Recent content by barts

I have one of the small 4"x6" horizontal/vertical metal cutting bandsaws... I've sliced 3" round HRS w/o an issue. They're cheap to run, but not as fast as the carbide saws.

On our B5100, the regulator was bad; the alternator was producing plenty of AC.. A new regulator from Amazon was $25 and it has worked fine for the last 5 years.

<aside> I find the combination of a .45 and some beers somewhat incautious, but perhaps that's just my range training. </aside> Cold beers condense moisture from the air; unless you have a stainless or polymer .45, this does your pistol no favors. Also, cell phones are often somewhat delicate...

Here's a couple of pictures of the adapter I made for driving a hydraulic pump from the front spline on our B5100. The round aluminum part is a shrink disc that elastically squeezes the adapter onto the spline. The adapter is a piece of stress-proof steel, which is a very close fit onto the spline.

https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/l175-engine-front-shaft.77018/#post-811367 See discussion about "shrink disc" in various threads...

Nope... this tractor has Armstrong power steering :)

I have a small Miller Challenger MIG welder which works well, but for a lot of tractor stuff it's too light. I also have Lincoln IdealArc stick welder (250 A AC/DC) and this is what I use for anything 3/16" or over.... it's nearly 500 lbs, much of it copper, and it welds very nicely. There's...

Some time ago, I adapted the same loader to our B5100... I used a 0.37 cubic inch displacement pump since that more or less matched the original afaict output which was belted to the engine rather than driven off the front PTO. I also added a return line filter and replaced all the hoses. The...

I've looked at the Samurai; it would work well w/ our little Kubota. https://agrishieldllc.com/product/hydraulic-sickle-bar-cutter/ would be better suited to our JD 100TLB.

We just made a box beam from 2x lumber, supported it w/ chain and straps and used it to hoist trusses onto our new shop.

I remember doing the calcs for hydraulic steering in a Ag engineering hydraulics course I took 40+ years ago.... but I'd forgotten some of the details :). I found this on scribd; it rings a bell. The assumptions are for a car, but you can change them as needed...

I use a pair of 3M 30 dB ear protectors... these work well, and are less than $25 at Home Depot w/ free delivery.

I converted a B219 Kubota loader that was in pieces to fit my B5100. Basically I had to make a new subframe, and devise a drive for the hydraulic pump. The arms, bucket and towers are from the original loader.

I used 3/8" line (about 4' long) from the pump to the spool valve; 1/4" lines everywhere else on my B5100 w/ a converted B219 loader from a B7100. Like yours, I used a 4 gpm pump, driven from the front PTO. I am sure I could have used 1/4" line from the pump to the spool valve; I very rarely...

The shrink disk will compress a sleeve that is solid; it doesn't need to be be split. The shrink disk has a very shallow internal taper that develops a very substantial compression force; of course, this means that the tolerances are pretty tight on the internal and external sleeve dimensions...