I found a hand winch, 12" of 2" sq bar stock and this neat mandrel.
At first I was thinking that was factory made but now I'm not so sure.
If you look real close the body look like part of an old car/truck starter.
You can see the screws that would hold the winding in. But the end
covers are both matching covers. Some one built a chuck out of an
old gear. The work that was put into the chuck is an extreme amount
of effort so maybe someone did make the whole thing. I thought this
would make a good jackshaft for something and I'm always looking
for things to build.
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Cool find. I have a feeling as you post more finds, there will be a lot of junk yard envy growing! :D
When I want to spin down my drill press chuck, I give a quick flip on the power switch and grab the chuck. Don't think I'd want to try that on your new chuck! :o
when I was doing scrap I saw a lot of cool stuff/junk but the yard guy was an and would not let me take anything even offered to buy some of it at double the junk price someone junked a jd 350 dozer with great tracks and sprockets and I watched them take a shear and cut it to pieces :'( :'( :( >:(
I have something that looks like that. Mine is used for gear reduction to the final drive pulley on my Chipper.
Today's junkyard find.... 1/10/2017
rochester automatic lubricator. All Brass.
Sure needs cleaned up. I was in the right spot
at the right time. As I was looking around the
truck with the junk came in and was unloading.
It;s 19" tall at the highest point. I will post
more pictures when I get it all shined up.
48.24 lbs of brass.
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I have never seen one like that . Most steam traction and older gas tractors ran Madison Kip . If you ever get the chance take the cover off a Madison Kip . There is a pump with 2 plungers per port and a eccentric cam to work each port .
Quote from: Gearbox on January 10, 2017, 06:29:06 PM
I have never seen one like that . Most steam traction and older gas tractors ran Madison Kip . If you ever get the chance take the cover off a Madison Kip . There is a pump with 2 plungers per port and a eccentric cam to work each port .
I see this one has 2 plungers .
Looks like it is a 3 port or 6 . Looked a second time 2 or 4 .
That's cool 8)
Quote from: Gearbox on January 10, 2017, 07:00:34 PM
Looks like it is a 3 port or 6 . Looked a second time 2 or 4 .
Not sure myself. It has two pistons but 4 lines.
Maybe two of the line are returns ?
Just slowly free it up . That thing is a treasure .
Not a lot today... 1-11-2017
Gas valve, Stanley saw, mill jack, lathe drill bits, wood chisel,
lathe face plate, sanding drum. Might get lucky tomorrow.
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Last Sat.
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4' rod and tractor chains.
Last spring I got a 6" craftsman joiner.
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In the summer a 10" craftsman T saw
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This summer I man walk up to me at the dump and said I give up and handed me the saw.
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This fall someone threw it away. :D :D :D :D
All I did is put gas in it and blew off the yard, Ann came out and asked where did I get that? At the dump!!! :D :D :D
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The dump can be fun Kbeitz. 8) 8)
I just have to post a responce here so that when I am in a hurry and only go to the reponces to threads I have posted in page, I will be able to have this thread come up for me to see the new pictures so I can be jealous.
I know this is not the same but it was made with things I found in the junk pile.
I took this old back massuager
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and made this honey extractor. I had everything laying around but the six bucks I spent for paint.
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Just finished it today.
I love seeing what you guys find and also what you do with it. It gives me ideals to steal.
Cheers
gww
Ps I just replaced the jointer motor on the yardsale jointer that is in the back ground with a treadmill motor.
Around here they call them transfer stations.You just transfer your stuff for somebody else's stuff.
Today's find... 1/17/17
I got a whole bucket of these bits. They all have the tapered ends.
I'm lathing down the ends to 3/4" and sharpening them up.
The biggest in the picture is 2-1/8" od.
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I got the oiler cleaned up a bit... Still have a ways to go...
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Sure had some fun today... Everyone should have a lathe or two in there
basement. Nothing like making chips.
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Blue chips love it .
I don't know what kind of metal the bits are made of but i had another
long one that I needed to cut about an inch off the tapered end.
My cutting wheel was near it end and a little short. I cut all but about
1/8" off and took the bit and smacked it on my anvil to finish breaking
the small chunk off and the bit broke in to 3 chunks and fell on the floor.
Now that's what you call hardened steel. Maybe a little to hard. Oh well
easy come easy go. I still got more to do.
https://forestryforum.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6327
I got this Grumman stepvan out of a JY. Had 29K miles on it. took me about 20 minutes to get it running, steering column was locked up and would not shift. Loosened the mounting bolts so I could turn the entire column to make it go in gear and drove it out of the JY. 6.2 diesel, 400 auto. Put all new brake parts on it including lines just to be safe. runs and drives A1!.
Quote from: Just Me on January 18, 2017, 06:07:55 AM
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I got this Grumman stepvan out of a JY. Had 29K miles on it. took me about 20 minutes to get it running, steering column was locked up and would not shift. Loosened the mounting bolts so I could turn the entire column to make it go in gear and drove it out of the JY. 6.2 diesel, 400 auto. Put all new brake parts on it including lines just to be safe. runs and drives A1!.
Good find... They was made only 14 miles from me...
Today's find.... 1/21/17
It took me awhile to find out what it was . It's the bottom half of a Yankee
vise. I found and bought the top part off E-bay...
After I get it and mount it I will post another picture.
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Hey, I have the vice part of that with the smooth jaws. They threw it out at work I grabbed it! Has a few drill holes in it but still works great.The base was gone years before I ever laid eyes on it.
Quote from: plowboyswr on January 21, 2017, 08:25:42 PM
Hey, I have the vice part of that with the smooth jaws. They threw it out at work I grabbed it! Has a few drill holes in it but still works great.The base was gone years before I ever laid eyes on it.
There is a base on E-bay for sale right now...
Search "Yankee 1933"
Today's junkyard find ... 1/23/17
It's a wet cold day today here in Pa. Almost din't go.
Benchmaster 1 ton punch press. The motor was stuck but it's
now working fine. It will punch some holes is 12ga. real fast.
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smiley_bounce Well, that's the best smiley I could find to say I'm green with envy. I have a Bench Master milling machine. They made some really nice stuff. Not sure what I'd do with a punch press, but it would sure be cool to have! If you were so inclined, you could make a living off of all the nice things you get your hands on. But, I know you'd rather add to you little collections... :D
Quote from: ljohnsaw on January 23, 2017, 02:39:40 PM
smiley_bounce Well, that's the best smiley I could find to say I'm green with envy. I have a Bench Master milling machine. They made some really nice stuff. Not sure what I'd do with a punch press, but it would sure be cool to have! If you were so inclined, you could make a living off of all the nice things you get your hands on. But, I know you'd rather add to you little collections... :D
Some day my wife will have an auction and she will be all smiles...
Is it proper for the obituary and auction bill to be in the same paper ??? ;) ;D I've often wondered :)
Think I'll go punch some holes....
She might be better off selling to the FF members and/ or local folks. The IRS loves estate sales , all that extra money puts you in the big bracket of the people that" don't pay their fair share"
Nice. 8)
Wifie complanes that I don't sell some of my stuff now.
I said ... Why? All I would get for it is money.What would I
do with money? Just buy more stuff. I already got what I want.
Everyday I can walk out to one of my shops and play with things
that i don't even remember having. It's a dream world that I don't
want to give up. Just looking at the stuff gives me pleasure.
I don't think I will ever stop collecting. I could post so many pictures
if things in my collections that people would get sick at looking at them.
This is just a sample of one of my buildings...
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K
I have already seen some pretty neat background in pictures that you were not highlighting your stuff in. You build a sawmill and I look at all the stuff in the picture not just the saw mill. I doubt I get tired of it.
Cheers
gww
Now we understand why K built a sawmill. He needed lumber for buildings to keep his "stuff" in ;D I'm envious...
Dang K, not only nice equipment, but clean and neat areas to work/dream/play in. I am envious of you and your type of people with this trait. I am of the PHD methodology, Piled Higher/Deeper. Very nice.
Explains your avatar with the hand pump.
You have real nice collection of cast pumps in all of the colors.
JJ
always had a thing for pumps...
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Kbeitz I think it's time for you to call in American Pickers. ;D
I am just the opposite. I am getting rid of stuff. I have stuff, but if I don't have a need for it, out of here! If I can't sell it I give it away.
Quote from: 21incher on January 24, 2017, 06:32:41 PM
Kbeitz I think it's time for you to call in American Pickers. ;D
I talked to Frank... He said he would drop in some day...
Quote from: ozarkgem on January 24, 2017, 07:04:42 PM
I am just the opposite. I am getting rid of stuff. I have stuff, but if I don't have a need for it, out of here! If I can't sell it I give it away.
So where do think he gets all this cool stuff from? ;) :D. I'm a keeper myself almost ashamed to say, but mine would fit into the "junk" part...
With the cold and the snow and mud I have been avoiding the junkyard.
Today I needed to make a trip to town and I could not resist stopping in
to see if anything was new. This is what I found. Cost me a cool $20.00.
I have no idea if it works but not much can go wrong with a welder.
Lencospot Spot welder.
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Quote from: Kbeitz on March 20, 2017, 03:23:50 PM
With the cold and the snow and mud I have been avoiding the junkyard.
Today I needed to make a trip to town and I could not resist stopping in
to see if anything was new. This is what I found. Cost me a cool $20.00.
I have no idea if it works but not much can go wrong with a welder.
Lencospot Spot welder.
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I would let one of my not so good buddys try it first! Chance it might light you up if its not any good.
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It was a we bit dusty inside but it cleaned up well.
Looks to be in great shape.
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Got my new tips in today.... I had to pay more for the tips than what
I paid for the whole welder.
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Did you plug this in yet...............
Do you now have a different hairdo??? ;D
:D :D :D
Quote from: isawlogs on March 25, 2017, 10:26:41 AM
Did you plug this in yet...............
Do you now have a different hairdo??? ;D
:D :D :D
Nope. I just got my new ends in and I just bought a new 220 volt plug for it.
Is that a spot welding machine?
I just smiled thinking of the times I could have used one. Nice find!
I tried building one years ago. The hard part was making the timer.
I actually built a spot welder. I used brass rod for the electrodes - worked fairly well. I used a "programmable" timer to trigger a relay. It has three dials to select from .001 seconds to .999 seconds and then you can switch something else to slide the scale to whole seconds and minutes. Pretty cool timer.
Here is the head of the one I made. I think I will try it with my new unit.
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I did good today... All this for $40.00
Chainsaw... Started up after priming... Looks not used.
60 ft of #6 so wire 2 W G
A pto shaft.
1 hp 220-115 motor runs
1-1/2 hp 220 motor does nothing. needs looked at.
A hand full of drill bits and taps and a
pocket full of steel hammer head steel wedges.
And one 8" steel center pinch and a box of screws.
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Quote from: Kbeitz on March 30, 2017, 08:59:06 AM
Here is the head of the one I made. I think I will try it with my new unit.
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Wish I had a spare arbor press laying around. :D
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on April 05, 2017, 07:26:02 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on March 30, 2017, 08:59:06 AM
Here is the head of the one I made. I think I will try it with my new unit.
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Wish I had a spare arbor press laying around. :D
I had 5... I'm down to 3... What do you have to trade ?
Quote from: Kbeitz on April 05, 2017, 07:50:27 PM
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on April 05, 2017, 07:26:02 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on March 30, 2017, 08:59:06 AM
Here is the head of the one I made. I think I will try it with my new unit.
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Wish I had a spare arbor press laying around. :D
I had 5... I'm down to 3... What do you have to trade ?
Considering you've probably already got two of everything I've got, not much. Do you have a wish list?
Your right. I would have to think of what I need or want.
You never cease to amaze me with your scrounging skills
I stopped in the junkyard yesterday to see what's new.
They had crane problems and they wanted me to look at it.
It would not start but had power to the starter but nothing
from the key. I could not find any power in the cab or the
generator room. Yes this thing is BIG. It has rooms.
It took awhile to find the problem. A wire came unplugged.
I did not have any test equipment with me so I used a 12v fan.
The fan would really rip on 24 volts.
So then I went scrounging... I found a
drill press
A brand new 24" chain saw bar
40 lbs of cut off flat plate steel.
boat winch
trailer jack
A hand full of bolts
20 foot log chain with hooks
12 volt school bus window fan
3/8 x 12" socket extension
3/4 hp antique induction repulsion motor
and a 5 gal. tractor gas tank
I went to pay for it and they said ... Get out of here...
Guess they was real happy to have the crane running again...
Kbeitz, I am always inspired by how resourceful you are.
There is more than one generation of folks out there who could
learn a whole lot from you.
very best to you,
D
Where is this junkyard?
I want to visit.
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on April 15, 2017, 07:43:04 AM
Where is this junkyard?
I want to visit.
Come on down... I'll give you he grand tour...
I can't believe the stuff that ends up at that junkyard. Every single one of those items I wouldn't have scrapped and kept for future possible use. And yes, I have a small junkyard out back I try to keep hidden from the road and neighbors. Don't wanna offend nobody, ya know?
Ox, that was our big mistake, we bought way too little land with our home and we live right by the road, I just can't hide it all :D.
Kbeitz, I'll take all the flat iron you can scrounge ;D, but seriously what is a reduction impulsion motor? Once again my ignorance rears it's ugly head, good thing I can lean on you fine folks.
An reduction impulsion motor is to me one of the neatest old mechanical
things to collect. You don't see many any more. This first picture is the one
I just found. It's big for only 3/4 hp. Note the penny lower left of the photo.
I will strip it down and clean and paint and add it to my collection.
I already tested it and it runs great.
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This is one in my collection that I got all cleaned up...
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The plate steel I got...
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I see many projects there. ;D
At my other job,I use to get stuff out of the dumpster. Get a slip for it and I was building somethng. I have a pile of stuff. And I do mean a pile. Been saying for years I am going to sort it out. ::) ::)
I think I spend most of my time putting things away.
Everything gotta have it's spot.
Love the pics. Is that a direct gear drive compressor? Friction drive?
Behind my shop I have what my family calls "our secret shame". :D
Quote from: Ox on April 16, 2017, 10:02:28 AM
Love the pics. Is that a direct gear drive compressor? Friction drive?
Gear to gear. And check out the neat pressure switch...
And by the way... This was another junkyard find.
The last picture is what it looked like when I got it.
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That's a really interesting hobby that you have, Kbeitz
I love that little compressor. What's with the string of weights hanging in the pressure switch? I can't see what it does. Is this an adjustment? Add or take away weights or something?
I think that is a piece of copper wire and that is insulation "beads" of some sort. Probably phenolic (sp) "plastic".
phenolic is about the same as bakelite isn't it?
Yes. Bakelite is the trade name - I just couldn't think of it a few minutes ago...
I keep looking at that little compressor. I really like it! How old do you think it is?
Quote from: Ox on April 16, 2017, 02:40:08 PM
I love that little compressor. What's with the string of weights hanging in the pressure switch? I can't see what it does. Is this an adjustment? Add or take away weights or something?
Ha ha .... That the wire coating...Way before plastic or cloth wrapped wires.
I got a room stuffed full of old neat things...
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You aren't very far away. Could I visit you someday? That collection is awesome and I would love to see it.
Quote from: Den Socling on April 16, 2017, 06:33:15 PM
You aren't very far away. Could I visit you someday? That collection is awesome and I would love to see it.
I would love to have you stop in...
I have much more to show...
Quote from: Den Socling on April 16, 2017, 06:33:15 PM
You aren't very far away. Could I visit you someday? That collection is awesome and I would love to see it.
I have some friends in Jersey shore.
Matt Welshans
And
Paul Boxmeyer
The landfills around here will not let you take anything...nothing, accept the bill home with you. I used to drive a trash truck, every night when you got back to the yard they would search your truck to make sure you weren't taking any work home with you.
I did manage to save an antique 1902 chain hoist....had to come home in my lunch box though.
Kbeitz, Ron Welshans lives across the creek from me. Is he related to Matt?
We built our sawmills out of junk from Proctor and Gamble. One day it was making toilet paper, the next day it was sawing logs. After a big company took over, You can't get in the scrap yard anymore. Progress >:(
Quote from: Den Socling on April 16, 2017, 09:22:09 PM
Kbeitz, Ron Welshans lives across the creek from me. Is he related to Matt?
I think all the Welshans in Jersey Shore is related.
I'm also friends with Jeff Welshans. I worked with him at Grizzly Tools.
193 lbs. of goodies for $20.00 today...
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Quote from: Kbeitz on April 17, 2017, 03:07:47 PM
193 lbs. of goodies for $20.00 today...
Nice! You paid just under 10cents a pound. They probably paid scrap price for the steel (~3.5 cents here) - so you both made good on that deal!
Quote from: ljohnsaw on April 17, 2017, 06:55:09 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on April 17, 2017, 03:07:47 PM
193 lbs. of goodies for $20.00 today...
Nice! You paid just under 10cents a pound. They probably paid scrap price for the steel (~3.5 cents here) - so you both made good on that deal!
I thought that was a lot of steel for $20.00
That is a LOT for that price. I think you are on their frequent buyer program ;) or they just like you a whole lot!
I hate ya, K. ;)
Quote from: Ox on April 17, 2017, 07:39:09 PM
I hate ya, K. ;)
Guess your just going to have to move down here...
Then we will go shopping...
Than we go building. ;D
a few years back was at the scrap yard there was a 350jd dozer there with almost new tracks and sprockets and it even had a 3315 winch on it and a few other parts I could have used scrap was at 200a ton I figured it at 6 ton he paid 1200 for it I told the owner I wound give him 3500 for it just the way it was he told me no :o :o cant sell anything that comes in >:( >:( I never sold him any more scrap went to another guy that was paying 180 a ton but I could buy what ever I wanted out of his yard 8)
Quote from: Kbeitz on April 17, 2017, 08:14:58 PM
Quote from: Ox on April 17, 2017, 07:39:09 PM
I hate ya, K. ;)
Guess your just going to have to move down here...
Then we will go shopping...
Find me a nice old house, not too big, with at least a 24x40 barn or shop for my tools close by you guys and I just might hafta take you up on that. I hate my state. It's communist. Then we can really get to building something!
I want to play to :)
I will drive to harry's u pull it instead of shopping locally
Harry's U pull it takes a Full Day to see half of their stuff. It's also very close to RT 80 and RT 81 known as the top of the Eighties.
We have a Gary's U Pull it within driving distance of us. Autos only usually.
Quote from: red on April 18, 2017, 03:15:38 PM
Harry's U pull it takes a Full Day to see half of their stuff. It's also very close to RT 80 and RT 81 known as the top of the Eighties.
I know it takes a long time to walk around it...
I you lay a tool down you will never find it agaib,,,
Today finds... generic anchor seal... I bet there was 60 gallons there. Looks to be good.
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Kbeitz.. they will just have to build a museum and name it after you.. the history you've gathered is priceless.. many many people would enjoy. I even like the table that the motor & pump is setup on.
Years ago the farmer across the street had to move after he rented the farm for 25 years.. I helped them move. After we were done he said.. you can have anything that's left. It was 9pm and raining.. I was still dragging old implements and other finds half buried in the dirt w/ my 35hp tractor. All good stuff.. some just don't see it. Thankyou for sharing!
The old electric motor clean up real nice...
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I wish they made stuff like this today. You loosen one little screw and rotate
a plate about 1/4" and you just reversed the direction of the motor.
No wire to full with.
I agree. I wish that too. That's a wonderful way to reverse a motor.
I haven't been keeping this post updated lately...
This is some of the stuff I have been finding at the
junkyard in my home town.
Two 5 gallons pails of 4" new spikes.
Two Gravley tractors. I made one good one from the two.
Two nice 20" bandsaw band wheels.
One very nice drill press.
One pin router. I had to look that one up. Never seen one before.
One Sears garden tractor carry-all bucket. I had to paint that one.
And a bunch of little stuff all ready put away all for $160.00 .
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I got that little drill press (heavy little bugger) delta and or made by delta I keep mine in basement for small jobs in house. Might need to move to shop as wifee getting
antise about getting full of junk I keep telling her it's stuff not junk. LOL LOL I think you will like that press works fine for me.
What kind of gun do those nails fit? :D
I have one of those Rockwell pin routers and use it only for pattern routing. Its made a few dollars for me. The best attribute is it takes so little of my valuable floor space. It's a nice find and I've seen them sell for around the $500 mark.
Quote from: Larry on May 11, 2017, 11:02:25 AM
What kind of gun do those nails fit? :D
I have one of those Rockwell pin routers and use it only for pattern routing. Its made a few dollars for me. The best attribute is it takes so little of my valuable floor space. It's a nice find and I've seen them sell for around the $500 mark.
Not nail gun nails. I think that's why someone trashed them.
You got to use and old tool called a hammer. I don't think
the younger generation know how to use one unless they
are bashing someones head in.
I will set up the pin router and play. It's 220 volts only
so I need to find a dedicated spot for it. But it does run.
I did not get any pins with it so it looks like I will need
to make some. Could you post some pictures of what
they look like and how long they are ?
Quote from: whitepine2 on May 11, 2017, 10:12:24 AM
I got that little drill press (heavy little bugger) delta and or made by delta I keep mine in basement for small jobs in house. Might need to move to shop as wifee getting
antise about getting full of junk I keep telling her it's stuff not junk. LOL LOL I think you will like that press works fine for me.
I already have 6 drill presses and someone offered me $65.oo for it
so I think it will go down the road. It does look to be a good unit.
This is my shop made all steel version. I made it with a 1/4" pin and a 1/2" bushing that is a light press fit. About all I use is 1/2" bits. The OEM plate is aluminum with a 1/4" pin.
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Brushes are no longer available for the motor so its roll your own if needed. Bearings are also a pain but I can't remember all the details.
