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Once i had the sleeves welded into the 3x3, i could weld the 3x3 to the dipper arm. I had the foresight to drill the 3x3 for the grease fitting access of the 'inner' pin before welding the sleeve in. The 'bucket' pin sleeve was so close to the open end of the 3x3 that it had its grease fitting...

So the empty sleeve cut out of there like nothing, no story there. The one with the seized pin in it.. cut out with a seized pin still in it. I knew i'd be able to get the pin out by cutting a slot through the sleeve lengthways and hammering in punches to spread the sleeve off the pin. Once i...

So here's the offending region before disassembly: Now with bucket links off showing the fully seized pin which resisted all efforts short of getting the whole dipper arm glowing red. After i verified that a 3x3x0.25 (maybe 3/16? cant remember) square tube i had was going to work, it's to the...

Dont let your cats snuggle up to your dirty laundry if theres permethrin on it. Not sure which other animals might be affected. I know dogs are ok. Anyway, i think dethatching blades are not going to do any contouring of the ground. I think if you are trying to knock down high spots you have...

The FEL is too heavy and touchy on its own for this unless you have SSQA and build a very light dethatcher type thing directly onto the plate so that the SSQA plate is parallel to the ground during operation. That might be tenable. Any design that includes the full weight of the bucket is going...

The hardest part was getting started! I've found that the best way to accelerate a project is cross 'the point of no return' as quickly as possible. Like, if i left the dipper on the tractor i could always wuss out. If i took it off the tractor i could put it back on. But once i cut it in half...

I was half tempted to rebuild the dipper arm to begin with because it didn't seem to share its 'pin pattern' or spacing with anything else, whereas the backhoe on my B8200 i had come to find out through comparing measurements was compatible with the BX series backhoe attachments as well as the...

Ok, on to the dipper arm. The dipper arm had.. big issues but starting from the main boom connection and moving outwards: The main boom connection was fine because the dipper had the full width 'sleeve' while the main boom had the narrow 'yokes', so the main boom was the side that needed fixing...

Well, on to the digging arms! The digging arm assembly attaches to the swing base at two places: The main boom pins on at the bottom, and the rod end of the cylinder for the main boom attaches at the top. The top pin had originally been a bit of a B to get out but i pounded it out with help...

Time to rebuild and the swing cylinders. These are single-acting cylinders, which means they are designed to either push or pull, but not both. These cylinders push, sohe base end of the cylinder gets fluid, but everything past the piston gets exposed to air. This CAN be a liability for the...

So in the last picture above you can see the swing cylinder 'links' hung in their bushings with simple 'hairpins' holding them together. This was another part of the design that i didn't really like because if you think about the swing links as basically a piece of thick flat bar with pins at...

So the upper mount plate showed no signs of ever having bent or bent back. In my mind this is probably because the upper plate's bushing only locates/retains the swing base pin radially, but not vertically in the downward direction. Basically, it can just slip out the bottom of the bushing if...

The next two posts elaborate on what i mentioned in post #49 about the swing base brackets: So the lower mount plate for the swing base is welded to the subframe of the backhoe. I didn't need to remove it to install the new bushing but i DID need to bend it back to its proper position. It had...

I don't know if these bushing holes were tighter than what's typical to install said bushings into, but they all seemed to 'crush' enough that the pins wouldn't nicely fit through them, even considering that the pins themselves were all somewhat worn. I DID check for and grind back 'mushroomed'...

I just remembered at one point a found a video of a person using a 3pt stump grinder behind a large garden tractor that had a 540 pto (there were many that had them as optional) and that would be good context here. Also found this one on a BX and showing what it can take before bogging! But it...

Time to push a bunch of bushings out. I found all the bushing dimensions in the manual which i found free online because this Kubota community is pretty great. They were all readily available and cheap on ebay. Anyway, i pushed the bushings out with a combination of a ball joint press (big fancy...

Ok, one month later, we continue a story that technically ended in March. So the next thing i built onto the subframe is what i would call the 'swing base', the part that the arm mounts to which rotates on the subframe. When i originally disassembled the swing base from the subframe i of...

Are we talking about a mid mount mower or a 3 pt mower?

I found this. Im not sure if i like the one angled one straight blades but i dont know enough about it to say why. Id definitely research that topic before buying one of these, though. https://hillseq.com/product/ez-grade-custom-bionic-blade/

Hydraulics to move a cylinder/cylinders back and forth will always ‘work’ as far as moving, but the flow rate determines how fast it will move. Most tractors will make 1700+psi with their onboard hydraulics so they will generally make plenty of force with the cylinders, especially if they dont...