John Deere 310 SE Project

[boone]

We deep cleaned the piston and gland with brake cleaner then soaked and brushed it in mineral spirits. Then dried with compressed air. All the seals were coated in oil before assembly. New seals from HW Parts. Was about $177 for both cylinders. Greased the piston and entry to the barrel going back in. The second cylinder went way faster than the first.



Tried it out for a while and no leaks.

 

[JL Sargent]

Nice work. Did you have to use heat to get the piston nut loose? Also, that ring on the nearest rod in the photo. What caused that?

 

[boone]

Surprisingly, the nuts on both these cylinders came off with no heat and just the short pipe you see. Dad and I together both put all we had on it. If one person were doing this you might need almost twice the length of pipe. The nuts are lock nuts and so it didn't have any lock tite on them.

That's just a grease ring the wiper had pushed. I don't think I had fully swung it around yet when that pic was taken.

 

[boone]

The 310 project has done a project. I took a few pictures this weekend I thought I'd share. The rains this past spring just about washed our barn road away at the farm. The 60ish year old 24" tile was overwhelmed. The tile is fed from two springs on the right side of the picture below and a lot of hill run off.



This project was in the forefront of my mind when I bought this machine. We waited until the weather was dry and there was just a trickle stream. Then hurricane Laura hit and it rained just about every day up to this project.

One more picture taken this spring shows how it was eating away.

 

[boone]

Woke up at dark Thursday morning at 5am. Went out to my barn cranked the 310. Greased it up good, hit the saddle and headed west. Met my brother and dad at the ole Gin House for $3.99 breakfast. Finished the trip to the farm after 18.5 miles. Took about 1 hour and 20 minutes. The majority of the trip was on back roads which meant I kept it in 3rd to prevent bucking and bouncing into the ditch. The 310 turbo whine sounded good in them hollers.

 

[boone]

At this point, our plan is to install three 24" double walled plastic pipe. I fueled up the 310 and began on each of the four corners pulling back the old field and chimney rock that had been there for years. Notice old exposed water line exposed from the wash out.



Next unearthing the old tile. Would love to know how many gallons have gone through this thing over the decades.



One the best things about this project is working with my brother and dad. We had a blast. Glad my hydraulic lines on the crowd made it through. They are weathered to say the least.


The old tile was rusted the whole length on the bottom.

 

[boone]

I'd have to dig on one side and then go down the road and come in on the other side dig for awhile. Extendahoe would've been handy.



Glad we brought our boots.



It rained on us twice, but we were grateful for the shade. About 100 degree heat index and 70% humidity.

 

[boone]

The presence of water actually helped us get it fairly level. We don't have any fancy lasers. Wish I did!



Rolled them in one at a time.

 

[boone]

We couldn't do this job without letting the track loader get in on some of the action. We dug out a couple of high spots at the barn to get down to some chert to use as packing between the tiles.

 

[boone]

Load of gravel.





Spread by the 5140 and a box blade.

 

[boone]

Next was trying to reshape the head of the inlet. We built up dirt to keep it from coming over the road. Tried to widen the head wall to match up with the tile. We could use some rip rap here, but there's tons of rock under the dirt that will probably be exposed after a few good rains.





See my ruts? Places you don't take a two wheel drive backhoe. Had to unstick myself twice with the backhoe. Left this to the MFWD tractors.

 

[boone]

Before inlet of tile



After inlet - there's a lot of rock under that dirt. I know some of this will wash.



Before outlet



After outlet. The middle tile is running pretty good.

 

[boone]

It's not perfect. Couple of things we would've done different, but I think it'll do for the next few years anyway.

 

[JL Sargent]

All set for that next big rain!

 

[Tags]

Nice job! That should work just fine, great way to spend a day with family....

 

[Tags]

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[Mike Legg]

Good job on your pictures! Good looking equipment, especially like the JD backhoe and the Dresser 175c.

 

[boone]

All set for that next big rain!

Let it rain! Maybe we'll be ready for the 100 year flood.

Nice job! That should work just fine, great way to spend a day with family....

Good times for sure. We all had a blast.
It's an even better time when nothing breaks down.

Good job on your pictures! Good looking equipment, especially like the JD backhoe and the Dresser 175c.

Thanks! Got everything packed back up and made the 18.5 mile trip back home on Saturday.

 

[boone]

Word is getting around that I have a backhoe. Always thought if I could get an easy job or two a year to pay for fuel and a couple of hoses, I might entertain the thought.

Couple of weeks ago my brother's neighbor asked if he could move a ditch for him. My brother is not in the business, but the neighbor sees my brother's equipment out from time to time. My brother said he couldn't do it with his tractor, but I had a backhoe and he'd ask me if I was interested. So my brother and I went over and surveyed. Involves clearing couple of trees and stumps and moving the existing ditch over a few feet and seeding and strawing it. We figure we could do this and make it look really good.

I'm not crazy about moving a water way even when small, but the customer said he called the Army Corps and they said as small as it was just take pictures before and after. It will be fine. I'm also staying out of the easement.

I had no idea what to charge for this, so I just bid a time and material price. $100/hour. The guy said, "When can you start?". Was supposed to start last weekend, but hurricane Zeta rained it out.

Marked out the new ditch with flags and had the customer review it. He's approved the line on the new ditch with only a small tweak.

Having 3 loads of chert delivered this afternoon to pack the old ditch. I'll be driving the backhoe and hauling the little Kubota with box blade over here in a bit. It's about a 7.5 mile drive. Wish me luck.

 

[Fred from MO]

Ha! Its Saturday morning Boone, are you there yet are are you still driving the 7.5 miles there??!! $100 bucks an hour sounds good for you since guys around here charge $60-85. I thought about getting a little old mid 1980's C70 chevy and a trailer to do the same thing like you and earn a little cash on the side, but what scares me is the liability of digging into something that the owner of the property doesent know is there like gas lines, water lines, sewers etc. But if you work in a rural area only as opposed to the suburbia area you would be in much better shape. Good Luck show some pics of what you are doing. I just dug 220' of water line for the ship and going to do another 440' of electric line. Good luck!