Thread: Some work for the 2a

Originally Posted by bblaze

Innovative, the talents of someone that's been around a while. Done simular with d9 final drive gears after a 2 hour walk into the bush to get to the machine. These days I would get the local tyre guy out and repair on the tractor
cheers
blaze

The local tyre guy in town charged me $39 for a new tube. I suspect he would have charged a lot more to do the 120km round trip and either remove the wheel and change the tyre on the ground or the back of his ute rather than in the workshop with machines to help handle it, and would have been less than impressed at the scrub bashing needed to get to the actual location. And I might have had to wait for a week.

I finished clearing the fire break today.

Ah a Chamberlain! A fantastic tractor & yes this front rims are incredibly heavy!

We have an Industrial MK3 with a Cranes & Shovels FEL but it got burnt in the bushfire.

I’m hoping to get it going again if I ever get the time.

Not sure if yours has the same cast split rim design as this though.

A better side on pic of the rim.

The centre can be unbolted but the tyre has to be deflated first. Same with the rears.

No, not a split rim - the wheel is a single casting. The only removable bit on it is the hubcap, held on by three 3/8"W bolts tapped into the wheel. It is a well based wheel, same as a conventional pressed steel wheel. The tyre is so heavily built I would hate to have to get it off by hand,

If it had been a split wheel, I probably would have fixed it myself - although I have seen serious issues parting a split wheel that has not been apart for a long time - and this tyre has not been off since I've owned it, about 25 years (I have replaced the rears, but the fronts I have not touched).

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Here's a better picture I took today back at the house.

John

Thanks. Thats a first for me.
I only have a FEL and a back blade for my Ford 3000. I have water ballast in the tyres though and they are heavy enough.

Keith

Originally Posted by 123rover50

Thanks. Thats a first for me.
I only have a FEL and a back blade for my Ford 3000. I have water ballast in the tyres though and they are heavy enough.

Keith

How do you find the rear blade efficiency? I have been toying with getting one for around 6 years now for maintenance around the place. Some of the use would be on shale areas.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Here's a better picture I took today back at the house.

John

Heath Robinson would be proud.