@@davidlogel2350 living in the part of the Americas where we had SAE tools for an eternity then had metric forced upon us and had to duplicate $50,000 of hand tools in metric, I have come to the conclusion that my 9/16 and my 10mm wrenches keep running off to get married. Their offspring never fit anything.
Mike you trying to thread that bolt in one handed, imagine Harmless Farmer he wrenches on equipment with his feet!! Mr Andy is the living definition of badass !!
I think I’d take the old manual drop bar over the lift cylinder for locking up the header. It’s was just as easy to do and can physically see that it’s locked up
Construction/Mining equipment has had this kind of lock for a long time due to the weight of what’s being held and has fail safes. It’s perfectly safe.
@@RogerKelp I’m sure it’s safe. Just no feedback for us knowing it’s safe. Atleast install a light or something beside the button for operator feed back
Mike please look into a metal lathe and even a mill. Not only can you make some of these simple parts but I promise, you will throughly enjoy playing with them.
He's said many times he's not really a mechanical guy Got guys in his employment that'll prob enjoy it though Although I have both and do enjoy using it But during harvest you just don't have time to play around with toys Just gotta buy the parts and get going
They look like 10.9 grade, if you wanted to you could probably get some 12.9 grade bolts. You'd probably have to special order them but might be a good solution.
Yes I was thinking how much those bolds would be from JD 😮. Shure you must be able to buy metric bolts over there same as we can buy imperial bolts over here just not as easy. Just need to find out what tensile they are. Surprised JD having used a special thread so you have to buy genuine. They do they with the round baler bearings ( made special size and can’t buy them from anywhere other than JD at their special price 😮)
Hi mike, love your vids, you can try 2 or 3 Belleville spring washer 8mm placed on the head of your bolt 11:37. The spring washer may help to decrease the chocs on the bolt head. When the head touch the ground, and follow the ground, you have a gap between the bolt head and the cylinder, when you raise the cutting head or you have a gofer hole, that gap will decrease quickly and you snap the bolt head
That weatherproof door gasket back there looks like its better designed than the suspension bolts for the cutter bar! Get some U-bolts and some hard rubber axle buffers, rack it around those two bars and adjust as needed. Someone who was probably literally in the bathroom for 95% of their paycheck decided those bolts could take 7x the force they're rated for.
Mike you need to get a 3/8 drive Snap-On flex socket and a long extension and either use the ratchet or small electric impact gun. It will be easy. Trust me.
Maybe take the threaded portion out after harvest and take it to a machine shop get new ones made larger with a larger bolt to stop this from continuing to break
Mike John Deere should machine the pin that the bolt head engages with a end mill at 90 degrees to the pin that way the head would sit flat on the pin.
We started picking corn Sunday with the two X9 1100. Once we got everything dialed in and had the rental trucks there we decided to really let them eat. We were averaging just over 14,000 bushels an hour. My buddies 12yo son and expect grain cart driver says “we harvested more grain in one day than those Canadians did all year with 8 combines and 40,000 acres “.
That’s what people can’t figure out how you guys do it. Two years in a row of zero bushels but you spend money like you grew a 200 bushel crop. You spend 2 million just on x9,probably 3 million on the other combines,build a runway and all that bins and dryer. There is something you don’t tell people or in Canada you get even more than U.S farmers from the Government.No business operation can do that!!!
My Dad's combine had a fire. I pulled in with the truck and he just came to the end and swung in to dump on me. I saw flames and set the brakes while rolling and waved him off and he went onto the county road. We got it out and all was good. Scared the crap out of me. If that lit I'm not sure where it would have stopped.
I think, the screw head becomes a point load from the two points it sits on the round bolt, event worse true the large chamfer, as it brings the load more away from the core and enlarged the lever. So it becomes cracks and breaks off, I would assume, that a soft washer (maybe a copper or alu seal) could help, as it distributes and dampens the load. (The second one maybe breaks on the thread due overload from the missing first one.)
Great awesome video mike , dredded bolts I can honestly say mike that these engineers think of good ideas but when they design parts to fail they turn out bad , then they wonder why there are complaints so much
Drill the holes out and put a bigger bolt in it. ;) Wonder what John Deere says about it the bolts breaking. Like the Green better than the black combine?