I think these are OEM plates. Galvanized steel and not aluminum as I posted earlier.
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Thanks... That should help me a lot. So the pins need to be the
size of the cutting bit?
I cut out two pin holders today... It's raining out and I got to keep busy...
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It makes things simple if the pin size matches the cutter. I have used different sizes but that was for something special.
I keep a custom sign painter supplied with wood sign blanks. Anything she dreams up I can make on short notice. This is pattern for a sign end that attaches by vacuum....I gave up on two sided tape a long time ago.
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The completed sign ready to edge mold.
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My machine saw first life in a high school shop and later worked in a shop making novelty toys. It was maintained pretty well but some of the pins in the foot raising mechanism were wore bad. Made it hard to raise the table accurately so I replaced a couple. Had to do a little brazing on the notch that holds the foot peddle also. It works like a new one now.
Your pin insert looks good. Some machines have a little pin and a notch in the insert to keep it from spinning. My machine does not have the pin but I never had any problem with the insert spinning.
I gotta check into the foot pedal thing. Stepping on my pedal does nothing.
It's funny that my machine at one time also came out of a school.
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I picked up a few things today. There was 3 12volt hydro units there. I only
bought one. I also got the level just for a straight edge. Hand truck was mine.
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Wow on the load with the two Gravelys for the money! You did great. Plus two bus hogs.
Quote from: samandothers on May 11, 2017, 06:23:37 PM
Wow on the load with the two Gravelys for the money! You did great. Plus two bus hogs.
I probably got thousands of hours behind the 12hp walk behind Gravelys.
That's what we used to keep the weeds down on the Christmas tree farm.
I never thought that i would ever want another one. I think I can work on
them blind folded.
My Gravely time is with the older Gravely engined machines. They are tough old units. I have a 73 model super convertible my dad traded an old 49 model in for.
Quote from: samandothers on May 13, 2017, 11:48:47 AM
My Gravely time is with the older Gravely engined machines. They are tough old units. I have a 73 model super convertible my dad traded an old 49 model in for.
Studebaker engine if I remember right.
Today I picked up two cans of all-sorted new nuts and bolts.
Mixed in was 17 slip on lock nuts. I never seen anything like
this before. Some places are asking $20.24 each for them.
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I thought I had one of everything ! Just in case the end of your thread is in concrete or welded onto something, I can see these being useful.... Good find Lazerdan
My latest project is putting a second floor in the barn. So I had to move a lot of
stuff that hasn't been moved for a while. Some of the stuff was part of my small
engine collection. I had over 3000 engines in my collection years ago. I'm now
down to a few hundred engines. All came from the junkyard. The ones I want to
show you is kinda rare. Years ago small engines was made so if you changed the
oil pan and rotated the carb. you could change a horizontal into a vertical one.
The first picture is of a very rare B/S engine only made a very short time because
the crank would not get the oil needed and they would blow up.
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Good you have a sawmill, so you can cut out more barns to put your stuff in. ;)
is there any property for sale next to you I would love to be your neighbor but then again I may not ever leave your house if I was your neighbor :) :)
Come on KB time for some more fantastic finds ;D 8) 8)
I have been finding stuff. Just to busy to post.
One of the best thing the other day was a Ridgid
driver case full of driver bits. It looked to be new
not used. It must have over 100 drivers inside.
People are just crazy with what they trash.
I also picked up two new old stock Wheelhores
mule drives. I'm thinking I will just take them
apart for the idler pullieys. Also go around 50
new lag bolts.
NO question about it: I have to move closer to your junkyard. :D
There is a Wheelhorse show this next weekend somewhere in PA. You could go there and sell the drives.
My son was talking about going to get some parts.
Quote from: samandothers on June 19, 2017, 10:45:20 AM
There is a Wheelhorse show this next weekend somewhere in PA. You could go there and sell the drives.
My son was talking about going to get some parts.
Yea it's a great show. I have been there before and i got to meet Cecil Pond.
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I'm a collector of Wheelhorses myself...
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Were they built in Pennsylvania?
Quote from: sandhills on June 20, 2017, 12:07:47 AM
Were they built in Pennsylvania?
That I don't know. But I do have a collection of other Pennsylvania tractors.
Today I went to the junkyard hoping to find some alum. to cover the exposed
wood parts of my solar kiln that I'm building. So what did I find but two rolls
of alum flashing that looks new. Happy day... I also got another 40 lb bucket
of nails and two yankeys. all for $40.00. That was 66 lbs of alum.
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Great day at the yard today...
I got this Heavy duty American fan company TC-10 dust collector.
It works great. I also got a new looking garden tractor seat. two can of nails.
12 feet of #8 so welders cord, two clevises, two chain connecting links. Switch/outlet
cover, two light switches, two large pulleys, Flower garden spade, Brush sheers, box of
screws and two garden tractor keys all for $20.00
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This dust collector will be put to good use in my shop...
I needed one.
I'm green with envy - all the cool stuff you find for virtually free. I'm also a bit red with anger - at the waste. You are just picking in one junk yard of probably 10 of thousands across the country. What a wasteful society we have.
We used to have a little junk yard in the town I worked. It was on Berry Street. They organized the junk a bit and you could buy whatever (haggling allowed to some extent). The running joke was people called it the "Berry Street Mall", playing off the big shopping center malls in the area. You would say you went shopping at the Berry Street Mall instead of scrounging at the junk yard :D It closed down probably 15 years ago :(
What surprises me is that more people doesn't go shopping at our junkyard.
I think the biggest reason is that it's one BIG mud hole. It's nothing to find
6 inches of mud to walk through. They haul in rock to cover the mud every so
often but it just disperses.
No one has Time . At least that's what they say as they sit on the porch drinking beer , or they already have their own junk pile of projects.
The good stuff in the junkyards is a sign of the times. People are becoming more useless, less thrifty and more flush with cash apparently as well.
If I was there when that dust collector was being picked up I would have tug of warred with you. I would have won. I'm a fat sonuvagun.
Quote from: Ox on June 27, 2017, 12:19:23 PM
The good stuff in the junkyards is a sign of the times. People are becoming more useless, less thrifty and more flush with cash apparently as well.
If I was there when that dust collector was being picked up I would have tug of warred with you. I would have won. I'm a fat sonuvagun.
I still would have been carrying it away while you would have been stuck in the mud...
You need to learn to walk on water in that yard...
:D Fat guys can float better than skinny guys. I would have rolled across the mud while you'd be slogging through it, see?
Kb has a secret Zip Line no need to get his feet muddy
Quote from: red on June 27, 2017, 07:52:51 PM
Kb has a secret Zip Line no need to get his feet muddy
Why do I not doubt that.... ? :D
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smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
:D :D
you guys are to funny :laugh: :laugh: Kbeitz is there any thing you don't have
Quote from: coxy on June 27, 2017, 09:36:32 PM
you guys are to funny :laugh: :laugh: Kbeitz is there any thing you don't have
Yes.... Time....
I would love to have time to do nothing...
I'm never board. Just tired. For some reason I just can't stop.
I'm past the point of to much to take care of. I have tractors
that has not been started for years. Someone needs to knock
some sense into me. My poor Datsun has not been started
in 15 years. I'm just a pack rat. I see no end. Stuck in a maze.
I'd love to help you out, I've seen a lot of your pictures, we can even start with the small stuff :D.
Good plan. I can come get that steam engine out of your way for starters. :D
Forumites seem to like to come together to help other forumites. K, ya better be careful... there's more than one way to "help" people! :D Remember those tractors that ain't been started in years? They'll be started and running and being used...in somebody else's yard!
I was thinking lawnmower races at K's place :)
Quote from: Ox on June 29, 2017, 10:50:01 AM
Forumites seem to like to come together to help other forumites. K, ya better be careful... there's more than one way to "help" people! :D Remember those tractors that ain't been started in years? They'll be started and running and being used...in somebody else's yard!
Someday I'm sure... But now they are locked up good and tight in the tractor shed...
Say the word and you would have trucks and trailers lined up clear to I 80 .
One thing I find at the junkyard is a lot of Stanley 25' powerlock tape measures that
has the end of the tape broken off. I was thinking wow. I'll just go to E-bay and buy
new replacement tapes (#32-625) Wrong... The cheapest I can find is $17.99 and
I can buy new the whole tape for around $5.00... Hummm....
Now if I could find a few with broken springs I would be good to go...
Kbeitz,
Go ahead and buy the $17.99 replacement tapes to fix them and just tell everyone it is a government run operation. Line the time my son bought a calf for $150, fed it for nearly a year (at my expense of course) then took it to the sale 40 miles away and sold it for $135.
Craftsman had stopped making tape measures , but now I see a Sidewinder tape measure . Not sure if any other manufacturers are making them.
I have been finding stuff every week but today I found something worth posting.
Ireland Machine & Foundry Co PTO winch. It's missing the wheels and the front
of the PTO shaft that goes onto the tractor. I dont know how well it works yet
because I have yet to get it unloaded. You can tell that the wheels was just
taken off of it but I could not find them. It need a new wood handle that works
what I'm thinking the brakes. Looks like this will make a great logging winch.
Also under the winch you can see a Sears cultivator
with part of the 3 point hitch. That stuff brings big bucks.
This load cost me $75.00
A little history on the Ireland Machine & Foundry.
In 1886, A. Bertsell Ireland, of Greene, NY, patented
a shingle machine and a saw blade. His shingle machine
(and probably the saw blade) were manufactured by
Lyon Iron Works of Greene, NY. At some point, perhaps
in the 1890s, manufacture moved to Ireland Machine &
Foundry Co., Inc.
Ireland's product line expanded to include a variety
of sawmills and related machinery. Some of their machinery
was sold by the John Deere Plow Co. The company survived
until at least 1936.
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The PTO shaft shouldn't be hard to come by but I wonder what the axle was from, I should know ::).
Quote from: sandhills on July 13, 2017, 02:36:45 PM
The PTO shaft shouldn't be hard to come by but I wonder what the axle was from, I should know ::).
It came with two Dodge moon hub caps. Looks like 4-1/4" bolt centers.
I also need to find all the lug bolts. I'm thinking I have a PTO shaft.
Quote from: Kbeitz on July 13, 2017, 02:51:41 PM
Quote from: sandhills on July 13, 2017, 02:36:45 PM
The PTO shaft shouldn't be hard to come by but I wonder what the axle was from, I should know ::).
It came with two Dodge moon hub caps. Looks like 4-1/4" bolt centers.
I also need to find all the lug bolts. I'm thinking I have a PTO shaft.
I'm thinking you have a whole collection of PTO shafts! ;)
That's cool because Greene and Norwich are two of my neighboring towns. Of course none of this stuff is produced around here anymore...
NY has a really amazing history with all that kind of stuff.
What I find amazing is all these towns around here are basically dead as far as manufacturing but were once manufacturing giants. Lots of stuff going on. Heck, my little dead town was once a central hub for shipping when the Chenango Canal was operational. Then the railroad came and all the shipping just kind of died slowly but I don't know why cause I ain't that smart. I'm thinking most little towns were once bustling with manufacturing, iron works, sawmills, dairies, etc. Oh well, at least we have small momentos.
K, that's a great find with that PTO winch. It's amazing to me, all the time, what people will throw away.
I have piles of stuff I am trying to sell. it is getting easier to just say screw it and throw it away. Especially since I can't get anyone to take it. But I also can't bring myself to throw it away.
Kbeits wanna come paruse my junkyard? :)
Kbeitz, have i got a deal for U.
I have a 1970s vintage bronze gear pump Canadian made that I bought when making maple syrup to pump sap.
Never used it also a used hydraulic valve that I found when cleaning out my storage area of my shop.
Yours for 10 bucks plus shipping.
WHAT A DEAL!!
PM me if U are interested
Pete
Also I will send the 10 bucks to the forum
Around here when we can't sell something or don't have the time
to do it we send it to the Amish consignment auction. They take
around 15% of what it sells for and you get the rest. I have sold
a lot of stuff there but I have also bought my share.
To find a consignment auction in your area just go to
Auction zip.com
http://www.auctionzip.com/
K
I lost the hubcap on my dodge the day I brought it home (bought used). I had every intention of replacing it but apparently I am a procrastinator. That was seven or eight years ago, or maby ten.
Cheers
gww
Quote from: gww on July 13, 2017, 10:46:53 PM
K
I lost the hubcap on my dodge the day I brought it home (bought used). I had every intention of replacing it but apparently I am a procrastinator. That was seven or eight years ago, or maby ten.
Cheers
gww
I got two....
K
I guess I am used to it now. If I fixed it the truck might look funny.
Cheers
gww
I went back to the junkyard to find some tires and rims for the winch
and I found two real nice tires. I walked over to the pile where I found
the winch and they was almost done cutting up the rest of the pile.
So I looked around for the missing PTO shaft and I found if. I sure wish
I got there before the junkers took off the old rims and tires. On side
had left hand lug bolts. I was very lucky to have some in my lug bolt
drawer. Tomorrow I'm going to make a new handle for the broken one.
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I think I will weld a small arch on the back of this thing.
Then I will have two log arches. One big and one small.
Can someone explain why they used to put right handed threads on one side and left on the other? Not important just always wondered why. Nice little winch though!
sandhill
If your wheel is turning and you are going forward the turn force on the nut will be to tighten instead of losen.
Cheers
gww
Thanks, never thought of that. I've only seen them on bigger trucks and always wondered about it but wouldn't the side with the right handed threads be opposite of that then?
Right handed threads for the driver side, left handed threads for the passenger side keeps the twisting force always tightening on either side.
I don't think it really matters cause most things aren't that way today. If it really made a difference it would be different threads on everything made - cars, trucks, trailers, etc. Everything is standard right threads today I think. There's always an exception to every rule and people love to bring it up to prove people wrong, so look for that here soon... ;)
Ox
I like righty tighty and lefty losey. I have spent too much time once or twice figuring out the hard way that the bolt I was working on was a left handed thread.
Cheers
gww
Quote from: Ox on July 21, 2017, 02:25:45 PM
Right handed threads for the driver side, left handed threads for the passenger side keeps the twisting force always tightening on either side.
I don't think it really matters cause most things aren't that way today. If it really made a difference it would be different threads on everything made - cars, trucks, trailers, etc. Everything is standard right threads today I think. There's always an exception to every rule and people love to bring it up to prove people wrong, so look for that here soon... ;)
If you
really think about it, there isn't a twisting force applied to the lug nuts/studs. If the nut was just on the axle, then yes. But even on trailer axles, there is a castle nut to keep it from tightening or loosening. Perhaps this is a relic from long ago (wagon wheels?) or some engineer wrote a really good thesis on it :D Y'all know that engineers don't live in the real world, I should know, I've got an engineering degree ;D
flywheel bolts.
weed wacker hub nuts
also left hand thread. at least on mine
But with weed wacker's and flywheels if the shaft stops fast the heavy parts can spin and
take the nut off if not left handed.. This can't happen with a wheel. It does not matter how
fast the wheel stops it can not spin on the hub.
Debarker blade bolt on my LT40 is lefty!
Well I probably ruined my chance for an engineering degree because I changed all the studs to right handed on my grain trailer once, the passenger side wheels never fell off :D.
I have had a couple of old cars/jeeps with left hand lugs.
The first one was a 46 or 8 CJ2A. I was around 14 and trying to pull the wheels off. I had chiseled off one lug and was starting on another one when my father pointed out that they were left handed.
Hard lessons learned are hard to forget.
Jon
I did good today...
550 to 1 gear box
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140 to 1 gear box
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1000's of 1/2" lock washers.
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Gas tank filter insert.
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2kw 220/120v to 24/12v transformer.
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Ammo box.
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weight leveler.
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And a wood stove bottom to fit one of my antique boilers.
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That weight leveler ,is actually for pulling engines, you can adjust it so they come out perfectly level.
Quote from: loggah on July 31, 2017, 07:25:39 PM
That weight leveler ,is actually for pulling engines, you can adjust it so they come out perfectly level.
Thanks... I was thinking it was for pouring a barrow.
Bump
Stopping at the yard today... Hoping I have something to post...
Me too, I always enjoy your pictures :).
While you're there and if you don't mind, slice off a chunk of that junkyard and mail it to me. We don't have any such resource around here. There are several auto salvage yards, but nothing general.
Thanks.
Jackpot today... First... I helped the boss fix his zeroturn mower so everything shown here today was free.
Whatever comes into this junkyard means nothing to the owner. He only see $$$ as weigh in junk.
He saves out very little for his self. Back of my Jeep was full. This is what happens when you don't go for a while.
It took me around two hours to get it all separated and put away.
I got today...
Nails.
Screws.
Much electrical stuff.
Gear motors.
rotating air connections.
Nits, bolts.
Washers.
Bushings steel.
Bushings brass.
two tractor headlights.
16" ridgid pipe wrench.
3/4" heavy duty eye bolts.
all thread couplers.
Two new steering boxes.
lots of pulleys.
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What the thing on the top. It looks like it would fit in a drill and it has bearings in it. It has a square 1/8" hole
in the other end. I checked to see if it was a clutch. It's not. The bottom two things screwed together is
rotating air connections.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl71DM84Wc4
Nice finds Kevin, but I just couldn't help myself with the Junkyard Song. :-X :D
I wonder if that pipe wrench got tossed by accident, mixed in with some miscellaneous.
Those look like bronze bushings, to me. Ever done any metal casting? I've always wanted to but never got the roundtuit to build a furnace.
Wouldn't give 2 cents for the electrical switches and receptacles, but everything else looks handy. What were those heavy eye bolts for?
That ain't a junkyard; it's a salvage depot!
Quote from: Magicman on August 15, 2017, 05:23:04 PM
Nice finds Kevin, but I just couldn't help myself with the Junkyard Song. :-X :D
Had to laugh... But hey... I got the best hardware stuff around....
Thanks for looking...
Quote from: grouch on August 15, 2017, 05:41:55 PM
I wonder if that pipe wrench got tossed by accident, mixed in with some miscellaneous.
Those look like bronze bushings, to me. Ever done any metal casting? I've always wanted to but never got the roundtuit to build a furnace.
Wouldn't give 2 cents for the electrical switches and receptacles, but everything else looks handy. What were those heavy eye bolts for?
That ain't a junkyard; it's a salvage depot!
I find tools there all the time...
I got both steel and brass or bronze bushings.
I have a foundry and I do castings.
What do you have against light switches and receptacles?
The ones with the switches and receptacle in one is expensive.
I have no idea what the eye bolts was for but I'm sure
they will come in real handy for things like hinges.
Some wheels I casted...
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Quote from: Kbeitz on August 15, 2017, 08:33:57 PM
I find tools there all the time...
I got both steel and brass or bronze bushings.
I have a foundry and I do castings.
What do you have against light switches and receptacles?
The ones with the switches and receptacle in one is expensive.
I have no idea what the eye bolts was for but I'm sure
they will come in real handy for things like hinges.
Generally, switches and receptacles get tossed when they cause a problem, that is, when they're worn out. Could've been just a fashion change, though.
Hinges and joints in some newly created machine?
Quote from: grouch on August 15, 2017, 09:22:18 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on August 15, 2017, 08:33:57 PM
I find tools there all the time...
I got both steel and brass or bronze bushings.
I have a foundry and I do castings.
What do you have against light switches and receptacles?
The ones with the switches and receptacle in one is expensive.
I have no idea what the eye bolts was for but I'm sure
they will come in real handy for things like hinges.
Generally, switches and receptacles get tossed when they cause a problem, that is, when they're worn out. Could've been just a fashion change, though.
Hinges and joints in some newly created machine?
The switches and receptacles was new or I also would not have touched them. Most still was in
the store box but they was damp and dirty so I just dumped the boxes.
The large eye bolts will go into stock until needed for what ever the need that come up.
Awesome finds. Hundreds of dollars worth. I'm envious of the bushings and gear motor the most...
Quote from: Ox on August 16, 2017, 08:48:25 AM
Awesome finds. Hundreds of dollars worth. I'm envious of the bushings and gear motor the most...
I see many gear motors. I only pickup the ones that are really different.
I bet I have 200 gear motors now. Never the one I need. This one turn out
to be 115 volts AC. but on the label it say change the red pos for reverse.
AC does not have Pos. This came from the factory this way. I have yet to
play with it. RPM's not listed. I'm thinking that it's not an AC motor because
the wires is Green, black and red. I think the label is wrong.
Kb, it's one thing to acquire all that good stuff. The hard part is storing it and finding it later. How do you manage your inventory?
I could use a better system. I have a hard time finding things I know I have and I don't have anywhere near the amount of stuff you've collected.
One cabinet for each item ... Like
1/4" nuts and bolts.
1/2" nuts and bolts.
3/4" nuts and bolts.
and so on.
One cabinet for springs.
One cabinet for electric items like wire nuts conduit connectors and such.
One section of shelves for electric motors.
The list goes on. Some time I loose things.
Sometimes I find things I did not know I had.
But I can say I have more stuff than the local hardware has
and I'm happy for it. It's like Christmas when I go to the junkyard.
My shop walls are filled ... Every inch.
You sure do have some neat stuff. When I first clicked on this, I was just gona give it quick look. About and hour and a half later....I have read all 11 pages. :D And look forward to more finds. Banjo
Just wondering , why are you casting wheels ? you only have to go out to the fence and there you have hundreds of wheels. ???
Quote from: Don_Papenburg on August 17, 2017, 11:18:38 PM
Just wondering , why are you casting wheels ? you only have to go out to the fence and there you have hundreds of wheels. ???
I make small engines.
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Well, that does it. I'm tossing my little paint can Stirling engine in the junkyard.
Don't do it, grouch! We can't all be like K. He's a different breed. Be proud of what you have created! ;)
Ox
Thats what I like about you, you show pride for even us unskilled guys creations and the fact that we are doing something. I found that very helpful even with out the other ideals and help you gave people like me.
