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Given that this implement doesnt require a driveshaft, i would simply buy this thing for $36 shipped and weld it directly to the bracketry you have left there.

Yeah, it's a miracle this thing had so many 'extenuating circumstances' to make it justifiable (in MY mind.. at the time..) to sink so much work into bringing it back up. If i was already comfortable and confident doing a lot of this work I probably wouldn't have wanted to do it so much, but i...

So, on to fixing up the mounting brackets and pin holes. I clamped this to close up the gap a little bit and then welded over every crack and gap from one side to the other, including the long crack in that left side wall. When it came to tightening up pin holes, SHAFT COLLARS IT IS again...

For a while i considered fully replacing the bucket with a $200 bucket from Northern Tool because they DO sell buckets for their towable hoe which will fit the "New and Improved" dipper arm after i modified it. But then i decided that if the whole point of my taking on this project was to...

So the hoe came with an 8" bucket which was absolutely HAMMERED! Of course the pin holes were fully WTS. The mount structure was starting to break away from the body of the bucket, which also started a decent crack on the left wall of the bucket here. There's that crack. The bottom and...

I thought the watch references were sort of a strange tangent to go down until i noticed what your username was! :ROFLMAO: Im a car mechanic so i bring up automotive references all the time. :sneaky:

Sort of. I'd say it sits on both. From the factory there is some kind of rubber trim on the edges of both the dash and firewall to reduce rattling. From factory there are also spring loaded hooks mounted near bottom of steering column to pull the hood down against the dash and hold it closed to...

All it takes to make one wheel consistently spin is a slight incline, which you are almost surely encountering if you're talking about a creekbed. Im a FIRM believer that 'any oil is better than no oil' in most low-speed applications. I've even heard of people replacing the oil in gearboxes...

I've got to admit.. I dont know that i have anything (as far as a bit/punch/broach) that would punch through 1/4" steel more than a time or two before it needed to be 'geometrically restored'.. But ballparking it mentally i do think the press COULD make that punch. This isn't going to cover...

I also welded shaft collars onto these bucket links which i also don't know the name for, to tighten up the worn holes. This pic shows the precise degrees of WTS (waller'd ta shit-ness). $2 shaft collars EVERYWHERE. Tried to get them all square and parallel before tacking in place. With...

So, with an open differential whichever side is putting up less resistance will spin. For example, if you jacked up all 4 wheels of the tractor and put it in 4wd and in gear and just let all 4 wheels spin, you COULD actually stop one of the front wheels with just your hands, and all that would...

Wow, great thread. I think OP went from half-ass to totally decent fabricator in the span of one little project.. Hoping this wont be the last self built mod/addition we get to see!! Im also a big fan of my 20 ton hf press. Everyone should have a shop press and get over any fear of using it...

Nice! Ive got 3 engine hoists and keep planning to do that with one of them, maybe this little nudge will do it 😅 Looks like youve already been through finding out just how little one of these things will pick up and drive with without adding some weight up front. Those are about 50lbs each im...

I got ridiculously lucky when i bought my backhoe. I got my b8200 hst 4wd with loader and backhoe for a thousand bucks.. broke down and disassembled of course! But ultimately i spent less than $500 getting it fully operational again, and most of that was just replacing all the hoses on the hoe...

Oo, can we get a pic of how you mounted that loader? Surprisingly, Google images didnt show what a B619 looks like. I have fixed up a B670, and a couple pics of those popped up.. not sure if they are similar/same? The B670 I fixed up on a B6100 has a subframe that engages to two brackets that...

Considering the amount of wood you are trying to move at once i dont think there is any easy solution that doesnt involve a bigger tractor. You could bump the hydraulic pressures a bit but its not likely to change the game, just make what youre already doing a little less finicky. When i think...

No coating can really withstand backdragging on rocks so the pragmatic answer is just dont worry about it. Just try the backwards angle blade going forward in float, it is a MUCH less sensitive method than backdragging with a loader bucket. It may not have downpressure but its pretty easy to...

Still have to figure out why it became hard to turn, probably some sight bend thats not obvious. If so it would only he hard to turn on that end as already mentioned. I use anti seize because it is abrasive so it is somewhat self-cleaning/self-clearancing with use. But, its also well known to...

Can you post a picture from a little further away from the tractor so we can get the ‘big picture’? I do see how the hood has been moved, but it also looks like they might have made use of that extra space behind the hood somehow so.. is moving it back to the original location even an option...

Sorry guys, when i opened my laptop just now it still had that post open as if i was editing it. I'm guessing that if the post is open for editing by the poster that it makes the pics unavailable? Just a guess. It should be working now!