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Build Threads / Re: LML Silverado Duramax C-Max build thread part 4
« on: March 30, 2017, 08:00:30 PM »
The low beam only with the Fogs turned on clearly show a need to upgrade the lower 4 as well.

Now, I have learned a thing or two about these LED's

The science if far from mature. They have really just started to get the things working and can do nothing with some of the ring scatter. But with respect to the Chevy platform, there is another more perplexing problem. For DRL operation, Chevy limits voltage to the headlamps enough to light them, but holds them far off of full power. Apparently LED bulbs DO NOT like this partial voltage situation. There are cooling problems in the base and especially with the exchange of electrons between the media and the copper emitter plate. All of my LED bulbs that burned out, had the signature burned spot in the yellow media of the emitter.

So with that in mind, the high beams may survive with the LED bulb, although you'll continue to blind US Airway pilots (US Scare) on approach to your aerodrome. So me thinks I just may shove some LED's inside those fogs so instead of just illuminating the area beneath the wet air, I simply heat the area in front of my truck and cause the fog in front of me to burn off!

Should work...

18352
Build Threads / Re: LML Silverado Duramax C-Max build thread part 4
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:53:09 PM »
I pulled the front end down again today and changed out the headlght bulbs, yet once again.

I had purchased a set of Putco 4400K high output bulbs (Not sure of the wattage) but while collecting the tools for the job, I ran across another box of...LED headlight bulbs!

Hmmm, should I or stick to Plan "A", return to bronze era halogens...???

So I flipped the mental coin and it came up, use and gamble on the LED's until the next failure, then perhaps spring for the expensive HIDs.

So in they went and just like that I was cookin' with bacon grease all over again.

18353
Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:47:56 PM »
They are going to replace the plastic bits located all over the tractor to make it new, and we are discussing replacing the seat as well. It is also faded...

This tractor got the 6 year warranty as well as a 24 month bumper to bumper, so I should save a bit the next two years with the multiple failures it will surely have.

That bucket is pretty anemic looking. Not sure what size it is, either a 49", 51" or 53"

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:44:46 PM »
This mighty little loader has been real world tested to lift 1160 pounds to 29" height at loader stall. That is just arm lift, not including bucket curl which would add substantially to that. Half a ton++ is darned good for a 1500 lb tractor of 31HP

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:38:52 PM »
You just lift up on the big cast iron handle and drive the loader downward and it rises right out of the cradle

18356
Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:37:59 PM »
The loader comes on and off in a minute, mostly from the drivers seat

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:37:01 PM »
The front axle is a portal design, and in the case of this unique transaxle, so does the rear. That's a secondary gearbox extending aft that the wheels mount to

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:35:52 PM »
Big rear tires for a 30+ HP tractor

These are filled with beet juice to aid in stability

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:34:58 PM »
...Two fuel filters

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:33:50 PM »
The battery looks like it may have been sitting for some time, which it has, but everything else looks new

No turbo on this one, just old school straight up oil burner

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:32:05 PM »
Hydrostatic drive is about all it has in the way of gee-whiz stuff. I noticed there wasn't as much to service as on my much more complex 4720.

This is a 3 cylinder Yanmar with a dependable normal injection pump...no common rail garbage!

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:29:59 PM »
And has that big commercial 72" deck. I am turning a bunch of the front of the property to having a more groomed appearance for the kids to play in, this will help a bunch

18363
Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:28:40 PM »
Almost no time on the hobbs...

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:28:07 PM »
It literally nearly doubles the capacity of the outgoing 1025 and its emission plagued power plant. Yea, it runs rough on startup, while all the tree huger stuff calibrates itself.

This new, well new-old (2012) has none of that horse crap. This one just starts up and idles. Sort of like I think all engines should do.

I think I am going to really love this little machine, being small and fuel efficient, but will run the chipper, and carry stuff about with the forks, as well as doing a lot of materials moving with the standard bucket.

I managed to purchase this thing nearly $5,000 off because it had been sitting for so long.

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Construction and heavy equipment / Re: John Deere 2720
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:23:46 PM »
Well, the tractor has made it up to its first hurtle

Getting the loader installed and serviced (Oil change and lube)

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A 9mm, a couple of clips and a box of shells!

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 30, 2017, 05:15:27 PM »
^^ Is going to need a much larger "equipment shed" I'm thinking hanger.  :facepalm:
Yup!
Breaking ground on it PDQ

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Shops Garages and Barns / Re: Dawg's Shop
« on: March 30, 2017, 09:30:33 AM »
WAY too organized!! How do you find anything unless it's under some pile?  :grin:

Very nice!
He'll get there

He just doesn't have enough stuff (junk) yet!

Maybe a quick visit to Norm's place and he can get a few piles...

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 30, 2017, 09:29:13 AM »
That thing is a monster.

Don, don't you need a backhoe vs a bucket?
Both...I need both

Really, I need an excavator for the big digs which are fast approaching, and I need a smaller back hoe for digging in things like water lines and out houses...

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Thanks for sharing!

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 30, 2017, 09:00:25 AM »
& it makes a not so great traction component! :popcorn:
Yea...How true!