Cheers
gww
I'll second what gww said -- I appreciate the encouragement you've given several times, Ox.
Now, put that harness back on and get back to work.
Throw it in the junkyard? :o Guess who will find it? :D
gww - thanks, bud
grouch - what harness you talking about? only harness I have is the one keeping my butt from dragging more than 10 feet behind me...
Kbeitz,
PA must have more hours in the day than we get in Florida. I'm struggling to find time to get the grass mowed.
The heck with the grass... There is fun to be had...
But then again I like mowing grass. I have around 30 different garden tractors to keep going.
Just a few...
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Why so many? Just need one to cut the grass. ;)
that sears collection looks like the one my dad had but he had orange and blue mixed in
I recognize that Magnatrack. Got its pappy rusting away by the garage: a Struck Mini Dozer. The mini was originally designed for a 5 HP engine. Marketing, of course, eventually upped it to 18 HP without sufficient re-design of the power train and tracks.
Quote from: coxy on August 19, 2017, 08:41:54 PM
that sears collection looks like the one my dad had but he had orange and blue mixed in
I got 3 of the blue and years ago I had one orange one.
My blue one I have one 14hp and two 12hp hydros.
The hydros are kinda rare in this area.
Quote from: grouch on August 19, 2017, 09:17:54 PM
I recognize that Magnatrack. Got its pappy rusting away by the garage: a Struck Mini Dozer. The mini was originally designed for a 5 HP engine. Marketing, of course, eventually upped it to 18 HP without sufficient re-design of the power train and tracks.
Ahhh... Don't let it rust away...
Quote from: Peter Drouin on August 19, 2017, 07:55:39 PM
Why so many? Just need one to cut the grass. ;)
Just another one of my many hobbies.
I was loaded heavy today...
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Angle iron.
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Two Pneumatic Planishing Hammers
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Chain saw... Like I needed another one... Looks unused.
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Kohler engine parts.
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More nails.
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To be wheel weights...
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And somehow I missed taking a picture of around 100 lengths of 3/8" all thread rod.
When I was about 8 we lived near a local dumping spot on the river. Just full of good stuff a kid needed. Everyday I'd drag stuff home and everyday my mom would make me drag it back. You're what I would have been if it hadn't been for a woman holding me back!
Well it rained today so I got time to check out the chain saw. I put some gas in it
but it was almost full of what smelled like good gas. I should of dumped it out
because after about 5-10min of run time it locked up tight. I dumped out the gas and
put in a heavy mix and I backed out the H. screw one turn. I removed the spark plug
and squirted in some WD-40 and pulled the rope. It pulled hard but it came free.
So I fired it back up and ran it hard. I cut wood for about 30 min with no problems.
I had to put a chain on it . I have 100's of junkyard chains but I had a hard time finding
one the fit the narrow blade. I find lots of good bars and chains at the yard but not many
chainsaws. This looks to be a keeper. Like I said before this looks almost unused.
When was the last year homelite made a super XL ?
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One of those "Kohler engine parts" appears to be an ice cream mixer, to me.
Quote from: grouch on August 22, 2017, 02:31:47 AM
One of those "Kohler engine parts" appears to be an ice cream mixer, to me.
Yep. White mountain . highly sought after in this area.
Thanks for looking...
That ice cream mixer would look good attached to one of your gear motors. Then you can cut some staves and make a tub for it to fit in. I guess you'll need the the container and lid and paddles too. Maybe it's a bigger project than I thought. Anyway, that mixer brings back memories.
Is that a thumb pump oiler on that chainsaw? I thought all the newer ones had auto oiler on them.
PC
Quote from: paul case on August 22, 2017, 07:53:15 AM
Is that a thumb pump oiler on that chainsaw? I thought all the newer ones had auto oiler on them.
PC
I'm thinking that this saw is old.... It's heavy...
I just looked it up... It's 27 years old.
Yes, that is a thumb pump oiler. I have one that is plastic/nylon like the one pictured and another that has a brass pump knob. Better put your ear muffs on because those saws are LOUD, and slow.
Those little (and big) homelites are all I used my whole life untill about 3 years ago when my last two gave out and are probly in the junk yard. I remember my cousens using the Mcculloch. We were all pretty loyal to our brand and more then willing to look down on the other brand. I grew up thinking that Mcculloch were hard to start :).
Cheers
gww
I cut ALOT of wood with an old Homelite Super XL with the thumb oiler. I mean a lot. It's got enough torque that you can really undercut when sharpening and take the rakers right down to crazy depths and it'll still pull a 20" chain loop on a hard nose bar. I could keep up with the Husqvarnas the other loggers and woodcutters were using. It was funny to see their faces when I pulled it out and in some cases outperformed their expensive modern saws with an old "clunker".
Yes, they're loud, heavy and vibrate horrible. But they always start easy and run flawlessly. At least mine did. I'll always have a fondness for the old Homelites.
I have no idea what I will ever do with mine except keep them for whatever reason. They both still crank and run. I quit using them because of the lack of a chain brake.
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Yup, a piece of hidden fence wire caused a kickback. Eighteen stitches. :-\
Magic
I wish I had them cause my huskavarna 350 is falling apart and I have stolen dads stihl 390 cause I am too cheep to buy more saws and too lazy to fix the two that dad still has laying around. I find that the one with the gas leak runs good but I find gas leaks hard to fix. I think the closest to hurting my self that I remember is I cut into my tennis shoe and the greatest avoidince of real dangerous stuff that happended more then once was turning around with the saw in my hand and somebody standing or working there. Sooo lucky. I like working by myself when cutting up stuff. I am sure there are tons of other times that I got lucky that I can't remember or did not even notice. My smallest homelite newer modle had a chain break (plus auto oiler) on it but it was a total piece of junk.
Cheers
gww
Maybe someday we can make a rendezvous. ;D
A local logger named Junior and his brother Max worked together all the time. Max relayed a story to me about his brother Junior's homelite xl super. If there was a bigger one it was probably that one. Junior left it at a saw shop and when he went back to pick it up a couple novice woodcutters were admiring Junior's saw and going on and on about how heavy it was. One said that he thought you would need a wheelbarrel to carry it in the woods. Junior shut them up when he said''If I couldnt take at least that big of a saw to the woods, I would just stay at home and play with mommie.
PC
I worked it hard today for about an hour. I kinda like the pump oiler.
I also have an old super xl weed eater hanging in the shop.
My dad ran it for years. Talk about heavy.
You all might like to see this. It's also an xl
I never even tried to start it.
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we use to use them saws for cutting blue stone :o what a pain it would be to use them again the new cut off saws are wonderful
That's the first gasoline powered portable circular saw I've seen.
Quote from: grouch on August 23, 2017, 05:42:22 AM
That's the first gasoline powered portable circular saw I've seen.
This is the third one that I bought. They are a big collectors item.
I found this with some logging chains. Anyone have any idea what they are used for ?
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they go on a chain to hook in a car/truck frame for holding them on a trailer can you find me a good clutch fan for a 671 Detroit please
Those hooks are very useful. The fat end goes into the slots on a car frame so you actually have someplace to hook chains to. The are usually connected directly to the chains along with J hook and whatever else the towing companies use.
What coxy said :)
Quote from: coxy on August 31, 2017, 05:44:12 PM
they go on a chain to hook in a car/truck frame for holding them on a trailer can you find me a good clutch fan for a 671 Detroit please
That's funny.. Today i looked at a 671 Detroit in the junkyard that's for sale.
It's hooked up to a 540amp 3 phase generator all for sale for $1000.00
Kbeitz,can you found me a millon dollars please :D
Thanks... With that information I googled it and found it to be called a R-hook.
Made for Chevrolet.
Quote from: thecfarm on August 31, 2017, 07:41:16 PM
Kbeitz,can you found me a millon dollars please :D
I bet I can but it wont be cheap...
:D :D :D
:D :) ;D
Quote from: Kbeitz on August 31, 2017, 08:02:21 PM
Quote from: thecfarm on August 31, 2017, 07:41:16 PM
Kbeitz,can you found me a millon dollars please :D
I bet I can but it wont be cheap...
My sister just called to tell me a co-worker likes to bid on thrift store bins of goods on eBay. She won a bunch of clothes including shoes. Inside one shoe was a roll of $100 bills - $1,000 dollar worth!
I love U-haul storage auctions. You would not believe the stuff you find
in the storage lockers. I got one for $5.00 and made over $3000.00 out
of it.
how far are you from Scranton
Quote from: coxy on September 01, 2017, 06:15:42 AM
how far are you from Scranton
About one hour's drive south-west.
Good day today... The drill had a rusty stuck chuck that took all
of 5 min. to unstick. The battery even charged up. Works great.
It's not an XRP but it looks to be in pretty good shape.
Jack works good.
Next item I gotta do some research to find out what it even is.
I hoping that it's a VFD.
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No such luck. It's just a soft start for a 50 hp motor.
what is a VFD
You must be surrounded by wealthy people. You wouldn't find stuff like that in the scrapyards around here. However there is lots of raw material for fabricating steel. You just can't get any of it.
This came into the junkyard a few weeks ago! :o building had fell in and a lot of old stuff showed up, it decided to follow me home last week, now its residing in front of its big brother. Early 1920,s Cletrac model W ,another project to get running.
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Now that's an oldie...
It has good compression,and spark, got a carburetor coming!!! but the mice been in the radiator, those Dang mice !!!! GRRR.
loggah,
Just the pictures make me drool. It wouldn't do for me to actually sit on the thing.
BTW, didn't I see a thread on here somewhere where you have an old chainsaw collection?
I do have an assortment of old chainsaws, a lot of them showed up at the junkyard.I don't remember what thread it was in tho! :embarassed:
I have a "Remington Logmaster" that's been hibernating in an old shed since 1978. That was the one and only time I ever heard it run. A man gave it to me when I moved here. After firing it once, I decided I'd get a new, small chainsaw for my firewood.
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Found your chainsaw collection (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,63034.0.html), loggah. I see a Remington Logmaster hanging from your rafters in one photo.
Might have to find a wandering mule to deliver this one to Kbeitz. He'd be powering that edger with it in a couple of days.
Good save. Sheet metal looks good.
A visit to loggah's place is a treat. We only stayed a few hours but could have easily spent several days, plus he now has another crawler. :o I showed the picture to PatD and she said that it was just what he needed. :D
I also have a small Chain saw collection... All from the junkyard.
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I like this one the best. The carb rotates. So if you tilt the chainsaw on its
side to cut off a tree you need to turn the carb so the gas doesn't run out.
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My grand father totally rebuilt a 1919 Clectrac and hauled it from Pittsburgh to Knox county Ohio in 1937 on the back of a Dodge ton and a half .I'd imagine at about 30 MPH if that .With that crawler and a team of big Belgians and a Farmall regular they farmed about 120 acres which must have taken forever to get the crops out .Granddad bought that old crawler from a junk yard for next to nothing according to the story .
My dad was 17 years old at the time and told of that old crawler,slow as a snail but could pull a very long line of equipment behind it .With a front mount pulley it was a real chore lining it up to run something off the belt .
I got me another drill press last week at the yard. I don't know why.
I have 14 drill-presses now. All I had to do with this one was to put
on a new wire. It still worked with the old one but it was unsafe.
It was just to nice to see it get cut up for scrap. A few more presses
and I will have one for every size bit. I wont need to change bits.
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We had rain today so I had some time to play with some of my junk yard junk...
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Sewing machine tractor - now I've seen it all! I would have never thought of that. What's the story behind it?
that's cool 8) does it drive and sew :D
Where's the 3 pt hitch?
It's not my idea... I've seen many at the tractor shows.
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I would have to buy one even though no one here nos how to sew ;D :-X
Quote from: coxy on September 06, 2017, 04:12:54 PM
I would have to buy one even though no one here nos how to sew ;D :-X
Sew what? Them's for plowin'!
You can see anything at tractor shows .Once in Portland Indiana they made a hot rod from a ground drive manure spreader ,Oak with chrome beater bars and a souped up Chevy 350 engine .
Tractor shows is my favorite pass time. Going to one this weekend Penns cave Pa.
Hope to take this tractor.
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That has to be the first garden tractor. No mowing deck?
Quote from: JJ on September 07, 2017, 09:18:38 AM
That has to be the first garden tractor. No mowing deck?
Home built...
Another good day. The air grinder works great. All I had to do to it
was change the end to fit my hose. Even the wire brush is good.
The saw blade and chain came off another good looking Homelite
XL saw. The chain looks newish. I did now need another saw so I
only took the blade and chain. The coil is off a tecumseh engine.
Big $$$ today.
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that grinder is an oldie so it should be a goodie dam I'm so jealous if I had a junk I mean a treasure yard I could buy from id never go to work :D
I'm not crazy about the air switch on the grinder. If this thing ever got wrapped up in you shirt
I think you would be in a world of trouble. When it's on it's on. If you let it go it's still on.
But it does do a good job... Maybe I'll hook it up to a foot controlled air switch.
Quote from: Kbeitz on September 08, 2017, 08:56:03 PM
I'm not crazy about the air switch on the grinder. If this thing ever got wrapped up in you shirt
I think you would be in a world of trouble. When it's on it's on. If you let it go it's still on.
But it does do a good job... Maybe I'll hook it up to a foot controlled air switch.
Yeah, I saw that thing and thought, now there's trouble just waitin' to happen...
That old end grinder is typical of the stuff in industrial use about 50 years ago . It takes a lot of air volume to run one of those style .
Definitely a 2-handed operation running that grinder!
Quote from: Al_Smith on September 09, 2017, 05:43:21 AM
That old end grinder is typical of the stuff in industrial use about 50 years ago . It takes a lot of air volume to run one of those style .
Yea it had a 1/2 air connection on it. I dropped it down to 3/8 and it still worked.
I wont use it a lot but it will come in handy for some jobs. I have a large 5hp compressor.
When I worked as a welder at Baldwin-Lima -Hamilton a former maker of the Shay locomotives those had 3/4" lines as did all the hand grinders .Of course the plant had a huge supply of compressed air .
A few of those right angle grinders got " liberated " Ingersoll -Rand good ones .Problem was most peoples air compressor could not supply enough air to run more than a few minutes .
I've got a 5 HP myself dumping into two 60 gallon tanks at 160 PSI .I've got big air grinders but I seldom use them because the electric is less hassle and the lack of the exhaust air doesn't freeze your fingers .Those dang things will make you go deaf too, loud .
Yesterdays finds.
This is the chainsaw that I took the blade and chain off of last week.
The saw was still there saying (take me.... take me...) so I brought it home.
I put gas in it and cleaned it up a little and put the blade and chain back
on it and put gas in the tank. It started right up and ran fine for about 30 min.
Then the coil died, It looks and runs good enough that I'm going to wait for
another saw to come into the yard to rob a coil off of.
The blue thing on the left is a 1" impact gun. All that was wrong with that
was that the trigger was stuck. I needed to remove the handle to get it
unstuck. But now it runs fine. It's the best sounding impact I ever heard.
It sounds just like a single cly John Deere tractor when running.
In the middle is some very expensive TV or stereo wires.
Not a bad day...
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What type of impact is that? Its huge!!
I guess I never saw a receiver hitch bolted to a desk? There has got to be a reason for that.
PC
A vice holder!!!
Quote from: paul case on September 13, 2017, 05:26:58 PM
I guess I never saw a receiver hitch bolted to a desk? There has got to be a reason for that.
PC
Yep a Vise holder and a tool holder. Many of my tools just slid into the hitch.
I have them on all my work benches. I keep many tools under the bench and
just pull out what I need at the time and pin it fast. Saves a lot of room.
Have you tried testing the impact driver for torque?
Quote from: grouch on September 13, 2017, 11:09:47 PM
Have you tried testing the impact driver for torque?
Not the right way... I'm afraid of braking my 1/2" sockets.
But it does all I need it to do.
Quote from: TreeStandHunter on September 13, 2017, 03:46:48 PM
What type of impact is that? Its huge!!
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Another good day today...
This blower was upside down between two other tractors. So I had to roll it
over the tractors and then roll it again over a big mud pit. I looked it over
and said to myself "sure looks good" But I hate snowblowers. So I gave the
rope a pull. It had compression. I pulled it again and to my surprise it started.
I looked around to see if anyone else seen it running. I thought maybe they would
not sell it to me that one of the yard guys would want it. No one was around.
I shut it off real quick and I seen no smoke and that also surprised me being
that it was upside down. After I got it home and pumped up the tires I checked
the oil... There was none. Guess that's why it did not smoke. But it had a full
tank of gas. So I filled the oil and started it up. It started up again on the second
pull. Still no smoke... So I drove it around checking all the gears and it worked good.
I checked the arbor and no go... The small gear box is out. So I'll just wait until
another one come into the yard so I can strip it. Ebay has one for sale at $40.00
but I think I'll wait.
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And to top off the list I got six more items. 3 load cells. I always wanted to play with
one but they are so expensive. One old fan to add to my collection of fans. One NEW
trailer hitch. One 14" center rest for a metal lathe and oh I forgot a metal round heavy
circle that I don't know what I'm going to do with yet.
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I like the fan, I think I have one like it.
Quote from: Peter Drouin on September 14, 2017, 09:51:43 PM
I like the fan, I think I have one like it.
When winter hits I will make the fan look like new...
This is a before and after picture of the last one I did.
I have a few 100 feet of new old stock electric wire
to rewire them.
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The old chainsaw you pulled out is the spitting image of a Homelite Super XL.
It probably is a Homelite .They came in just about every color of the rainbow as well as being one of the most copied saw designs ever built .
Those old farmers in my day ran them on outboard boat motor gas and could cut wood and fog for mosquitoes at the same time .Kind of like two birds with one stone . :D
Yep.... Its Homelite... It matches the red one.
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years ago my uncle was the 3 biggest homelite dealer in ny he went out of biz around the time they was making the 925
Dad had two of the homelite 925's when he was logging about 35 years ago. They about put him out of business too.
Why did they almost put him out of business? I've only ever heard of Homelites being reliable.
The decal on the side of the saw reminds me of Montgomery Wards.
Ox those saws never would run. Every other homelite we had was good but those 925's never would start and if he accidentally did get one started you better get done what you could before it ran out of gas because once they got hot they wasn't any use to even trying to get them started back. They stayed in the shop. I don't remember what all they did to them there but I do remember as a boy learning a lot of interesting new words.
We had a big 900 or maby 925 with a 36 inch bar. I don't remember it not starting but then again I really only remember mostly using the xl. We always thought it was the Mccullens that did not start.
Cheers
gww
A Black and Decker buffer with a tank on the side for What??
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Quote from: Peter Drouin on September 17, 2017, 06:54:08 PM
A Black and Decker buffer with a tank on the side for What??
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Whats the model number on that ?
I will look.
Quote from: East ky logging on September 17, 2017, 11:40:27 AM
Ox those saws never would run. Every other homelite we had was good but those 925's never would start and if he accidentally did get one started you better get done what you could before it ran out of gas because once they got hot they wasn't any use to even trying to get them started back. They stayed in the shop. I don't remember what all they did to them there but I do remember as a boy learning a lot of interesting new words.
my uncle told my dad to run a quart of diesel fuel in the 5gal mix of gas on the 925s to keep them from vapor locking after he did that they ran good
I did good again today. I found this Globe Gravity Feed meat slicer.
It looks real good with no missing parts. But....
It needs a current relay. That's a little box that takes place of starting capacitors.
This thing runs great of you give it a little push to get it started.
Someone a long time ago told me there was a timed relay that can take place of
starting points and or a current relay but I don't remember whats it's called.
Could anyone help me out there? I know I could put a momentary push button
to start it but I would like to fix it the right way.
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Current relay under the boot...
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I think what you are trying to say is potential relay, it takes the place of the centrifugal starting switch. Yes you can also use a time delay relay. Both can be found on Ebay. Muggs
Is that swadge block in the background from cattail foundry or is it an old one?
Quote from: Reddog sawmill on September 18, 2017, 08:06:37 PM
Is that swadge block in the background from cattail foundry or is it an old one?
It's an old one I got years ago from the junkyard. I kick myself for not picking up
the first one I seen at the junkyard. At the time I did not know what it was.
Quote from: muggs on September 18, 2017, 08:06:14 PM
I think what you are trying to say is potential relay, it takes the place of the centrifugal starting switch. Yes you can also use a time delay relay. Both can be found on Ebay. Muggs
This is what I was talking about... So are they also called potential relays ?
And what is the solid state replacement for them?
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http://www.achrnews.com/articles/98936-current-starting-relays
The B&D polisher is probably a model 97. According to a 1953 catalog the tank held one of their auto polishing products called Vitri-glaze. It dispensed it to the polisher as you worked.
The B&D Towson, MD
Volts, 110
Amps, 3.5
RPM,1400
Type, H
ser#, 1728606
All I have. :P
Quote from: Peter Drouin on September 18, 2017, 09:54:55 PM
The B&D Towson, MD
Volts, 110
Amps, 3.5
RPM,1400
Type, H
ser#, 1728606
All I have. :P
Now that's a real keeper... I can't find anything on it...
Quote from: muggs on September 18, 2017, 08:06:14 PM
I think what you are trying to say is potential relay, it takes the place of the centrifugal starting switch. Yes you can also use a time delay relay. Both can be found on Ebay. Muggs
When replacing ... is it one size fits all or are they sized to fit the motor?
Kbeitz There are several sizes designed to open the the circuit at a certain voltage and disconnect the start winding. Steveco is one brand. Muggs
Quote from: muggs on September 19, 2017, 11:23:25 AM
Kbeitz There are several sizes designed to open the the circuit at a certain voltage and disconnect the start winding. Steveco is one brand. Muggs
Thanks...
