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Looks like a "weldable" hook put on a fishplate for extra strength. It's kinda short for a weldable hook, so maybe a conventional hook that was cut short?
Looks like a "weldable" hook put on a fishplate for extra strength. It's kinda short for a weldable hook, so maybe a conventional hook that was cut short?
I have 2 of these on my excavator bucket, 1 on either side of the quick coupler, handiest things ever, second to the trailer hitch I welded to the blade
Three. Perhaps 5, if you do lots of chain lifting. Sometimes you want two or more chains attached and in different places.
I end up bending buckets too often from a single stress point in the middle of the bucket. Best to use two lift hooks, and put the weight out towards the edges of the bucket where it is stronger.
I end up bending buckets too often from a single stress point in the middle of the bucket. Best to use two lift hooks, and put the weight out towards the edges of the bucket where it is stronger.
Just one weld on hook (with a plate) on my buckets. Haven’t bent anything yet.
Nice little 2004 250xp up for sale if anyone is interested. JD 125, purrs like a kitten at tap of key. Damn digital gauge went bad so can’t make out hours, but the way I remember it (it’s my back up chipper) it had less than 3k hours on it when gauge broke, and just occasional use from there. Winch (like new cable), super-sized quad rollers, hyd. chute, new battery… regularly serviced, just a nice machine ready to go to work. Motor is like new, oil clean and never uses a drop. Asking 22k.
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that extra plate is probably key to prevent bending.
id say so, most buckets are made of super thin steel
reminds me, I need to go weld a lifting eye to my new bucket
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We took down a 34" cherry the other day and had permission to set up in the neighbors dump of a yard. Neighbor's house looked like the Clopek house in The Burbs. Yard was a dump, garbage everywhere, tall grass growing out of the gutters. The accused me of damaging their property and are hassling me for my insurance. Barraged me with pics that show no ruts and just some jewel weed matted down. They say they need compensation for the jewel weed.
I'm having my agent handle this, I hope it gets denied even though I don't have a deductible.
I'm having my agent handle this, I hope it gets denied even though I don't have a deductible.
Unbelievable. Some people eh?
We have a lot of clients we tell, "don't call us back again"
I can think of several times everything seemed good, customer was pleased.. within a day or two later, we get a call back with complaints. Often seeking compensation of some kind. It's a strange world we are living in these days my friend
I had the cops called on me this week for trimming a "boundary tree" back to my customers property line, well, actually 5ft onto my customers side, just making the tree clear the fence which is totally on the customers side
cops told the angry neighbor to shove it and told me to get back to work
Love a happy ending 
me too!Love a happy ending
todays job went decent till I got body slammed by the customers golden doodle and almost dislocated my knee like 5 minutes before leaving the job, so that was cool
update on the knee, pain isn't horrible but it doesn't wanna bend all the way in either direction, last night it wouldn't stop over extending with every step so I had to sorta hobble around, doesn't help that its my left knee and my dump truck has a clutch pedal from hell
from now on, just like customers asking if i have insurance, I might start asking if they have insurance!
from now on, just like customers asking if i have insurance, I might start asking if they have insurance!
well, after months and months of work, I finally hauled the first FULL load of chips in the dump truck, 16 yard box is pretty sweet, going to build a hard top for it I think, the mesh tarp kinda sucks
and of course, get home and it won't dump, the crappy vevor pump that came on it just won't build enough pressure to lift the bed fully loaded, decided to back up and tap the brakes a few times to shake the bed out enough to dump, worked good but that rattling throwout bearing finally gave up on me, so I guess tomorrows project is pulling a transmission and replacing a clutch (truck has a cheap aftermarket single disk and im not liking how it behaves, plan is an eaton easypedal), really want to upgrade to a 10 speed eaton, but sourcing a used transmission quick enough and cheap enough is tricky, will probably call around to some junkyards and see if anyone has one, so far im hating the 5 speed spicer, first to second is like an 80% split so any decent hill with any real weight and you're doing about 7mph all the way up because you can't shift to second quick enough, plus the synchros are shot so im basically just floating it at this point
and of course, get home and it won't dump, the crappy vevor pump that came on it just won't build enough pressure to lift the bed fully loaded, decided to back up and tap the brakes a few times to shake the bed out enough to dump, worked good but that rattling throwout bearing finally gave up on me, so I guess tomorrows project is pulling a transmission and replacing a clutch (truck has a cheap aftermarket single disk and im not liking how it behaves, plan is an eaton easypedal), really want to upgrade to a 10 speed eaton, but sourcing a used transmission quick enough and cheap enough is tricky, will probably call around to some junkyards and see if anyone has one, so far im hating the 5 speed spicer, first to second is like an 80% split so any decent hill with any real weight and you're doing about 7mph all the way up because you can't shift to second quick enough, plus the synchros are shot so im basically just floating it at this point
clutch is done, got an OTR dual disk easy pedal (Fleetpride didn't have a 14" x 1.75" eaton in stock, had an OTR tho, which is almost identical)
truck is running and driving, seems to shift a lot nicer now too, clutch is nice and quiet
kept the ole 5 speed, hate it but it works (sorta, every synchro is on their way out, 50/50 odds of the synchro working or just letting you grind the hell out of it)
didn't replace the rear main seal since I couldn't find one local, but clutch and pilot bearing was $840
truck don't fit in my shop so we did the job outside, in a service pit that I dug, of course I didn't go buy a transmission jack for a one time job so we used ratchet straps lol, note to self, a 5 speed spicer with oil, driveline parking brake, and a big dual disk is around 500# and a real PITA to install/remove
truck is running and driving, seems to shift a lot nicer now too, clutch is nice and quiet
kept the ole 5 speed, hate it but it works (sorta, every synchro is on their way out, 50/50 odds of the synchro working or just letting you grind the hell out of it)
didn't replace the rear main seal since I couldn't find one local, but clutch and pilot bearing was $840
truck don't fit in my shop so we did the job outside, in a service pit that I dug, of course I didn't go buy a transmission jack for a one time job so we used ratchet straps lol, note to self, a 5 speed spicer with oil, driveline parking brake, and a big dual disk is around 500# and a real PITA to install/remove
also looks like I need to reseal the oil pan, gonna do that soon since I need to do an oil change, and im going to pull the pan to inspect some stuff along with pressure testing the cooling system to check for bad liners
My 4x4 elevator bucket is for sale again. 1800 pto hours. Ready to make a deal. Pm if interested. You will never find a cleaner used elevator bucket.
Think I found Mr.Mds's chipper on facebook
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