Lanse!! Would like to talk to you!!!

Lanse I would like to talk to you about your V-8 tractor build. Your going good. I just watched your nickel welding on the yoke video. There is a potential safety issue with your current mounting of the drive shaft. It can be easily corrected with a few additional fabricated parts. PLEASE contact me ASAP!!!! No joke and not being critical here. It is more the been there done that type of thing.

Hi
I know why you want to talk to him , Seems he don't want our help . i pointed the problems and safety concerns with that shaft set up and explosion of component risk yesterday along with a lot of others. The response was he's disabled comments. Guy says he's no engineer or mechanic, seems he won't listen to others that know. Sorry to say that stunts going to cost him atleast one subscriber, I feel that was very rude and disrespectful to guys that are trying to be constructive, helping him to not kill himself or somebody else. His pride might get the better of him sad to say!! Until this point I used to enjoy his welding channel.
Regards Robert

Lanse needs to forget his pride and listen to the ones that know. I have seen the damage a shaft can do when it lets go.Knew one guy that lost a leg.I have seen shafts from dragsters to oil rigs to boats.Not something to play with.

Lanse seems to come here to promeote his vids and not really ask or take advice. When he did the motor build it was a horror. Filthy rags all over the place ,no sanitation at all. It was something like a 305 and they ordered all 350 parts for it . I couldn't even read it it was such a mess. Just the pictures of the filthy work area gave you the idea Lanse and his buds had no idea how to rebuilld a motor with any cleanliness.

Hi Billy I quite agree with your statement. I referred him to the video of the 1206 International blowing the clutch and flywheel out at a pull.
Figured it would give him some idea how bad a situation could get if things went wrong, and that shaft let go with people close by.
any of us with mechanical or pulling back grounds fully understand this situation. As always the hard part is getting some other people to understand this safety issue with these projects. I really think it's the it won't happen to me syndrome. Kinda like everybody elses baler catches fire not mine, Well it did and changed my attitude pretty quick!!!!!.
Regards Robert

Sadly Robert it will take someone getting hurt or killed to wake him up.

I watched the video of him welding that yoke with nickle rod. I had to question his calling that U-joint yoke "cast iron" as they are NEVER made out of brittle cast iron, but it is in fact forged STEEL! He just wasted his expensive nickle rod as it could have been welded with plain ol' 7018.

Well guys the trouble is that the input shaft of Farmall "H" transmission is not meant to have a load suspended on the shaft without a pilot bearing supporting that load. I have used transmissions in applications where I drove the input shaft with a drive shaft. I installed a pillow block bearing on the input shaft just leaving enough room for a yoke to fit. This way your back to a two point support on that input shaft like it was designed.

IF you look at when he "fitted" his finished part on the input shaft you gout see how much movement he had just with that yoke load on it. Now add in the fact that the Farmall "H" stock engine was governed at 1650 RPM IRC. So now you put a small block Chevy motor that can easily hit 4000 RPM spinning a drive shaft that is riding on an unsupported input shaft. You have the makings of a very dangerous accident. No Actually it is not an accident if you do something like this when people tell you the problem with your "design" before you have trouble.

This is not some one criticizing his get up and go or willingness to build things. Lanse appears to be doing well for his age and where he started. I just do not want to read about him or his friends getting seriously hurt or killed from this dangerous design!!!!!

Hi JD
Several of us are on exactly the same page as you with the problems and the fix, the bigger huge problem is you can lead a horse to water but you might be there a heck of a long time trying to make it drink.
We were all young once figured we were 20ft tall and bullet proof like seems to be happening in his case , Generally a degree from the university of life fixes that assumption with most of us, or good sound advise prevents the real bad option as in this situation.

Yes its impressive were he is at with his welding skills, house, shop and trucks for his age. I don't personally dispute that if he can pull it all off, and pay for it. But if your not going to listen sometimes in your life , chew the leg off the teddy bear then throw it in the corner in a tantrum. like he seems to of done with his followers on all the tractor video's, as he don't seem to want to listen to experience or any important valid help. or heaven forbid it being youtube and negative hater comments or 2. Good luck with it and the consequences, WHEN not IF it blows apart as far as some of us are concerned at this point.

I really hope he turns this around figures we do know what we are talking about and gets this tractor safe and finished. If things are done right there is a lot of fun to be had with these projects. I loved building my Belarus 500 and fitting a Perkins 510 v8 in it, and getting round the problems to make it work as a pulling tractor. like with Lanse there was no real drawn plans and just an idea. it was built from piles of used parts in several guys yards and a vision that appeared as it was being built. A few guys have told me you need to be a special breed of guy to do this stuff like lanses project. It seems like many of us here are those guys .. Regards Robert

I guess the saying,,you can lead a horse to water ,,but you cant make him drink,,,???Fits in this situation??

Larry your right in this case. He is going to get someone seriously hurt than the fun will begin. He will find out how a law suit can quickly take all his toys away. HE knows a lot for his age but like most of us where, he DOES NOT know half of what he THINKS he does.

I have to laugh at the things he states in his videos as FACT. LOL Like in this case the yoke being cast iron. It is cast STEEL. Then he goes on and on about how welding Grade Eight bolts can KILL you!!! It is the plating on SOME bolts that can be an inhalation issue. The grade of bolt has ZERO to do with whether or not it is dangerous, it is the plating. Even then you would have to have your nose right directly in the fumes.

Bought a pulling tractor rail type set up with a Chevy 454 and a Cockshutt 50 rear,the drive shaft went directly under the seat with only a 1/8 plate for protection and it was cobbled up to boot.He was real lucky it was the engine that blew.