I got a nice old 3500 watt generator from the yard today. I bench tested it and it works great.
I like this style to mount on the front of a garden tractor.
I also go a new chainsaw chain.
A couple 4 wheelers came in and one had a new carburetor on it.
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A neat story about my trip to the yard yesterday.
I found a very large avenger tripod in the junk.
I was going to buy it and I was sitting in the office
talking about it and I decided to google it on my
phone. The picture is what I found. After I showed
it to the owner he decided that he wanted to keep it.
I don;t blame him. The things people throw away...
So I did not get to bring this home.
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What's it used for?
Prices like that are why I built a 20 ft tripod for the end zone camera for the local high school football team. I used thinwall conduit (EMT) for mast, legs and for controlling the tilt of the camera. It withstood all the weather they played in and it withstood the gentle attentions of the gang of over-muscled, hormone-crazed teenagers when they'd load it in the equipment truck and toss a half ton of pads and helmets on it. Cost less than $300, including failed experiments along the way.
If you ever got into an industrial machining facility for the automotive industry and see the millions of dollars that goes out as scrap every month it would astound you .However by creative accounting practices they probably make money on it taking it off as a loss from profit .
I agree. That's where I work. It is saddening how much they throw away every week.
Al-smith
Or even more interesting is how things are cut in half or holes poked in them to garrentee that they are scrap. At least in the automotive industery which is where I did my 30 years of work.
Cheers
gww
When I was younger I would go to the collage dump a few miles from here.
I got tons of good stuff until someone found out I was putting things back
together and using the stuff. Then they would smash everything before dumping
it. Good while it lasted. I have about 19 junkyard within 20 miles of my home
but I only go to one all the time and another about twice a year. Some junkyard
owners think there junk is GOLD... Others don't care.
When I was young say before eleven, we lived in town and they had a town dump. I remember having a great time there looking for treasures.
Cheers
gww
The "cash for clunkers" deal pretty much eliminated many salvage yards in this area plus China trying corner the market on scrap metal .
They would load old cargo ships about to the water line and try to make one more run across the Pacific .I can't help but wonder how many are on the bottom .
National Geographic showed them cutting up scrap,ship and all in India with men with 4 feet salvage torches in loin cloths and bare footed .
Who knows maybe a fender from a 1948 Cadillac is now a hood on a Honda or a cylinder liner on a Ford .Might be a nail in a house in California for all I know .
Got a tool box on wheels, and cast bench ends too.
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ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(
Quote from: Papa1stuff on October 02, 2017, 07:23:43 AM
ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(
Never... I got a few years on you....
at my advancing years if I dove I probably would end up in the landfill
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on October 02, 2017, 06:11:59 PM
at my advancing years if I dove I probably would end up in the landfill
:D :D
Quote from: Kbeitz on October 02, 2017, 06:05:26 PM
Quote from: Papa1stuff on October 02, 2017, 07:23:43 AM
ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(
Never... I got a few years on you....
A few years younger 8) 8) only 17 years
I picked up around 100 lbs of nails and spikes today...
New...
There was still a couple 100 lbs there to be had.
I guess if you can't put them on a nail gun people wont use them.
I made a visit to the junkyard yesterday. Picked up about 20' of two different kinds of 80/20 aluminum extrusions. I can always find a use for that stuff.
I had a request for a 3 hp electric motor. Found one in the motor pile and made $70 off that so it paid for my extrusions plus. The motor pile is a money maker for somebody......
Saw about 10 chainsaws, they were all old or home owner types. Projects is not something I need. I thought it interesting a medium size Suzuki motorcycle that looked to be in too good of condition for the yard.
Got a couple of grader blades. I can use them too recondition/modify backhoe buckets.
It is amazing what is thrown away sometimes.
I always watch for the bigger electric motors in single phase.
Anything around 5hp is money in your pocket. I smell them.
If they don't stink I can most of the time fix them if they need it.
Most of the time there is nothing wrong with them I don't touch
the 3 phase stuff. You can't give that stuff away. Right now there
is a 500hp new looking motor sitting in the yard. I bet thats more
than a 1/2ton pickup could handle in weight.
I found 3 nice wood clamps today at the yard and a 12volt air compressor that works great.
I also found a banding tool. I know some banding tools are expensive but this is ridiculous.
This is what there asking on E-bay for a tool like what I found.
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More times than not single phase motors get scrapped because the start capacitor is defective or the start switch has faulted .Generally speaking both are an easy fix .A burned out start winding not an easy fix .Leave those in the pile and walk on .
Three phase motors usually are cheap , to me running same is not a problem .
Quote from: Al_Smith on October 05, 2017, 02:36:12 PM
Three phase motors usually are cheap , to me running same is not a problem .
Everyone that buys motors from me wants plug and play.
They don't want to full with VFD's and converters.
I fully understand that .The average person has no idea how a converter even works or much about electricity in general .--I do 8)
Quote from: Al_Smith on October 06, 2017, 10:17:24 AM
I fully understand that .The average person has no idea how a converter even works or much about electricity in general .--I do 8)
I running 2 static 1 rotary and 1 VFD in my shop right now.
You guys are lucky to be able to go to the scrap yard. I build two sawmills, lots of machinery out of stuff from the scrap yard. They sold out to a large company. They won't let anything out anymore. Everything goes to China. I'm sure it will be coming back to us in the form of a bomb. There are pics of ships loaded with scrap headed to Japan in the 30's You see how that turned out. By the way, I buy 3 phase motors. [I used to buy them from the scrap yard] I have to buy them from around here. Shipping is too expensive. Muggs ::)
Our yard sells motors for 60 cents a pound. I used to get motors a lot cheaper than that at auctions but the good auctions have dried up.
I have one static, one rotary, and a whole herd of VFD's. Picked up two more about 6 months ago cheap. One is reserved for a 3 phase grinder but those have been scarce for some reason.
Which yard do you look through, Larry? I've hunted around Ozark steel those guys are grumps.
Yes, that was at Ozark. I just wander in, find the jewels, and check out. Might help that I'm in the same age class as the crew. :D
Rogers has better quality, but my shopping habits have to change completely to fit in with that group. They don't care for walk ins. ::)
I used to get great enjoyment of going to one scrap yard .Henry who was a second generation dealer never smiled but being of old school upbringing felt if he made the first sale of the day the whole day would be profitable .Working mid nights a mile away I would be the first one often .He gritted his teeth but I got the deal of which of course he always made money,just not as much .
He did smile one day when I showed up with a dump truck full of number 1 copper .I did too when I left with 5 thousand dollars worth of Henry's money . 8)
A very good day for me today at the yard.
For many years I have collected old Gilbert erector sets.
I have over 70 some sets. I also have some Gilbert fans.
Today I found a Gilbert electric drill and stand.
This is the first one that I even seen and it's now all mine... :) 8)
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I got lucky twice today. After adding the drill in the last post to my collection I
seen a display board that I bought years ago that was missing a drill. It was a
Pioneer drill. I never seen or heard of a Pioneer drill. I spent many an hour watching
E-bay for one to come up for sale. Today was my lucky day. Landed one for $20.00.
First photo is my board. Second picture is the drill I just got from E-bay today.
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Nice find KB. I'd like to tour your museum someday.
You're more of a pack rat than me. :D :D
I did good again today... I would of had much more if I got there earlier.
I had to move out of the cranes way. They wanted to load. There was 55
gal. drums of this stuff. Some electrical store must have closed up.
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I never seen these before ? What do you think the white buttons are for ?
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Just a guess; Spring-loaded buttons to hold the unit in place! :-\
are they for holding the plug in from falling out I think that's what chuck was saying to
Quote from: coxy on October 18, 2017, 07:36:39 PM
are they for holding the plug in from falling out I think that's what chuck was saying to
I will try that tomorrow... If that's not it I will take it apart to see what makes it tick.
I was thinking maybe something connected to the buttons to hold something.
I googled ... I bet this is what the buttons are for.
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Those Hubbel twist locks carry a high retail price .
Quote from: Al_Smith on October 18, 2017, 09:52:36 PM
Those Hubbel twist locks carry a high retail price .
Yea I know. My whole shop has them on every machine.
I sure was glad to find these. I will be putting in more.
I want to buy some that fit on a wall box.
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I found it... LOCKABLE ELECTRIC CONNECTOR by Edward V. Janowiec
It's electrical connector-to-receptacle, sometimes called plug-to-socket, retainer.
Once you plug in the male you have to push the two white buttons the get it apart again.
Pat # 2,732,531. I like this idea. Great for extension cords. I'll put these to use. I cant find
them for sale anywhere. Not even on E-bay...
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I now got everything for the set...
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More junkyard stuff to keep me busy when it snow outside... Inside play toys.
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Not exactly a junkyard find but I am still excited. I got a woodmaster 408 thickness plainer for ten bucks, a electric hand sander for 5. A folding table that has 3/4 inch 4x8 sheet of osb board for ten bucks. I will cut it up and use the osb and store the legs (probly forever). My wife bought a bbq utensil set just for the lighter in it for 2.
I consider some of the stuff above as mercy buys due to the planer being so cheap. I got it home and all I had to do was rig up a handle and it seems to work perfect and the planes are quiet and smooth.
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Now I will only have to travel to do wide boards. Did I mention I was excited about my find or actually my uncles find for me as my uncle is the one with the planer I have been using.
K
You are not the only one that comes on to good deals. :D
Cheers
gww
Good deals come to anyone that takes the time to look for them.
Everyone thinks i'm so lucky to find all I find... It takes work.
You got to get up 3:00 am to be the first one at yard sales and flea
markets. You got to go every day to the junkyard and look hard.
You also need to know what to look for. I look for things that I never
seen before. If I never seen it before then someone somewhere is
looking for one.
With all do respect K, if you've never seen one before I firmly believe it hasn't been invented yet ;).
K....
If it weren't for my relitives who do like to shop, looking out for me, I would never get a good deal. I believe you. I also agree that if you have not seen it, it probly has not been invented.
Cheers
gww
It happens to me a lot. It's one sure way I found to make money.
Just this week I found a Dynamometer in the junkyard. I had no idea
what it was until I Googled it. It's used to set the tension on cables
for bridges and towers. Sells for around $800.00 on E-bay.
I also found 36 new bandsaw blades. I will cut the longer one's down
to fit my machines. I'm sure glad I bought a blade welder.
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Quote from: Kbeitz on November 02, 2017, 07:01:42 PM
It happens to me a lot. It's one sure way I found to make money.
Just this week I found a Dynamometer in the junkyard. I had no idea
what it was until I Googled it. It's used to set the tension on cables
for bridges and towers.
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With a little jiggering, you could use it to measure the tension in your blades on your mill...
Quote from: ljohnsaw on November 02, 2017, 09:02:36 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on November 02, 2017, 07:01:42 PM
It happens to me a lot. It's one sure way I found to make money.
Just this week I found a Dynamometer in the junkyard. I had no idea
what it was until I Googled it. It's used to set the tension on cables
for bridges and towers.
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With a little jiggering, you could use it to measure the tension in your blades on your mill...
I thought the same thing after I found out what it was. It's made for 5000lb. pull.
I was thinking that probably around the poundage needed for a saw mill band.
I'm not going to try it. I came up with a hollow hydraulic cylinder that works great
for tracking my tension and I'm done building bridges. Think I'll sell it.
K
I forgot to mention that at the same place I got the planer, my uncle bought an old fan, I am assuming like the one you have a picture of in this thread. He paid $12 bucks for it. He was very excited cause he came home and looked on ebay and one had sold for $750 and there was another one listed for $950. Him getting his fan is probly why I got the planer. He needed and excuse to get back in the ladies house to see if she had other interesting stuff she would sale.
Since you showed your fan on here, I thought you might find that interesting.
Cheers
gww
Ps He says it works on high.
Kinda hard to see but I some hanging in my collectible room and another 20 down
in my shop. Fans is always a good investment. It's not a good picture.
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I like to clean then up when the snow fly's.
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You should call those American Picker guys so they'll come do a show at your place. Not so much to sell them something, but so we can get a good look around at your collection. :)
A little late to this but the eye bolts pictured in reply #195 are called swing bolts. Mostly used on fixtures, jigs and machinery.
Quote from: bill m on November 03, 2017, 10:24:03 PM
A little late to this but the eye bolts pictured in reply #195 are called swing bolts. Mostly used on fixtures, jigs and machinery.
Thanks...
I'm sure some of you people won't believe this story.
A few days ago my wife said that she would like a heavy
duty sewing machine to make quilts. I said I don't think
anyone makes a good heavy duty machine today. So
today I went shopping at my junkyard store and look at
what I found. Being that I spent 30 years in the textile
field I said I can fix that. I took it home and found that
it had a broken needle. I have a cabinet of around 1000
needles from one of the factory's I cleaned out. I put in
one that looked like it should work and tried to sew. I
wasn't doing to good. So I googled on how to thread this
thing up and now it works as good as new... I'm all smiles.
Wait till wiffie gets home. 8)
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I've got older Singer about like that.Cost me a whole 5 dollars at an estate sale .It's new enough it takes the discs for zig zag but heavy enough to go through 4 layers of denim fabric . Recently I put a new zipper in a pair of blue jeans much to my lady friends astonishment .She remarked most women can't do that and make it look good .
And it has a forward and reverse 8)
Mom has one close to what you have but it also has a reverse on it. It used to work pretty good but now breaks the thread when you use the reverse. I have three commercial sewing machines. One is an old juki and the other two are cheeper chineese newer ones.
One is a walking foot machine for light leather. None are really used in the last few years except by me to fix all the rips I get in my clothing from having favorite pairs that I like to wear due to having lots of the right pockets on them.
My wife is back to doing all her sewing on a just a portable phaff and an overloc.
What I keep my eye out for is a good 5 thread commercial overlock.
My wife used to home sew for a factory. It was hard work and didn't pay much.
When I was young, we did some hand quilting. It would take up about the whole room haveing a quilt hanging while you stithed it up.
The world has changed quite a bit with the use of plastic.
Cheers
gww
Some of those machines were pretty tough .My grandmothers old Singer which had been electrified from an old treadle machine could punch through leather .Didn't have a reverse but she could deal with it .----she also split wood at over 80 years of age .One tough old bird that one .
Bump ;D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :new_year:
I think the weather must have gotten bad up in the northeast. Banjo
its definitely chilled out quite a bit.
It's been a while... Just to cold... But today I just had to stop and see
what I was missing... Not to bad. Guess I wont need to buy cable for
a while. The best thing was this stihl cement cutting saw. I can't find a
model number tag on it anywhere. I think it's a Stihl st400. I want to
research it to find out what I have and buy a recoil and a muffler for it.
Lots of other little goodies.
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With a top handle maybe a 009.
I looked over the saw to see if it was worth fixing. Two things I found wrong with
it. One the muffler was missing and it looks like it was run without it. I know
running a two cycle without a muffler can destroy it . But I see no burns on the
piston and it has very good compression. One of the muffler bolts was broke off in
the block. I had a very hard time drilling the broken bolt out. I used a carbide drill bit but it still drilled real hard. I resharpened the bit for every 1/32 of the hole I
drilled. The second thing is the belt was shredded.I think this is why they give up
on it. I also think this is why the recoil was missing. You need to remove the recoil
to get to the belt. So I need a recoil, belt, muffler and some bolts. Not to bad.
That is my goto saw for roof ventilation. Biggest heaviest beast but the easiest to handle while hanging off a ladder and working it with 1 hand. Also pretty close to impossible to cut through a joist or truss. The blades also last a lot longer than our vent saws.
Nice score! What kind of welding rod did you get there? Looks like 30 or 40 pounds worth? Nice cable, too. Guess it's time to run another zip line! :)
Quote from: ljohnsaw on January 03, 2018, 07:18:16 PM
Nice score! What kind of welding rod did you get there? Looks like 30 or 40 pounds worth? Nice cable, too. Guess it's time to run another zip line! :)
7018's and 6011... Just what I use. Most of this stuff came from a gas line
company. I guess they are cleaning house. There was a lot more cable there
but it was under big stuff that I could not move. I have no idea how many
more rods might be under the pile. I'm going back to see if i can find the saw's
recoil tomorrow. There was 1000's of dollars worth of new in the boxes bearings.
Looks like a good day of "SHOPPING" ,just amazing what gets junked.Within the last month i got a Onan aircooled 4 cylinder generator 15KW 3 phase or 10KW 1 phase. I also got a little giant no.2 manual steel sheer and punch, and also a fisher 200 lb anvil. Lastly i got 2 of the old style kerosene,oil rectangular tanks with working pumps on top. I need to build another building ! ;D ;D
Quote from: loggah on January 04, 2018, 06:36:33 AM
Looks like a good day of "SHOPPING" ,just amazing what gets junked.Within the last month i got a Onan aircooled 4 cylinder generator 15KW 3 phase or 10KW 1 phase. I also got a little giant no.2 manual steel sheer and punch, and also a fisher 200 lb anvil. Lastly i got 2 of the old style kerosene,oil rectangular tanks with working pumps on top. I need to build another building ! ;D ;D
To bad you not closer. Our local yard also got in a Onan aircooled 4 cylinder generator. It look like newish except it was taken apart. The head was off it for
some reason. I took some parts off it but I left most of it there.
In the last picture with the saw. I got the dewalt 18v battery to charge up.
The large chunk of round steel will become a centrifugal weight for my cut off saw.
The 3 sanding pads are like new. New cost for them is around $7 each. I have no
idea what the two square looking chunks of steel was used for but I though they
would be good wire spool collars. The square head bolts will go to my milling machine for hold down bolts.
I just had to go back today and get some more of that 3/8" cable.
It was just to good of a deal not to get some more.
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While I was there I found this satellite dish positioner. I have only seen
a few like this one. Great for building things. I also got a hand full of
small stuff not pictured.
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I thought it was just in New York where they throw everything away. The other day I got 3 chain come alongs. A friend got 3512 Cat 1000 kw gen set with 500 hours ! He got there just as they were cutting it in half so it would fit in the metal dumpster. I should learn to do photos because I don't expect anyone to believe this.
WasThat generator in Grimmels yard in Troy by any chance? My Friend who has the yard i have my shear in sold Grimmel a generator identical to that a few years ago that came out of a co-genplant at Pymouth state university.
that saw is a ts 400 if its blown put it back where you got it most of the time they need a crank we used them to cut blue stone I think the new ones are a 410 the 460 was a pile of I had 2 of them didn't get 6 months out of them
Quote from: coxy on January 05, 2018, 06:49:38 AM
that saw is a ts 400 if its blown put it back where you got it most of the time they need a crank we used them to cut blue stone I think the new ones are a 410 the 460 was a pile of I had 2 of them didn't get 6 months out of them
Thanks...
Wonder if the front attachment could be put on another saw?
Loggah, That cat gen set came from down here. The guy that got it runs a 3508 set that is almost maxed out as they add more machines. He also has a 3412. They are welding this 3512 back together this winter. It was the channel frame that was cut. The gen. is shaft connected to the diesel on this unit and they [the guys that did the cut] unbolted the shaft coupling ! The co. that owned it had to vacate the building. P.S. hate to admit it but I,m not sawing today.
The generator up here was a direct connected unit.
Back a page I had a picture of the chunk of round stock that I wanted
to make a centrifugal weight for my swing saw. Sometimes I think it's
cheaper to buy new than to build. I split the chunk if steel and drill tapped
it so I could slid it over my shaft and bolt it on. I'm guessing this was a
hydraulic ram pivot pin and I thought I was going to have a hard time
machining it. So the first thing I did was to drill a one inch hole in the
middle with my lathe. This turned out to be the easy part. This pin was
case hardened on the outside. Drilling the hole in the middle was easy.
Drilling the six mounting hole through the skin and countersinking was
a real pain. It only took two milling bits, two hs drill bits and four carbide
bits and three dremel grind stones to get the job done....
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I would have given up way before that. but then again I have plenty of other really heavy stock I have access to.
Read all 21 pages. You come up with some good finds. I get a lot of old stuff at auctions. Some of it I have no clue what is. I will have e to postuo some pics And see if you know what it is.
Quote from: Kwill on January 07, 2018, 09:55:04 PM
Read all 21 pages. You come up with some good finds. I get a lot of old stuff at auctions. Some of it I have no clue what is. I will have e to postuo some pics And see if you know what it is.
I would like that very much... Maybe we both can learn something new.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 07, 2018, 10:34:02 PM
Quote from: Kwill on January 07, 2018, 09:55:04 PM
Read all 21 pages. You come up with some good finds. I get a lot of old stuff at auctions. Some of it I have no clue what is. I will have e to postuo some pics And see if you know what it is.
I would like that very much... Maybe we both can learn something new.
Kbeitz, I read this site everyday for years but don't post much. (longer story why) One of the main reason for coming to this forum is to read your posts. Many of your post weather it be wood burning, Sawmill, small tractor or just some old time common since i enjoy reading. This thread is right up my alley! If you don't mind i also have a few "head scratching" items in my shop that i would like to picture with a "what the heck is it" question. I also visit/buy odds and ends from a few of the larger scrappers in my area. See LOTS of Lockheed stuff and like junk. Not really a seller more of a packer. :D
Hey kbeitz do you have one of these in your collection?
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I don't know if it take a blade attachment but it does cut grass. I have two...
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I also have this old toy. I could not find a picture of it so I just now ran
down to the shop and took this picture.
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Quote from: rospaw on January 07, 2018, 10:51:25 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 07, 2018, 10:34:02 PM
Quote from: Kwill on January 07, 2018, 09:55:04 PM
Read all 21 pages. You come up with some good finds. I get a lot of old stuff at auctions. Some of it I have no clue what is. I will have e to postuo some pics And see if you know what it is.
I would like that very much... Maybe we both can learn something new.
