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[difflock]

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[difflock]

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But I was surprised at how well the wee 50 HP Kioti handles the Major 8000 roller mower.

And superb visibility, plus low enough gears for tiddly awkward bits in reverse.

Plus physically small and low sans cab to get in below the hedges and trees.

 

 

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[difflock]

Anybody able to tell me what the "regen" function is, or does. 

Is it perhaps like the "float" function for the actual loader rams, but, if so, why would one want the attatched bucket, dung grape or pallet toes to float or regen? 

Well I suppose getting the bottom of a bucket level to a concrete floor might be one use, but one would usually dip the leading edge of the bucket a fraction, and float the loader itself.

Anyway I have never used it, has anybody, and why, or for what purpose.?

Edited Monday at 17:05 by difflock

[difflock]

Well, anyway, I tried out that "regen" function. And it makes the tip function twice as fast, 4 sec instead of 8, for the full stroke.

And he thinks?

Is there something about the return stroke on the better hydraulic log splitters, that uses this same hydraulic flow function?

For the same reason.

To speed up the empty return stroke.

Edited Wednesday at 11:58 by difflock

[Dan Maynard]

I've heard of something similar, the oil flowing out the front of the cylinder is diverted in with the oil to the rear of the cylinder instead of back to tank.

 

Benefit is faster travel, at the expense of available force. You end up with the effort of cylinder rod area rather than piston area, but for tipping down that would be fine.

[openspaceman]

8 hours ago, difflock said:

Well, anyway, I tried out that "regen" function. And it makes the tip function twice as fast, 4 sec instead of 8, for the full stroke.

And he thinks?

Is there something about the return stroke on the better hydraulic log splitters, that uses this same hydraulic flow function?

For the same reason.

To speed up the empty return stroke.

The regen function connects both ports of a double acting ram to the supply, so the force extending the ram is the hydraulic pressure acting on just the area of the piston rod cross section. The forces on either side of the rest of the piston being equal and opposite. Some log splitters use it to quickly take up the slack before the ram contacts the wood and start the split, once the supply pressure exceeds a limit the rod side of the cylinder is dumped to tank, so the pressure is exerted on the full area of the piston.

 

Gas struts work in this "regen " configuration.

[difflock]

The next thing I need to sort( and I briefly looked, without much success after I bought her) is agricultural tyres, instead of those hard inflexible badtard US style commercial ones she came on.

The square edged fronts cut in really badly when turning, and the rears would spin on a snotter.

And we are in moss. Which does not help.

Though I will almost certainly need to source rims as well.

[Conor Wright]

11 hours ago, difflock said:

The next thing I need to sort( and I briefly looked, without much success after I bought her) is agricultural tyres, instead of those hard inflexible badtard US style commercial ones she came on.

The square edged fronts cut in really badly when turning, and the rears would spin on a snotter.

And we are in moss. Which does not help.

Though I will almost certainly need to source rims as well.

Agrigear in cavan will do both. All the tym machines coming into Ireland (fairly similar to kioti) are being shipped from korea without wheels or tyres now. Agrigear are fabbing the wheels in house and fitting them with tyres.

It's working out cheaper to do this and get 2 more machines in a container than to ship less units with tyres included.

[difflock]

Bloody Hell!

That is a turn up for the books Conor.

Thank you so much.

As they say, you don't ask, you don't get.

Edited yesterday at 10:14 by difflock