DanielW
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- Location
- Haliburton, Ontario
Not a complex project, but turned out ok...ish... Uncle managed to (somehow) tear apart the boss from the arm on the Dunham-Lehr #22 loader on our 6600. Not entirely surprising: That loader always was a little light for some of the logging and other work we do with that tractor.
New bracket made with QT100 (high yield) plates cut on the plasma table. A piece of heavy-wall DOM as a boss with appropriate I.D. to press some heavy-wall bronze-bushings in (I was surprised to find the original D/L loader didn't have bushings - just steel-on-steel with a grease fitting). Welded the bracket together as a drop-in fit around the outside of the old arm. A couple of slots for plug-welding through the side just to be safe.
Of course, I had left my welder-genny at the other farm. And the breaker for the welder outlet I have at this farm broke as soon as I started (not overly surpising - I hooked that welder outlet up as a broke teenager with only a 40A breaker I had from a yard sale and a piece of dryer cord). So I was stuck using the 10 kW homeowner-grade genny to run the welder - something I swore I'd never do again. A nightmare to use: Every time you'd strike the arc the genny would bog down for a second and often lose the arc, governor would kick in and over-rev for a second and you'd have manipulated the rod slightly to try and keep the arc going, and then you'd stick the rod, trip the breaker, and have to start again.
Very ugly welds, and pic was before I finished when I was still confirming geometry and alignment (had to run some heavy vertical beads along the arm a couple feet further toward the front to use the weld shrinkage to bend the arm back to where it should have been. I'll wire a proper welder outlet at some point and give everything a capping pass with something smooth/pretty like 6013 to make it not quite so embarrassing to look at.
Of course, that same night I was browsing Marketplace and see someone's just posted a #22 loader they've pulled off a D/B 1210 only an hour away for $400. I would happily have just picked that up instead. Especially as there are a lot of stress cracks on the front of ours that I still need to stitch up and reinforce.
New bracket made with QT100 (high yield) plates cut on the plasma table. A piece of heavy-wall DOM as a boss with appropriate I.D. to press some heavy-wall bronze-bushings in (I was surprised to find the original D/L loader didn't have bushings - just steel-on-steel with a grease fitting). Welded the bracket together as a drop-in fit around the outside of the old arm. A couple of slots for plug-welding through the side just to be safe.
Of course, I had left my welder-genny at the other farm. And the breaker for the welder outlet I have at this farm broke as soon as I started (not overly surpising - I hooked that welder outlet up as a broke teenager with only a 40A breaker I had from a yard sale and a piece of dryer cord). So I was stuck using the 10 kW homeowner-grade genny to run the welder - something I swore I'd never do again. A nightmare to use: Every time you'd strike the arc the genny would bog down for a second and often lose the arc, governor would kick in and over-rev for a second and you'd have manipulated the rod slightly to try and keep the arc going, and then you'd stick the rod, trip the breaker, and have to start again.
Very ugly welds, and pic was before I finished when I was still confirming geometry and alignment (had to run some heavy vertical beads along the arm a couple feet further toward the front to use the weld shrinkage to bend the arm back to where it should have been. I'll wire a proper welder outlet at some point and give everything a capping pass with something smooth/pretty like 6013 to make it not quite so embarrassing to look at.
Of course, that same night I was browsing Marketplace and see someone's just posted a #22 loader they've pulled off a D/B 1210 only an hour away for $400. I would happily have just picked that up instead. Especially as there are a lot of stress cracks on the front of ours that I still need to stitch up and reinforce.
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