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When changing the ball on my receiver hitch I would lay down in the dirt to remove the ball nut. Someone watching me said why don't you remove the hitch and install it so the ball and nut are horizontal, then you can do the job standing up. I can't believe I didn't think of that years ago. What have you done for years that could have been so much easier? Stan
 
Bought a 14 t baler guy said its probably junk .they had spent a lot of time trying to get it working turned it over by hand couldnt belive what i saw . bolt holding needle was loose readjust tighten and now its tying .the next question should i tell him
 
I spent a lot of years laying down working on wiring and brakes on bumper pull trailers/stock trailers. It wasn't until I had to weld on the tongue of one that I hooked onto it with the front loader of the tractor and stood it up on its backside. I'm never laying in the dirt again to do a brake job on the little stock trailer. Best part? If I use a hammer there isn't "anything" to fall in my eyes.
 
We recently bought a 545 fiat allis loader that has brakes. The 645 we had for 20 years never had any. The other day I was loading some debris on our dump trailer bumping it in and out of Gear bumping against the dump trailer. My brother walks up and tells me it won't hurt to use the brakes you know.
Ron
 
If you want to tell him something, just tell him that you had it repaired at great expense and it works now.
 
Recently changed out the transaxle on riding mower. Drove it up on trailer so I could work sitting on a chair instead of lying on the floor.
Also the book says to remove the mower deck to make room to put stands under frame. I left the deck on, stuffed a 2x4 between the lift arms & frame, let it rest on the gauge wheels.
Willie
 
You know Stan, I've never thought of that trick either. You can get more leverage on the nut too. I always sit on my butt, put my foot against something and pull like hll. Jim
 
I remove them and clamp em in the vise, then use the suitable air impact device....

Oh......and use some never seize on the threads so as ya can get it off next time

Or just have some extra draw bars and do not change the ball at all....

I have 4 of them in the truck, 1 7/8 - 2 -2 5/16 - & a pintle

Much easier to just pull the pin!!!
 
When using tubes of sillacone, jb weld, or other stuff in the same type of tube one of the guys in my shop always needed a nail or screw or something to poke in the tube to break the seal. I finally told him one,day that if you turn the cap over their is a perfect spot to puncture a hole built right into the cap. He said he had never noticed that In all the years he had been using that stuff.
 
(quoted from post at 17:19:25 09/07/14) I remove them and clamp em in the vise, then use the suitable air impact device....

Oh......and use some never seize on the threads so as ya can get it off next time

Or just have some extra draw bars and do not change the ball at all....

I have 4 of them in the truck, 1 7/8 - 2 -2 5/16 - & a pintle

Much easier to just pull the pin!!!
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Me too, Gene
 
(quoted from post at 23:34:18 09/07/14)
(quoted from post at 17:19:25 09/07/14) I remove them and clamp em in the vise, then use the suitable air impact device....

Oh......and use some never seize on the threads so as ya can get it off next time

Or just have some extra draw bars and do not change the ball at all....

I have 4 of them in the truck, 1 7/8 - 2 -2 5/16 - & a pintle

Much easier to just pull the pin!!!
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Me too, Gene
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Me 3.
 
(quoted from post at 08:59:36 09/07/14) When changing the ball on my receiver hitch I would lay down in the dirt to remove the ball nut. Someone watching me said why don't you remove the hitch and install it so the ball and nut are horizontal, then you can do the job standing up. I can't believe I didn't think of that years ago. What have you done for years that could have been so much easier? Stan
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I'm even lazier than that. I have a "stinger" for each size ball plus one for a pin to pull farm wagons. I just pull the pin, put the correct size one in and put the pin back in. Less than 30 seconds to be ready to pull a different trailer.

Rick
 
The guy I work for has a kenze planter. The kind that raises way up in the air (head high), and then swivels a quarter turn for transport down the road. One year I rolled all around underneath of it greasing and doing other things. The next year I got smart. Did everything I could do to it raised all the way up. Some things had to be done in the down position, but made it a hole lot better. On anther note, when I was a kid our neighbor (city guy) was unloading bricks out of the back of his station wagon into a wheel barrel, then into the garage where he was stacking them. After watching awhile my dad went over and asked him why he didn't just back the car up into his garage and stack the bricks up right out of the car and forget the wheel barrel. LOL. He said good idea, he hadn't thought about that. Must of just wanted to use his wheel barrel I guess.
 
I was camping in a state park several years ago and elderly gentleman next to me was hitching his big travel trailer. He had hitched it to the ball and raised the jack stand and was fighting with a bar to get the load leveler bars latched. I walked over and asked him "Wouldn't it have been easier to do that before you raised the jack stand?" He gave me a startled thought and said, " Yes it would, but I never thought of it."
 
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