Oiled my shop today

I put a used Westendorf WL42 on the 1086 a little over a year ago, but the machinery jockey I bought it from didn't have the 'manifold' of female pioneer couplers that goes on the side rail of the tractor. When the loader is attached and detached from the tractor the hydraulic hoses for the loader plug into this manifold. Hoses go from the manifold to the rear ISO outlets on the back of the tractor. Those of you with Westendorfs know the deal.

Anyway, when I got the loader I just found some hoses to extend the hoses that were already on the loader to the back of the tractor. I haven't taken the loader off until now so the convenience of having the manifold was no big deal. Today I finally installed a manifold with six Pioneer outlets. The loader has a grapple so that's why there are six. I had the hoses that go to the back of the tractor made and I put eveything together-except for one hose on the manifold that I forgot to tighten. Hooked everything up, was driving into the loader with the 'loader down' hyd lever pushed ahead to mount the loader and the loader wasn't responding. I was looking down the right side of the tractor and the loose hose was spraying out the left side unnoticed until I let up on the lever to try to figure out why the loader wasn't moving when I moved the lever. The shop floor was covered with oil, the work bench was covered, and I had to unhook everything so I could back the tractor out the door to wash it down. Now on occasion, language unbecoming of a christian has shown up in that shop, and it happened again!!!! I was more mad at myself than the mess. The floor and bench had to be cleaned anyway. It still amazes me how much oil can go through such a small hole in such a short time. Jim

I oil mine regularly, keeps it from rusting.

That makes it smell so nice too.

Just oiled mine when a hose let go on my skid steer .about 5 gallons got into my tool boxes.

I am pretty sure everyone has done that at least a time or two. Sometimes my wife asks me, If you love those tractors so much why do you curse at them like you do. I really don't know but I still keep tinkering.

GOTTA KEEP THE DUST DOWN . KILL BUGS ETC.

I was taking my Oliver down to my uncles to load manure for him and starter to notice the loader going down alittle, So I bumped the hydrolic lever to raise it. That was a bad idea! Lets just say I got it off the road real quick and shut off. Police and fire dept showed up to the mess I created, They had to hose the road down and I had to pay for 6 car washes for those sprayed with oil. It was a good thing the fire dept was still there after the hose was fixed and I tried to start it. I turned the key and blew both batties and started a fire. Had to call a friend with a rollback to come get it, Got it home and in the shop and my uncle comes through the door mad that I didnt come down to load manure for him and hes been waiting all day! He gets good and mad and leaves in a huff. Some days it dont pay to get out of bed! Whats a guy to do? Bandit

Now I don't feel so lonely. Rebuilt a 4030 in my shop about 15 years ago. Pushing towards getting done, and wanted to test run the new engine job, I dumped 18 qts of new oil into the oil fill. Walked around to the other side of the tractor, and wondered where the he!! all that oil came from on the floor. Then I noticed the drain plug that was still on the deck. Only good thing was that oil was still about $1 a quart.

A few years ago I was working on a JD 2020. I had the transmission completely apart. I had the whole thing back together except for the rock shaft housing. I had filled it with the hydraulic oil as it is much easier to just pour it into the open top. I had a brain fart. The front end loader had settled down and was in the way for something I was doing. I just reached up and started the tractor. Remember that I had the rock shaft housing off. There is a high pressure port that supplies the rock shaft and SCVs. Full hydraulic pressure and flow. I had a hydraulic geyser in the middle of my shop. Then I had to go in through that to shut the tractor off. I had sprayed out eight gallons of hydraulic oil. I had oil on the complete shop. Even the ceiling. LOL It took me three showers to get the oil off of me. It only took the tractor 30 seconds to do what it took me two days to clean up. I even had to take the fluorescent lights down and wash them.

Bandit, did you sit down with a Bud or two at the end of the day? Your predicament makes my little spray job look minor! LOL Jim

I've been trying to get the hydraulics working on my 2020 and I soak the driveway down everytime I do something with it. Before I start I get the oil dry out and put a layer down to absorb what goes flying.

