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Recent content by Beckbenj

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    Road Construction Details

    Thanks, good insights here and may help with future development and avoiding issues. Are you compacting in lifts, or just relying on the equipment running over it to compact? I have a large walk behind plate compactor I could run, but nothing large like a Demag.
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    Road Construction Details

    I would be driving primarily semi truck with a lo boy, tracked equip (30T excavator). This would be on a weekly basis, if not daily depending on the season. The area is fairly well drained, but I will be adding a few catch basins to eliminate and surface water that may collect after heavy...
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    Road Construction Details

    To keep the gravel from sinking into the soil. Maybe with using #10’s, this isn’t needed?
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    Road Construction Details

    To clarify, this access road will see heavy equipment driven on it, up to 30 ton.
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    Road Construction Details

    Hi All, I’m looking to rebuild an access road to my equipment building, and looking for opinions on how to build the road. I believe there was some type of road there previous but it was a very poor attempt with putting gravel directly onto the soil, which is primarily clay. My thought is...
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    Iso 46 or Iso 68 Hydraulic Fluid

    To be honest I don’t fully understand if there would be risk of hydraulic system damage due to overheating, etc. It seems the concern is more oil degradation at the higher temps?
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    Iso 46 or Iso 68 Hydraulic Fluid

    Coming back to this thread, It is now mid 80’s here in northern Ohio. Should I be concerned with running the iso 46 oil in these upper 80 temps?
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Finally got it flowing again, heating with a heat gun several times on top of penetrating oil seemed to do the trick!
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Good point, I'll double check this.
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Here's a picture of the bushing's outside, appears to have an external groove.
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Not a brass bushing, definitely hardened steel. I tried drilling with a freshly sharpened cobalt drill I have and didn’t do much. And good thought on the connecting the groove, I have a small dremel I should be able to get in there with.
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Looks like I’m buying a porta power hollow ram cylinder, the oil in the grease gun didn’t do anything. Didn’t seem like there was anywhere for the pick to go either when sticking it in the ports. So now the question: Can the bushing I remove be reinstalled, or should I plan on buying a new...
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    I’ll give that a shot, thanks!
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Rod End - Grease Won't Flow

    Hey All, The rod end of the dipper cylinder doesn't want to take grease. I'm not familiar with how the rod end grease fitting and bushing needs to line up, but I'm suspecting it may be out of alignment and that is why I can't get grease to flow into the joint. Does the bushing need to be...
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    Hydraulic Cylinder Repack - Kubota KX161-2

    I’ve got the piston off but noticed something strange. When loosening the retaining set screw, the piston/nut started to unthread with very little torque. I had marked the orientation of the nut to the shaft so that when it’s reassembled I could put it back in the same position in lieu of...
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