Social isolation projects
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:32 pm
Lately I have been buying fixing and reselling cubs. I do around 10-20 a year. Some get mowers and some get plows, some get parted some get sold the same way I found them.
This spring I have been busy, I posted pictures of a big load about 3 weeks ago. Since then a friend dropped off 4, 2 129’s and 2 107’s. In a effort to get them all under cover (And to not have dead hydro to push) have been getting them to run/drive nothing more and then on to the next.
First up was a hydro lift 129, it got my last good battery. I parted one of the 107’s it had no engine and was very rough, rusty and the only thing it had goingbfor it was a set of lights, that had a broken mount....
So now I got the other 129 on the bench and was using my car battery jump box with cables but no battery to test run her. I got the tractor running good and wanted to drive/move it.
About 3 weeks ago at work another crew had left the Elevator on battery back up for the weekend. Needless to say the 2 small batteries where dead. We rushed out and got 2 new ones and got it going. I brought home the old ones in hopes of scraping them.
I figured I could charge the Elevator battery’s and use the car battery to start Elevator battery to run the coil. I haven’t been fixing any change issues just making them move for now. I made up a quick spade connector leads (only 14 gauge) and hooked up both battery’s in parallel giving a total of 28 amps to run the coil. Just for fun I hit the key on a warm 129... she popped right off!
Then on to the second 107, I got it going and still haven been avoiding stores. No new battery! I figured if it could start the 129 with 2 it could surely run with just one. I pulled one of the two batteries and left just one in the 129. By this point the 107 was warm and started easy on the car battery. I hooked up just one Elevator battery in the 107. Sure enough it started the warm 107 with just one! So back to the 129 it was cold at this point.... sure enough cold start 129 in my 60 degree garage!
I’m sure at 10 degrees it wouldn’t do it, but it certainly saved a trip to Walmart TSC or advanced auto! For now I’ll wait on going and once things clear up, I’ll end up clearing the shelf!
The little battery that could!
This spring I have been busy, I posted pictures of a big load about 3 weeks ago. Since then a friend dropped off 4, 2 129’s and 2 107’s. In a effort to get them all under cover (And to not have dead hydro to push) have been getting them to run/drive nothing more and then on to the next.
First up was a hydro lift 129, it got my last good battery. I parted one of the 107’s it had no engine and was very rough, rusty and the only thing it had goingbfor it was a set of lights, that had a broken mount....
So now I got the other 129 on the bench and was using my car battery jump box with cables but no battery to test run her. I got the tractor running good and wanted to drive/move it.
About 3 weeks ago at work another crew had left the Elevator on battery back up for the weekend. Needless to say the 2 small batteries where dead. We rushed out and got 2 new ones and got it going. I brought home the old ones in hopes of scraping them.
I figured I could charge the Elevator battery’s and use the car battery to start Elevator battery to run the coil. I haven’t been fixing any change issues just making them move for now. I made up a quick spade connector leads (only 14 gauge) and hooked up both battery’s in parallel giving a total of 28 amps to run the coil. Just for fun I hit the key on a warm 129... she popped right off!
Then on to the second 107, I got it going and still haven been avoiding stores. No new battery! I figured if it could start the 129 with 2 it could surely run with just one. I pulled one of the two batteries and left just one in the 129. By this point the 107 was warm and started easy on the car battery. I hooked up just one Elevator battery in the 107. Sure enough it started the warm 107 with just one! So back to the 129 it was cold at this point.... sure enough cold start 129 in my 60 degree garage!
I’m sure at 10 degrees it wouldn’t do it, but it certainly saved a trip to Walmart TSC or advanced auto! For now I’ll wait on going and once things clear up, I’ll end up clearing the shelf!
The little battery that could!