Stripped bolt on lifting arm - pic where to get new?

Britcheflee

Well-known Member
Was one of those exciting moments when brush hogging where I heard a loud noise, looked back to see the brush hog lifted right up in the air - one side of the lift arm bolt/pin had stripped out, the brush hog slid to one side and caught on the rear wheel pushing it up into the air.
Here is a picture of part:



What is the correct name for this bolt if it has one and would somewhere like tractor supply have one?
 
That pin was loose for a long time to have
come out like that.
I would be ashamed to be so lax in my
maintenance and pretripping my equipment to
have that happen to me.
 

I double nutt'em,,, short of welding them put its a PITA to keep'em tight :!: I had to go back and swap these out for shorter pins. I have that issue resolved now..

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The pins on my box blade and mower have been in use by me for ten years and have never come loose even with the single nuts on them. But, I sure don't see any problem with adding another nut like you did.
 

Sigh....now I know why I left this forum some time ago - thought I would come back for a bit of advice but seems like the 'holier than thou' types who of course have never, ever, done anything wrong are still here to make it unpleasant. Must be quite a remarkable life you live having never made a mistake.
By the way, thank you to the other posters who simply were kind enough to answer my question without all the judgement.
 
(quoted from post at 02:59:34 09/12/16)
Sigh....now I know why I left this forum some time ago - thought I would come back for a bit of advice but seems like the 'holier than thou' types who of course have never, ever, done anything wrong are still here to make it unpleasant. Must be quite a remarkable life you live having never made a mistake.
By the way, thank you to the other posters who simply were kind enough to answer my question without all the judgement.
ell, just when I was thinking that I had not seen you post in a long time Lee. Always liked the stories & pictures of the International & Mercury. Good to hear from you.
P.S. There are always those few that are best simply ignored.
 
Lee,
You must have missed that part in boot
camp. Where one guy would screw up and the
drill instructor would make an example out
of him. There wasn't any touchy feely
crap. They just told the guy who screwed
up what an idiot he was and made him do a
hundred pushups. It taught that guy to to
be more observant - because screwups can
cost lives. More importantly,it taught
everyone else not to make that same kind
of mistake. I didn't write that to make
you feel bad. I wrote that because i know
that everyone who saw this post will now
go out and check the pins on their
equipment.
And maybe they'll also give a thought to
regularly checking their equipment out
before blithley jumping on their tractor
and wrecking something or hurting
themselves - or worse.
You came here looking for advice.
You got it. Not just about the pin but
about pretripping too. If the advice you
get is such that you're too offended to
come back well, I'll tell you I'd rather
have you stick around. But I won't sugar
coat things for you. It's your call.
 
(quoted from post at 01:59:34 09/12/16)
Sigh....now I know why I left this forum some time ago - thought I would come back for a bit of advice but seems like the 'holier than thou' types who of course have never, ever, done anything wrong are still here to make it unpleasant. Must be quite a remarkable life you live having never made a mistake.
By the way, thank you to the other posters who simply were kind enough to answer my question without all the judgement.

Don't let the old farts get to you. The very first time I asked a question on this board I got blasted from some guy who had nothing to suggest; he only wanted to call me stupid.

The long-winded "apology" you got really wasn't one. It was trying to explain away bs behavior as somehow just the way things are. But it's locker room grab-as*, slap, and tickle stuff that the guy never outgrew.

Hang in there. Take what you can and ignore the rest. You're going to get lots of helpful suggestions and occasionally get gigged for asking the question. Just the way many of these folks are. They love being the big fish in a small pond.
 
(quoted from post at 18:00:50 09/11/16) That pin was loose for a long time to have
come out like that.
I would be ashamed to be so lax in my
maintenance and pretripping my equipment to
have that happen to me.

UD,

Not fair to malign you because there was too little info to really know was going on with his equipment; i.e., was the pin floppy beforehand, was it a ready-to-strip nut or next to no threads on an old used pin.

So rather than just putting you down, a little info as to the root cause of the failure would be nice, but don't hold your breath.

But given the potential for disaster with these hogs, if it was mine and that pin was already flopping around, leaving enough free play for the kind of impact necessary to have the pin pull right out of the nut, I'd be embarrassed at myself and would have gratefully accepted a little helpful chastising from you.

But it could be that either pin and nut already had next to no threads while creating the impression that the pin was snug.

Once on the forum as a new user, I had that tire jockey beat the snot out of my hat box rims. While I was rambling on about repairing the damage and then maybe appealing to the guy to reimburse me, someone here on the forum read me the riot act, basically calling a whimp and that in his own words, "I had to confront the guy".

The forum member was dead right, I was being a fool and when I realized that, I went back and confronted the guy and didn't pay him a penny of the $100 bucks he wanted. So I was grateful for all the forum support including the admonition to buck up.

A little chastising is a hard pill for a man to swallow. I have fun asking women which four words they are least likely to hear a man ever say to them and especially to each other. The answer is: "I didn't know that." :D
 
When I put Pat's Quick Hitches on my 8N it hooked to my mower easily enough. But the pins on my box blade were pretty short and didn't give me enough play to back the quick hitches into them without a lot of jockying around. And with an FEL and no power steering, that ain't easy.

Anyway I went down to TSC and got some longer pins to put in it. I got one pin out and changed ok but the other one is something else. The nut was practically rust welded on. I spent a lot of energy and probably 20 minutes just getting that nut off. It pretty well stripped off all the threads on the pin before I finally got it off.

Anyway that was only half the problem. I can't get that pin out. I've soaked it, beat it, banged it even heated it with a hand propane torch. I even used an air hammer (rivet gun) on it. It just won't bust loose. It just won't budge I think next time I put the box blade on, I'll drive it over to my buddies place down the road. He's got a regular acetylene torch and see what he can do with it.
 

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