Kbeitz, I read this site everyday for years but don't post much. (longer story why) One of the main reason for coming to this forum is to read your posts. Many of your post weather it be wood burning, Sawmill, small tractor or just some old time common since i enjoy reading. This thread is right up my alley! If you don't mind i also have a few "head scratching" items in my shop that i would like to picture with a "what the heck is it" question. I also visit/buy odds and ends from a few of the larger scrappers in my area. See LOTS of Lockheed stuff and like junk. Not really a seller more of a packer. :D
Love to see your stuff... Post away....
Ok Kwill, thanks a lot! Now I have to dig through the hayloft full of old bikes so I can have one too :D. Something tells me though that Kbeitz will get one built much faster! K, that's the first belt driven toy I think I've seen, really neat!
Quote from: rospaw on January 07, 2018, 10:51:25 PM
Kbeitz, I read this site everyday for years but don't post much. (longer story why)
rospaw, If you like, since you choose to bring it up, i can tell it. I have every post, I have every message. You want to be part of this forum, please, make yourself at home. If you plan on trying to stir something up because you were reprimanded almost 4 years ago for breaking our rules, I don't advise it.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 08, 2018, 08:03:13 AM
I don't know if it take a blade attachment but it does cut grass. I have two...
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I also have this old toy. I could not find a picture of it so I just now ran
down to the shop and took this picture.
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I like the dukes of hazard car in the back ground 8)
You are going to take the mans daily driver? :D
Quote from: Jeff on January 08, 2018, 11:32:45 AM
Quote from: rospaw on January 07, 2018, 10:51:25 PM
Kbeitz, I read this site everyday for years but don't post much. (longer story why)
rospaw, If you like, since you choose to bring it up, i can tell it. I have every post, I have every message. You want to be part of this forum, please, make yourself at home. If you plan on trying to stir something up because you were reprimanded almost 4 years ago for breaking our rules, I don't advise it.
Guess things don't change. ::) Getting accused of something that you were NOT doing, had NO reason to do, had NO affiliation with said charge, is not the norm for me. Asking about sawmill equip coming up for auction (value/need ect) that i don't have much knowledge of is what i thought/know is done on forums. If i was able to buy something and make a buck is the American way, right? Seen it on here many of times.
As you can see i did not come back to the site for a year or 2. Reason for coming back was a good friend asked me to look at a thread to give him my thoughts. He post/reads on here a lot being a 2 time woodmizer sawmill owner.
I will delete my link to the site if you wish?
We don't delete. We ban. Is that what you want?
So EVERYONE knows what we are talking about, this poster came on after making 9 posts. He started a topic on the general board saying he was going to an auction, and listed many items of the auction. He posted that his intent was, that if you saw something you wanted, to let him know and he would buy it and sell it back to you here for a profit. His post was deleted for breaking our commerce rules. He then decided he was going to debate it with me in personal messages. that ain't going to fly in my house. I never banned him, or called him out publicly on the forum. He comes back after all this time, 2014, and his second post states he has a longer story why he doesn't post here. If he would have kept his virtual mouth shut, I wouldn't have even recalled who he was.
I still havn't banned him, but I may.
I got a bunch of old pedal cars but this one will stay with me until my grave.
This first picture was taken in the 50's when my cousin owned it. Then it was
passed to my older brother. Second picture is when I got it and put a gas motor
in it back in the 80's. Third picture is with me in the 90's. Forth picture is still in
the barn. I haven't started it in years. I've had a ton of fun on it.
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Another picture of it from the 50's.
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I love the dog .
Looks like a 1940's Bat Mobile. :D :D :D :D
that thing is awesome.
That car is awesome kbeitz
I bought 3 of these scaffolding pieces at a auction for 5.00. I figured some day I would use them for something
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(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/42883/FB_IMG_1515441784826.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1515441968) so I got tired of moving them and really needed a shop table so I don't have to work on stuff in the floor so I built this. I'm going to put some casters on it so I can move it around.
That looks great... I would build some work drawers for in it and weld a class three
hitch on it so you can slide in a vice when needed.
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Quote from: Kbeitz on January 08, 2018, 03:40:02 PM
That looks great... I would build some work drawers for in it and weld a class three
hitch on it so you can slide in a vice when needed.
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Sorry Kbeitz for bring drama to your great thread.
OK boss lets get the name right side up and turned around ;D 8) :new_year:
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 08, 2018, 03:40:02 PM
That looks great... I would build some work drawers for in it and weld a class three
hitch on it so you can slide in a vice when needed.
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the receiver hitch for sure.bi wanted to mount a vise on the table but it couldn't get in the way so the th hitch idea would work great.
Quote from: rospaw on January 08, 2018, 03:45:50 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 08, 2018, 03:40:02 PM
That looks great... I would build some work drawers for in it and weld a class three
hitch on it so you can slide in a vice when needed.
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Sorry Kbeitz for bring drama to your great thread.
This thread can go where it wants... I'm enjoying it... Keep it coming.
Better than going to the coffee house. Better than face book (that doesn't take much).
I agree, sorta . :D ;)
Quote from: Kwill on January 08, 2018, 05:21:40 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 08, 2018, 03:40:02 PM
That looks great... I would build some work drawers for in it and weld a class three
hitch on it so you can slide in a vice when needed.
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the receiver hitch for sure.bi wanted to mount a vise on the table but it couldn't get in the way so the th hitch idea would work great.
I put a lot of different tools on hitches and I got receivers on many of my benches.
All my outside benches have receivers on them for two reasons. One so no one
can steal my tools and second to take them in out of the rain. Before I did this I
put my tool on a flat plate with a flat bar under the plate and clamped everything
in my vises. The receiver works so much better. You can find cheap hitches at the
junkyard and Harbor Freight sell a class 3 hitch plate for garden tractors for $10.00
Most of the stuff I'm posting here came from the junkyard anyway....
One way or another...
Quote from: Papa1stuff on January 08, 2018, 04:34:53 PM
OK boss lets get the name right side up and turned around ;D 8) :new_year:
It took me awhile to figure out what you was talking about... Now I see it.
Kbeitz, I noticed you had to add a wheelie bar after adding that dog on the hood, it is amazing how more power you get with a little dog. Lol.
Quote from: starmac on January 08, 2018, 05:54:07 PM
Kbeitz, I noticed you had to add a wheelie bar after adding that dog on the hood, it is amazing how more power you get with a little dog. Lol.
That little car has a two speed tranny with a 4hp briggs and with out the
wheelie bars it will dump you out...
This is what it's supposed to look like... Buick... Maybe some day.
One day at a car show someone offered me $750.00 just for the body of mine.
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I got another one waiting on my things to do list. Another 4hp.
The real name for this one is little speedster.
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Lord, lord, my grandkids would have been downtown with them rigs.
Just think what todays toys will be like in 30 or 40 years.
This is what the last one looked like when it was new...
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This is my all time pride and joy...
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https://youtu.be/mflN0FXHero
The jeep was made from junk yard parts. One part is special. That's the seat.
The seat came out of school bus number 11. That was my school bus and the
seat was the first one behind the driver on the drivers side. That was MY SEAT.
Now it still my seat. What a great find. Seat number two is in my truck...
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Quote from: Papa1stuff on January 08, 2018, 04:34:53 PM
OK boss lets get the name right side up and turned around ;D 8) :new_year:
I noticed that too, If any name should be upside down, it should be Ian, he's kinda down under, ya know! ;D
Lordy, my recollections of school buses was on the days I didn't drive or hitchhike to school was getting kicked off and walking, sure don't need any reminders of them.
This is a picture of my bus at my home waiting to pick us kids up...
This bus I found in part of the junkyard that was over grown with trees.
I could not believe it still existed. Bus number 11. My bus.
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I road bus 11 too, just not that one. :D
I rode bus 11 also but mine was a Ford, 53 or 54 .
I also rode a # 11 bus. Banjo
You guys are all very lucky ,when I went to grammar school ,I had to walk ,up hill both ways , no bus ;D 8) 8) :P :P :new_year:
"... Shoes! We didn't have feet!!"
I was lucky to go to a country school in 3rd and 4th grade and be able to walk to school those years.
Good day at the junkyard today...
Three air over hydraulic jacks. Looks like they need hoses.
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14 feet of very heavy login chain. 1/2" links
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Around 30-40lbs of nails.
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Heavy duty tripod.
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Two new wagon wheels. And a hand full of other gadgets.
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I have two of those jacks, and the original hoses are nothing to brag about. I had new ones made up, the rest of the jacks have been good so far (several years).
I recognize the heavy duty tripod, it is a cymbal stand for a drum kit.
Quote from: Hilltop366 on January 09, 2018, 05:21:04 PM
I recognize the heavy duty tripod, it is a cymbal stand for a drum kit.
Thanks... I dont use cymbals but I'll find a use for it...
Nice finds today 8)
Light holder for over the part you are working on :)
That 1/2" chain makes me tired just looking at it .I've got a few 1/2" myself and they are heavy .I drag them around if I use them . Partly because they are heavy plus the fact you can't push a chain .
The chain will be used for bench legs.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 10, 2018, 07:24:24 PM
The chain will be used for bench legs.
I like that idea, I remember seeing a mailbox post built out of chain.
Quote from: gspren on January 10, 2018, 07:47:15 PM
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 10, 2018, 07:24:24 PM
The chain will be used for bench legs.
I like that idea, I remember seeing a mailbox post built out of chain.
. My old mail box post is a great big chain welded together. My papaw built it and put one of them big metal mailboxes on it. A couple years ago we had to put a wood post and new mailbox up next to it because over the years as our road was repaved and the way the old one sit it was to low for the mailman to reach.
If that 1/2 chain is dot legal, them are some spendy legs.
Hey kbeitz can you post a pic of the piston man 8)
Quote from: Kwill on January 10, 2018, 10:54:40 PM
Hey kbeitz can you post a pic of the piston man 8)
Picture posting is down for repairs...
In the state of maine that mail box chain post would be illegal. Nothing bigger or stronger than a 4x4 wood post. I know someone that hit a mailbox at over a 100 mph on a motorcycle. The 4x4 broke and so did he
Quote from: starmac on January 10, 2018, 08:59:25 PM
If that 1/2 chain is dot legal, them are some spendy legs.
How do I know if it's dot legal ?
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 11, 2018, 06:35:53 AM
Quote from: starmac on January 10, 2018, 08:59:25 PM
If that 1/2 chain is dot legal, them are some spendy legs.
How do I know if it's dot legal ?
If you don't get caught ;) :)
If DOT legal every few links has a flat stamped on the link and I think when new there is a number in the flat .
Quote from: Gearbox on January 11, 2018, 10:04:17 AM
If DOT legal every few links has a flat stamped on the link and I think when new there is a number in the flat .
I looked the chain over... No flat spots or numbers... Guess it's just cheap chain.
I have some 1/2" load binding chain from the hold of a C-5, there isn't anything stamped on the chain. There was a small sheet metal plate hooked to a ring but its gone now and the bent grab hook is part of the chain.
Yup, cargo chain!
Stress rated to 10,000 pounds, according to the tag, but they'll do a lot more than 10,000 pounds!
I have a couple of them!
They only have a hook on one end!
We put the two tail-ends together and bolted them with a grade 8 bolt a few years ago and put it to a stress test a few years ago, pulling a cement delivery truck out of the mud, and the 75 hp tractor with all it had did not snap the chain, and eventually freed the truck!
The bent hook is really nice, when you hook them, they stay hooked!
Sounds like a 10k working load vs break strength. The real question is, is it a 4:1, 5:1 or a 10:1 for the working load to break strength ?
If it is a newer chain, there should be a grade stamp on it, seems like 7 is the magical number. If it is an older chain it is probably a good one, but may not have the stamps. I have never had the dot check for the grade, but they can if they want.
1/2 in chain would only be of use to guys running lowboys or hauling heavy equipment, a general freight hauler will not use it.
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Has a 2/1 gear ratio. I have no idea what I'll use it for but I think it's cool.
Early angle drive for drill or brace. Possibly for buffer head.
First drill at top left has one...
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The boat trailer find and subsequent posts have been split off into a new and retitled topic and moved to the sawmill board.
Hey kbeitz do you have one of these in your collection? Junk yard finds
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Got any of these?
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Now that's one big cotter pin.... I don't think I will be spreading that
open with my leathermans.
The first picture I not sure I even know what it is.
My guess would be a small tubing bender. ?
I got another truck load of stuff today. Here is a few.
First picture is a drill bit sharper ... Works great up to 1/2"
Second picture is an all brass funnel. For what I'm not sure.
Third picture is a nice chunk of 1/4" copper plate.
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First pic is a old tubing cutter with a reamer on it.
Some more of my finds today... buda hydraulic diesel nozzle tester.
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When I used to play with ford diesels all the time, I always intended to get or build a pop tester, but never got around to it.
We got a local asphalt company that was just bought out by another company
and the new company is cleaning house. It's just unbelievable the stuff they
are bringing into the junkyard. Truck parts. New brakes and drums, Hydraulic
stuff, steel, And many many new parts for equipment. I'm sure that's where this
injector tester came from.
Kbeitz, you just have to get a bigger truck to go to the junkyard ;D 8) 8)
Quote from: Papa1stuff on January 24, 2018, 06:14:12 AM
Kbeitz, you just have to get a bigger truck to go to the junkyard ;D 8) 8)
Naa... Getting to old for more projects... There was a great looking tiny
little Peter diesel engine there that I did not take. I just got way to many
thing to do now. I need to take my camera to show the stuff thats there.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 23, 2018, 05:48:40 PM
Some more of my finds today... buda hydraulic diesel nozzle tester.
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I made one from a Black Hawk hydraulic hand pump from a knock out set and a high pressure gauge to set up injectors on a D4 Cat .As I recall the cracking pressure was around 1450-1500 PSI .
Anyone know the cracking pressure for kubota engines?
Kbietz, I think you have waited on me and my buddy out to grizzly. In the winter we would go to grizzly and then over to hermance and it would fill the day then we would hit the dinner up past best rentals they had good food
Quote from: dave hummell on January 25, 2018, 07:11:23 AM
Kbietz, I think you have waited on me and my buddy out to grizzly. In the winter we would go to grizzly and then over to hermance and it would fill the day then we would hit the dinner up past best rentals they had good food
I did a little bit of everything there. I so miss that place...
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Any idea what this was for? Found today at my moms.
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Washing machine.
That's a Maytag twin. It's worth more than most...
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This is the single...
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I knew an old rancher that died in the early 80's, that used an old gas maytag till the day he died. He was well off for the time, and even though electric lines ran right by his ranch house the last 20 years of his life, he would not let them hook him up.
He had a nice shop full of human or gas powered tools and equipment, I would have loved to have.
My grandmother had an old maytag washer that had been "upgraded" to electric at some point before I came on the scene but the old twin gas engine was still in a corner under the house.
My haul for the day. This all came from my mom's place.
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My grandmother also had one. My dad mounted it on a push reel lawnmower. You had better be on your toes or it would take out anything in it's path. The dogs have it a wide berth.
:D
Couple old fans at my mom's I thought you might have some like it.
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Kbeitz looks like we have another serious collector and builder of things on the forum!
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 25, 2018, 06:24:47 PM
Kbeitz looks like we have another serious collector and builder of things on the forum!
builder yes collector no 8)
I see an old Lawson engine in the first picture...
Quote from: Kwill on January 25, 2018, 06:37:22 PM
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 25, 2018, 06:24:47 PM
Kbeitz looks like we have another serious collector and builder of things on the forum!
builder yes collector no 8)
Lookin at your pictures .... I would say your starting to collect...
Nice fans... Nice vise...
I saw that vise too. That is not the collectin kind its the usin kind, or it would be here anyway.
PC
My uncle used to tell the story of old Maytags with a gas engine .As a young boy it was his job to kick start the engine and get it going.Every so often it would back fire and slam his knee right into the tub .Odd little engine that had a spark plug with tapered pipe threads .They used to about give those things away at auctions .I think the single cylinder model was around 3/4 HP .Might run 1000 rpm if that much
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 25, 2018, 07:26:02 PM
Quote from: Kwill on January 25, 2018, 06:37:22 PM
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 25, 2018, 06:24:47 PM
Kbeitz looks like we have another serious collector and builder of things on the forum!
builder yes collector no 8)
Lookin at your pictures .... I would say your starting to collect...
Nice fans... Nice vise...
taking it all home and sorting through it. Most of it will end up at the scrap yard. The vice is going in the shop as all I have is a small one. What I can use I will keep. The fans I left at moms.
That's a serious chunk of I beam the vise is mounted on!
I think that's a sheet metal vise...
Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on January 26, 2018, 08:28:10 AM
That's a serious chunk of I beam the vise is mounted on!
yeah it was a heavy dude loading it up
Pretty cool jack I found sorting through.
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Was a good day today... Not tested yet but what much could be wrong with a
simple welder that can't be fixed?
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And some other junk...
Tractor drawbar.
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Dies.
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Wire brush and fairlead.
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Square D 100 amp breaker box.
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Trailer jack.
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Jeep bumper.
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I gotta find that junk yard
Quote from: Al_Smith on January 26, 2018, 06:42:21 PM
I gotta find that junk yard
I think most Junkyards are like this... You just need to take the time to look.
I even surprise the guys at the yard. They say... Where did you find that...
You gotta dig and get dirty. This yard is extremely muddy. Most people
don't even want to walk in it. You also got to be the early bird. The guys
is always telling me what i missed.
K if that is flux core wire I think the 2 straps are on wrong . I am to lazy to walk to the shop to see mine . I says right on the cover witch way they need to be .
Any idea what this is?
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Quote from: Kwill on January 26, 2018, 07:44:58 PM
Any idea what this is?
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Wow... You got a steam whistle made for an exhaust.
Quote from: Gearbox on January 26, 2018, 07:03:20 PM
K if that is flux core wire I think the 2 straps are on wrong . I am to lazy to walk to the shop to see mine . I says right on the cover witch way they need to be .
This welder is made to take both. Your right it's set up for a tank and
it has solid wire on it right now. I would like to change it to flux core.
Do I need to change the drive wheel and liner to do this ?
Kwill, you might be able to blow the whistle with compressed air.
nope you will have to swap the polarity though
Question for Kbeitz!
When you visit the junkyard, and find stuff you want/need, do you pay for it by the pound?
Kwill, this is a different model Maytag and I recorded it sideways (sorry) but you get the idea.
https://youtu.be/WbJPbwFZluM
Quote from: Magicman on January 26, 2018, 09:35:11 PM
Kwill, this is a different model Maytag and I recorded it sideways (sorry) but you get the idea.
https://youtu.be/WbJPbwFZluM
cool. Thanks magicman. Mine is free but it's missing the gear on the end that you kick start it with.
Drive wheel is changed for wire diameter . every thing else works same . You want to be able to stop the spool with light hand pressure and just enough tension on the spring so it doesn't unwrap the wire . I don't use mine much except for light work . I prefer stick only because I grew up with it .
Now looks like the best time for a K vs K junkyard wars, who can find the oldest, most unique, expensive or just plain crazy junkyard items.....this sounds like the next reality show. Next time on Scavenger Wars who will get the next greatest find will it be Kbeitz or Kwill !!!!
Quote from: Chuck White on January 26, 2018, 09:06:48 PM
Question for Kbeitz!
When you visit the junkyard, and find stuff you want/need, do you pay for it by the pound?
It depends on what it is. Metal or plastic is a good example. I get a lot of
stuff like relays, contactors and breakers. Most of the time I just say
"will you take twenty bucks for this". I help the boss out a lot with welding
and electrical so I get really good deals. Right now I'm making the yard a
can conveyor. Best part is the yard guys don't want to keep anything. I
could never work there. My pile would be bigger than the the pile going
to the smelter.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 26, 2018, 07:55:59 PM
This welder is made to take both. Your right it's set up for a tank and
it has solid wire on it right now. I would like to change it to flux core.
Do I need to change the drive wheel and liner to do this ?
Nope most just need to change the wiring around and the tip and your off welding.
I could never work there. My pile would be bigger than the the pile going
to the smelter.
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D i have that same problem! this summer im going going to start thinning the pile though.....i think....maybe.... :D agh! its so hard to let it go though.... i might need that ''someday'' and if i dont, its a good insurance policy to prevent me from needing it. ;D
My last job that caused my retirement was at a trash transfer station i got a lot off good things out of the containers. Sears was always throwing out good stuff, We have a jobcor center up the mountain and me and the welder loaded up on drills and grinders that someone cut the cords off. the most usefull thing i got was a pooper scupper being i have 5 dogs to clean up after.
Kwill, here is a short video that I made of a motor like yours, I think. :)
https://youtu.be/3EFtoFGqkd8
On my welder I have 2 grooves on the drive wheel. one groove has serrations one is smooth. I always forget which is which but all I have to do is flip the wheel over.
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 26, 2018, 07:55:59 PM
I would like to change it to flux core.
Do I need to change the drive wheel and liner to do this ?
On some you need to lighten up the pressure of the drive wheel on the wire. You will also have to change the tip. if using .30 wire use .35 tip opening. As the coreflux wire is pushed through the wheels, it is crushed some, it will make your life a lot easier if the tip can alow for this wider wire to go through!! :P ;)
Marcel.
The reason I would like to change it is that I already have a really good
MiG welder and I use co2mix. I never had or used a flux core welder.
Dad has a small 90 amp one that works good for light stuff out of the shop where wind can be a factor but for heavy stuff I still go to the old buzz box. I have a small 140 amp gas and as was stated you just turn the wires and change the tip to go to flux core welding.
unless you are welding in remote areas or windy conditions dont bother. it will weld just fine, but the cost of flux core will overrun the cost of gas shielded and it is also smokey like stick. so no real benefit. if i had 2 welders i would setup one on like .025 for sheet metal work then the other on .035 for heavy duty work.
yeah magicman that looks like this one. I stuck it and couple other in the shop to check out.
