2016 POTD Thread Archive

[chevydyl]

This one time-lol, when I was cleaning right aways about 10 yrs ago or more I was limping a skinny birch tree and I knew my chain was getting a little loose but I didn't wanna stop and tighten it, only a few trees left for the day, well I got a little twist in the blade, and if you've operated a saw much you know exactly what's gonna happen, I had the saw a little over chest height, and when it spit the chain it slapped me in the chest....however when they derail they usually get caught on the saw somehow and are not rotating, lucky me I just had a couple little scratches. Another time I was working next to the lead faller, he was still wasted from the half gallon the night before, he dropped a poplar on to a power line, it was super sketch, he said don't move! Let it burn through that line before you take one foot off the ground! It was crazy watching the tree trunk arc to the ground for what seemed like forever until it burned through the line.

 

[Str8jacket]

I muffed the sizes up too, its 78in x 118in deck. Must have been tired when i guessed the ft conversion

Nice build, could you tell us more about the coupler? It appearers to have some articulation built in the design. Specifications would be great.
Thanks for posting.

Its called an Ozhitch.
https://www.ozhitch.com/
I have the 3.5ton rated one. Very nice to tow with and easy to hook up.

The tung looks exceptionally long. Is it also Aluminum?

Brian

Yeah it is long, makes it easier to tow on our very rubbish roads, it is steel, after much careful planning measuring and assessing the loads etc i decided to use it because i had two 4m lengths left over from building my deck!. Its 125mm x 75mm x 4mm. It extends under the frame and the suspension bolts to it. The rest or the frame and deck is alloy to keep wieght down. I saved about 300kg.

WILL IT HAVE ENOUGH TONGUE WEIGHT?

Its about 70kg unloaded. Which is close to 10%.

Ooooh! Shiny!!! I like it! Looks like it's meant to take quite a heavy, compact load. I hope the jack wheel is secured well to the frame. I borrowed a trailer once, and the jack could barely support the trailer empty, let alone if it had anything in it!

Its heavy duty, reduction geared. Also built a support for when its swivelled up when being towed.

Im giveng that timbren silent ride suspension a go, had never seen it before so its a experiment for me.

Cheers Ben

 

[Firestopper]

Thanks for the info on the coupler.

 

[great white]

Good by 99 hp:



Hello 145 hp:






Not much machining to do though. I do have to mill down the cylinder side plates (the vertical lines in the first pic) to fit under the VMax heads.

They're more than decorative, they hold in the cylinder cooling drain plugs. I'll load 'em up in the atlas milling attachment for my lathe (thanks to UlmaDoc again) and shave 'em to size.

 

[f350ca]

Picked up a LED bulb that fit a quartz flood light fixture, its been sitting for years in the shop. The other day I ran across a POS daily indicator holder I'd picked up at Princess auto, so its the real high end Chinese stuff. The two mated into a mag base work light.



Greg

 

[rwm]

WORLD MARKET HAS MARTINI SHAKERS ON SALE:

"But I only drink beer! Why would I care?" you ask....Of course they are really stainless light heads for machine tools. Good deal at $3




R

 

[Dan_S]

I finished all the machining on these two pieces last night, and now I'm enjoying a nice beverage while I edit the video, and make prints for the next component of my project!

 

[Dan_S]

"But I only drink beer! Why would I care?" you ask....Of course they are really stainless light heads for machine tools. Good deal at $3

Rum is my poison of choice, I must have been a pirate in another life.

 

[roadie33]

Rum is my poison of choice, I must have been a pirate in another life.

So that means since I am a Tool whore, I must have been a whore in another life!

 

[chevydyl]

Messing around scraping, this is the first part I've ever scraped, it hit pretty good on the plate so I decided to half moon it, purely decorative, but I'm pretty got damn proud of the results being a noob, the half moon trick from Richard king was amazingly great, he said use a rubber hammer to hit the scraper with and these are the results.