Wow! Hey whatever work's right?
This is interesting, as I actually spent 6 hrs today operating a Massey Ferguson rear excavator rig. Had almost reached sundown and snapped a double-ended pivote pin bar... snapped clean in two places just below the eyelets.
Had hit a LARGE rock, undergrade, couldn't see from the operating position, and the piece snapped clean, too much torque I suppose....didn't even feel it building up, just went. T'was the "left" side bar which controlled "open/close" on the bucket... left my bucket dangling, had to leave it in far "out" and "up" to get it back to the site without dragging while coming down off the mountain.
Got back to the building, grabbed a sledge hammer and a can of WD40, some wrenches, got the pin-bolts out, slammed the two pins out, and got the assembly apart from the hydraulic ram. Looks like I'm gonna stick weld it tomororw morning cuz I have to finish trenching the job tomorow.
So much for just doing Arb work.
