Re: What is some of the worse breakdowns you have had?

Posted by wisbaker on March 22, 2018 at 19:17:17 from (173.30.37.8):

In Reply to: What is some of the worse breakdowns you have had? posted by jocco on March 22, 2018 at 14:44:39:

We had moved a Byrd 18x40 centrifuge, we were still receiving product in to run while we were moving it. Got it moved and re-installed, filled it up with oil and started working on about 36 hours of back logged product (animal blood) about 8-9 hours into the run it stopped, I don't mean something broke and it coasted down stopped or threw the drive belt off and coasted stop or the motor overloads tripped stopped I mean from 3600 RPMs to zero RPM in less time than you can say "This isn't good". Seems when we moved it the brass base on one of the sight glasses cracked and the leak was big enough that 8-9 hours of run time was the exact amount of time it took to run out of oil, heat up and then the bearings seize. Another real bad one was I was the mechanic for a golf course and we were running 2 Roseman Hydro-gang mowers, A Roseman Hydro gang?-picture a 3xxx series Ford tractor with 7 hydraulically driven 36" reel mowers mounted all over the tractor, a hydraulic pump hanging off the PTO and kind of nestled in between 2 15 gallon oil tanks mounted on the back behind the seat and between the rear wheels. Yes it's as bad as it sounds, do you know hot oil KILLS grass? Do you know golf courses are particularity and inordinately fond of grass? As you can imagine this thing was wholesale leaks on the hoof! Betcha you can see where this is going, one of our turf students hooked one of the reel assemblies on a tree and broke it loose, drug it for about 100 yards making a dandy little furrow right down the right side of the fairway, but wait .....it gets better! The reel unit eventually breaks entirely off so instead of a furrow we start spraying hot hydraulic oil out on the fairway. In answer to your next question, it took about 3/8 to 1/2 of a mile travel to pump all 30 gallons of that hot oil out and onto the fairway (couple of passes). Our young hero finally realizes there is something wrong when the all the reels stop turning (out of oil) and looks back and sees he's running a 6 gang instead of a 7 gang unit. It took me the better part of a day to weld up the hanger and suspension frame for the mower, replace the broken hydraulic lines to the reel, fill the hydraulic system back up and get all the lines bleed out, even at that he bent the lift cylinder for that wing so I ordered a replacement and we had to use it with an outboard reel in the permanent "down" position for a week or so. Or there was the time we were baling hay at home, my youngest brother decided he'd be cool and whip up behind the baler, cut the tractor sharp and drop off the wagon right behind the baler so we didn't have to back up, unfortunately he got a little close to the baler and one of the lugs on the tractor tire hooked something on the baler and flipped it over, I don't mean flipped on the side I mean totally upside down with the knotters in the dirt, and yes the baler was still hooked to the tractor, we were lucky the PTO wasn't running, my dad got a little excited about that one. He used to get pretty excited about stuff like that, boy I wish I could hear another one of his rants about us "busting up all the equipment trying to run it fast like the neighbors", unfortunately he's been gone 7 years last week, still miss him.

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