Tall T
Well-known Member
Dumb
A few more times and I'll have compiled enough mistakes to write a tractor song
Dum, dum, dum, DOH !
Maybe more like careless that may turn into the unpleasant consequences of dumb.
[b:3ab55d4d01]Here's what i did:[/b:3ab55d4d01]
Had my landscape rake on turned 180 backwards for something else, and had to move the MF cutter to level ground, so decided to just chain it up to the Land Pride outrigger.
The move all went well except that at one point the fingers of the rake pushed on the tied up shaft endwise, bottoming out the telescopic square tubes . . . Soooo idiot I, winds up applying serious longitudinal pressure to the input shaft of the gearbox.
What it did was to cause a puddle of gear lube the size of a big cookie to ooze out of the capped breather hole on top to lay there stinkin' up the deck. I hate the smell of gear lube.
Makes me think that I might have damaged something , or wonder if can mean there is excessive gear play/end play within the box.
Anyway . . .
I relieved that shaft from the rake fingers pressure immediately, before I moved the cutter. I can still turn the shaft and blades by hand.
I think what might have happened was that the cutter tail wheel was sideways (I should have kicked it straight) on a slight downhill slope and when it finally swiveled straight out in the soft ground, it sent the deck towards the rake fingers. At least the finders supplied a little shock absorption!
Axo Dentley
A few more times and I'll have compiled enough mistakes to write a tractor song
Dum, dum, dum, DOH !
Maybe more like careless that may turn into the unpleasant consequences of dumb.
[b:3ab55d4d01]Here's what i did:[/b:3ab55d4d01]
Had my landscape rake on turned 180 backwards for something else, and had to move the MF cutter to level ground, so decided to just chain it up to the Land Pride outrigger.
The move all went well except that at one point the fingers of the rake pushed on the tied up shaft endwise, bottoming out the telescopic square tubes . . . Soooo idiot I, winds up applying serious longitudinal pressure to the input shaft of the gearbox.
What it did was to cause a puddle of gear lube the size of a big cookie to ooze out of the capped breather hole on top to lay there stinkin' up the deck. I hate the smell of gear lube.
Makes me think that I might have damaged something , or wonder if can mean there is excessive gear play/end play within the box.
Anyway . . .
I relieved that shaft from the rake fingers pressure immediately, before I moved the cutter. I can still turn the shaft and blades by hand.
I think what might have happened was that the cutter tail wheel was sideways (I should have kicked it straight) on a slight downhill slope and when it finally swiveled straight out in the soft ground, it sent the deck towards the rake fingers. At least the finders supplied a little shock absorption!
Axo Dentley