Mike, I have few questions. When you buy a new pieces of iron for a million dollars isn't there some form of training or do you prefer to just wing it as it appears? When you critique the latest greatest equipment on your online platform, do the manufactures ever reach out to you? Thanks for the entertainment.
I bet in a few years sensors will be on those gauge wheels to find out the pressure or force that wheel has. Than they will record the numbers and check how much stress was put in the head through the field or season
Maybe you should buy a box of one higher grade 3rd party bolts and upgrade them whenever they break. But maybe wait to say you did so on UA-cam until the John Deere warranty expires. 😜 So if they are typical metric class 8.8, upgrade to class 10.9, and if that still isn't enough upgrade to class 12.9 I looks like you could use an M12 Milwaukee battery powered ratchet with that little space to move a manual ratchet.
From my experience a grade 5 bolt will outlast a grade 8 bolt. Bolt strength is end to end and may be to brittle as there be some side to side motion. Put one in vice and hammer on it , the higher grade will break the lower grade will bend.
That chamfer on the hole is just there to help get the bolt in easier, it would have to be totally flat to help from breaking that head off. I bet that's most of the issue.
In flex mode we turn the knob for height control to zero and put the wing wheels all the way up. This changes the control algorithm from the wing wheels to the flex hinges
I was down in Regina Sept 6-10 and ya man was it windy on the 7th and 8th we actually had to shut down our job those days because of the wind to dangerous actually Balgonie, SK
Looks like its the same engineer who designed this JD header bolt system also designed the Ford engine to change the spark plug. They have to remove the cab! Lol
I think I'd be tempted to run dual tires out on the far ends of the headers, on one each side of the bracket. That should cover gopher holes easier, and less bounce. But possibly be a bit harder on tire skid. Given the way the axles mount it should be easy enough to switch to duals. Mill two axles to thread together with a set screw to lock the threads.
Mile, how many bushels in a RR grain car. I live in Sicamous BC about 300?yards from the CP main line. We had 6 loaded grain trains go through yesterday and 5 empties and they are running about 160 cars per train.
These bolts shouldnt break that often as they are JD original parts. Pretty sure this ist an overall flawed design, they should update at some point. Would be interesting to see the strain/stress-simulation the engineers have for the header :D stronger bolts sure would be worth a try
High tensile will probably still fail because the problem is the round bar under the hex head only contacts the head in two spots creating stress points, resulting in fatigue failure.
Hey Mike, we were working in Moose Jaw and commuting from Regina each day from 31st August until 15th September might we have seen you combining? Love the videos
Those bolts are probably made in China anyway. Knowing JD they designed them to break at a certain time or load. You put a harder grade bolt on it that doesn't break as easy you might break something alot more expensive. Great videos mike.
Mike, I had a 3/8 right angle air ratchet that may have fit in that bottom oval hole to get to the end of the bolt. I don’t know if they make battery powered 3/8 right angle ratchet that works on that principle. Thanks for all your videos.
My old man was right from the beginning. It cost money to own John Deere equipment. For a $1000000 unit you think there wouldn’t be issues for at least a while. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
With the head of that Bolt being on a round surface you're only getting two contacts one on each side of that head of that Bolt now if you could grind it with a flat spot or take and make a washer with a flat spot on one side and you cut on the other side you wouldn't break them both I don't think as much because that bolt needs to have a flat surface where the head is
Here I am, wondering if all those bolts are actually supposed to be tight like that. What is the point of having an actuating arm when you tighten the bolt so much that the arm cannot actuate? Might they be intended to be loosened so that if it bumps something on the ground it would go up and over it?
If Deere would but smooth straight groove tires instead of cleated tires, side slide would be much easier. The lug cleet tends to dig in when side sliding.. P.S., get you a stubby ratchet
The person stating that you shouldnt put a flat head screw through a round pin might be onto something. If the screws break right under the head, maybe they can hold a little more if you place one or two washers under the screwhead. Edit: Beveled out doesnt really make things better strain wise. The load rating on screws is only valid if they use the full contactpatch under the head, by putting them through a round bolt and beveling the hole out you remove most of the contact patch under the screw and create stress concentrations in the bolthead. Source: Trust me I´m an engineer(ing student)
@@jangobajovar8889 well it looks like the bolts die to tensile stretching... Not just at the head too.. but by the threads too... It just a small bolt... Modifying the mounting to put an m10 in there instead of an m8 is what i wouldve done, at the end of the season...
