necessity is a mutha

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Dang - you'd make a great addition to the Uncle Moustache fix-all club!

Club Moto: Fix it on Sunday, use it on Monday!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Lovin the redneck engineering!

yeah, very inventive, huh! ??

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

someone got good eyes... Yes, massy ferguson. 1956 and so worn out it ain't even funny.

I have not driven it yet. I'll try that they next time I have to deck some logs. I have a buddy gonna check a tractor tire place out by where he is at. might have some 12.4 x 28's

it's old, slow, cranky, uses 1/2 gallon oil an hour, fouls plugs in 15 minutes. has maybe 7 lbs of oil pressure warm. drifts out of gear. but it will move logs around....

>it's old, slow, cranky, uses 1/2 gallon oil an hour, fouls plugs in 15 minutes. has maybe 7 lbs of oil pressure warm. drifts out of gear. but it will move logs around....

sounds like a keeper to me...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

LOL... I've done the "boot in the tire" thing before.
I broke a spring shackle on my pickup... there ain't any-way-in-hell the bolt is gonna' come out of that spring bushing.
I ain't come up with a good redneck engineering plan yet... any ideas??
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tonnage!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Broke shackle.... Just removing a bolt isn't difficult. I made up a contraption years ago involving a piece of steel and a strong chain. Weld a chain link to the end of the bolt and using a hydraulic jack.... on steel pulling on bolt. Came right out with 2 tons on it!
You put them back to the rubber with GoJo hand cleaner, makes that rubber slide like......

>Came right out with 2 tons on it!

what can I say.... ?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Many years ago I came across a logging outfit that had an old Blitz 4x4 truck, the tyres had long gone so they welded angle iron across the rims like grouser bars.

all they needed next was a pair of tank trax! lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

 

[brenndatomu]

Aww, quitch yer bellyachin, git out in the shop and weld ya up some new tars...
(Or you cold do like some of the amish, just cut the tread off your tires and bolt it to a steel wheel. You already have a good start)

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Aww, quitch yer bellyachin, git out in the shop and weld ya up some new tars...
(Or you cold do like some of the amish, just cut the tread off your tires and bolt it to a steel wheel. You already have a good start)
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if you used rebar... then u could weld em up... and them's tars... would be fur shore re: bar tred tars!!

 

[zogger]

Stuck a dollar bill in a mountain bike tire before.

Cut around a five inch gash in my tire and tube before, cycling way out in the boondocks. Tried layers of patches, held less than a mile. Took handfulls of long weeds and twisted and braided a round ring rope and got it crammed in there and remounted, rode back to civilization on it just fine.

 

[moondoggie]

Cut around a five inch gash in my tire and tube before, cycling way out in the boondocks. Tried layers of patches, held less than a mile. Took handfulls of long weeds and twisted and braided a round ring rope and got it crammed in there and remounted, rode back to civilization on it just fine.

Nice! You can also tie a knot in the tube.