But they now sell a locker for the front of C-Max, and I could add Dually wheels to the back and weld on a snatch cable onto the front bumper...

18373
Build Threads / Re: Let's call her Tina
« on: March 30, 2017, 08:56:58 AM »
HC, had a thought, you should give it some serious consideration.

That truck is useless!

Yep, no good what so ever!

In fact it could adversly affect your life

Really!

It has already proven itself to be unsafe

It barely runs anymore

It needs everything, heck even tires (Which never normally wear out  :huh: )

With you spending all this time with it, have you considered how this is adversely affecting your marriage?

Or time with the kids?

See where I'm going here??

Get rid of that thing before it all turns south and you become the first cop in history living under a bridge.

Save yourself man!

I'll try and make time to come out there and tow the piece of junk away. Yea, it will inconvenience me, but for a fellow soldier, I'll do it!  I could possibly get Bobby to help. He needs room for his expanding family. (Now a girlfriend and a dog!)

Do the right thing... :wink:

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: US Marxists...Beware!
« on: March 30, 2017, 08:51:47 AM »
Just noticed the man's screen name, "Partisan next door"

Know what that means in practical terms?

He's in range! ;-)

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / US Marxists...Beware!
« on: March 30, 2017, 08:49:59 AM »
Mr. Codrea, being a national militia leader brings these things into the narrative. I view this as "Intelligence" about social changes that may well try to influence the way we live and what we believe in America...Bears keeping an eye on.





Ugly Domestic Enemy Rage at Victims of Communism a Good Indicator of Their Intent for Living


by David Codrea   

"Evil is." And being a useful idiot enabling it is no excuse.

A photo posted to Twitter by a self-styled "Black Bolshevik" should tell decent and sane Americans all they need to know about the character of the Marxists and their useful idiots trying to tear down the social order under the appropriated term of "anarchist." Participants are circling the base of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington DC and giving it the middle finger.

The inscriptions circling the pedestal of the statue read:
"To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty [and] "To the freedom and independence of all captive nations and peoples."
Victims there were. And while the Genocide Chart created by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership does not confine itself to murderous communist regimes, it's undeniable that those, including the Soviet Union, Red China and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, were where the most monstrous crimes against humanity, with deaths in the tens of millions, were perpetrated.

Unsurprisingly, such totalitarian governments demanded a "monopoly of violence." That they represented themselves as being for "the people" is but another Orwellian lie, as there can be no more egalitarian form of true power sharing than is secured through an armed populace.

It's also unsurprising that the Antifa freaks and fake "anarchists" accuse principled conservatives and libertarians of being "Nazis" and "fascists," while the truth of the matter is, whenever their kind assumes power, individual freedom, including of speech and worship, is  brutally suppressed.  It's also no surprise that they are the ones screaming "Racist!" while flipping off the victims of their ideology, untold millions of whom were non-whites.

"Can there be no peace between our peoples?" is a question I routinely ask on my War on Guns blog, and the answer, of course, if you look at some of the examples at the link, is "No, of course not. They won't allow it." Not with demonic sociopaths who call "whiteness" a "genetic defect" to be "wiped out," or are working to impose some of the other evil lunacy.

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 29, 2017, 10:08:22 PM »
Don't know about the cedar in your area but western cedar has a natural plant retardant in them to cut down on competition with other stuff growing too close to them. Cedar bark is not good for ground cover around new plantings, it tends to stunt or kill the roots. So if you use it on paths, it could help keep the weeds away better than the hardwoods.
It's about the same way here

I stack it on a couple inches thick, then forget about weeds for a couple of years

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 29, 2017, 09:53:47 PM »
You should buy it Don and have it delivered to my farm. I need to cut a driveway up the hill. And if you have about ten to twenty dumploads of gravel that would be handy too.
I'm about to get into some gravel myself...

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 29, 2017, 07:10:33 PM »
Well, it does have new dentures.
I could use that bucket!

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 29, 2017, 07:05:48 PM »
And an insane price for a slightly newer version of Sarge:

https://www.newmantractor.com/equipment/crawler-loader/1984-case-1155d-t9565/

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Shops Garages and Barns / Re: Dawg's Shop
« on: March 29, 2017, 07:00:40 PM »
Good work everywhere!

I can't decide if I like the drill press table or the racks for the clamps more at this point. Both are pretty cool!

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General Vehicle Related Discussion / Re: Brainstorm with me...
« on: March 29, 2017, 06:55:20 PM »
You think? I never heard of an accelerator pump on FI, might be wrong tho


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No, I'm not saying it has an accelerator pump. But it is acting like one has failed. That could point to some sensor or something that would sense that increasing engine speed and load and give it a shot of gas via the Throttle body or injectors, depending on the specific setup

Didn't mean to confuse, just airing ideas...

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 29, 2017, 06:51:26 PM »
Burn the piles you already have.  It sounds like you will be dropping a decent amount of cedar trees in the near future.  I would just concentrate on those for your chipping needs.  I think the cedar would work best for trails and animal bedding.  Not sure about the weed control but I imagine it would work well there also.  I'm a little confused on why you would waste time/ energy on chipping just to burn it though?
Not going to chip and burn. That which I chip up will become mulch, animal bedding, weed control and a cover for the trail

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 29, 2017, 06:33:10 PM »


Auction is tomorrow. See what happens. It's definitely used but not all beat up.

