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Allan in NE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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However, if that front bottom would have came 2" closer and into that tire, I'd a been pizzed!

Allan

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Sorry 'bout the picture size; took 'em with my phone.

Allan

 

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wijim

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Im glad to see you have days like mine. LOL

 

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Royse

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Never had anything like that happen.
Shear the pin on the left side?
Glad no one was hurt. Equipment Ok?

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Both of the click pins broke (one after I got 'er straightened back up). Why do I suspect they were Chineeze? :>)

I'm going to put the IH recommended reinforcements on from now on! I'm sure it had nothing to do with my plowing concrete.

So far, I'm out $7.10, but I'm going to have to replace some tractor hitch parts this winter. :>(

Allan

 

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FBH44

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Looks like that clip-pin on the left side just came un-clipped, and fell off, and the left-side bolt then just slipped out. Looks like it is bent just a little, at the bottom of the 2nd picture.
That"s why I don"t trust those clip-pins at all. I"ve had them removed by brush, twigs, etc.
I do have some that you have to press hard together to unclip, and they"re lots better.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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I've never had one break before, but the one on the right just flat sheared. Shoulda had those reinforcements on, I guess.

Allan

 

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SDE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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You must have a really big phone?

 

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fixerupper

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Never had that happen. Nope! Never had the cultivator drop on one side, dig in, twist around, twist the lower three point arm ball out of it's socket on the other side and go dragging along on it's face by the top link at 20 MPH. Nope!

It's good you weren't going down the road when this happened. I've put a 7/16" double nutted bolt in the end of the pin instead of the spring pin, only to have the double nuts get so rounded off from rubbing and twisting against something that I had to cut the bolt off with a torch, drive the bolt out with a punch. I didn't lose the plow but I lost a part of my religion trying to get unhitched. Jim

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Sorry,

Thought I had 'em sucked down to a livable size.

Allan

 

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mazemeister

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• Aug 3, 2012

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we used to run a 140 plow behind a 4630, and to prevent that sort of thing we'd use 7/16 grade 8 bolts in the cat 3 lift pins. even then we'd replace the bolts a couple times a season.

 

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GordoSD

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• Aug 3, 2012

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iphone? Look for an option just before you send them to your PC or to anywhere. 4 sizes available and I always use the second smallest.

 

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c.hess

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• Aug 3, 2012

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At mottom right corner of computer screen just reduce to about 65% an size will be ok

 

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DeltaRed

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• Aug 3, 2012

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I've had that happen..And it also snapped the top link.

 

showcrop

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• Aug 3, 2012

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BTDT.

 

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Don-Wi

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Yup, had a similar thing happen a while back when I was plowing with our 1755 and 565 3-16 plow. Oliver's have the claws which make hooking on a breeze, but when the one side came out (think a corn stalk grabbed the lynch pin) it snapped off the top part of the claw. It's not bad to replace, just meant we were down until I got a new one.

Now I use the pins that look like a cotter key, which are bent out just a touch on the bottom. Never had one pull out yet.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

billonthefarm

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Farmington IL

• Aug 3, 2012

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I believe the proper term for this accident is "fubar". Looks like it could have been alot worse.
bill

 

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redtom

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• Aug 4, 2012

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I've got 3-16 RO plow behind my 756 and I have to put grade 8 bolts with lock nuts in it.

 

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RodinNS

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• Aug 4, 2012

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I've never had that happen with a plow. Back blades and things like that... many times. Lynch pins today aren't worth a damn.
Looks like all isn't much worse for the ordeal tho. Last bust up I had was with a Vicon fertilizer spreader. Stupid me didn't put a cotter pin in the top link pin and it fell out with 3/4 ton of AN in the tub. That broke the spout off, busted the cast iron frame that the spreader mechanism sits in and bent the PTO shaft. So I spent half a day brazing the damn thing back together, hundred bucks or so on the shaft tubes and still have to get a new spout. You lucked out this time...

Rod