Fings wot broke

[Mick Dempsey]

Hmm, not the greatest ad for the log-bullet.

[IronMike]

The stubs are probably the weakest part of the machine. I snapped my first one over 2 years ago, and at the time we decided to replace both whilst it was in the workshop. Fast forward to now, and I've done probably 1000+ hours with the machine, in various terrain and on demanding sites. The snap last week I can pin point to a single incident of hitting a high stump with force, this set the axle off on a tiny bend and it got worse progressively. Yesterdays was down to a big old buttress that had been taken off these large Sitka getting caught in-between two wheels and making the machine bump suddenly up into the air and slam down, hard! Both avoidable, in hindsight, but in reality I'm trying to bash on and now I've paid the price. 

 

Such is life!

[IronMike]

Thankfully, the support from Pekka over in Finland is exceptional and I have the replacement stub sitting here ready to go. 

[Steve Bullman]

22 minutes ago, IronMike said:

Thankfully, the support from Pekka over in Finland is exceptional and I have the replacement stub sitting here ready to go. 

Impekkable even?

[IronMike]

12 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Impekkable even?

🤣🤣🤣 Bravo Steve, bravo!

[william127]

Pulled the engine off my dumper yesterday, took about 20 minutes.

Amazing how much easier it is to work on when it's at waist height, on top of my mechanics box full of sockets and spanners😅👍

Got it running with a wrong spec coil and a good clean up. So just need to get the right coil, give it a service and clean up all the bits that are inaccessible when it's all together and hopefully it's all good to go again🤞🤞👍

[IronMike]

My poorly Logbullet is back together after 2 rather stressful days! Turns out we did such a good job of repairing it last time we changed the stubs, that undoing our handy work this time round was rather tricky! 🤣

[dig-dug-dan]

9 hours ago, william127 said:

Pulled the engine off my dumper yesterday, took about 20 minutes.

Amazing how much easier it is to work on when it's at waist height, on top of my mechanics box full of sockets and spanners😅👍

Got it running with a wrong spec coil and a good clean up. So just need to get the right coil, give it a service and clean up all the bits that are inaccessible when it's all together and hopefully it's all good to go again🤞🤞👍

What was the issue with it?

[IronMike]

I've officially written the past 3 weeks off as a total sh*t show! 

 

Back on site today, first load of the day infact, and the pin for the outer on one site sheared. 

 

Got it repaired fairly quickly, but sacked the rest of the day off!

 

Onwards to the APF tomorrow!

 

 

[doobin]

I’d have sacked the machine off by now