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This just came up for sale a couple miles from my house

2008 D6N, 7800 hours

https://outlook.live.com/owa/?realm=hotmail.com&path=/mail/inbox/rp

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 11:03:19 PM »
I ran those things about a week between changes, but that was about 7 hours a day 5 days a week when overhead brushing or tree removal work.  It depends on how clean the material is. Carry it through the mud don't drag it across the mud and loose dirt and gravel.
That's better than I imagined

I don't think mine will last as long simce I'll be chewing through dry stuff that's been sitting in a pile since the early fall.

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: March 28, 2017, 11:01:27 PM »
^^^That's a whopper!

18387
Build Threads / Re: The Adventure Hoe
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:58:11 PM »
Well, like I said (Somewhere...??) I like it!

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General Vehicle Related Discussion / Re: Brainstorm with me...
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:55:23 PM »
That fuel injection has an accelerator pump feature, I'm sure. A stumble on acceleration is the accelerator pump on a carburated engine. It stumbles until the engine generates a vacuum signal strong enough to activate the enrichment circuit

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:51:55 PM »

Don, looks like a nice chipper. Really important to be feeding CLEAN material through it. Those knives need to be sharpened often enough when not being fed rocks and dirt.
I chose these guys partially because of the American steel knives they use that is hardened to a unique level that allows resharpening. You can pull the knives off and send them back to get sharpened for $15 each + shipping


Understand, I have hundreds of hours feeding those things and when the knives get dull, well they don't work so good. I think you should buy an extra set to use while the other set is in for sharpening.
I think I will Bob.

These knives are double edged. So when I have to switch them out to side "B", I throw down the plastic for the second set.

While we're on the subject, how long to knives usually last?

THis machine operates at 1100 RPM and has 4 knives recessed into the flywheel

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:49:15 PM »
I ordered mine in Orange...

I know. Orange is Kubota, and I drive green. Their green model was like two weeks out so I just chose something that I couldn't easily misplace!

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:47:35 PM »
It has its own 5 gallon hydraulic tank to power the infeed rollers

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:46:30 PM »
The pump runs off the belt driven by the driveshaft

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:45:45 PM »
I believe it uses a White Hydraulics pump which is rebuidable and available about anywhere

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:44:51 PM »
Don, looks like a nice chipper. Really important to be feeding CLEAN material through it. Those knives need to be sharpened often enough when not being fed rocks and dirt.
I chose these guys partially because of the American steel knives they use that is hardened to a unique level that allows resharpening. You can pull the knives off and send them back to get sharpened for $15 each + shipping

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:43:10 PM »
This valve controls the speed that material is drawn into the cutter. It is adjustable from "0" FPM upward to 75 FPM

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:41:36 PM »
It is made of 8mm thick structural steel.

It has a hydraulic motor that runs a chisel knife roller inside a 8" X 8" opening. All you do is shove the branch to contact and it chews away

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:39:31 PM »
It seems to be well built

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Wood Maxx Chipper
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:35:10 PM »
This has got to be the most spend crazy spring season I have ever experienced!

I purchased the sawmill. That got me to purchasing the big grapple and the pallet forks.

Then while lifting the heavy mill with the little tractor, I found its limits to be short of what I need to safely operate, so that led me to trade/purchase the leftover 2012 2720 J Deere tractor.

With all the log production I have done in expectation of actually milling timber to build out the hide, I have accumulated some pretty noble piles of brush, branches mostly.

Well, I got to looking at all that material piling up and thought that if I could convert it into something more useable, like cubed mulch I could burn it, use it to cover areas I don't want weeds to grow, have a limitless supply of animal bedding, and even some material to use to lay down on "Ephesians Trail."

So with all that in mind I pulled the trigger in a PTO mounted and driven wood chipper.

Enter stage right, WoodMaxx.

They are a cool implement company like the sawmill company that make a variety of implements to a very high quality and durability standard.

I spec'ed out a 8" chipper, which can eat a log of 8" in diameter for the new John Deere 2720. That tractor puts out 31.5 HP and 23.4 at the PTO. That should be enough to spin the 200 pound flywheel of this nearly 1000 pound chipper to munch 6" material and digest branches all day and night.

With this addition, I am collecting a pretty good collection of equipment which directly relates to the amount/type/and quality of work I can accomplish down at the hide.

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Nice acquisition, Big D! Now you need a small forge, then you could make your own nails and hinges. You'd be totally off the grid, and in a position to recycle from whatever scrap you come across on your land. Like trashed mower blades, and other carnage. :wink:
Loads of that around!

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Bug-Out Bag and Camping gear / Re: RIP 7/20/12 - 3/27/17
« on: March 28, 2017, 11:16:08 AM »
Rest their SOLES........
^^^ Nicknaming you "Mr. CC"

Or just CC for short

Mister Clever Comment!

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