When my truck is finished!!!
Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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It’s coming. I’ll make a thread in “rubber hits the road” when it’s complete. This is the third build I’ve done with this very truck. It used to carry my spider lift, then I set up ramps for loading my spider crane, and now it’s going to be my little grapple truck.
I have a client that was born and raised here, and moved out to Cali for years and years. She just moved back East and told me all kinds of stories about the issues with drought out West. She says she would never go back out there. Must be bad.
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
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- Long island
Deadwooding locusts under the Brooklyn bridge today 
Wow, what a cool opportunity.
Some of the best Arb photos I have seen in a very long time. Amazing stuff Jzack..
I didn’t think I would ever consider leaving my Redwood forests, but here I am. It really feels like we are reaching a tipping point. Hurts my heart.
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Hard for me to imagine how much it would take to tear out my roots. I wish you the best, whatever may come to be.
Steve Connally
Been here much more than a while
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- Suffolk, Virginia
wow
Fivepoints
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- East of Huntsville, AL
Broke the hex on our atom splitter today!
Ouch. That looks like a casting. Broke right at the stress risers. How long was it in service for?
Broke the hex on our atom splitter today!
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
Ouch! Do you ever pull sideways on that splitter? That looks like a lateral force break, unless you just really put a lot of torque into it and split it out that way.
Broke the hex on our atom splitter today!
Maybe wrap a piece of plate around the next one, to give it a bit of extra reinforcement.
Fivepoints
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- East of Huntsville, AL
Used it about 50 to 60 hours.
Fivepoints
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- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
Yep. No way to avoid sideways pulling when a log is rolling around. I think a machined sleeve around it and welded on would really help.
We are using a 3300 ft lb rated auger drive. The hex on this has always been kinda sloppy. Wonder if that didnt help things.
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
I thought that might be the case, and that’s probably what broke it. The machined sleeve probably would help, a strap/band rolled around would probably work just as well and might be stronger? I’m not an engineer though so I can’t say for sure.
If you do have a sleeve machined, friction fit it - make it a little too small, heat it up, with an induction heater or in a real hot oven, and slide over. When it cools, it will lock up real tight, and actually make the coupler stronger yet because of the force being applied by the ring.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
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- Maine Island
Some very curious sheep at the farm.Years and years ago, I remember going to pick up some compost from an old family friend’s horse farm. The woman directed me to simply drive right up to the pile, and not to mind the horses. Well, the horses must ha e been used to some sort of hay delivery routine (just a guess), because they all came straight to my truck. One of them began to chew on the hood, leaving deep gouges and missing paint.
Then, the saying of a friend of mine became immediately clear…”free, or less”. The free composted manure became a comparatively expensive auto body repair. Kinda like no good deed going unpunished.