@@jesperviktorsson8027 Mike showed two broken bolts in this video. One was broken right at the head and the other at the threads. Me thinks that the first to break was the one who broke at the head. For the reason that Jango explained. And then the second one broke because it had to do the work of two bolts. So fixing the problem that Jango explained might fix the problem altogether.
Aint nobody said it yet today so i will ... macdon. . Wont down anything deere but from what ive seen ... no.. . Macdon dont make a good header either.. they make a great one..perfect no . But will do what the others still are trying . Do the job well and trouble free.. ive had 3 of em .
I feel like if you modified for larger bolts you are then going to end up with thinner sidewalls on the barrels, breaking those instead. Definitely feels like something an engineer ran a computer simulation and decided a M8 bolt would be plenty good.
I wonder if you could machine the lugs that receive the bolt to a larger size and then use over size bolts. Bearing in mind that the larger and stronger the bolt up to a point, could cause the lugs to fail with the same stresses. Correct torque for those bolts?
My years of battling mechanical issues when bolts are a problem if they gave the thread lengths accordingly--switch to Caterpillar bolts. Problem will be solved
Your sound effects are spot on Mike, a skill not every farmer naturally has!
One day, all these header bolts you’re planting will give you a nice yield
Hopefully they’re the drought tolerant variety
The 9/16” flat wrenches I’ve been planting all these years still haven’t germed. 😪😂
@@davidlogel2350 living in the part of the Americas where we had SAE tools for an eternity then had metric forced upon us and had to duplicate $50,000 of hand tools in metric, I have come to the conclusion that my 9/16 and my 10mm wrenches keep running off to get married. Their offspring never fit anything.
At least he'll have a yield of some sort then😳
@@davidlogel2350 I buy them buy the hand full
Mike you trying to thread that bolt in one handed, imagine Harmless Farmer he wrenches on equipment with his feet!! Mr Andy is the living definition of badass !!
Maybe Mike should start using his feet too, so he can film at the same time 😊
Congratulations on finishing combining on your south farm Mike
I think I’d take the old manual drop bar over the lift cylinder for locking up the header. It’s was just as easy to do and can physically see that it’s locked up
exactly seals arent always perfect and hoses are only as strong as the weakest area
Construction/Mining equipment has had this kind of lock for a long time due to the weight of what’s being held and has fail safes. It’s perfectly safe.
@@RogerKelp I’m sure it’s safe. Just no feedback for us knowing it’s safe. Atleast install a light or something beside the button for operator feed back
@@wallyyuriy8912 you can see the position of the button.
How would a light be any different?
@@Jehty_ looks like just a button to me
Enjoyed following you on South farm, looking forward to North farm.
Mike please look into a metal lathe and even a mill. Not only can you make some of these simple parts but I promise, you will throughly enjoy playing with them.
He's said many times he's not really a mechanical guy
Got guys in his employment that'll prob enjoy it though
Although I have both and do enjoy using it
But during harvest you just don't have time to play around with toys
Just gotta buy the parts and get going
They look like 10.9 grade, if you wanted to you could probably get some 12.9 grade bolts. You'd probably have to special order them but might be a good solution.
Best way to put out fires are pig slurry, here in Denmark farmers often have a load standing in the spreader during harvest.
Never heard that before but make sense I guess as it will crust over as it dries. Or is it just a way of getting round the NVZ spreading limits 🤣🤣
Take care Mike. You're a real marathon worker :)
macdon might not make the biggest header but they’re definitely the best
The first video I watched of yours was the fendt combine burning down. Been watching ever since. R.I.P. your hat!
the joys of being imperial, in the uk you would be able to buy the bolts at most hardwear suppliers for a lot less money than jd sell them for
@Edward Wright Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
Yes I was thinking how much those bolds would be from JD 😮. Shure you must be able to buy metric bolts over there same as we can buy imperial bolts over here just not as easy. Just need to find out what tensile they are. Surprised JD having used a special thread so you have to buy genuine. They do they with the round baler bearings ( made special size and can’t buy them from anywhere other than JD at their special price 😮)
Hi mike, love your vids, you can try 2 or 3 Belleville spring washer 8mm placed on the head of your bolt 11:37. The spring washer may help to decrease the chocs on the bolt head. When the head touch the ground, and follow the ground, you have a gap between the bolt head and the cylinder, when you raise the cutting head or you have a gofer hole, that gap will decrease quickly and you snap the bolt head
Very good suggestion!
