive a shaft that had the pulley mounted on it. The engine could have been run a lot slower to get the same effect. That unit was used to shake rolled oats out of a dump bed. Got the job done.

Mike
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Friend of mine used an old electric motor, with a couple of bearings and a
pulley, with a weight off center on it, for a vibrating power screed used in concrete work.
 
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