Friday, March 21, 2008

Re: [papercreters] PTO Driven Mixer

Thanks Eric.  I look forward to seeing your solution.
 
ElfN
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Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [papercreters] PTO Driven Mixer


Hi Nori,

I'll take some photos this afternoon of my PTO-driven papercrete mixer that is nearly complete, and post them in the photos section.  I was hoping to get it finished first, but could be useful for you to see another implementation now.

One thing about the gear box.  I just bought a brush hog 90 degree gear box on e-bay, and, as you mentioned, it is designed for gravity to keep oil in the gears.  Two solutions that have been proposed to me.  First is to drain the oil and pack it with gear grease.  Second is to drill and tap a filler hole on what will become the top in our use.  I've decided to do neither right now, anxious to get the blade spinning... ;--)

Best,

Eric Randall
Fairfield, Iowa



At 10:45 AM 3/21/2008, you wrote:

I am now the very proud owner of a rotary mower gearbox.  Wahoo!  Got it from the large farm equipment and parts place in Albany. 
 
I'm going to put Terry to work taking apart the single axle travel trailer (junk, got it as a freebee), which will be my base for building the mixer.
 
I'll need to get some welding done, once I figure out how I want to configure my mixer.  I need a hitch that will fasten to my drawbar and I need the mixer close enough to the tractor to attach the pto drive shaft.  I will need to build a connector for the mixer end of the drive shaft we already have.  The gearbox has a round shaft with a shear pin.  I can't recall what the augur shaft is . . .
 
I've got the base of the chicken house halfway done.  I had to purchase some extra lags, but haven't had a chance to get the lags installed.  Once they're in I'll skin the frame with plywood and be that much closer to ready to play . . . once the weather cooperates.  It won't be today.  Woke up to over an inch of snow on the ground. 
 
ElfN

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