V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
70mm pin - 70mm thick hooks ... think yer digger might succumb first 
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Monkeybusiness
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The latch on the bucket when working reversed is what I’m talking about - that setup is designed to be strong forcing the bucket through the ground. If you hung forks off it you’d be asking a lot of the latch end!70mm pin - 70mm thick hooks ... think yer digger might succumb first
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
no - the forks would be under the hooks ... B20 is NOT reversible unless under a rotator or tilty ... when I pick up my forks on the Hill PUP under the VA-r I always pick them 'backwards', with the latch to the rear ... on my Miller 70mm I always put the safety pin in so the latch can't drop them
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Monkeybusiness
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Not if you have a tilty under a qh though - that top hitch would be very weak. Or if picking up forks directly on the machine qh. Or direct mounting a tree shear (no tilty).
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
the wedge and hook is massive on the B20 though Dan and constantly under pressure with a hyd. locking set up ... even with my own version, it would take soooooome force to either break or disengage it
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Monkeybusiness
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I seem to be semi-professional when it comes to applying plenty of force to the detriment of fabricated components….
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
I have here a photo of the welder and the tool used for getting penetration on that weld.
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
nothing wrong with the penetration of those welds - parent material has let go .....
just not enough welds in the first place ...
looks to be a single pass - had they known Dan was gonna be using it it'd've been 5 passes minimum - maybe more to spread the inevitable loading.
TBH that is just not an adequate build - full stop
just not enough welds in the first place ...
looks to be a single pass - had they known Dan was gonna be using it it'd've been 5 passes minimum - maybe more to spread the inevitable loading.
TBH that is just not an adequate build - full stop
Storrsy
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It's nice to be good at something isn't it!
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Monkeybusiness
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I bought it second hand off a hire company, and as far as I know that headstock was the original from the manufacturer (or the uk supplier at least).
It’d seen some work before my ownership as the knife (essentially the complete bottom plate of the shear) has a bit of a bend in it - I can only assume that the headstock had managed to resist failure prior to me getting hold of it, and there were no obvious signs of failure or cracking that I noticed.
It was a bit of a shock when it let go, and it was incredibly fortunate where/how it happened that I wasn’t working overhead… I wouldn’t much fancy 700kg of shear plus whatever it had cut falling back at me (cab guarding or not!)…
Lancs Lad
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Was gonna say there's plenty of situations aloft when that let go that would have been very exciting albeit briefly 🫣🫣I bought it second hand off a hire company, and as far as I know that headstock was the original from the manufacturer (or the uk supplier at least).
It’d seen some work before my ownership as the knife (essentially the complete bottom plate of the shear) has a bit of a bend in it - I can only assume that the headstock had managed to resist failure prior to me getting hold of it, and there were no obvious signs of failure or cracking that I noticed.
It was a bit of a shock when it let go, and it was incredibly fortunate where/how it happened that I wasn’t working overhead… I wouldn’t much fancy 700kg of shear plus whatever it had cut falling back at me (cab guarding or not!)…
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