We oiled the golf course a few times while I was there. Once while using a Roseman Hydra-gang to mow rough (picture a Ford 3000 with seven hydraulically driven reel mowers hanging off of it) The hydraulics driving the mowers them selves was a pump hanging on the PTO fed by 2 tanks mounted behind the seat with a total capacity of around 30 gallons of ATF. Our turf student comes in complaining that the reels quit and he couldn't get them to lift so he had to walk in. We grabbed a cart and drove out to were he stopped, only 6 mowers on the tractor, seems he knocked one off, drug for about 200 yards before it broke free. The other reels stopped after all the ATF got pumped onto the ground and that was his first indication something was wrong!. Boy the boss was p1ssed!

I broke the hitch on a hydroswing swather last year.Pulled the hoses in two,broke the pump....30 gallons of oil instantly 'flushed' on to the ground.I used some 'colorful' words that day!

Quite a few years ago when Roundup was new the greenskeeper at our local golf course sprayed some of the greens with Roundup, thinking it was a grub killer. Oil probably would have done more damage than Roundup cause it would have to cleaned up before re-seeding. Jim

Digging septic lines for my new house on an old backhoe, blew the supply line for the hoe. Lots of hot oil all over the place in one hell of a hurry. Never got off a tractor so quick, but then had to run under the spray of hot oil to shut it down. About 10 gallons in 20 seconds, and some dead grass for a few months!

Don't feel bad. Truth be told, we all have a story like that to tell.

my 4020 deer power schft.. in 20 yrs done that scht io me twice! ,TOTAL UNPROVOKED SURPRISE !!, each time i was on the road rite before dark 8th gear ,,.blowed a line under dash cowling ,,, sprayed oil all over me ,, barely could see to get the deer off the road ,both times i took a heavy blast to my face,blinding me with HOT OIL! ,luckily i had just came down a steep hill and had leveled out .WHEN YOU LOSE THAT MUCH FLUID that fast with a DEERE!.. YOU HAVE NO STEERING and BRAKES !! Resisted the Urge to Bail off,,no place to go,, hydro fluid tastes horrible .. . 4020 power shift was totally disabled and spent the nite on the road at the mercy of anyone that needed parts and vandals...stole batterries .. oil made me sick ,, but i went back next day ,, took a DC CASE and carefully towed it home 3 miles ...

Several years back I had a customer blow one of the two hoses that come straight off of the pump on a PC-150 Komatsu excavator. To begin with he blew a small hole in the line, lost a bit of oil, no big deal. So, he went to a local shop and had a new one made up.

Now this machine had a rock drill attachment on it so both lines arced up to a valve body located just to the right rear of the cab. Just so happens there is also small window in the right rear of the cab.
Once he started the machine and had run about 5 minutes, the hose blew completely off/out of the new fitting. With the way it was bent the line laid over through the window and was spewing about 30 gpm into the cab. He said he felt the first few drops hit him and for a split second thought somebody was messing with him.....then he realized what was happening and bailed out of the cab.............Then, again for a split second, he said was relieved he wasn't getting any more oil on him than he already had...then he realized, "dumb a$$, you've got to get back in there to cut it off....

Turns out the fitting wasn't crimped to spec. So, needless to say, the company that made the hose had to pay for a new seat, as well as the cleaning/replacemtn of everything ruined by the faulty line.

A long time ago I borrowed a wood splitter from a friend. NOTE, key word "borrowed", always happens this way.

Why anyone would design a machine with the spin on filter mounted base down, I don't know.

Anyway,"somebody" whacked the hydraulic filter with a stick of firewood, and cracked the threaded spigot that the filter itself screw on to. The filter launched itself ten feet into the air, followed by most of the fluid in the system. Fortunately there was plenty of sawdust around to absorb it.

I lost a line on a 440 JD wheel tractor/loader, once. How that 1/2 gallon of hot oil landed in my crotch, that quick, I have no idea...

"On certain occasions, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." Mark Twain