PO farm repairs bites me
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:19 am
It seems lately everytime i'm working my 3rd int154 changing my driveway pitch something breaks on my int154. The fcub guys better not start my fcub is apart too broken drive shaft. No really its from the PO shabby quick farm repairs thats biting me now. Stupid stuff like 1/2" carriage bolts in round holes on the snow plow brackets. You can't put a square peg in a round hole no matter how much you force it. I had to stop pushing dirt and change all the carriage bolts to new hex bolts. The next stoppage is when the threaded rod for the flywheel brake snapped. He used a piece of soft threaded rod instead of a high grade threaded rod when he repaired it the last time. Then i noticed the battery isn't fully charged up all the time. I cleaned the contacts in the regulator and noticed he has a starter / generator with the larger cub cadet pulley. Its common sense the 154 engine is 2,200rpm and the cadet kolher engine is 3,600rpm. The 154 uses a smaller pulley so it turns faster with the lower rpm. The quick fixes is like shooting yourself in the foot, you know its wrong but you do it any way. I find nails inplace of cotter pins all the time on everything.
I've deceided to go from bumper to bumper making a list of repairs thats needed to bring my 154 back to its orginal condition as it was from the factory. I need to go completely thru it now.
I used this 154 all winter snowplowing and it never failed me and we had a lot of snow last year too. I did not have to start the jeep tractor up even once the int154 did it all. If you have the right tire chains and wheel weights these tractors can do anything. The duo-cross link tire chains are the way to go. I can almost idle and push anything that needs to be pushed. One note the "S" hooks i used on the cross links need the open ends welded shut. I didn't think there was enough force to open up the "S" hook but there is. I'm going to make duo chains for everything now. These machines are work horses too.
I changed the pitch of my driveway between the heavy rain storms. I lowered it so the water flows slower so it won't wash out anymore. It worked. The int154 did it all. If i hire someone i won't get the job done like i want. My son is the laborer and i tell him how to do it.
Fact; I thought being a machine operator on a construction site was an easy job. I found out there's more to just dropping the plow and pushing. I can control the leveling, the sloping and the angle on any task. Its quite a job that takes knowledge too. The machine overall is kicking my butt too.
I've deceided to go from bumper to bumper making a list of repairs thats needed to bring my 154 back to its orginal condition as it was from the factory. I need to go completely thru it now.
I used this 154 all winter snowplowing and it never failed me and we had a lot of snow last year too. I did not have to start the jeep tractor up even once the int154 did it all. If you have the right tire chains and wheel weights these tractors can do anything. The duo-cross link tire chains are the way to go. I can almost idle and push anything that needs to be pushed. One note the "S" hooks i used on the cross links need the open ends welded shut. I didn't think there was enough force to open up the "S" hook but there is. I'm going to make duo chains for everything now. These machines are work horses too.
I changed the pitch of my driveway between the heavy rain storms. I lowered it so the water flows slower so it won't wash out anymore. It worked. The int154 did it all. If i hire someone i won't get the job done like i want. My son is the laborer and i tell him how to do it.
Fact; I thought being a machine operator on a construction site was an easy job. I found out there's more to just dropping the plow and pushing. I can control the leveling, the sloping and the angle on any task. Its quite a job that takes knowledge too. The machine overall is kicking my butt too.