redneck cotter pin
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Topic: redneck cotter pin
Posted By: redline
Subject: redneck cotter pin
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 1:04am
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Probably one of the things I enjoy most about working with older equipment is seeing the repair methods that were attempted to keep the machine running for just a little while longer, or until the owner had a chance to get the proper repair parts. I have learned, though, that temporary becomes permanent. Whether it is a tractor fix or a fence or whatever.
I have seen all sorts of odd repairs, from nails and chunks of wire and other hardware serving as cotter pins, to wire wrapped around a pin to "build" it up to fit a worn bushing, I have seen barbed wire rolled up in snapping rolls on a woods brothers picker in an attempt to make it aggressive and all manner of clever ideas born out of neccesity. This is one I recently found:
 anyone else care to share stories or photos of odd repairs?
------------- If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done! |
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Posted By: rossinmich
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 6:49pm
| Seen a lot of nails used in place of cotter pins, also wire wrapped on the coulters to help with worn out bushings on an allis plow i recently bought.. |
Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 6:56pm
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Bailer wire and duct tape what else does a farmer need????
if you can't fix it with that you are not much of a farmer LOL ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: mark-east-tn
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 7:04pm
| With the dealer prices you have to do something to get a little relief. |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 7:28pm
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Grandpa said once, the great thing about a Gleaner combine, was that all a farmer needed in the tool box was a few nails of various sizes, a hammer, crecent wrench, a roll of wire or twine, and a roll of ductape ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: acwdwcman
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 9:46pm
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If a cotter pin breaks or I loose it. I just use a nail. ------------- wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 10:02pm
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We got a few redneck repairs around this farm. Maby Ill take some pictures and show you. ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 28 May 2011 at 10:48pm
| Improvise man improvise. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 2:06am
| 16 D nails work the bestest! also, when i hook up the plow, i use them hardened bolts outta engines (head bolts) instead of them snap pins...they hold their shape better and don't lose em in the field! |
Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 7:44am
| Don't forget ZIP TIES in assorted sizes, even better than baling wire in alot of places! |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 8:29am
| Epoxy |
Posted By: Robert Mull Georgia
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 8:33am
| I have buggered the threads of a bolt with a hammer on purpose many times to keep a nut from coming loose. |
Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 8:36am
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axle nut shim cut from a roadside sign.
------------- Bob, North Carolina 1949 B |
Posted By: se iowa picker
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 9:30am
| That way of farming and machinery repair is the only way lol.We have had worn out shafts with nuts on the end of them with the threads stripped clear out so we tighten them as tight as we can and weld the nut to the shaft.Its shot anyway and we get a few more miles out of it before we have to replace it anyway. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 9:58am
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When I took wheel bearings off my NF the shaft broke off where cotter pin holds nut on bearing.Last guy tack welded washer to center of shaft where cotter pin went.Worked so good I did the same thing when I replaced the bearings. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 10:57am
| You give a red neck credit for that !!!! LOL |
Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 12:40pm
| Being an Aircraft Mechanic by trade its hard for me to wrap myself around farming mentality towards maintanence. I guess when your life doesn't depend on it its acceptable but I just can't bring myself to do bailing wire repairs... |
Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 12:52pm
| When we got my 170 the roll pin in the throttle lever was missing and someone used bailing wire, quick fix. Never understood why somebody would do stuff like that, a quick fix to get you by is one thing but how often do those quick fixes get left as good enough until your problem blows up? |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 1:22pm
| $30.00 in gas for a 15 cent cotterpin. |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 1:40pm
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Thad about sums it up right there. Isn't that where ducktape was made famous? patching bullet holes on the wings of bombers in WW2? ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: junkman
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 2:12pm
| Bought a semi a few months ago for scrap. it came out of a fertilizer plant so I figure they had a problem with the throttle spring breaking. they had substituted it with a couple of bungy straps. Wonder what the DOT would have said about that. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 1:36am
| had an old chev pickup once, broke the trottle spring, when dad had the sheller come to do corn, they broke for lunch, and low and behold, there on that there sheller machine was a spring that would work! and it did! but it sure messed up the sheller all afternoon! lol! |