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Harold Hubbard
12-03-2006 05:00:03
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Re: Castor wheel won't Castor in reply to wolfman, 12-01-2006 16:40:51
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What model is it? I have used the 440 GF tow behind tedders, and they are mostly held together with roll pins and snap rings. In fact, I have had roll pins break while working and unload a whole rotating basket assembly over twenty feet of windrow. If yours is like that, there should be a roll pin that holds the caster into the casting. There should also be another pin that holds the casting to the main vertical shaft that the rotating assembly is on. If you can support the basket and remove that pin, the casting should come off, and you can hold the casting in a vise and apply a big pipe wrench or whatever other persuasion you need to get it moving. On the trailing model the wheels are fixed, but they unlock for adjustments, and when folding the machine for road travel. Because they are not regularly moving, the pivots seize up frequently. Again yours may be different, but mine had plastic bushings for the shaft to turn in, so the first time I took it apart, I heated the casting until the plastic cooked and ran out. Then everything came apart easily. I drilled the casting and tapped it for a grease fitting, polished the shaft and reassembled it with new roll pins. If your tedder comes apart the same way, be sure the tine bars don't get out of time while it is apart. If you let the rotor slip down the shaft the gears come out of mesh, and it may take a little fussing to get them back in the same place. A chalk mark on the rotor and housing before dis-assembly is good insurance. Always use new roll pins, looking for the parts and putting it back together in the hayfield is not fun.
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