Local farmer down the road needed his Bush Hog repaired. So after some milling, boring and pressing I got him fixed up. This video ran a little long. Sorry about that. Thanks for watching.
Dry ice works well for cooling, much better than the freezer.... If available. Good Job you can't argue with success. Bush Hogs lead a hard life and are most always in need of something.
Hi Tom, it never occurred to me that you would be able to buy a new 12 spline taper sleeve like that. Nice meaty farm implements. Thanks for sharing. Cheers
It took some internet searching but I finally found it. It would have been way too expensive for me to fabricate one from scratch. I think it was 60 bucks .
Hey Tom! Good to see the full shop view! Looks great! Farmers are some of my favorite people. They get stuff done to the point of complete collapse! Good project !
looks good.. that's a little big for grass lol. Id say corn stocks and junk in the fence lines, thicket , small trees. my family farms, so I've been stuck running the bush-hog . I believe the offset in the shaft and bushing is for the factory balance. they don't spin very fast. 250 to 300 rips
Hey Aaron. Thanks buddy! I hope your doing well and your new job is going well. Shoulder is healing up nicely, but I am bored to death and ready to get back in the shop.
I'm not sure why you didn't support the blade in the middle under the bush but I wonder if the bush might have gone in further with each pump if it was deflecting each time.
Having fixed many many of these that’s a good solid repair. As small shops people always seem to ask why we don’t use processes that larger shops do like nitrogen and stuff like that but it’s hard to profit off something we might use a few times a year Mayby. As far as the height difference they adjust that with the 3 point and rear caster so no worries there
Good job Tom. I am no expert at heating metal. But it seems to me I have seen videos and heard others talking about how heating will swell metal a lot more than cooling will shrink it. Maybe someone else can chime in and explain if I am right or wrong. I guess it would be easy to mic a chunk of metal and then heat it and see how much it swells. I'm sure this has been done before but I am interested in knowing if there is a set of rules or scales to say how much a certain size of metal swells compared to other sizes. I'm wondering if the machinist handbook has something like this.....
I've found this before where a bore was off center from the boss, but when I measured from the outboard holes, the middle bore was actually in the center. IOW, the big round boss was welded off center some but the bore was machined centered. So, if you were to move the hole to the center of the hub without measuring, your new bore could be off center causing a pretty bad vibration. It almost caught me once then I started measuring after that. Old farm equipment might not even notice an 1/8" tho.
Okay thanks Brian. On another note finally found the source of that audio noise you have been hearing. I had a bad adapter cable. So hopefully the next video I make it won't be there.
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 Cool. I will let you know if it quits the next video. It barely shows up on my desktop computer but is very noticeable on my phone. Keep those farmers in the fields! 🙂
Very impressive. I have a similar situation. Is this something I can ship to you to fix? For reference, the part # for the stump jumper pan is #50057117