My choice is also stick.
When I just had a 140 amp wire machine I still used a stick a lot. I bought a 300 amp wire welder with a suitcase and 75 feet of cable, and eventually gave my old buzz box away. I still used stick on portable jobs.
If I had a large job to do outside in the eastern New Mexico wind, and by large I am talking about a day to a weeks worth of welding, I would change over to flux core wire, but generally would just use a wind break and gas.
I got rid of my small wire welder, when I bought the large one, and as time went on, wished I had kept it for light weight welding, so I second the idea to keep it and stay with gas and small wire on it.
Gas wire feeds are okay I guess .I once worked at Baldwin -Lima -Hamilton as a welder .This company was where the original Shay locomotive was built .Later the world famous Lima cranes .
Some time in the 60's they had some wire welders normally used for thinner metal of which they did excellent .However being rather old school I prefer good old electric arc stick welding for most things except sheet metal . I don't have a wire welder but it would be handy at times .
you say that but its only cuz you got 50# of welding rods to use up :D. migs is a dream to use and fast! they both have a place and application though.
I like my stick welder to. I have a mig but seems like I get those gobbed up welds with it.
turn on the gas! no seriously theres a ton of good you tube videos on setting up your mig if your having problems.
even the cheapos can lay down a good bead in knowing hands.
Gas is on. Hard to beat 7018
I learned to weld on a Lincoln 225 amp buzz box and could weld just about anything. And while I was a nurse, I didn't weld a single thing. Then one day my son asked me if I'd weld spades on 50,000 end posts for his blueberry farm and I sad sure, why not. I learned mig in a hurry. The first day, they brought back a few posts that the spades had broken off of but after that I figured out how to do it. Now for tough jobs I still prefer good old stick but for most things, wire is quick and easy. I have both at this time and wouldn't want to be without either. Although , I did go through a period of time that if I wasn't welding a spade on a 9' piece of pipe from the oil fields I couldn't mig weld to save my soul. :D
Quote from: pinefeller on January 27, 2018, 07:14:00 AM
this summer im going going to start thinning the pile though.....i think....maybe.... :D agh! its so hard to let it go though.... i might need that ''someday'' and if i dont, its a good insurance policy to prevent me from needing it. ;D
Hey neighbor - how about I come get some of your junk & you can come get some of my junk - At least that way I can tell my wife I got rid of some of the pile...
Jason
When you work with dirty rusty junkyard metals you learn to like stick.
I paid $2800.00 for my mig and it just sits most of the time.
My stick welder has a DC attachment and I have been using it since
I was 16 years old. Mig welders work great on new metals or clean
metals.
I guess I don't know what I am doing. My metal sits outside and I have a mig with flux core. Does run off 220,I had one that ran off 110 but when I moved here I need more power. Duty time was bad with the 110 unit too. I have built a few things,they are still together,no repairs needed,so I must be doing something right. All my welding is done outside,that's why the flux core. I don't weld much stuff thicker than ¼" either.
I also buy wire by the 10 pound spools,those 2 pounders don't last me no time.
stick welders you can stick them :) and yes with mig the metal needs to be good and clean don't know much about the flux core but jmop if your going to use it may as well use a stick I like the fact that with gas you can weld over your weld with out stopping and chipping ;D
Wire does need the metal to be cleaner than stick, but then your weld with stick will be better if the metal is clean too.
They do make a wire to use on dirtier metal, it is called dual shield or at least dual something, I doubt if it comes in the little 2 pound spools.
I guess the biggest reason I stick with stick is that I get so many
free rods from the junkyard. We have gas lines going through our
area and the company's waste so much stuff. They will use a few
rods out of a 50lb box and toss the rest. Same with grinding stones.
I bet I have around 300-400 lbs of rods stocked up now. I burn
around 100lbs every summer.
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I've got them by the box full myself .Everything from hard surface to pure nickle .Any kind of steel or cast iron ever made ,gray cast to T1 .No aluminum or mag though ,no heli arc rig .I can stick stainless though it's just not as pretty .< they do make grinders you know . :)
:D My favorite welding story .Myself and a guy from California were constantly jabbing one another over the net on another forum .It was all in fun BTW .He bragged about how good he was ,I gas welded two tin cans together and took a picture .He stopped bragging .
I have not acetylene welded anything in years, and the last time I tried was a total joke, but I have a very good friend that uses an acetylene and what he calls wonder rod to weld aluminum, it is as strong as anything welded with a tig machine and someone that knows how to use it. You can literally cut aluminum pop cans in half and he will weld them back together and there is no way you can break his weld, you will tear the can first.
Since we are all talking about welding... I've had this welder posted in different
forums on the net and it's believed to be the oldest known DC welder in the US.
It works. I tried it just one time.
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38 lbs.
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According to the internet and Miller welding company it's a braze,not a weld.
I may be wrong, but we always called brazeing what was done with a brass rod, acetylene welding was done with a steel rod, but is rarely done any more.
Kbeitz, I have an old welder, not near as old as yours, but still pretty old. The story was, it came out of a ship yard, have no idea if that is true or not, but it is a heavy devil. When I got it you couldn't turn the handle to adjust the amperage, I took it apart to free it up and the handle is hooked to a threaded rod that screws into some threaded hardwood nuts. It is in storage, so can't look at it right now, but it is 2 1/2 feet tall or so and round, probably 16 inches or so in diameter, with a crank on the top. I want to say it is a smith brand, but could be wrong on that.
Brazing comes under the category of "hard solder " .Meaning you aren't fusing the base metal as in welding .Silver soldering properly is called silver brazing .It's all in the terms which can vary locally .
As I understand it that method uses a material that melts at around 650-700 degrees but aluminum melts at around 1200 .Which is not saying it would not be strong nor saying it would not work ..Again the only way I've ever seen aluminum welded was either MIG or heli arc .I've tried the stick rods but they aren't worth a hoot ,total waste of time .
My friend that uses the wonder rod and acetylene torch, welded up a bell housing that kept breaking. I had had them tig welded and mig welded, but he built them up with his rod and solved the problem.
My son uses tig for 99% of his aluminum welding and I feel it is the best, but I am no good with tig, so have a mig set up. I have used the dc rod and it works, but only used it on portable locations where a mig or tig was not available.
Quote from: jason.weir on January 27, 2018, 10:05:08 PM
Quote from: pinefeller on January 27, 2018, 07:14:00 AM
this summer im going going to start thinning the pile though.....i think....maybe.... :D agh! its so hard to let it go though.... i might need that ''someday'' and if i dont, its a good insurance policy to prevent me from needing it. ;D
Hey neighbor - how about I come get some of your junk & you can come get some of my junk - At least that way I can tell my wife I got rid of some of the pile...
Jason
hey jason! fancy seeing you here lol sounds like a plan.... when do ya wanna get started? hey so hows the old chain swinger loader holdin up you stole a while back ;D?
Quote from: Kbeitz on January 28, 2018, 05:35:59 AM
When you work with dirty rusty junkyard metals you learn to like stick.
I paid $2800.00 for my mig and it just sits most of the time.
My stick welder has a DC attachment and I have been using it since
I was 16 years old. Mig welders work great on new metals or clean
metals.
ah come on.... crank up that heat and push it though.... it'l blow those scabs off when the heat reaches them...like the cleaning action of a tig :D :D :D :D;D
In my job shop i have a lincoln 110 mig running co2 mix. A Lincoln 400 amp mig for steel or aluminum a 300 amp tig and stick and plasma for just cutting. every welder has a different way of getting the job done. I need all of them but that little mig is just so handy if i burned it up today i would have a new one in short order. The difference i found running flux or gas deeper penatratraion with gas . I have run flux and gas on some welding, very nice. just remember carbcleaner and welding should never mix.And there is no good way to weld galvanized metal the fumes will get you.
Ventilation and a hot fast freeze rod on galvanize .You have to burn through it .DC 6010 ,AC 6011 6012 .Nasty stuff .
I still use an old Lincoln Weldenpower for my portable jobs.
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I had a similar welder for years. Mine was a bit newer, but used hard. the motor wore out to where it smoked like a freight train and the last year I used it the exciter was going bad, I had to manually wind it up past the governor to get it to excite the first time of a welding session. For some reason you could then weld all day without ever having to do it again.
Quote from: starmac on January 29, 2018, 03:07:21 PM
I had a similar welder for years. Mine was a bit newer, but used hard. the motor wore out to where it smoked like a freight train and the last year I used it the exciter was going bad, I had to manually wind it up past the governor to get it to excite the first time of a welding session. For some reason you could then weld all day without ever having to do it again.
I paid $75.00 for mine unworking. The exciter was not working either.
I opened it up and the only part I found that I could replace was the bridge
rectifier. That's all it needed. It has been working ever since.
Did good again today. It's dark out side so I'm posting a picture of one like I found
for the first picture. My unit is much dirtyer but it's all there. I'll be putting it to use.
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I also found a bucket of nails and these two tools.
The head of the hatchet swivels. Never seen one like it.
I will make a new handle for it. Looks like a keeper.
What is the tool on the left?
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tool on the left is a farriers nail set i believe
Kbeits the one on the left is a Farrier's tool it is a clinch and gouge
kbeitz did you find the welder in the junkyard?
where on earth are you shopping? its official im jealous. :o ;D this cannot be a real place your picking this stuff off e bay aint you. so do random truckers show up with select grade pine looking for a place to ''dump it off'' too. good find.... 8)
The hatchet looks like an old combination fencing tool with hammer, hatchet, and pliers. There should be two steel handles like forge tongs.
Quote from: pinefeller on January 29, 2018, 05:56:06 PM
where on earth are you shopping? its official im jealous. :o ;D this cannot be a real place your picking this stuff off e bay aint you. so do random truckers show up with select grade pine looking for a place to ''dump it off'' too. good find.... 8)
All from the junkyard... You should see the stuff that I don't take.
There was an almost new floor scrubber battery operated there today.
If no one else take it I might take the DC motors out of it. I bet
that would make great sawmill carriage movers. I have only posted
a small amount of what I get from the junkyard on this posting.
I got amusement park rides and army jeeps. Most of the big stuff I
do sell on E-bay. The owner of Caterpillar Inc bought a amusement park
ride off me to put in his back yard for his kids to ride on. You should of
seen the tractor trailer truck he send up from arizona to pick it up.
I swear it was made of gold. fanciest truck I ever seen. Some of the best
things to me was hit and miss engines. Don't see much of that anymore.
Quote from: JV on January 29, 2018, 06:18:39 PM
The hatchet looks like an old combination fencing tool with hammer, hatchet, and pliers. There should be two steel handles like forge tongs.
Looking it over I think your right. I see where it looks like there was another handle.
Quote from: elk42 on January 29, 2018, 05:54:43 PM
Kbeits the one on the left is a Farrier's tool it is a clinch and gouge
I had to look that one up... I see there is left and right handed ones.
Expensive little things... This is what I found...
Clinch cutters are designed to have a sharp and very hard heat-treated cutting edge for quick and easy shearing of nail clinches. The striking surface is not as hard to save the life of your driving hammer. The handy pointed end is used as a hoof pick or nail hole cleaner (pritchel). A gouge is used for under-cutting the clinches. A clinch block is used to set nail clinches on a horses hoof.
The first portable welder I owned was a kohler powered miller roughneck ac only. I gave 100 bucks for it with no leads, it ran good but did not generate even a spark, so I sold it for the same 100 bucks. The guy I sold it too had it fixed and put a new set of leads on it, plus built a real nice welding trailer to mount it on. A month or so later I had bought an old school bus for storage for 75 bucks, he wanted it and traded the welder new leads and trailer for it.
The very first time I used it was a 1700 dollar job, I had mounted it in my service truck where it lived till the engine wore out, I bet that little welder generated 10,000 or better in the time I used it. I gave it to a friend that worked for me occasionally, he overhauled it and used it periodically until he passed on.
Nice belt sander .Believe it or not I made one,6 by 48 with a 12 inch drum and a drop table .1.5 HP single phase motor that cost me 5 bucks--junk yard of course .My design flaw was using brass bushings instead of bearings in the rollers .The bearing for the drum is a water pump assembly bearing from a Ford 460 I got at work .
Quote from: Al_Smith on January 29, 2018, 08:27:27 PM
Nice belt sander .Believe it or not I made one,6 by 48 with a 12 inch drum and a drop table .1.5 HP single phase motor that cost me 5 bucks--junk yard of course .My design flaw was using brass bushings instead of bearings in the rollers .The bearing for the drum is a water pump assembly bearing from a Ford 460 I got at work .
Nice to that someone else likes to build tools. I made two like the one in the picture.
I have seven different workshops and I like to have a sander in each one.
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I half to laugh about that old junker I used to deal with .He was an old timer who inherited the yard from his father .These old guys figured if they made the first deal of the day all would go well .I knew this and picked that capacitor start and capacitor run motor from a mountain of motors at about 8 o'clock AM .I figure he might have 50 cents in it .
The old boy seldom smiled until one day I showed up with a dump truck full of number 1 copper .That put a smile on his face . Henry acted like he was poor as a church mouse but he was a multi millionaire .--never judge a book by it's cover .
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And some old ones.
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Some old junk. :D :D
Now you can skid some logs...
Wish I knew the history behind this old sander. I iterally had to scrap the
dirt and mud off this machine. I'm thinking it came out of someones
flooded basement. But it runs...
I will give it a better cleaning when it warm up out side.
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I bought that sander from Grizzly in 02 for $230. The same machine sells today for $460. The reason I bought it was because of the glowing reviews and cost. A comparable Delta was $1,200 something which I could not afford.
As it turned out the reviewer had to be on the take. While the sander does work, the table mounts are flimsy, and dust collection poor. Overall a low quality machine. I am thankful it was available as it is a lot better than nothing.
At present I have one of those expensive Delta's in about the same condition as your machine. I'm slowly getting it restored.
This is my best sander"Porter Cable". One of the factory's I worked at
was going to throw it away because the workers that used it did not
like it... I love it.
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A big old Rockwell/Delta at work is what I use to refurbish chainsaw bars .It's better than the two hand belt sanders I have at home . My shop is 22 miles away plus I get paid to do it . 8)
I wanted to put this somewhere and I guess this is as good as a place as any.
I have had this so many years that I don't remember where or when I got it.
1951 Onsrud Turbine Pneumatic E2GA router. Still works great.
Googling it I can only find the Patent for it. Nothing else.
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You should have used that on your router sled mill you are building. Then, duct the exhaust to clear the chips as you go!
Quote from: ljohnsaw on February 01, 2018, 05:25:16 PM
You should have used that on your router sled mill you are building. Then, duct the exhaust to clear the chips as you go!
It's a power hog. It would cost a small fortune to run it.
I'm thinking I would need around a 10hp compressor to keep up.
Look at how much air a little die grinder uses, I can not imagine what cfm's it would take to run that steady.
Quote from: starmac on February 01, 2018, 06:00:55 PM
Look at how much air a little die grinder uses, I can not imagine what cfm's it would take to run that steady.
30 CFM
:D I think a lot of those old air tools were designed to run off of plant air .Dang things will make you deaf listening to them .
I had a friend who was a tool and die maker telling of a small Amish machine shop in Indiana where everything was air driven from a big diesel air compressor .He said it was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think .
I suppose though that was a better option than using line shafts with a team of mules for power .God love them I don't know how they do what they do but they do .
Less than a mile from here is a big Amish welding/machine shop where they have all sorts of air powered equipment including band type cut off saw, shears, drill presses, sheet metal break, and a Series 2 Bridgeport mill. In a smaller separate building there is a John Deere diesel powering the compressor plus a generator for the welding equipment. I've had them do a few jobs and enjoy looking at the set up.
We have an Amish shop not to far from here that everything runs off hydraulic.
It they ran stuff from a constant pressure open center pressure header it would be a more modern version of a line shaft .Certainly not as ear splitting as air .I can't imagine how many valves something like that would use .Not to mention hydra-motors hoses and what not .Can you imagine how much diesel fuel you could burn in a day,mercy me .I mean ya gotta do what you gotta do but economically you can't get much cheaper than utility based power .That aside they do get-er-done .
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 02, 2018, 04:05:25 PM
It they ran stuff from a constant pressure open center pressure header it would be a more modern version of a line shaft .Certainly not as ear splitting as air .I can't imagine how many valves something like that would use .Not to mention hydra-motors hoses and what not .Can you imagine how much diesel fuel you could burn in a day,mercy me .I mean ya gotta do what you gotta do but economically you can't get much cheaper than utility based power .That aside they do get-er-done .
Hydra-motors on everything. bought a 20" planer off them that
I had to change back to electric. We have a local auction that has
tools in it all the time that has been changed to hydra-motors.
Lot of Amish in this area.
We have a small Amish community here that has an auction on occasion and surprisingly, tools go for very fair prices. If a guy wanted "Yard Art" tools, they just about have to give them away.
They also have a little store that we visit a couple times of year just for the cheese.
I originally visited them to check out their EZ Boardwalk JR and decided then to buy mine. Those folks have sawn more lumber with their mill than I ever will if I work until noon the day I get buried.
Kenton Ohio,about 30 miles from me has a large community of Amish .I'll have to say they are very inventive .I don't envy them but I do respect them .
Kbeitz -
Would you consider setting up some sort of FF day at your place where we all get to go onto a field trip to this magic wonder yard???? Please???
Quote from: Southside logger on February 04, 2018, 08:50:44 PM
Kbeitz -
Would you consider setting up some sort of FF day at your place where we all get to go onto a field trip to this magic wonder yard???? Please???
Sure... We have a large pavilion with lots of picnic tables and electric
and lots of room for parking and camping. I'll let you-all pick a date.
I'm retired and anytime is good for me... But I like it outside when it's
warm...
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I would totally be down for it. But, #2 is coming mid july so this year may be a stretch.
If the owners of that junkyard were smart they could make it like sams club and charge a fee to belong, just so you could enter and haul home lots of crap that you need but never use. I know that's what i do when i go up to tabbit's junk yard.
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 05, 2018, 08:57:59 AM
Quote from: Southside logger on February 04, 2018, 08:50:44 PM
Kbeitz -
Would you consider setting up some sort of FF day at your place where we all get to go onto a field trip to this magic wonder yard???? Please???
Sure... We have a large pavilion with lots of picnic tables and electric
and lots of room for parking and camping. I'll let you-all pick a date.
I'm retired and anytime is good for me... But I like it outside when it's
warm...
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are we going to take a field Tripp to the junk yard 8)
Quote from: Crusarius on February 05, 2018, 09:06:58 AM
I would totally be down for it. But, #2 is coming mid july so this year may be a stretch.
DUDE! You might wan to buy a package of ExLax... :D I crack myself up! Sorry, couldn't resist.
:)
Quoteare we going to take a field Tripp to the junk yard 8)
I would not have a problem with that... Junkyard guys are my friends.
I would love to visit you.
I think I was not too far from you a year ago last summer when I picked up a hot tub at Strong industries,
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on February 05, 2018, 04:31:17 PM
I would love to visit you.
I think I was not too far from you a year ago last summer when I picked up a hot tub at Strong industries,
Strong industries is in Danville, PA and thats only about 20 miles from me.
Planning for the Mid-Atlantic Forestry Forum Salvage Sawing days has begun!!! 8)
Looks to be about a 1000 mile trip for me to come see ya
Yea - but look at all the stuff you can find!!!
Quote from: Southside logger on February 05, 2018, 09:22:18 PM
Yea - but look at all the stuff you can find!!!
think I should bring the trailer with me 8)
How far are you from Rausch creek offroad park? Joliet PA.
1200 miles for me on I80, I hates I80 like MM hates sweetgum. Just throwing it out there but if this is indeed going to happen maybe have it coincide (sort of) with the pig roast and a lot of members could kill to birds with one stone? Just a thought? Maybe by then I'll win the lottery, I'd love to attend both :D.
Quote from: Crusarius on February 06, 2018, 08:21:57 AM
How far are you from Rausch creek offroad park? Joliet PA.
Never heard of Joliet PA... Lookin at the map I would say only 30-40 miles.
Sure must be a very small town.
yea. it pretty much doesnot exist. But there is an offroad park there I frequent. then occasionally stop at harry's u pullit.
Quote from: Crusarius on February 06, 2018, 01:08:07 PM
yea. it pretty much doesnot exist. But there is an offroad park there I frequent. then occasionally stop at harry's u pullit.
You can easy loose your tools at Harrys. Don't forget where you put them
I 80 isn't that bad .A lot better than I 70 IMO .I took it 3 years ago to go to "mile high " ,Denver .Between it and I 75 they must have cornered the market on orange barrels not to mention concrete barriers .
Yeah Al, it's just the other drivers and bumper to bumper at 80 mph that bothers me ;), give me a good old county road anyday.
Me too, Pat!
I don't like anything over 70MPH!
Get up on I -95 near Boston or go through Chicago or Atlanta sometime during rush hour if you want to see maniac drivers .That said I'm not so found of hustle and bustle myself .
In the last 3 1/2 years I've been on I-80,I 75 and I 95 and I don't think there is an interstate highway in this country that isn't under some kind of construction .I wonder if it's ever going to be finished.I will say this though certain improvements such as adding extra lanes has improved the traffic flow .Never the less I try to bypass Atlanta still .
When I used to travel a lot, I would at times, pull off of the Interstate and ride the County and Town roads for a while, just to get away from it for a while!
40 years ago the state said they was going to build a new road through this area. 40 years of unfulfilled promises. They are just now doing it... One BIG road. The Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway. This is the northern end of four-lane Highway 11/15 just north of Selinsgrove, Pa., PennDot has started a highway project, 40 years in the making, that will continue the four lanes to I-80. It will require a bridge unlike any other in north-central Pennsylvania.
