Some more fun facts about Pedro's backhoe,
I remember reading one of his posts where he mentioned his age when he started
the build, he was 16 or 17 at the time and that was 5 or 6 years ago!
Since then he's also rebuilt a dozer and a forklift. I have a picture of the dozer on my old computer, I'll see if I can find it.
Lately, he's been building smaller things such as cylinders for the front end loader he is building from scratch.
He's also teaching me about lathes and what all those thingies are for.
Maybe we can coax him in to posting some more pictures of his other machines
Restoration of a small Italian crawler tractor from 1962 with 28HP air cooled engine.
Had to put new brake liners, rebuild various worn out shafts, bushings and so on. Broken stuff, engine air ducting was full of the nastiest stuff I ever saw. All the oils in the gearbox were full of water.
Before:
After:
The mower is also homemade, it's a bit ugly though as it was under the 125th revision
At first we had pick only one diff. The first version of this machine had just one diff on the rear axle. Then the traction would be somewhat transfered to the middle axle by the tracks. Although it worked most of the time, there was a few times that I need traction and the wheels would just slip inside the tracks.
Then a few years later, we tried to find another diff on the cheap and just got something close to the width I needed. I knew it would be an hard task to get the same diff I had.
Anyways, this ended up working better for me as the diff rotated in opposite directions from each other when facing forward. So this allowed be to mount the diffs facing each other and just add the chain drive. If I recall correctly, on diff is 4.1:1 and the other is 3.8:1 ratio, So I had to compensate for this mismatch. I've good maybe 3 to 4% error between the two.
The Winner of
MTF's Machine of the Month for May 2019
is joemckna's Sears SS18!!
Have a look at the build thread Here!
Congratulations on your second MoM win, Joe, you do nice work! :congrats::congrats:
The Winner of MTF's Machine of the Month for March 2019 is...
Snowblower's Home Built Crawler!
Check out the build thread, Click Here!
Congratulations Benoit, incredible machine!
The Winner of
MTF's Machine of the Month
for January 2019 is........
Mr. Beef's 1967 JD110RF w/Hydraulic Lift!
And all the original purchase paperwork and manuals from back in the day. Amazingly, Kyle is the second owner of this machine.
Click Here to see the thread on how this...
Lets hear it for
MTF's Machine of the Month
for November 2018,
MikMan48's Sears Suburban!
Have a look at the build thread Click Here!
Congratulations Mike!!!:congrats::congrats:
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