That weatherproof door gasket back there looks like its better designed than the suspension bolts for the cutter bar!
Get some U-bolts and some hard rubber axle buffers, rack it around those two bars and adjust as needed. Someone who was probably literally in the bathroom for 95% of their paycheck decided those bolts could take 7x the force they're rated for.
Mike you need to get a 3/8 drive Snap-On flex socket and a long extension and either use the ratchet or small electric impact gun. It will be easy. Trust me.
Maybe take the threaded portion out after harvest and take it to a machine shop get new ones made larger with a larger bolt to stop this from continuing to break
Get yourself a 1/4 extended Milwaukee ratchet! That might fit in the space Deere gave you there. Would at least speed up the process
Great video Mike
Mike John Deere should machine the pin that the bolt head engages with a end mill at 90 degrees to the pin that way the head would sit flat on the pin.
We started picking corn Sunday with the two X9 1100. Once we got everything dialed in and had the rental trucks there we decided to really let them eat. We were averaging just over 14,000 bushels an hour. My buddies 12yo son and expect grain cart driver says “we harvested more grain in one day than those Canadians did all year with 8 combines and 40,000 acres “.
Now just imagine taking those X9s out for a 20bu corn crop for not 1 but 2yrs in a row... 😆
That’s what people can’t figure out how you guys do it. Two years in a row of zero bushels but you spend money like you grew a 200 bushel crop. You spend 2 million just on x9,probably 3 million on the other combines,build a runway and all that bins and dryer. There is something you don’t tell people or in Canada you get even more than U.S farmers from the Government.No business operation can do that!!!
We're almost ready for Harvest
Thanks for the info , jd will redesign the bolt good luck in the future. Gr#9 bolts
I'd be buying an air ratchet if you've got a supply on that combine Mike, I could see that speeding up that process, looks like a pain 😂
@Colin Feeley Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
My Dad's combine had a fire. I pulled in with the truck and he just came to the end and swung in to dump on me. I saw flames and set the brakes while rolling and waved him off and he went onto the county road. We got it out and all was good. Scared the crap out of me. If that lit I'm not sure where it would have stopped.
NEXAT..... The present and future of farming platforms
Not a chance
Maybe Brian would be willing to do a video of the Massey's combining and give us his thoughts...we would all enjoy it!
I'd love to hear QD McD'S thoughts on those header bolts!!
Good feeling to finish the harvest eh? 👍
thank you for doing these videos ... great videos .... i learn a lot
For safety sake I would buy or build a lock for the header.
We have a HD40F head and we put washers on the bolt head side of the bolt between the head and round bar to help it not break them as much
I'd look at drilling out the cross shafts and tapping for 10mm..... maybe.
Have a good day
GREAT STUFF ☺️ AND VERY PROUD OF Y'ALL
I think, the screw head becomes a point load from the two points it sits on the round bolt, event worse true the large chamfer, as it brings the load more away from the core and enlarged the lever.
So it becomes cracks and breaks off, I would assume, that a soft washer (maybe a copper or alu seal) could help, as it distributes and dampens the load.
(The second one maybe breaks on the thread due overload from the missing first one.)
Howdy Mike, enjoyed the video
Do a video on the twin rotor vs normal rotor
Great awesome video mike , dredded bolts
I can honestly say mike that these engineers think of good ideas but when they design parts to fail they turn out bad , then they wonder why there are complaints so much
Drill the holes out and put a bigger bolt in it. ;) Wonder what John Deere says about it the bolts breaking.
Like the Green better than the black combine?
How could anything be simpler and safer than a heavy bracket to drop down over the lift cylinder?
Mike, I have few questions. When you buy a new pieces of iron for a million dollars isn't there some form of training or do you prefer to just wing it as it appears?
When you critique the latest greatest equipment on your online platform, do the manufactures ever reach out to you?
Thanks for the entertainment.
Good one ☝️
If you have a decent dealer they are always a phone call away.