A near-mile-long concrete monster, with piers that soar more than 180 feet above the river, it will be taller than all but a handful of buildings in Harrisburg. To build the bridge will require cutting a saddle through the nearby hill. To cross the highlands west of Shamokin Dam will require another series of bridges -- and more than 4.2 million cubic yards of earth moving in total (or enough dirt to fill Beaver Stadium five times).
Even the price is huge. The bridge alone will cost $155 million, the entire eight-year-long project will total more than $650 million when all of the planning, property acquisition and building is complete. Between this and all the new gas line coming to this area it's a busy place.
8 year project. have a hard time believing that
interesting to read KB. I have been running the rt15 route for the last 25 years and watched the progress. Even years ago I preferred 15 over 81. Just for a change I will run 220 from waverly down and I see I almost go right by your place. Would like to stop someday and say hello. We usually go back home home in the summer for a visit. ( Ithaca NY) Jack
When i worked at the one job i took 118 out to 220 then took 15 out to 45 on to centerhall sometimes once a week. i would sometimes run 925 i think? it ran right alongside 45 less traffic then i could go threw penns caves to look at the elk and buffalo. And if i worked it out right i would stop for the engine show at penns caves.
Quote from: Crusarius on February 07, 2018, 09:27:59 AM
8 year project. have a hard time believing that
Read all about it....
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/05/forty_years_later_road_to_nowh.html
Will this be like the other Interstate there in PA where you are trotting along and then have to go on an off ramp, down to a stop light, snake a bit through Breezewood and continue on the Interstate? Strangest interchange I have ever seen and I have been coast to coast, up and down, many, many times. Always figured some Senator brought home the bacon with that deal.
Southside, going way back in memory here, but is that interchange the one that at one point looks like the road is going to dead end at a big TA truckstop?
There are a couple of truck stops there, one on the right and another past a light or two on the left. I just remember the first time I ended up there wondering how on earth I had taken such a wrong turn, the next time I realized there was no wrong turn, it was by design. Of course I had no money left in my pocket to spend at the truck stop given the PA toll fees one encounters heading east before that wonderful exchange. :o
Yep, that is the place, and it does seem like there is two truckstops, but I know the big one is a TA, not sure what the other one is. Or I better say I knew, it has been a few years, then a couple more since i have been there.
I went to Lancaster County. I saw what loooked to be the start of a major highway,but only saw cows grazing on the grass.
been there done that. First time I went through there I was like. wait? what happened to the highway.
You got to be talking about the I-80 PA Turnpike exit.
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Looks like gas is high there.
Quote from: Kwill on February 05, 2018, 08:08:44 PM
Looks to be about a 1000 mile trip for me to come see ya
I know a guy who took an 8" jointer home in his checked airline baggage.
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Quote from: Kwill on February 08, 2018, 08:32:00 PM
Looks like gas is high there.
:D :D come to NY
I get gas in NY when ever I am unfortunate enough to go there :D ;D we are slowly taking over the great taxation name from you guys.
I do too, I can get ethanol free gas there, bring enough home to run my small engines throughout the year.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on February 10, 2018, 08:20:27 AM
I do too, I can get ethanol free gas there, bring enough home to run my small engines throughout the year.
Really not a bad day... clamps, fan, torque wench, lathe parts, micro switches. I got the little thing you see in the picture but.....
But.... I buying a ...
GENUINE-1988-BOBCAT-743-SKID-STEER-LOADER
For $1500.
Yep only $1500 It comes with forks and a bucket. Runs great. It belong to the yard. They are buying a new one with tracks. They are hard on there stuff and it need axle bearings. But for $1500 I can do that. Kubota engine gotta be worth that.
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A bobcat for that price, you can do quite a bit and still be ahead on.
Pictures will be coming...
WOW! Congrats!
743 is a nice size to. Surprised they left the forks with it. Win there for sure.
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 10, 2018, 04:19:06 PM
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on February 10, 2018, 08:20:27 AM
I do too, I can get ethanol free gas there, bring enough home to run my small engines throughout the year.
Really not a bad day... clamps, fan, torque wench, lathe parts, micro switches.
I got the little thing you see in the picture but.....
But.... I buying a ...
GENUINE-1988-BOBCAT-743-SKID-STEER-LOADER
For $1500.
Yep only $1500 It comes with forks and a bucket. Runs great. It belong to the yard.
They are buying a new one with tracks. They are hard on there stuff and it need axle bearings.
But for $1500 I can do that. Kubota engine gotta be worth that.
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Good deal on the 743. I had a 91 for about 18 years. Had the Kubota diesel as well. Great machine. Tough as they come and no computers to go haywire. I had to do an axle bearing on mine. They have to be done from the inside out.The rear ones anyways. I changed them all so I wouldn't have to do it again. You have to remove the pump/tranny/whatever you wanna call it. There is a constant velocity ujoint between the motor and tranny that needs to be greased every so often. Motor has to be rotated to the exact right position and you have to raise the cab and basicly become Houdini to get at the three nipples..You'll see it when doing the bearings. REgardless, great find...
Kool, what a deal 8).
I got the numbers wrong on the skid steer. Its a 873. 73 hp.
I took pictures with my phone but I cant find any way to
send from my new stupid phone. I take some pictures
tomorrow with my real camera.
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 12, 2018, 01:56:39 PM
I got the numbers wrong on the skid steer. Its a 873. 73 hp.
I took pictures with my phone but I cant find any way to
send from my new stupid phone. I take some pictures
tomorrow with my real camera.
An 873 is a serious machine. For 1500.00, that is like stealing. Some would pay more than that for an 873 carcass ;D
QuoteAn 873 is a serious machine. For 1500.00, that is like stealing. Some would pay more than that for an 873 carcass ;D
But I'm kinda disappointed that it's not a kubota engine.
It has a Deutz in it. Are they any good?
Terrible. I will come pick it up and relieve you of any agony :)
I did find this today. I was told it runs good. They said it was
brought in because it was to small. 4000 watts.
It did not feel small when I loaded it in the back of my Jeep.
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That Onan was probably out of a motor home .Although most of them had a 7500 watt unit .
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 12, 2018, 05:21:12 PM
That Onan was probably out of a motor home .Although most of them had a 7500 watt unit .
I had two others that came out of a motor home that was 4000 watt.
I would think it would depend on the size of the camper.
What I like is that these are low RPM engines that last forever.
I wish I knew the HP of the engine. It's not marked anywhere.
I bet it might make a good mill engine.
Edit....
Google says it's a 9.5 HP. Displacement, 304 cc
Maybe you could leave your new skid steer at the junkyard for loading!
I had a 40 foot fifth wheel with a 4000 onan, didn't even realize they used 7500 watt ones in rv's.
I forget just what it was about it, but I pilled apart a smaller onan generator and the engine was pretty much especially built for that purpose, not suitable to use on anything else.
I blew up the motor on my dads lincoln welder and found that it had a tapered shaft. Only the same motor would fit back. I never ran onto another one and it is still in parts out in the barn. Very disappointing.
PC
Don't give up on the tapered shaft engines. Cut the armature off
the generator next to the windings. Slide the sawed off chunk
back on the tapered end of the engine. But a bolt through the
hollow shaft and bolt it tight. Now you have a normal engine.
I've done this many times.
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Quote from: Kbeitz on February 12, 2018, 04:07:44 PM
I did find this today. I was told it runs good. They said it was
brought in because it was to small. 4000 watts.
It did not feel small when I loaded it in the back of my Jeep.
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I have one of these! Came out of a motorhome, and is 4,000 watt and runs at 1,800 RPM!
Only issue I have is I need a coil for it! It takes what is referred to as a double coil!
Seemed to run forever on 5 gallons of gas!
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I have one of these! Came out of a motorhome, and is 4,000 watt and runs at 1,800 RPM!
Only issue I have is I need a coil for it! It takes what is referred to as a double coil!
Seemed to run forever on 5 gallons of gas!
The coils are on E-bay often.
The 4kw onanas were used on motor homes that had only 1 rooftop air conditioner. The coils are unique, but can be had. They fire both plugs at the same time..A clutch off of a golf cart will fit the tapered crankshaft with a little lapping.
Same coil as a Harley Davidson ,cheaper .
My parents had a 7500 Onan with a 3 cylinder Yanmar water cooled diesel on a motor home ..It would not carry the load until it reached operating temperature nor shut down until it cooled below a certain temp .Very well designed .Glow plugs, it probably would have started on the North pole .
Being a 4 pole generator running at 1800 it's probably a 16 or 18 HP engine .Should be able to tell from the engine name plate by referencing the model number .
We had a little Miller welder generator with a pancake Onan .3600 RPM for welding which was about 5 quarts of gas per hour .1800 for generation which I have no idea but it went a long time .It was an 18 HP if memory serves .,5,000 watt .
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 12, 2018, 04:04:05 PM
An 873 is a serious machine. For 1500.00, that is like stealing. Some would pay more than that for an 873 carcass ;D
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But I'm kinda disappointed that it's not a kubota engine.
It has a Deutz in it. Are they any good?
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One of our A300 Bobcats has a Deutz in it. Great engine. No antifreeze. Just oil and air for cooling. Always starts. Stingy on fuel too.
No antifreeze ? Wow. New one on me ... Thanks.
Yeah those Duetz engines are air cooled. They have a screen on them that needs to be kept clean, at least the tractor engines do.
PC
My neighbors have a duetz tractor. Its really good on fuel and has been a really good tractor. Always starts even when the big JD won't .
Kbeitz there should be some kind of alarm to let you know if the belt breaks or comes off. That or some kind of tattle tale switch to shut it off should that happen. Without the fan turning the motor will be toast pretty quick. Use to have a couple Liebherr 921 trackhoes. They had the air cooled Deutz, My ex partners little brother got one of them too hot....not good. Banjo
Looks like I'll have a lot of new to learn...
Nice engines, we swapped one out a month or so ago, figure the original one was over 40 years of hard service old;
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Good idea Banjo, maybe something like a tensioner type wheel riding the belt, when it drops in a switch to a dash light closes.
oil cooled ;) mine has 10k hrs and burns no oil and the oil is still clean at 200hrs after an oil change.
Quote from: pinefeller on February 13, 2018, 08:08:40 PM
oil cooled ;) mine has 10k hrs and burns no oil and the oil is still clean at 200hrs after an oil change.
Share what kind of oil you use....
i was actually giong to call the guy that did it last and see what he used, its due again. i was told this phenomenon has to do with being oil cooled instead of antifreeze and not being turbo charged. im pretty shure he said texas refinery so it should be rotella t (i believe shell is owned by T R. im used to losing a half gallon or so between changes in pretty much all large equipment ive maintained and black oil by 200hrs. this engine has been unbelieveable, no leaks, no burning, good power and pretty quiet.
That would be great. Rotella is what I use in everything I have except
my cycle.
All mine ... Done paid for. I just gotta get it home.
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Awesome deal.
the tires are funny. those are airless tires worn all the way through to the suspension circles. They should be at least 3" taller
Hiring a rollback can be the simplest, and relatively cheap.
We move our JD 250 with a car trailer occasionally, but it's a bit overloaded. If you do that, block the midpoint of your ramps or they may not slide back into their "home". Just like ours no longer do thanks to my brother. ;)
I'm lucky. My son owns a large rollback. The junkyard is just so muddy and icy
that I'm just going to wait till things dry off a little.
My money would be on Kbeitz finding a new set of tires for it there in a little bit. Banjo
Quote from: Banjo picker on February 14, 2018, 07:00:50 PM
My money would be on Kbeitz finding a new set of tires for it there in a little bit. Banjo
I have a choice of taking the wheels and tires on it or I can have the original air tires and rims. I was thinking that the hard tires even worn the way they are would last me the rest of my life. Besides loosing clearance what else would it hurt?
I'm confused. Did Kubota make the Deutz engine. When I search for my starter
number ( first image ) on E-bay it take me to this page of information (image 2)
Applications all say Kubots but if you look down the page you can see it says
Bobcat with my starter number (6685190). So is my engine a Deutz or Kubota
or both?
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Drive it home
Open the hood on the back and if you find a radiator, it isnt a duetz.
PC
I understand the new epa compliant duetze engines are water cooled, I have not seen one myself, so could be heresay.
I doubt Kubota makes or owns duetze, and a duetze just going by looks, can not be mistaken for a kubota either, at least the older air cooled ones can't.
I do seem to recall my son telling me when he had to get a starter for his bobcat that the one starter fit all of them, not sure exactly what he meant.
This is the spec sheet I found on google saying its a Duitz.
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This is the engine.
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And this is where the owner says the radiator is.
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Another list from google saying it's a Duitz.
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A long time ago i had a truck mounted forklift mofit brand and it had that engine in it that is not a Kubota it is a deutz . it was a pretty good engine.
great buy.
Deutz engines are very good.
The old Garrett Weldco skidder i posted about a couple of yrs ago that had sat for 5 yrs started right up with fresh diesel and new batteries.
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 15, 2018, 04:21:43 AM
And this is where the owner says the radiator is.
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If its a Deutz, the radiator will be an oil cooler. That looks to be almost Identical to our older A300 bobcat.
Kbeitz
I own a 2003 Bobcat 873 with the deutz motor and it looks just like yours. IMO your motor is the deutz.
The starter #s you quote may not be the original starter. My starter is a DENSO [japan] bobcat #666 7825 or Denso # 228000-5731.
In terms of oil, engine oil I use shell Rotella T6 5-40 synthetic. Bobcat uses 15-40. In terms of hydraulic/hydrostatic oil, I bought a good supply of Bobcat brand oil [very costly] because I could NOT get any specs off it [bobcats oil pails] to try to buy cheaper alternate. In future I will use Shell brand oil once my Bcat oil gone.
I also have the maintenance manual and many filter numbers, etc if you want any info, PM me.
Tom
Thanks Tom....
What?
You dont have it operational yet?
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on February 17, 2018, 11:34:05 AM
What?
You dont have it operational yet?
The junkyard is all ice and mud... I can wait for a better day to get it home without bringing half of the yards real estate home with me. My wife now has to mop the floor every time I go. I feel sorry for the people that work there.
Makes me think of the cowpoke at the feedyard waist deep in mud. Ask how he gets around. Says he does fine, but his horse is struggling. ;D
I finally got the last piece of equipment this morning that I bought at auction 2 weeks ago. Fought the mud, but got it done. ;)
Mud season is supposed to be next month or even in April, but it's in the past. The weather guesser says that winter is supposed to come back his next week. If he's right we'll probably get two mud seasons this year. So I'm going to saw while I can.
Quote from: Darrel on February 17, 2018, 07:59:21 PM
Mud season is supposed to be next month or even in April, but it's in the past. The weather guesser says that winter is supposed to come back his next week. If he's right we'll probably get two mud seasons this year. So I'm going to saw while I can.
lol@weather guesser
In this portion of Ohio mud will be the flavor of the day about mid March and last to mid,late April .Maybe longer .This is world class mud ,nothing whimpy about it .If it's possible to get any thing stuck in it,I've about done it all .However I've gotten pretty good at retrieving stuff stuck in the stuff which I've learned to detest with a passion . >:(
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 18, 2018, 01:29:29 PM
In this portion of Ohio mud will be the flavor of the day about mid March and last to mid,late April .Maybe longer .This is world class mud ,nothing whimpy about it .If it's possible to get any thing stuck in it,I've about done it all .However I've gotten pretty good at retrieving stuff stuck in the stuff which I've learned to detest with a passion . >:(
Sometimes I could use you around....
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We had one stuck like that a few years back, a Ford 4000 industrial backhoe retrieved it!
Mud is not even the floorboards yet, much less the seat, are you sure it is stuck?
2 years ago up in north Dakota where I was working.
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Hey K, my FIL did that with his Cat D4. He tied his Jeep to a tree and pulled it out with the PTO winch.
You guys are triggering my mud PTSD I am having flash backs to the time I stepped out of the 8920 and about one yard away was an intake fish skeleton. It was helpful that mud had a clay bottom to it. Heck I could leave all four wheels spinning go have lunch and come back with nothing changed.
And speak about mud season? I have seen it in each of the 12 months. Yes thats right there are years we have a week or more of mud in each month all year. Come March it will spit snow every third day the other two will be in the mid or high 30's. Yeah beautiful that. Warm enough to make endless mud but not warm enough to get that snow gone and dried out. Not that it matters because more snow/sleet is never more than tweo days away.
Does that sound traumatized?
I don't have pictures of it because it was in the days of the bag phone, but I have been to a processor that was stuck in a cedar swamp and the only thing above ground level was the cutting head. It took a massive - 200' across maybe? excavation and something like 20 loads of logs to crib that thing out of there. There was serious talk of leaving it and just removing the head, it was that bad.
Quote from: Kbeitz on February 18, 2018, 01:59:49 PM
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 18, 2018, 01:29:29 PM
In this portion of Ohio mud will be the flavor of the day about mid March and last to mid,late April .Maybe longer .This is world class mud ,nothing whimpy about it .If it's possible to get any thing stuck in it,I've about done it all .However I've gotten pretty good at retrieving stuff stuck in the stuff which I've learned to detest with a passion . >:(
Sometimes I could use you around....
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I had a D4 Cat in that deep once ,dumb me .That one took another dozer and a 3/4 ton wrecker with a 6 part line and two days to get out .
A number of years ago I spent a winter of discontent working on 42 miles of 20" high pressure gas line .It went from an area known as the great black swamp in NW Ohio .
Welded pipeline construction of Rosebud Mich had the contract .They had a D6 Cat swamp tractor with 36" pads and a long under carriage that would walk over mud you'd sink to your knees in .However the D8 side booms and Cat 245 excavators would not .
Most of work was done in dead of winter which just happened to be a cold one with night temps often 20 below .Two feet of frozen tundra the 245 Cats went through as if it were butter .The machinery was never shut off .The big crawlers carried a couple hundred gallons of fuel .It was the spring thaw before they ran into trouble .
It was interesting .They used the D6 swamper to clear about a mile and a half of snow ahead of the spread so it could freeze up and hold the side booms .I was only installing the electrical gauging etc not working on the line itself .42 miles in 42 days .Pipeliners are a different breed of cat for sure
In the previous post I mentioned the great black swamp which starts about 3 miles to the north of were I'm typing this post .It was cleared and drained and is now some of the richest farm land in the USA .Prior to that it grew some of the largest oak trees ever grown on this planet of which only a few survive to this day .
They talk of digging down 12 feet and uncovering logs that sank building the early roads through that quagmire .Now that's mud .It took about enough clay tile to circle the globe several times and enough drainage ditches to equate to the Panama canal to get-er- done .Imagine that ,mules and slip scoops . :o
I got it home... Looks like only one axle needs attention...
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A friend of mine logged for me for quite a while with one the same model as yours. Man that thing would lift a lot. Logs that made my tractor struggle and he just loaded them rite up.
I would say that you probably did just fine and the repairs will not be that expensive. If you dont like it once you have used it you can probably sell it for a profit.
PC
Quote from: paul case on February 21, 2018, 06:43:27 PMwould say that you probably did just fine and the repairs will not be that expensive. If you dont like it once you have used it you can probably sell it for a profit.
Parts priced out needed is #170.00 so far. I would like to add to that a $100.00 seat and a $100.00 new starter.
Here's my score for this week. I know, not as cool as a bobcat.
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This thing scares me. It's bigger than me. It broke the arm of the last guy that tried to use it and OSHA gave the outfit that dumped it the ultimatum, dump it or get fined and dump it anyway. So they dumped it.ii
Before I even read the specs, I said to myself; "that thing will hurttt youuu !!! :o
It needs a pipe coming out of the other side so it can hurt two people at the same time. :-X :-\
:D Yes, there is a place to screw in a length of 3/4" pipe opposite the handle.
I got one like that that take a pull of the trigger to start it and another pull to shut it down. So if it gets away from you it keeps on going... I snapped a one inch drill bit off with this drill.
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I have a couple of them, they will keep you on your toes, and I rarely use them anymore.
Kbeitze, I never even seen a set up like that on a drill, I have had side grinders that had on off switches, they were down right dangerous. I had a dog attack one while I was under a semi trailer and knocked it out of my hands, it is amazing how fast a 9 in grinder can run around cutting everything init's path, including my torch hoses.
Good score, That will be handy, Just have to be smarter than the tool to not hurt yourself with it. :D :D :D :D
You want to see some impressive torque try one of those new 20V DeWalt drills. I am 6'1, 240lbs and it kept ripping out of my hands when the hole saw grabbed. Had to clutch it down, amazing power.
Southside, mine is milwaukii, but same story. What I did not know, is when the battery dies, you can not turn the drill, or at least it is very hard. Mine bound up and mashed my hand and the battery died right there, I had to get somebody to bring me another battery to get lose. I could not believe it.
This is the one that scares me. It has not gotten away from me yet but at only 550RPM I don't want to be around it if it comes loose...
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Quote from: Kbeitz on February 23, 2018, 04:58:09 PM
I got one like that that take a pull of the trigger to start it and another pull to shut it down. So if it gets away from you it keeps on going... I snapped a one inch drill bit off with this drill.
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That looks like a old Black and Decker with a double set trigger .I have a half inch in that style and it is powerful and dangerous .
A mag drill has a lot of moxy for sure .A concrete core drill has even more .That one if you have at sense you set concrete anchors to hold it .I never trusted the suction thing
Quote from: Al_Smith on February 24, 2018, 07:36:01 PMThat looks like a old Black and Decker with a double set trigger .I have a half inch in that style and it is powerful and dangerous .
