Automatic or manual? The most important thing is the rear gear ratio. If it’s a high gear like 5:29 it will be a dog. It if is, changing the ratio to over 7:00 would give it grunt and pulling power. It won’t go over 55 but that’s okay. I have an international 4900 with a 3000 series Allison...
He or they stuck a piece of cement into that chipper knowing it would destroy it. That was known what would happen. Spiteful and pissed at the employer for some reason.
Just spoke to him. $9,000 for a new boom. $7,000 labor. Takes 2 months to build boom. I think I have to rent a bucket from a&a. $6,000 plus a month. Got any suggestions?
I will tmrw. Where the upper boom sat in the rear cradle,the underside got soft over the years. One of my employees didn’t collapse the hydraulics when he set it in the cradle. When the truck was driven the next day after hitting a bump in the road the boom jumped out of the cradle and...