The Rebuild

hrpearce · #1 29-01-09, 13:50

I finished painting the nosecone today some spots are hard to get. A milestone was reached today with the cab frame being put back on. Vicki arrived home just in time to drive the tractor

as by myself I kept trying to either smash the carby or distributor

the help was much aprecated and the frame droped straight in with us working together

hrpearce · #2 10-02-09, 13:09

Progress is panfully slow but the ignition wiring is complete as is the horn. Headlight wiring is to dipper switch and indicators are wired to direction switch.

Bob Carriere · #3 10-02-09, 23:40

NIce job Robert.....

I always enjoy following the progress done on CMP projects...

......and I use the opportunity to learn...

On one picture of your newly painted cab...it shows, on the passenger side floor, a pipe tower and braces??? what is it for...? also observed that your floor panel on the driver's side seems to have a small rectangular door or access panel cut into the floor..... are these things "Holden bodies" differences...???

Amazing how many CMP restorations are done using farm tractors for lifting components...... I know my MF has now become a yard crane...... however the Ottawa Rotters do not have a good looking driver/operator......yet !!

Keep up the postings...

Bob

hrpearce · #4 11-02-09, 05:07

Thank for the comments Bob. The braced tower is a field modification for changing the two speed transfur box that has been fitted. The door in the floor gives you access to the top of the battery, I don't know whoes idea it was. Some parts might not get painted till after Corowa as I only have a week left to try for rego, I may have to end up with a travel permit as a last resort.

Wiring fiished under dash today so it's time for fitting the nose cone.

hrpearce · #5 11-02-09, 13:55

The nose is back on it's finally looking like a blitz again. I had to jump start the blitz to drive it under the nose the ten year old battery packe it in. I never broke a bolt pulling the nose off but managed to snap one on assembly

Keith Webb · #6 11-02-09, 20:41

Amazingly speedy work Robert!

You certainly got your money's worth out of the battery.

gjamo · #7 11-02-09, 22:28

The late model C60L in Darwin's aircraft museum also has the battery access panel. Must have been a very late inclusion as its the ony one I have ever seen.
Sorry about the pic quality best I could do with my phone.
Graeme

Lionelgee · #8 21-08-09, 14:30

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

I finished painting the nosecone today some spots are hard to get. A milestone was reached today with the cab frame being put back on. Vicki arrived home just in time to drive the tractor

as by myself I kept trying to either smash the carby or distributor

the help was much aprecated and the frame droped straight in with us working together

G'day Robert,

That cab metal work is so clean and straight looking you could eat off it. You have really done a great job. Is there any chance of getting a photo of how the jib crane you used to lift the cab is fitted to your tractor - also what horse power is it?

Kind Regards
Lionel

hrpearce · #9 22-08-09, 02:53

Hi Lionel,
The tractor is 40 Hp Ford made in Japan. I made a front 3PL for it years ago to make it more useful. The jib just replaces the top link on the scrubbing blade, it's easier to use on the front than the rear.

Lionelgee · #10 22-08-09, 06:47

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Hi Lionel,
The tractor is 40 Hp Ford made in Japan. I made a front 3PL for it years ago to make it more useful. The jib just replaces the top link on the scrubbing blade, it's easier to use on the front than the rear.

G'day Robert,

Thanks for the reply, I thought it looked a bit bigger than my tractor. The three point linkage on the front must be really handy and a big plus not having to look behind you all the time.

I only have a 28 horse power Yanmar 4wd which is too small to hang a jib off. I have a three point linkage jib crane and I am thinking about hanging it off a differential with wheels and mounting a triangle frame with a similar sized wheel hanging off the top of the triangle. Then using a hand operated hydraulic ram mounted on the triangle frame to lift the jib. At the back of the diff I would put a drawbar which hooks up to tow ball mounted on the front of the tractor. That way the weight of the load would be supported on three wheels and the tractor would just shift the whole rig around the paddock.

I want to be able to lift off the tray of my two trucks which both have motors that do not work at the moment and shift the trays into the paddock so I have access to the chassis and then use it to lift the cabs off too.

I will be using the thickest wall RHS to make it nice and strong. Do you think by looking at my sketch that my mobile jib would work? Nothing is drawn to scale just playing with the idea at the moment.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionelgee · #11 22-08-09, 07:02

G’day Robert,

Yaven Creek is not far from my ancestral home of Temora.

I am the third generation of my family to be born there. We moved to Goulburn before I started school. My family used to go back to Temora for nearly every long-weekend and holiday break. I got sick of being cold and moved to Queensland when I was 20 for the sun and warmth. I still have links to Temora as my Uncle and Step-grandfather still live there; plus lots of cousins.

Kind Regards
Lionel

hrpearce · #12 22-08-09, 10:46

Hi Lionel,
That lifting jib arangement should work well, I asume the front wheel is a castor wheel, the rest is just the maths of the lifting capasity of the ram against the leverage disadvantage of the jib to calculate the load it will lift at the end.
My cousin from Holdbrook maried a wheat farmer from Temora by the name of Erol Bishop.

Lionelgee · #13 22-08-09, 16:59

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Hi Lionel,
That lifting jib arangement should work well, I asume the front wheel is a castor wheel, the rest is just the maths of the lifting capasity of the ram against the leverage disadvantage of the jib to calculate the load it will lift at the end.
My cousin from Holdbrook maried a wheat farmer from Temora by the name of Erol Bishop.

G'day Robert,

Yes, the front wheel would be a castor wheel. I have a 12 ton high lift manual ram so it should handle the weight of the the timber truck bed and the cabs okay, I don't have remote hydraulics on my tractor nor a hydraulic pump operated ram so I have to do with what I've got.

Kind Regards
Lionel