whadja do today?

[jefflovstrom]

105 F in the shade and I had to drop and sort a lag pat http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Lagunaria/Lagunaria.html it was a unplanned asap job

these trees have a highly irritating dust from flower pods and when worked it falls all over you,,, imagine a fiber glass dust rub down

Job done i a mental mess but prepared and headed straight for local pool to hose wash down

The name we use here is 'Cow Itch',, yup, they suck!
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

Wow,, was that an echo?,,,,
Jeff

 

[KenJax Tree]

We heard you the first time geez!


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[jefflovstrom]

We heard you the first time geez!


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sorry,,butt face,,
Jeff

 

[sgreanbeans]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

 

[sgreanbeans]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

 

[sgreanbeans]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

 

[sgreanbeans]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

 

[sgreanbeans]

 

[derwoodii]

clean up aisle 7 pls

 

[sgreanbeans]

I have done it. Single and only leaf spring on an Olathe drum chipper, broken right in the middle, too. It held for almost two years, until I sold it...still holding fine.

Prep your spring by grinding off all previous weld, and have good meeting surfaces. Pre-heat to 400°, then weld together with a very special rod: MG600. Yes, it is very expensive. Grind off excess and slag and imperfections, then post heat to 400° and cool slowly.

MG is the brand, and 600 is the rod number. This stuff is about $5.00 PER STICK. Yes! it is OMG expensive, but it does the impossible. Welded with all the right conditions it finishes at 180,000psi, which is almost double any other rod you can find. It is also a dream to weld with: it flows very easy and forms an nearly perfectly level bead on horizontal surfaces. The slag usually pops off without chipping, leaving a beautiful stainless surface. I have never had it fail to hold. Cast iron, carbon steel (leaf springs), Chrome-plated stainless steel hydraulic rams...it bonds well to any ferrous metal. So expensive, it is very hard to find. Worth every penny, if you get some, keep it hidden for your own personal use!

Note: it is very important that this weld have no imperfections when finished. If you have any "sharp points" where a bead meets the metal, a bead is undercut or sunken, or where the bead does not cover the crack...it will likely fail. These kind of faults act as a fulcrum for a new crack to form. I guess it goes without saying that the weld must not contain any buried flaws, either.

I had a pro shop do it, it broke at the wrist. He did use some special rod, but not sure what it was. He told me that I should watch it, as he didnt like to do it, but he did, as a favor. He said that he would be surprised if it lasted very long, not do to his welding, do to the location. Ohwell, it worked for a bit. Just got my new one. $113, $20 for shipping. Again, my major Props to Alexander Equipment in Chi Town. They are a Morbark dealer. I called around 3 on Wednesday, go it yesterday around 11am. They always have what I need and get it to me super fast. Great guys, the mechs in the shop have tons of knowledge and will drop it on ya with smile.

 

[treeclimber101]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

Well what's with you singling me out ? Pretty bad when my thoughts move faster then your software ! Just saying

 

[2treeornot2tree]

What's funny is he quadripled posted. I think it's tapatalk. I noticed if you hit the post button twice it seems to post twice.

How do you delete a post with tapatalk?

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[NYTREECLIMBER]

What the hell is wrong with mechanics nowadays? We dropped off a truck to be fixed. Two days later we get a call to come pick up the truck,so we get the truck and the problem is not fixed WTF so I call the shop and ask whats the story and I get we'll we plugged it in and it didn't show any codes, okay isaid did anyone bother to take it for a test drive so maybe you could actually feel the problem with the truck? By the way the truck has almost 0 power so if any of these (dare I say it) ******* actually drove the truck just maybe they could find the problem the old fashion way. But I guess it's just to difficult to do that . They need to step away from the freKing computer and get their effing hands dirty bunch of lazy do nothing's Good day all!

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I feel your pain. My chip truck has been in the shop 4 times for over 35 days total since July with a lack of power between 1500 and 2000 rpm. total bill was $11,000. Sure seems like they just threw parts at it. Every time I went and piced it up the next.day it would through a engine code and still not have a ton of power.

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[sgreanbeans]

I feel your pain. My chip truck has been in the shop 4 times for over 35 days total since July with a lack of power between 1500 and 2000 rpm. total bill was $11,000. Sure seems like they just threw parts at it. Every time I went and piced it up the next.day it would through a engine code and still not have a ton of power.

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Ouch

 

[dbl612]

I had a pro shop do it, it broke at the wrist. He did use some special rod, but not sure what it was. He told me that I should watch it, as he didnt like to do it, but he did, as a favor. He said that he would be surprised if it lasted very long, not do to his welding, do to the location. Ohwell, it worked for a bit. Just got my new one. $113, $20 for shipping. Again, my major Props to Alexander Equipment in Chi Town. They are a Morbark dealer. I called around 3 on Wednesday, go it yesterday around 11am. They always have what I need and get it to me super fast. Great guys, the mechs in the shop have tons of knowledge and will drop it on ya with smile.

springs are not meant to be welded even with super-******** captain amazing give us your first born son per stick rod. merely a band-aid-even the best eventually fall off.

 

[tree MDS]

ok, so I am really tired of deleting uz giuz double and triple post! PLEASE delete them urselves! Eddie, yur da worst! Not sure what is going on with it, other than try to wait a second before ya double tap. Think the new server is a bit slower than the old one, so it takes a second to show.

Aww. Poor Eddie's just a little anxious to be heard, that's all..

 

[treeman75]

Started the trucks waiting on the guys. Its 11 out now and getting up to 27 today.

 

[pdqdl]

springs are not meant to be welded even with super-******** captain amazing give us your first born son per stick rod. merely a band-aid-even the best eventually fall off.

Ok Mr super-******** admiral amazing adviser: tell me where to buy a leaf spring for a manufactured part where the manufacturer is out of business. HMMM?

I guess you want me to get out my file & grinder and start carving some leaf spring down to size from an old pickup, right? Maybe with your infinite wisdom you would just prefer to advise everyone to either throw the chipper away, to cut the leaf springs and shackle mounts off the frame and weld new ones on? Perhaps with your extensive experience you can advise everyone on the internet where to get a custom leaf spring built when it is impossible to order?

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

In the particular case of my welded spring, it lasted for years; I even checked with the guy about a year after I sold it to him and asked if it was still running ok. No problems...so I have to say my repair was not a bandaid. I never thought the weld would last as long as it did, and I had found a spring works to make a new one, but that takes TIME. When your only chipper is broken down, and you need it NOW, then you need to take action NOW. I have no doubt that sgrbeans was in a similar "act now" situation.

My advice was for those people who are willing to try what others say cannot be done, not for wussies that always do what they are told because they don't know any better. This forum is mostly filled with folks that don't always follow the rules. If we did, we wouldn't climb trees or do dangerous work.