Posted by Don-WI on October 14, 2009 at 16:36:54 from (72.135.120.93):
Dad took the tandem part in to a shop today, but they basically said that what it would cost to fix vs. what it would cost to replace, it wouldn't be worth it. That's at their shop rate of $70/hr. Funny part was, they had another chopper box in their yard with the EXACT same running gear under it with a busted spindle. Their's was a rear spindle on the tandem though, so that can be pressed out and replaced, no problems. The other side had the paint burnt off from having the same done to that side....
I went home again and we looked it over, and with some looking and jaw jacking we came up with a plan to atleast get the chopper box home.
We're gona play a few rounds of musical gears... We've got an old John Deere running gear in the weeds. Needs some work, but we're gonna put it under our busted 16 ft. Meyer's chooper box, and putn that gear under the 18 ft. Gehl out in the feild. Not sure what that gear is rated for, but looking at it, it's beefier than the Knowles, but it's a single axel 6 bolt, vs. the tandem 6 bolt that's (1/2 of it anyway) under it currently.
I'll have to take some pictures of it to see if you guys can identify it. It was under our old Rex wagon until that was beyond repair, now it's under the Meyers. It'll be under the Gehl next.
Then I'll have some time to fix the running gear myself, and then we'll put it back under. Then we might put it under our 16' 920, since that has a gear under it that has been cobbled on some its self and is 8 bolt. That part is fine, but we don't have anything that's 8 bolt for spares, so if it gets a flat, we're screwed. And those huge implement tires are kinda expensive.
I'll try to have my camera around when we start the games...
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