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  1. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    I have had lines spring a leak from a hole from vibration fatigue. Last one was at a point of the bracket weld to the tube. The one before that was a weld of tube to Type 62 fitting where the line was cantilevered too far without support. I had a fatigue study done one time on riser...
  2. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Hydraulic motors and pumps are difficult for me to replace unless I just go to Bosch and get the right one with matching numbers no matter how much it costs. There are just so many different variations in a given pump or motor making it hard to find something less expensive than from an OEM...
  3. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Cats are your friend. Spayed female cats are the very best hunters. They usually are on the job from early morning until after sundown. The guys are mostly lazy except when it comes to protecting their territory. They need to be neutered as well or they will spray everything in sight...
  4. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    I see yards full of expensive equipment doing nothing and can't see how they can stay in business. A day not worked is a day you can never get back.
  5. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    The ECM would probably have to stay. Might be hard to get rid of relays. They have fallen in love with relays and I can't understand why. The little CaseIH 50A has about a dozen of them. Claims as to why relays have become so common are weak, smaller wiring required is one claim. I can't...
  6. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    That made me dizzy. Almost as bad as that Scotty guy for obnoxious. Who did this and why? They intend to make vehicles that need to be replaced every very few years even if they are in decent shape and otherwise serviceable. I see a budding business in deprogramming machinery to make it run...
  7. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Just a lousy way to start anything isn't it? Reminds me of Blowout Preventers that are only as good as their last test. You would think that something that robust, so seemingly simple would be consistently reliable but NOPE, too many moving parts. That said, I hardlly ever saw one fail when...
  8. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    2003 is the newest I have in construction, the Dozer. The oldest is a '94 I think. The Perkins Parma is a tiny engine for the wheel loader and it is a OHV with a timing belt. Used them a lot in sailboats and the Rover car in the UK. It whirs away with all it can muster while the Hydro...
  9. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Ah yes. Mapquest, Google Maps and all that convenience. I can't remember who it was told me, and I was skeptical of it, that one young fellow was using the navigation system to drive to work and back home from Fort Smith to somewhere towards Fayetville, he used the navigation system in his car...
  10. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Most things are really wants that are confused for needs. For most of 70 years I have managed to keep the two categories distinct seldom letting want take over. I drive a 20 year-old Dodge and the wife drives a car nearly that old. We seldom have ever bought new vehicles and I still have my...
  11. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    SO, different question to anyone who is still listening or interested. Which compact equipment maker has the simplest machine? The one without the computer controlled transmission or load controller or remote monitoring system or key pad combination locks and so forth? Who makes the simplest...
  12. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    I'm getting old enough, bold enough or senile enough to believe I can't take it with me and I'm getting tired of wrenching. I enjoy operating a whole lot more! Crawling around under stuff is getting to be less of a good option. I had my helper tie a rope on my legs so he could pull me out...
  13. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    THAT is the horror story I think about, a dead brain that can't be replaced, and why I'll probably just keep what I've got and maybe spring for a hystat pump and motor repair, maybe buy that older model of trackoe and keep the little Komatsu. I've told my son just to have an auction when I die...
  14. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Osha don't live here. Neither does Karen. Somehow I've managed to not kill or injure myself in the last 7 decades without help.
  15. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    Steel I can usually find or make or make do. I can touch it, torch it, weld it, machine it. Electronics are another thing. Especially when they have no failsafe provision and you can't defeat them by wiring around. The seven contact point safety interlock on the JCB was easily fixed by...
  16. cherokee101

    Complexity is Unreliable

    I am not getting younger. Though I don't have money to blow I have been thinking of upgrading some of my old equipment. Specifically my Schaeff SKL 831 loader with the mighty Perkins Parma engine and my uber reliable Komatsu PC-40 that has done things no small excavator should do. I am leery...
  17. cherokee101

    2007 volvo L35b pro electrical issues

    I am not getting younger. Though I don't have money to blow I have been thinking of upgrading mu old equipment. Specifically my Schaeff SKL 831 loader with the mighty Perkins Parma engine and my uber reliable Komatsu PC-40 that has done things no small excavator should do. I am leery though...
  18. cherokee101

    Daewoo DD80 Group

    Is there any interest in assembling a Daewoo DD80 dozer group? They are rare, mine is SN241, hard to find parts for but nice little dozers that some of us have. It would be good to have a resource base of people that know something about the machines we could call on for mutual help and to...
  19. cherokee101

    DD80 angular (rotary) sensors

    Never did hear back from you. It has been a very long time. Did you ever find any sensors? Do you still have the dozer?
  20. cherokee101

    1999 Daewoo DD80L Crawler Dozer

    Most of us don't speak Spanish. I don't have a clue what you've said.
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