Machinery Breaks!

Uff-Da!

Snapped two of the big arbor bolts holding the left rear gang on my 480 disc. Darned gang rolled right out from underneith 'er.

Simple fix, but lengthly repair. Onwards and upwards as they say. :>(

Allan

Love my disc, but.... Those dang arbour bolts are just made to break. Think I have replace 3 of them.

Things get ugly when that happens. Looks like it doing a good job.

it must be the day for it, kubota backhoe here today sheared the wheel width adjustment pin, the rear tire moved inward and the tread bars locked the tire on a support pipe for the backhoe, it wasnt going anywhere, raised the rear with the hoe, and moved the tire back clear, and limped back to the barn with a screwdriver thru the pin hole, held by vice grips on the other side, now im going into town and get some parts to fix it right

Sounds like the bolts that hold the disc openers on my Neighbors Crustbuster No-Till drill. Replaced two of 'em last week. Should be an easy job, but it never is.

And it sure was cutting nice too. Hopefully you could get it back to where you work on your equipment. Must be a lot of forces applied to these, farmer I used to help, his '08 model 637 heavy JD disc somehow tore the 1/2" angle that holds the gang to the main frame/toolbar or thick square tubing. First time it was a crack or tear, I welded it, was on the flat so that worked well for my limited skills, weld came out good, it held and was strong, but the angle tore again further over, had to cut that old angle iron right off and had another new piece made up to match what the factory used at the steel supplier, welded that on and it never happened again, or had any sign of trouble after hundreds of acres in tough rocky ground. Maybe it was stressed, defective from the factory. I could never see how you could tear 1/2" steel like that, I kept the scrap piece to show how darned strong 7018 is in tension, even done by an amateur. I can see how the outside rear and smaller disc's get buggered up, his brother used to get too close to the edge, trees etc., but not that 1/2" steel even in the rocky soils here has to be a ton of stress on these or someone did something beyond my comprehension with it.

Did you hit a tree?

if i remember my Kansas and Nebraska jokes,that should be did he hit THE tree?
sorry Allan...too easy...i had to say it

Naw,

I disked over a couple of berms. :>)

Allan

Alan, your breaking stuff right and left. Got that tractor back in 1 piece yet?