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cowkicker 
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Posted: 05 Sep 2022 at 8:35pm |
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What is the best and/or easiest way to shorten long axles on a 7040? thanks
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 05 Sep 2022 at 9:08pm |
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Don't know best or easiest but have seen what looks like acetylene torch work. Kinda ugly but worked. Don't know how hard they are but maybe a portable band saw would work?
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MACK
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Posted: 05 Sep 2022 at 9:20pm |
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Clamp a chop saw to axle and go to cutting. Use water to keep axle cool. The cooler the metal the better it will cut.. MACK
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DrAllis
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Posted: 05 Sep 2022 at 9:44pm |
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The local Case dealer many years ago made an attachment to his chop saw. They would jack up the tractor, put it in low gear and let it idle. The saw operated under its own weight and 20 minutes later the axle chunk would fall off. He never said they used water but that wouldn't be a bad thing.
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 7:26am |
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Went to a tractor show the other day and saw for the first in awhile a 1468 international with its twin exhaust stacks in original paint sitting there. The axles had been freshly cut probably the day before as the cuts were bright steel with no rust yet,but i was horrified as they had been done free hand with a cut off disc,and not even square to axle,and the sharp edge burrs still on.
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injpumpEd
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 7:56am |
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The cold saw style cut off saw(low rpm carbide blade) is what I've heard work good, as well as the big band saws.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 8:29am |
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Never realized this was such a frequently done thing! Dang!!
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 1:10pm |
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Probably applied more to used purchases which you don't want to put axle duals on. They are annoying with singles.
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 2:01pm |
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Did that a few times when I worked for a dealership. We set up the band saw to cut em off. Didn't require much babysitting; just turn it on and let it cut.
Darrel
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Tbone95
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 2:33pm |
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Must be dang awful annoying.....and take resale away from anyone who wanted to use the duals. Oh well, their tractor, their choice, to each their own. I normally have plenty to do!!! haha
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 4:02pm |
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I know that one of the customers that we sawed the axles off for was using the tractor as a loader tractor mostly, and had a bunker silo with concrete walls. Long axles would hit the silo walls while scraping along the edge. That was on a case IH magnum tractor
Darrel
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