Adventures in rebuilding the 1956 420-C .
Lavoy , Thanks for the information . I just went to JDparts and checked on the nut and it is still available and has a 90 degree cone seat on them . I can probably find the right tooling to replicate the seat after repairing the holes . If you have an undamaged side frame could you check and see how deep the seat goes into the side frame for me as both sides of mine are damaged .
Tigerhaze , if a mouse can fit it's head through a gap it can squeeze the rest of it's body through . Had one get into a subpanel in a buddies shop when he removed some wiring and did not plug the holes . I had a lot of fun replacing that panel when it finally fried . Dan
Tigerhaze , if a mouse can fit it's head through a gap it can squeeze the rest of it's body through . Had one get into a subpanel in a buddies shop when he removed some wiring and did not plug the holes . I had a lot of fun replacing that panel when it finally fried . Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
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Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
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- DiggerLarry
- 440 crawler
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I looked for the cat but did not find it, like trying to find Waldo in all that stuff. If you continue to post pictures of your pack-rat compound I may be tempted to show up when you're not around and go fishing.
Standard procedure for bringing disabled equipment into the shop:
1) Drag in with a chain
2) Remove chain
3) Extract field mice and angry yellow jackets
Standard procedure for bringing disabled equipment into the shop:
1) Drag in with a chain
2) Remove chain
3) Extract field mice and angry yellow jackets
Larry , I had one fill up a gas tank that I had cleaned and lined for a friend of mine for his ditch witch , I had set it upside down outside of the shop to let the liner cure , when he stopped to pick it up about three weeks later the mouse had built a nest in it . Quick little buggers and just having one cat does not keep up with them .
Ray. Look for the red circles she blends in real well .
Right under the gear shifter .
Another picture . She has been a good killer cat over the years .
The pack-rat compound is from many years of gathering pipe , machinery , left over steel from construction jobs , and various sundry items . There is quite a lot of inventory out there , some has to go to the scrap yard before the new shop goes up and the rest needs sorted and an inventory done so I know what is out there .
Yellowjackets were not as big a problem this year as they were in prior years but I still had to go on the offensive against three nest , one in the block walls of the house and two in trees that were where we mow . Two years ago we had fourteen nests that had to be removed over the summer .
Also had a swarm of honeybees this year , they arrived just before dark and moved on the next morning . I got rid of all the apiary supplies years ago so I could not catch them . It would have been nice to have a supply of honey again . Dan
Ray. Look for the red circles she blends in real well .
Right under the gear shifter .
Another picture . She has been a good killer cat over the years .
The pack-rat compound is from many years of gathering pipe , machinery , left over steel from construction jobs , and various sundry items . There is quite a lot of inventory out there , some has to go to the scrap yard before the new shop goes up and the rest needs sorted and an inventory done so I know what is out there .
Yellowjackets were not as big a problem this year as they were in prior years but I still had to go on the offensive against three nest , one in the block walls of the house and two in trees that were where we mow . Two years ago we had fourteen nests that had to be removed over the summer .
Also had a swarm of honeybees this year , they arrived just before dark and moved on the next morning . I got rid of all the apiary supplies years ago so I could not catch them . It would have been nice to have a supply of honey again . Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
- DiggerLarry
- 440 crawler
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- Joined: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:35 am
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Larry , a lot of my work is done outside of my shop , tear downs are usually done out on the gravel . I need a bigger shop but the cost of the ground work has held me up for years . I plan to build a bigger shop next summer that is one reason I bought the crawler . Clean up my steel piles and sell the real scrap and organize the good steel , once the truck is back together . Still waiting on the fixed hone to come in , maybe today , then the engine can go back together . Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
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NNAATZ , notice I said shop cat , she has a cat door into the shop and she has a habit of bringing here kills into the shop to show us what she has caught . If I am not outside or in the shop she will come to the side door and call to us until somebody comes and acknowledges her prize , then she will take the prize away and eat it . If I have not been around for a few days I might have six or eight chipmunk tails laying on the shop floor in front of my welding equipment . I will put up with disposing of the tails and a few carcasses to keep the shop free of mice .
mini kahuna , the cat before her was another calico that was as good a mouser as she is . Her only bad habit is she wants up on your lap if you set down . Dan
mini kahuna , the cat before her was another calico that was as good a mouser as she is . Her only bad habit is she wants up on your lap if you set down . Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
- Stan Disbrow
- 350 crawler
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- Location: Raleigh, NC
Hi,
What? Can't weld with chimpunk tails??
