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by DaveKamp
Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:16 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Cab
Replies: 1
Views: 929

Re: Cab

Hi Tim! Ah, what a great time-of-year subject... when the wind comes in fast from Nebraska and the Dakotas for a balmy -34F wind chill... Dunno about your specific model, but there's a long procession of various cab manufacturers over time... Curtis being the type that I mounted on my Dad's Kubota.....
by DaveKamp
Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:52 pm
Forum: Custom Corner
Topic: Electric Lift on an Aerator
Replies: 6
Views: 3674

Re: Electric Lift on an Aerator

So is it the Agri-Fab 45-0299? If so, it appears that the hand lever operates a shaft that rotates the wheels' swingarms to lift the unit. If this is the case, then a lift on the tractor's 3-point will not do any good- the implement wasn't designed to be lifted off the ground with it's tongue... you...
by DaveKamp
Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:53 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Never fails... I get a flu shot, and 5 days later, I got the flu... :roll: At least, amidst the chills, sweating, coughing and sneezing, i was able to participate in the world of E-commerce and order some gaskets for the Mutt transaxle. Next steps include getting the hydrostat mounted and moved to t...
by DaveKamp
Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

A Fireman is a guy who's crazy enough to run INTO a burning building, while all the SANE people are running OUT! :lol: :lol: But seriously folks... I'm on a job assignment for the next few days. When I get home, I gotta round up 80ft of 4" drain tube, get it placed in a trench in the back of my prop...
by DaveKamp
Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:09 am
Forum: Custom Corner
Topic: Electric Lift on an Aerator
Replies: 6
Views: 3674

Re: Electric Lift on an Aerator

Post a picture of the aerator, Charlie!

I've been making actuators for miscellaneous things lately... amazing what a guy can power with a bicycle chainring, some chain, a drive pinion from a garage door opener, and the guts from a discarded cordless drill...
by DaveKamp
Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:45 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Hi Guys! No immediate progress since I got back from my run to Lubbock, I'm busy getting caught up for winter... but soon. Joe- when someone says a guy "Wrote the book" on... that 'guy' was me... the holeless and in-grounds, tractions, and controllers... so I spent plenty of time running the car-top...
by DaveKamp
Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:39 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Cub Cadet 147
Replies: 29
Views: 26831

Re: Cub Cadet 147

Paul- Lookie Charlie's chains and weights- do THAT with your 147, and put a snow blade on it. As somebody (Mike?) said, you'll 'out work' an F-Cub... that's because you've got more flywheel horsepower on tap, more maneuverability, AND... you have hydrostatic speed/direction control. One project I co...
by DaveKamp
Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:18 pm
Forum: Welcome Mat
Topic: Newbie with recently acquired 147 and need for a mechanic
Replies: 4
Views: 1709

Re: Newbie with recently acquired 147 and need for a mechanic

Welcome!!! And yes, the difference between a 'lawn tractor' and a Garden Tractor: Lawn tractors are mowers that are vaguely shaped like tractors, and are ridden by people who don't like to walk-behind. Garden Tractors are intended to actually 'do' work, and one of those things, if you so choose, wil...
by DaveKamp
Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:26 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: 450 Auger Bushings
Replies: 12
Views: 2982

Re: 450 Auger Bushings

Looks good, Paul! I don't know anything about these blowers... I USED to have one for one of my 782's, but someone else needed it worse than me... But down on the bottom edges of the sides... are there sliders/skids/wear bars? If so, I'd suggest making some new ones out of UHMW... if the original on...
by DaveKamp
Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:29 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Wow! Three Daves and a Joe! :lol: how'd THAT happen? Master? Not even close... I could be considerably more meticulous about this stuff, but the result would not be significantly better in any functional way. If I were to do it again, I would likely not do SOME things different, but I MIGHT do it fo...
by DaveKamp
Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:56 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

I think it's just you and Joe, Dave...

Btw, Joe- is it passenger & freight elevators, or grain elevators? (I used to work for Mongomery... then Montgomery-KONE... a long time ago...)
by DaveKamp
Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:25 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: 450 Auger Bushings
Replies: 12
Views: 2982

Re: 450 Auger Bushings

Is that bushing a steel or iron on steel or iron, or is it a bronze (oillite) style? If it's an oillite bronze, it's self lubricated... there's oil impregnated into the bronze, so it doesn't need additional lube... If it's iron or steel, then it will need something... and I'd THINK there'd be a grea...
by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:45 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

