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Thread: What am I building
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4th Oct 2013, 06:27 PM #1future machinist
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What am I building
A gold star to whoever guesses what I am building.
BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE
Andre
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4th Oct 2013, 06:30 PM #2
Hydrostatic drive go kart dragster.
Cliff....if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
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4th Oct 2013, 06:38 PM #3Member
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Backhoe, or something for agriculture perhaps?
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4th Oct 2013, 08:49 PM #4Most Valued Member
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A small front end loader.
RobThe worst that can happen is you will fail.
But at least you tried.
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4th Oct 2013, 08:55 PM #5future machinist
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Well that was hard. I am building a towable backhoe
BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE
Andre
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4th Oct 2013, 09:33 PM #6Most Valued Member
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Nice work Andre.
Phil
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5th Oct 2013, 12:58 AM #7Most Valued Member
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No wonder no one got it right, the seat was in the wrong place. Great job anyway .
Kryn
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5th Oct 2013, 10:07 AM #8
They were very popular with plumbers and drainers back in the late 60's
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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5th Oct 2013, 11:12 AM #9Most Valued Member
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I'm glad I didn't say a lazy persons hydraulic log splitter, incorporating a seat and a drink holder. That could have been embarrassing for me
I like it!
SimonGirl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.
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7th Oct 2013, 10:24 AM #10Most Valued Member
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7th Oct 2013, 11:52 AM #11Most Valued Member
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7th Oct 2013, 12:15 PM #12Member
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As I'm a similar vintage to rwbuild, I remember towable backhoes in the 1960's as well. They were generally towed by a tractor and used its power take off via a drive shaft to operate a hydraulic pump mounted on the trailer. Hydraulics on tractors were fairly rare back then. Their major disadvantage was their light weight i.e. you couldn't use the tractor's dead weight to increase your digging penetration.
Great design and workmanship on the current build though. Hope it works well for you. - Peter
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7th Oct 2013, 05:00 PM #13Senior Member
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like this one peter
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there a cranvel wombat i think
this is my towable digger
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its a smalley
nice work Andre defiantly beats using a shovel
my wife does get a bit nevous when i say im going to weed the garden though
cheers
Harty
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7th Oct 2013, 07:19 PM #14
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7th Oct 2013, 08:40 PM #15Most Valued Member
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I saw one that was made by a farmer. It was mounted on an old truck chassis and utilized a complete backhoe assembly, complete with side shift. Hydraulics were run from the tractor, weight was helped with railway lines on the back end.
Kryn