I have ten cats on our farm. Well, make that twelve cats now. We had nine until our oldest daughter had us cat-sit hers - open ended timeframe, of course - and it turns out she didn't get her fixed. Now we have twelve as of four weeks ago!
We have a cat door. Actually, two cat doors. The first runs into the 2-car attached garage I have outfitted as my electonics shop. The other runs from the e-shop into the laundry room and then on to the kitchen.
We get lots of 'presents'. Fortunately most of them get left in the e-shop.
Talking about how the little ones are the best hunters. My smallest, maybe 5 pounds wet, is a female and my largest, over 20 pounds, is a male and they tag-team things (literally) to death. The big one runs something past where the little one is hiding and - surprise - mandibles of death. If the critter in question is too much for the little girl, then the big boy comes along presently and - it's curtains anyway.
We have field mice that run nearly as large as the little one. They don't stand a chance, though. Those are some fearsome predators that we let sleep on our laps.....
I won't even get into how the cats tag-team things with our two Labs. Darndest thing I ever saw, though. Dogs and cats hunting together......
Later!
Stan
What? Can't weld with chimpunk tails??
I have ten cats on our farm. Well, make that twelve cats now. We had nine until our oldest daughter had us cat-sit hers - open ended timeframe, of course - and it turns out she didn't get her fixed. Now we have twelve as of four weeks ago!
We have a cat door. Actually, two cat doors. The first runs into the 2-car attached garage I have outfitted as my electonics shop. The other runs from the e-shop into the laundry room and then on to the kitchen.
We get lots of 'presents'. Fortunately most of them get left in the e-shop.
Talking about how the little ones are the best hunters. My smallest, maybe 5 pounds wet, is a female and my largest, over 20 pounds, is a male and they tag-team things (literally) to death. The big one runs something past where the little one is hiding and - surprise - mandibles of death. If the critter in question is too much for the little girl, then the big boy comes along presently and - it's curtains anyway.
We have field mice that run nearly as large as the little one. They don't stand a chance, though. Those are some fearsome predators that we let sleep on our laps.....
I won't even get into how the cats tag-team things with our two Labs. Darndest thing I ever saw, though. Dogs and cats hunting together......
Later!
Stan
There's No Such Thing As A Cheap Crawler!
Useta Have: '58 JD 420c 5-roller w/62 inside blade
Useta Have: '78 JD350C w/6310 outside blade
Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)
Useta Have: '58 JD 420c 5-roller w/62 inside blade
Useta Have: '78 JD350C w/6310 outside blade
Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)
I did not get much done this last week as I severely stubbed my little toe last Sunday , went to the doctor on Monday . He said it was not broken but maybe I had dislocated it . I could not stand or work for several days last week , once I could stand for some period of time I did get the one cross member scaled and ready for sandblasting . As always OPP (other peoples projects) rear their ugly heads . Hope to get more done this week . Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Well I got the lathe home , so work can restart on the crawler soon
Front view .
There are more pictures here of the lathe .
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff14 ... 3%20Lathe/
Dan
Front view .
There are more pictures here of the lathe .
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff14 ... 3%20Lathe/
Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
LOL
Bret , the pictures were taken a couple a of days before the snow started again here . I have a snow pile eight to ten feet high , sixteen feet wide , and about 30 feet long close to where the trailer was parked when the pictures were taken .
This is the first year in a longtime that I am sick of snow It can stop anytime now . Might be different If I had the crawler up and running .
I got the Lathe in the shop just before , a few hours before , the show started in earnest again .
Dan
This is the first year in a longtime that I am sick of snow It can stop anytime now . Might be different If I had the crawler up and running .
I got the Lathe in the shop just before , a few hours before , the show started in earnest again .
Dan
1956 420C with GSC blade
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
Tools are to men as shoes are to women , you can never have too many !!
Used diesel engines are an adventure any way you look at them !!
I knew there had to be snow. We've got about 3 feet of "Global Warming" on the ground here. Nice lathe, I trained on a Le Blond and a Clausing similar to that. I'm trying to find something along those lines as I'm beating my little Atlas 6" to death. I found an Index Mill and a 13" Frejoth lathe in a package deal, but I'm short $$$$. Sure would be handy!
40C, 420C, 1010C-L-BH, Cat D4
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