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Chris Jones

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I'd like to make a step for my tractor like I see on some heavy equipment. With large wire cable holding a bar at the bottom. The cable would be stiff enough not to move very much when stepped on by have enough give not to break when you hit something with it. Any ideas on where to find some cable and how to create the ends on it to keep it from going through the holes? Reckon a nut could be welded onto cable?
 
The bottom step on the combine is held on by wide rubber strips. Find someone with some old round baler belting and you will be set.
 
It works better to braze the cable than weld it. Flows between all the wires, doesn"t burn off the wires. For attaching points, you could use battery cable ends, but braze them instead of crimping. My first college job was in a machine shop, and I made a lot of control cables using drilled out bolts and aircraft cable. Lighter stuff, but similar idea. Cable source? If not a hardware store- check with old quarries/gravel pits....dragline cable is perfect size and they"ll maybe donate a few feet.
 
Either rubber belt like NotJustAir said, or logging choker chain for a BIG skidder. One of the local loggers has some massive grapple skidders, and on the E-Spool, they have either 3/4 or 1 inch cable for dragging trees to the grapples. BIG stuff, would take a really fat farmer to snap them things! :)
 
Cut some sidewalls out of an old tractor tire and use large fender washers or flat washers to attach the step. They are also easier to drill with a pilot type bit.....
 
Back in 1983, when I worked in the Mines, I did just exactly what you want to do, to a CAT 988 Wheel Loader. I used some scrap cable from one of our Vulcan Drag-Line Slushers; cut three pieces of 1/4" x 6"W x 12"L steel plate; drilled holes in the ends of the plates just slightly larger than the cable; threaded the cable through the holes; spaced the plates about 8" apart; & put a Cable-Clamp immediately above & below each plate. After I tightened the nuts on the cable-clamps, I tack-welded the nuts to the clamp saddle. I then welded the top plate to the bottom of the bottom-step on the Wheel Loader.


Doc
 
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