A Case For Drive Flanges

[Michael Mayben]

Our project s80 May never be completed. It's just too dam handy around the place when used in service as a tractor with a pickup bed for haulin' shit.

We recently took down a few trees on the place. After buckin' up several hundred feet of cedar logs into thirty foot chunks, they needed to be skidded to a pile for splittin' into rails and posts. The pos s80 works real nice for that though it's decided lack of turning radius can be a challenge when dodgin' stumps and burn piles.

When I rejuvenated the front axle I tossed the oem locking hubs into a pile for later "restoration" along with several more that look like shit. Usin' tall/skinny tires on these rigs is an invitation for a hub collision up on the log roads where we play, ain't got no protection.

So the rig got a set of drive flanges like woulda been oem back in the day...indestructable sobs. Good thang too.

Friday when snakin' the last cedar chunk to the pile I ended up kinda in a tight spot that demanded I drive up and over to git outta the floodway. When I did and crossed the pile at an angle, onena them chunks jumped out and bit tha hail outta the rotten front tire and axle stub (this is a d27 right now). If that had been a locking hub, it would exploded.

But as it wuz, all I needed ta do to restore to it's former glory wuz pick that cedarsmash outta the splines and replace that wrap of gorilla tape that keeps water out!

 

[Michael Dimock]

You were actually able to get traction this time? sounds like your "yard" is slowly gettin cleaned up....

 

[Michael Mayben]

Traction plus dude!

Yesterday I rigged a comealong and sling on that fir tree up at the front of the cottonwood in the parking lot, ran it to a choker on the cottonwood. Then we rigged a twenty foot, one inch dropper sling to that red superd next door over to Mike's parking lot. Then I pushed agaianst the cottonwood with the pos 80. At the count of three, all heaved and dave cranked the comealong. We moved the bastard three feet to the east!

Next up...we're gonna move it up behind the neighbor's barn using a track loader and turn it into a landscape focal point. No doubt the pos 80 will play a part in that too.

I got yore s80 backed up against the shop headed down hill, just stuff t's trailer underneath and pull the wheel chocks and it'll self-load.

 

[Michael Dimock]

Sounds good! Trying to wrangle up all the shiz and I'll be headin yore way on satiday if everything lines up.... you still in need of the stuff picked up from terry's?

 

[Michael Mayben]

sounds good! Trying to wrangle up all the shiz and I'll be headin yore way on satiday if everything lines up.... you still in need of the stuff picked up from terry's?

Delivery of tha guuds from terry would do wonders for both terry's and my causes! You could stop off at albertsons and do the weekly grocery shoppin', go by wallyworld for carb spray, go to court for me, pick up an orygone dl in my name with yore pic at the springfield bus terminal/dmv field office (make sure ya git the english version, not the illegal alien version), etc. On yore way.