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Old iron
- Thread starter bison
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redshift96
Diesel Knucklehead
Oh man... it would have hurt me to let go of something that had been in the family that long. Tres cool piece of hardware, that.
Kinda like this oddball unit... extra points if anyone actually knows what it is. Getting pretty close to a century old. Still sits at my cousin's ranch, would probably fire right up with a little tlc.
Kinda like this oddball unit... extra points if anyone actually knows what it is. Getting pretty close to a century old. Still sits at my cousin's ranch, would probably fire right up with a little tlc.
bison
Well-Known Member
One can't keep it forever,i don't want it to end up in the smelter.
I feel bad enough already.
BTW i have no clue what the thing in your pic is,would be helpfull to see the other side
I feel bad enough already.
BTW i have no clue what the thing in your pic is,would be helpfull to see the other side
NVW
Well-Known Member
Looks like a hay buncher for making loose hay stacks.
bison
Well-Known Member
redshift96
Diesel Knucklehead
Heh... no kidding.
Awesome guess, NVW. Right on the money. It's a Drube stacker, and is used for exactly what you suggest... though usually it was used to stack the hay into those big old school wooden hay bins out in the pasture. Apparently there's quite an art to getting it just right, so that the high stack won't slide off, and so that snowmelt will run off without spoiling the hay.
With the new rolled bales, not much use for them anymore.
NVW
Well-Known Member
Actually it wasn't much of a guess, we made loose stacks until the early 70's. I was on top of one as early as I can remember packing the hay down. Ours was all metal though on a Farmhand loader.
NVW
Well-Known Member
Simon, did you use the old girl to clear your brush when you moved to the Peace?
bison
Well-Known Member
I bought it in grande prairie in 93,same yr i purchased the ranch.
I cleaned out 30 yrs off acumulated manure from the corral system with it,there was enough shit to cover half a section. (gawd the place was a mess)
I also cleared 15 miles of fence line and pushed the 3500 posts for the new fence in with it. and used it for other odds and ends.
She's been good to me,never had a breakdown
Didn't do to much clearing cause it had no canopy.The overhead dozer bar was in the way to build one.
redshift96
Diesel Knucklehead
Ah.. is that an auger head in the foreground? The thing that looks (almost) like a big stabilizer foot?
- Staff
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Nice pics of the old iron guys. BTW, I knew what the stacker head was.
I'm chiming in kind of late here, but nice looking old dozer, and it looks like you took good care of it, too. Bet you hated to let it go, but that new ASV should help you get over it. I bought a D7E a few weeks ago for the same purposes as yours.
I, too, knew Red's tool was a stacker. An uncle had a farmhand years ago, but I don't remember it being that big. He used his for a scaffold platform more than for putting up hay.
Did you build that post pusher shown on the side? Did you sharpen the posts?
I, too, knew Red's tool was a stacker. An uncle had a farmhand years ago, but I don't remember it being that big. He used his for a scaffold platform more than for putting up hay.
Did you build that post pusher shown on the side? Did you sharpen the posts?
bison
Well-Known Member
Yes i did build the pusher,the swing pin at the bottom is 3 1/2" solid shaft.
i used sharpened posts,without the point you will just lift the cat of the ground,even the D7
i used sharpened posts,without the point you will just lift the cat of the ground,even the D7
That was pretty ingenious of you. It must have worked pretty good. I pushed some steel posts in the ground with my skid loader a couple weeks ago and thought I was pretty clever doing that. I put in a quarter mile of them in less than two hours with a helper. Even at that there were probably a dozen that had to be pounded the rest of the way with the driver. I've seen sharpened posts on the internet, but don't know of a source around home. How deep were you putting them in? Have you had any experience with skid steer mounted hydraulic drivers?
bison
Well-Known Member
All they sell around here are pointed fence post.
the ones i used wher 8' tall,up to 6" dia and they where 3' deep when the blade hit the ground.
For the skidsteer there are vibrating pounders to be had.They claim they will vibrate a flat bottom 8x8 in frozen ground.
Google 'vibrating post pounders.
I only used pull type pounders,I don;t like them cause you shatter the posts when the going in gets hard.
Today i use the wheel loader with in the bucket a 5000 lb loose block of concrete the shape of the bucket. that works good too.
the ones i used wher 8' tall,up to 6" dia and they where 3' deep when the blade hit the ground.
For the skidsteer there are vibrating pounders to be had.They claim they will vibrate a flat bottom 8x8 in frozen ground.
Google 'vibrating post pounders.
I only used pull type pounders,I don;t like them cause you shatter the posts when the going in gets hard.
Today i use the wheel loader with in the bucket a 5000 lb loose block of concrete the shape of the bucket. that works good too.