I've had all of yesterday and today sitting behind the wheel, driving to my next assignment, and now as I sit in a hotel room in Lubbock, Texas, I'm still pondering a couple other things I want to do here. First... I've been consdering plumbing the live hydraulics pump into the transaxle, along with...
by DaveKamp
Sun Oct 23, 2022 10:31 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So today's toil was outdoor-get-ready-for-winter stuff. That included, but not limited to: Installing a new driveway sensor, fabricating a cover for the pull box, and getting the wire pulled through, cover installed, and dirt spread over the cover.. Digging a drainaget trench to release water trappe...
by DaveKamp
Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:20 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

After welding the flange in, it must be cooled, then trued-up, because the back of the flange will INVARIABLY not be perpendicular to the axleshaft SOMEWHERE. Skimming the back solves this. Skimming the OD cleans up the look. 20221022_212421.jpg 20221022_212745.jpg And some yellow rattle-paint gives...
by DaveKamp
Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:18 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Okay, so today I did a half-zillion things, including draining and blowing out my Dad's outdoor water lines (mom's gardens have LOTS of spigots), and I cut and welded up a proper cover for an in-ground box in my front yard... loaded steel onto a buddy's trailer, unloaded a hydraulic shear off same b...
by DaveKamp
Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:41 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Well, thanks for chiming in, Dave! I don't know if I could come up with a way of making it last any longer... I mean... I'm managing such infrequent progress, that a snail, riding a frozen turtle through a 14" concrete wall would make faster progress than ME! :lol: Obviously, it's not my ONLY projec...
by DaveKamp
Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:42 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So my office desk, before lunch...
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Can 'ya figure out what changed?
Yes- the Dr. Pepper is gone!!! :lol: :lol:

Here it is again... in situ:
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by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:31 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

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by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:31 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So it's late, I'm tired, and got lotta things I gotta do 'tween now and Friday 2pm, so I'll let the pictures yield 8 thousand words:
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by DaveKamp
Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:30 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: #1 wagon
Replies: 9
Views: 2291

Re: #1 wagon

Golly, Ken- if you send that over my way, I'd make that look like it was brand new... save for the paint... you're better at painting than me... :beer:
by DaveKamp
Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So HERE is the old Paragon kiln... pretty much cooled off as of 6pm tonight, so the annealing process is about 20 hours, I could have probably pulled it out by noon and then cooled the last several hundred in the air, but I was at work... 20221011_182204.jpg Here's what it looked like when I lifted ...
by DaveKamp
Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:58 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Oooh... pretty red glow inside the hotbox! :twisted: hot.jpg Annealing is accomplished by heating the metal to about 100F above it's critical temperature (around 1300F for most steels), and then 'soak' it... hold it at that temp for an hour for each inch of thickness (under 3/4" for this one), and t...
by DaveKamp
Mon Oct 10, 2022 5:11 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So it took some effort, but I finally found the stray axleshaft... tall weeds took over, I had to battle my way through summer's overgrowth until yesterday dark... but a stroll through my work revealed it's hiding place. I promptly took it down for a visit with Lucifer's Toothpick (oxyacetylene torc...
by DaveKamp
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:22 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: #1 wagon
Replies: 9
Views: 2291

Re: #1 wagon

Keep goin', Ken! Love the progress pictures!!!
by DaveKamp
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:19 pm
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: And I came home with two dollars
Replies: 46
Views: 16077

Re: And I came home with two dollars

All great stuff! I like reviving old stuff, too... next up should be the Studebaker 2ton in my back driveway... :o
by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:39 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

I chucked it up in the lathe, bored it out to a snug fit on the axle, set it to proper length, then welded the flange in tight, once cooled, I put it back in the lathe, and skimmed the back end to be true-running to the shaft's axis. 20221004_230351.jpg 20221004_235136.jpg Cleaned up the hardware, i...
by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:37 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

The eerie orange glow peeping out through the lid says it's over 1800F in there, and I expect that after an hour or so, that axle flange was a large percentage of that glow. I shut it down, and walked away for a day, to allow the flange to cool REALLY SLOW. 20221002_192839.jpg 20221002_192711.jpg Ne...
by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:26 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

So now that the bearings and seals are in place, and the hubs are fitted, the next step is making up the axleshafts... which means taking the Mustang shafts and either MAKE a flange (cut, drill, machine in a recess, etc) or liberate flanges from the donor Dana 60, bore them to accept the Mustang axl...
by DaveKamp
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:20 am
Forum: Cub Cadets and Shooting the Breeze
Topic: Loader Mutt Continues...
Replies: 352
Views: 764009

Re: Loader Mutt Continues...

Okay, so time for bearings and seals... No complexity here, push in the races, drop in the bearings, and slip on the seals. On a Dana 60 Full Floater, the bearings are lubricated by presence of gear oil which comes down the tube around the axleshafts, then into the hub. In trucks, guys will often gr...