I've got one like that, it's got a regular trigger, but also has a lock button to hold it on. Luckily I also have the optional Drill Press that it clamps into, which is even heavier built. It basically stays in the drill press. :)
I might sell mine and make the buyer sign a waiver.
I was using a drill like you posted a picture of back in the late 70's when the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway was being built. I was drilling a hole in a form to install a she bolt and the drill got away from me. I just back off and let it turn until it ripped the power cord out of itself. Then it stopped. Boss wasn't too happy, but I was not hurt anyway. Banjo
It's a beast....
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yes it is! And yours is set up so it can hurt two people. :D Just like MM said.
Quote from: Banjo picker on February 25, 2018, 01:34:13 PM
I was using a drill like you posted a picture of back in the late 70's when the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway was being built. I was drilling a hole in a form to install a she bolt and the drill got away from me. I just back off and let it turn until it ripped the power cord out of itself. Then it stopped. Boss wasn't too happy, but I was not hurt anyway. Banjo
I'll bet the boss was happier then he would have been had you ridden it out!
Wow what a ride that would have been! :D :D :D
Kbeitz, they quit putting the enclosed triggers on drills because they held and broke fingers.
They just don't make then to last anymore. I have one like this that I got when I was around 16 years old. It's still going strong today.
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PIn those days, Black & Decker meant quality.
Quote from: Peter Drouin on February 23, 2018, 06:22:45 PM
Good score, That will be handy, Just have to be smarter than the tool to not hurt yourself with it. :D :D :D :D
I like to call that the 10% Rule. You got to be 10% smarter than what your working on, or with... ;D
Started the Bobcat for the first time today. Runs good. It has 3179 hours on the working clock. Is that a lot for this tractor?
3179 is not much,
A place I used to work for would basically wear out a forklift before it was paid off. 24hr a day 5 or 6 days per week, 1000 20lb LP cans per hour is what they would fill. They filled for both Blue Rhino and Papco, the boss was making money like crazy. Even his trash, the old brass valves and steel cans he could and would sell.
Got one of these kbeitz? Any idea what it does ?
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That is a lice nit comb for a hydraulic ram.
:D :D :D :D :D
I'd say it's missing it fuzzy covers - it's a Venetian blind duster... It does have printed on it that it is a "heavy duty chain stretcher", though I'm not sure why you would want to stretch a chain ;)
It is to install and disassemble flat roller chain. Mostly farm equipment. makes life easy when you have one. I have a couple. Lazerdan
Technically it's not roller chain. Flat detachable ag chain. The tool is called a detacher. I have several sawmill stories regarding that type of chain, one includind a broken hand when i was holding the chain in the detacher and the guy swinging the hammer missed the chain by 6 inches.
I wish I could find someone who needs it worse than I do :) it's been setting here on the shelf and gets moved from shop to shop.
There is pretty much at least one on every farm. Common name for it here is farm chain.
Yeah a lot of that flat chain used in my area
You can find them on sale on eBay starting at 7 or 8 bucks and going up from there. I saw one that looks like yours kwill, the seller called it a "vintage steel & roller chain detacher". Wanted $45.00 for it.
Ok... How does it work ?
The important half is not pictured, that would be the hammer.
All it is is a holder. The different slots are for different size chain. You could do the same thing with a vice, but its hard to carry a vice out to where most of these chains break! You slide a link in the slot, bend the adjacent link so that the slot in it lined up with the end of the link you are working on, then you use a hammer to either beat the inks apart, or together.
The previous post was removed as it breaks our policy about linking to off site photos.
Works dang good when your laying under a manure spreader fixin that dang wore out chain ;D >:( :(.
Kinda like this
Sawdust extractor - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAt2s02nSU)
Comment on that video. Going to using paddles made from heavy belting instead of wood extends the life of the chain big time. With wood or metal paddles, there is no wiggle room for when the inevitable stick or chunk of debri gets in there. The belted paddles will push past where the ridigid paddles wil pin bind and break.
I bet car tire chunks would work good.
Quote from: Kbeitz on March 07, 2018, 08:29:47 AM
I bet car tire chunks would work good.
I have seen car tires used, but the chain was much heavier than that farm chain in the video.
Good day today... I got 16 sharp blades that will fit my mill. I'm not sure if they are new or not. They was coiled up and they are very sharp. I can't tell if they was used. But I'm happy. I'll run them till they break.
I got a cheap 12.000lb winch (Badlands) The only thing I found wrong with it is that's it's missing the release handle. I guess I can build one because I can't find anywhere that sell parts for them.I guess it's a Harbor freight special. I got 3 more cans of nails. This has been a special year for nails. I got two more spoke wheels for my bench projects. I got a nice Honda engine.
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The blades look real good... Going back tomorrow to see if I can find more.
Kbeitz, how will you clean the rust off of those blades, or will you just run them and let the wood clean them up?
nice, 8)
Quote from: starmac on March 08, 2018, 04:59:32 PM
Kbeitz, how will you clean the rust off of those blades, or will you just run them and let the wood clean them up?
Pictures sure make them look bad. The rust almost wipes off with my fingers. I'll just run them.
I wish I would have looked a little harder. I bet they loaded the trucks today and the rest will be gone.
Nice finds 8)
Cant get over how much stuff comes to your junkyard and that they let you look through it.
How much area does it serve, your county, several counties, half the state?
I just picked up a newholand manure spreader. The old style chain is not used on their equipment. This is what is used now. Very easy to replace a link.
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There is a scrap metal place locally, but all you can do is look through the fence. They won't let you look around. The only thing I have been able to get from them was a piece of metal I saw and went to the office and asked about. He said come back tomorrow and one of the guys will get it out for you. I figured .... yea I bet they will, but they had it layed out for me. I paid a good price for what they were fixing to cut up but it worked for me. It was the metal I put on the back of my logging winch. It was something they got from one of the local metal fab. shops. (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18028/wench_1.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1320018198)
We have 2 major manufacturing companies in the area that used to let all the "scrap" go to employees, now both I think have to haul it straight to recycling ::). It's enough to make a grown man cry to see what gets thrown away from just those 2. My last score (years ago) was a bunch of 6"x1/2"x 4' flat iron, cut offs from something, I'm down to my last piece :'(.
Quote from: terrifictimbersllc on March 09, 2018, 09:13:47 AM
Cant get over how much stuff comes to your junkyard and that they let you look through it.
How much area does it serve, your county, several counties, half the state?
Within a 50 mile radius we have around 25 junkyards or more.
I only take a very small amount of very good stuff. You should see the stuff I don't take.
It's like when I bring home electrical stuff. I take a hand full of thing out of 55 gal drums of stuff.
I could never bring it all home.
Junkyards near Millville, PA 17846 (https://www.salvage-parts.com/junkyards-near-me/zip-code/17846)
I use to haul alot of metal home from my past job. Sometimes I would find a real nice piece and try to get a slip for it,but than be told,I can't let you have that. So I stopped digging out the real nice stuff. ::) Some of the guys thought I was odd taking all that stuff home.City people,what do they know. I have probably ten 5 gallons buckets of nuts,bolts and washers I brought home. Maybe only a coffee can at a time,but it added up. I have them almost all sorted by sizes. Got tired of spending 15 minutes looking for bolts,nuts and washers.
We have only one place that buys junk metals (CHEAP), they also sell new metal at fair prices for here, will order anything you need too.
Anyway a couple of years I was in there and their price list of what they paid was on display, leas was something like 12 cents a pound. I was needing some lead and ask if they would sell any, the person waiting on me at first said sure, but when he ask a manager what the price would be, he said they couldn't sell any to me.
At the time I thought he just didn't want to let me know what the going price was since they were only paying 12 cents, but I know a little about the business, and they are generally under contract to supply so many pounds to their buyers to get the best price, and they may no have had any excess.
This year I was in there getting a weight slip for a load of logs, and in the floor was a box full of nice lead ingots, that had been cast in lyman molds, which I took home with me. I paid the going rate, but it was nice clean lead
I got ten more band blades today. I would have been 11 but I got mad and put one back in the junk pile. I always thought I was good at coiling up band blades. Today I needed to coil up about half of what i found. One band blade I could not coil up for the life of me. I bet I spent 20 minutes trying to coil that one band blade. I could not do it....
KB; see the video in post # 42
Blade Folding Video (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=73467.msg1150324#msg1150324)
But it is possible for a blade to be kinked in such a way the it will not coil. There is one documented somewhere here on the FF. (I'll try to find it.)
I had one once that I could coil but it absolutely would not stay coiled. Have you ever noticed that after coiling a band that your hands are not positioned properly for uncoiling. I thought about stepping on it or holding it between my knees but it was the hot summertime and I wasn't wearing boots and carharts, but shorts and barefoot. I was only setting the bands, no need for all that PPE right? Wrong! The only thing to do was to throw the thing and hope it got far enough away before it opened up and got me.
What got me was I coiled 5 blades before this one. It was the last one. I tried many times and it went back to the junk pile. Thinking back I think it was the next to last one. But I went back to it but it won. If it's still there when I go back in a few days maybe I'll try again. I'll look for kinks.
I once built a small machinery shed from discarded 2" rigid conduit .All saddled together and welded trusses and all .Took me about two weeks of evenings after work .I did have to buy the gravel fill and metal roofing .20 by 30, 600 square feet,$600 .That was around 1980 ,I don't own it any more but it's still solid as a rock .
That's funny. I built one to from junkyard pipe and siding.
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Well there's one thing about it .If you earn or make money you have to pay taxes on it .If however you save money, so far they haven't figured a way to tax it,---yet . 8)
I win I win....
I went back to the yard and on my forth try I coiled up the resisting band. Also found one more.
I also found 8 cam bearing that I took off some kind of equipment.
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Take your bands and lay them flat on a concrete floor. If you have one that won't lay flat its sprung. It may or may not coil ok but guaranteed it will never saw right.
That's something to check for if you have a band that's sharp and set right but won't saw.
Quote from: Larry on March 16, 2018, 03:50:54 PM
Take your bands and lay them flat on a concrete floor. If you have one that won't lay flat its sprung. It may or may not coil ok but guaranteed it will never saw right.
That's something to check for if you have a band that's sharp and set right but won't saw.
Thanks for the info... Anyway to spring them back?
Not as far as I know but never tried.
I had a couple of sprung bands that a guy dropped off to be sharpened!
They wouldn't even feed around the sharpener correctly, and I couldn't coil them!
When he came to pick them up, I explained to him why those two bands need to be trashed, by laying them on the floor! smiley_thumbsup
So, they went into the recycle bin!
I bet with the proper application of heat and cool you can unspring them. not sure what it will do to the rest of the blade though. may just be creating hard spots that are going to break later.
K, for you I would say its totally worth experimenting.
K
Cooks offers a blade roller service where they flatten the blade by sending it through a roller. Maby this sounds like another thing that is going to be on your future build list of tools you have to build. :D
Cheers
gww
Quote from: Chuck White on March 17, 2018, 07:00:01 AM
I had a couple of sprung bands that a guy dropped off to be sharpened!
They wouldn't even feed around the sharpener correctly, and I couldn't coil them!
When he came to pick them up, I explained to him why those two bands need to be trashed, by laying them on the floor! smiley_thumbsup
So, they went into the recycle bin!
So that what I found... Gotta let me know when you do that :)
KB, you're mentioned in the Bible, favorably, and in red letters, I must add.
He said to them, "Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old."
:P :D :D :D
Matthew 13:52 (https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=new+treasures&qs_version=NIV)
Matthew 13:52
Honest hard work- this is something God seeks from all of us. God's words tell us that working hard, but with faith in mind, can lead to the great things he has planned for us. Do the best you can do everyday.
Quote from: Crusarius on March 17, 2018, 08:35:26 AM
I bet with the proper application of heat and cool you can unspring them. not sure what it will do to the rest of the blade though. may just be creating hard spots that are going to break later.
K, for you I would say its totally worth experimenting.
For the cost of a band blade, I wouldn't even think about trying to repair one!
The cost in effort and time wouldn't be worth it!
That would be true for some but K always seems to find the time. He usually has good results. I like reading about his crazy endeavors :) It's not my fault I like to fuel the fire :)
Quote from: Crusarius on March 18, 2018, 09:52:23 AM
That would be true for some but K always seems to find the time. He usually has good results. I like reading about his crazy endeavors :) It's not my fault I like to fuel the fire :)
I agree completely, in highschool I was in OM (oddessy of the mind, apparently too much I didn't learn how to spell), we were the first team to make it to world finals and got 6th place. You'd be amazed what you can do with mouse traps, pvc, old motorcycle starters and such, think I learned more there than any class I ever had :D.
I don't even think about the time... I just think it's fun to do stuff that people say can't be done.
I have a ton of friends that don't own much because they say they don't have time to full with junk like I do, It's like a hobby to me. I enjoy what I do. You gotta do something with your time. Work hard to buy new blades or play with old ones to make them work. We are all different. I'm an odd ball.
Yea Yea, we know you are just biding your time waiting on one of those new fangled cbn sharpeners to hit the junkyard.
Kbeitz, I think you are right on. I also enjoy recycling or repurposing old junk-stuff. my thought is that I may not have shiny new but I probably have a lot more satisfaction when the project is accomplished, as I perceive you do, so lets see a band blade straightener.
Quote from: Iwawoodwork on March 18, 2018, 08:35:45 PM
Kbeitz, I think you are right on. I also enjoy recycling or repurposing old junk-stuff. my thought is that I may not have shiny new but I probably have a lot more satisfaction when the project is accomplished, as I perceive you do, so lets see a band blade straightener.
Old school...
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Quote from: Kbeitz on March 18, 2018, 08:11:59 PM
We are all different. I'm an odd ball.
Don't feel so all alone,I'm a charter member of that club also ;)
I got 50 lbs of gas line DC welding rods, 5 Square 20 amp beakers, a 2" receiver ball and 20 romex box connectors today. Not bad.
Kbeitz,
Do you have a big department style store with various departments for plumbing, electrical, tools, carpentry, lawn & garden, etc. with a bunch of bins where you put all this stuff on display for sale? If you do when I can find an excuse to come shopping I'm going to route us that way and come check it all out.
So does it have to be something from a junk yard to post here or can it be some rusty treasures found at an estate sale, auction, etc?
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on March 19, 2018, 04:09:09 PM
Kbeitz,
Do you have a big department style store with various departments for plumbing, electrical, tools, carpentry, lawn & garden, etc. with a bunch of bins where you put all this stuff on display for sale? If you do when I can find an excuse to come shopping I'm going to route us that way and come check it all out.
Not much is for sale. I put everything away in bins and racks for my building stock. I could never build all the things I do if I had to buy all this stuff. Every time I see something new I say now what can I build out of that. Everythings got it's place or I would never be able to find it again.
Quote from: osage outlaw on March 19, 2018, 08:47:16 PM
So does it have to be something from a junk yard to post here or can it be some rusty treasures found at an estate sale, auction, etc?
I not the boss. But if it's it's up to me anything goes....
Quote from: Kbeitz on March 19, 2018, 08:48:47 PMEverything's got it's place or I would never be able to find it again.
That's an understatement. I take stuff apart before I toss the bad stuff and save the nut, bolts, springs, etc. I drop them in a PB jar and put it on the shelf. Well, I spent 3 days dumping them out, one at a time, sorting, sorting, sorting. I have about 250 separate containers with 10 to 100's of items in them. I got tired of trying to find something I KNEW I had, somewhere...
I got tired of trying to find something I KNEW I had, somewhere...
Have you been to my place? :D
But I have started to sort my nuts,bolts and washers. All by sizes too. Lock washers,flat washers too. All the springs,hooks,and all that other stuff is put in one bucket for now. Now all the bolts need to be sorted by length. If I am not careful I will be able to pull a draw out and have the right bolt in my sights. :o I have a bunch of flat magnets. Just about the size of those labels you buy on a sheet. I can write what is in a draw and put the magnet on the draw. That would be great. I have 5 gallon buckets of bolts,nuts and washers. I don't want to say 25 gallons,but I think I am right. Might even be on the low side.
My wife went with me out to my shop on Friday and helped me sort a small portion of the stuff we took out of her dad's barn. We've been saving peanut butter jars and the like for some time now. This is the first chance we've had to get this stuff put away and there is a whole lot more to go. I've got everything from rusty nuts & bolts to motors, gear boxes and old circle sawmill parts. And I'm collecting more. Craigslist free stuff sometimes has treasures you wouldn't believe, I always check it.
Quote from: thecfarm on March 19, 2018, 09:18:37 PMI don't want to say 25 gallons,but I think I am right.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a metal bucket about 2.5-3 gallon full of stainless bolts. Sizes range from 3/16 to 7/16 (most being 3/8") lengths from 2" up to 4-1/2". Ninety nine and one half pounds. Based on counts/jar I put it at 1,500 to 1,800 bolts. That took about 8 hours to sort. Not bad for $20 on CL.
Update: As you can see in the pictures, my estimate earlier of 250 containers was a bit low. I counted at least 400 between the two set of cabinets. The jars in the green metal cabinets (with red and green lids showing) and the top two rows on the front left white rack are all stainless.
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I take a hot melt glue gun and take one bolt,nut or washer out of my drawer and glue it on front so I know what I have in each draw. It's easy to change when needed. My mixed drawers are just marked mixed. This also works for nails and screws.
Organized. Good job.
I found steel cabinets,I think used for cards,like with a hole in the bottom,like to keep tax records? Draws are about 4 inches by a foot long. There are 54 draws.I have some stuff in there. That is where most of the small nuts and bolts will go. A small coffee can fit nice in the draws. When ever I go to the dump,I pick up those big gallon cans. Hard to fine big tin cards now. Most coffee cans are cardboard now. The brand I buy is still tin,so far.
It is so much easier to walk up to something and pull out a draw and there it is. I do the pull out the draw and the paw through a bucket to find what I need. The pull out the draw keeps me sane. ;D
I picked up this 5x8 tilt trailer for $50. It came with a big ratchet strap and a good length of chain with hooks. The deck boards, tires, and receiver need replaced. It should be an easy fix.
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A few weeks back I saved these two pieces from going in a dumpster. I replaced the carburetor on the quad and got both running yesterday.
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I grabbed this set of leaf springs from the dumpster also. I've been looking for some good forging steel. There's plenty here to keep me busy for a while. I was told they came off of an old flat bed truck.
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Steer axle springs.
Great day today... 5 Pony clamps 2 at six feel long and 3 at at 24" long.
Coffee can of 3" screws, 20 new 20 amp receptacles, 20 new rafter hanging brackets, Hand full of tools,
Two hand planes, extension cord, jumper cable, electric box covers and peg board hooks.
Another good day... Something I needed... I had to replace the cord. One caster is broken and one handle is broken. E-bay sells the parts... american 7" spinner floor sander. It had a new sanding disc on it. Works great.
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that looks like an excellent candidate for the bandmill router.
Sweet! I picked one up in similar condition at an auction last fall. I guess noone knew what it was. Paid $7.50 for the whole lot it was in. They go for $2-300 regularly. I bought it to use it as intended though. ;D Just need to get my moulder running... :-\
Oh this thread is gonna be a problem for me. I can fill a semi with equipment from the scrapyard.
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Oh this thread is gonna be a problem for me. I can fill a semi with equipment from the scrapyard.
Post away.... Pictures pictures...
Times are a changing. What us older folks call a junkyard are now called take off auto parts places. I graduated HS in 1979. Couple of days right at the end we had to show up at school with nothing to do.
So some off us guys got the idea we wanted to go to the local junkyard and try and find some parts for one of the guys car. We went down and talked to the assistant principal and told him out plans and could we get a pass to go out. Now he was an older feller with probably 30 years under his belt. He laughed and said in all his time he had heard a lot of excuses but never a bunch of high school students asking to leave to go to the junk yard.
Today I got 30+ looks like new extension cords. Around 8-10 feet long. They was with two LARGE trash bags of Christmas tree lights. I only took the cords.
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When do you suppose the producers 0f the "reality" shows about hoarders will come a knockin at your door?
Naw, I'm waiting to see you on American Pickers. Your their kind of guy except for the part where you won't sell stuff. :D
Funny... About two years ago I talked to Frank on the phone. He said when he gets to this part of Pa. he would look me up... No kidden....
Frank will try to make a bundle deal for your phone cords, watch out.
I got to try out the floor sander today. I had to replace the cord a broken handle and two casters. I had a hard time finding casters that would work, I sanded the bottom of a slab bench thinking I would get sanding swirls from the sanding disc but to my surprise I did not. This is what I'm using for the casters. I'm very happy with this unit.
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I picked up 21 more 150" band blades yesterday. I wont be buying new blades for a while. This set really looks good. I got a few one inch and a few two inch to try out. I found out that 21 bands really got some weight to them.
I deliver product to the big box stores every day. Where I unload at their scrap hopper is close by. I just have to look in it to see what they throw away. Yesterday the hopper had 12 new in the box overhead garage doors and lots more new items. Those items CANNOT be bought.
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I deliver product to the big box stores every day. Where I unload at their scrap hopper is close by. I just have to look in it to see what they throw away. Yesterday the hopper had 12 new in the box overhead garage doors and lots more new items. Those items CANNOT be bought.
Most places are like that. The company was reimbursed by the insurance co. Item are to be junked. Then they end up in the junkyard where I find them.
I worked in a trash transfer station for a few years and it amazed me the stuff that was tossed out tree stands and compound bows for my friends fishing tackle box's of fishing stuff found some really cool fishing poles, electric tools the stuff was endless
K ,you must of got some more goodies by now , we are all waiting to see them ;D 8) 8)
K is on a vacation and that is all that needs to be said about that. As a warning, never mess with the Forestry Forum sponsors just because you think you have the right to say anything you want here. You don't. They make it possible for the Forestry Forum to exist as well as for me to eat. We don't need any further discussion on that here.