Hello Mike good 🌾🤗🇮🇹
Dude... How is your grease gun so clean.. 😂 Can't wait to see the north farm videos ☺️
I bet in a few years sensors will be on those gauge wheels to find out the pressure or force that wheel has. Than they will record the numbers and check how much stress was put in the head through the field or season
Maybe you should buy a box of one higher grade 3rd party bolts and upgrade them whenever they break. But maybe wait to say you did so on UA-cam until the John Deere warranty expires. 😜
So if they are typical metric class 8.8, upgrade to class 10.9, and if that still isn't enough upgrade to class 12.9
I looks like you could use an M12 Milwaukee battery powered ratchet with that little space to move a manual ratchet.
From my experience a grade 5 bolt will outlast a grade 8 bolt. Bolt strength is end to end and may be to brittle as there be some side to side motion. Put one in vice and hammer on it , the higher grade will break the lower grade will bend.
@Jim Oster Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
Should try some grade 8 bolts maybe
That chamfer on the hole is just there to help get the bolt in easier, it would have to be totally flat to help from breaking that head off. I bet that's most of the issue.
Have you tryied slowing down to see if the bolts break. I find slow and steady wins the race combining
In flex mode we turn the knob for height control to zero and put the wing wheels all the way up. This changes the control algorithm from the wing wheels to the flex hinges
If these bolts keep breaking maybe you should invest in a cordless ratchet and go through the hole on the bottom.
Replace in a fraction of the time
Belle vidéo, bien expliquée.
J'espère que vous avez des bons rendements en grains.😀
Great videos keep up the awesome work you do with your family and crew.
I was down in Regina Sept 6-10 and ya man was it windy on the 7th and 8th we actually had to shut down our job those days because of the wind to dangerous
actually Balgonie, SK
I would say that the strength of the bolt needs addressed. If they're being made in China, their strength may be suspect to begin with???
Looks like its the same engineer who designed this JD header bolt system also designed the Ford engine to change the spark plug. They have to remove the cab! Lol
I think I'd be tempted to run dual tires out on the far ends of the headers, on one each side of the bracket. That should cover gopher holes easier, and less bounce. But possibly be a bit harder on tire skid. Given the way the axles mount it should be easy enough to switch to duals. Mill two axles to thread together with a set screw to lock the threads.
Mile, how many bushels in a RR grain car. I live in Sicamous BC about 300?yards from the CP main line. We had 6 loaded grain trains go through yesterday and 5 empties and they are running about 160 cars per train.
Magnifique vidéo et la moissonneuse batteuse x9 1000
Morning
Needs a drop cover for the cylinder, Wish my grandpa would use the saftys on are round baler cylinders he's gonna get killed one of these
Hi Mike. I think i saw 10.8 breaking strength on the bolts. Could you try to source some 12.9 breaking strength bolts from somewhere else?
These bolts shouldnt break that often as they are JD original parts. Pretty sure this ist an overall flawed design, they should update at some point. Would be interesting to see the strain/stress-simulation the engineers have for the header :D stronger bolts sure would be worth a try
High tensile will probably still fail because the problem is the round bar under the hex head only contacts the head in two spots creating stress points, resulting in fatigue failure.
Soy operador jd 790 q hermosa q es la x9 x dios acá en Argentina todavía no llega pero ya se verá pronto lo mejor jd 🇦🇷💛💚💯
JD Engineers are asking an awful lot of those litttle belts
I meant bolts
Cheers for the content Mike o/
Pay that much for a piece of equipment you have the right to rant all you want!👍
Hey Mike, we were working in Moose Jaw and commuting from Regina each day from 31st August until 15th September might we have seen you combining? Love the videos
He’s an hour south of s.current and 2 hours north of Regina so you probably didn’t see them
Did my eyes deceive me or was that front tyre off the ground when Mike was under the header? Sorry my eyes did deceive me. Lol. 11.45 🙈
Wonder if one of Milwaukee’s m12 ratchets or right angle impact would fit in there on that bolt and speed that process up a little bit?
Looks like Deere may want to do an upgrade to M10 bolts with matching trunnions to fix the issue.
That would be about 60% increase in strength.
Those bolts are probably made in China anyway. Knowing JD they designed them to break at a certain time or load. You put a harder grade bolt on it that doesn't break as easy you might break something alot more expensive. Great videos mike.
Mike, I had a 3/8 right angle air ratchet that may have fit in that bottom oval hole to get to the end of the bolt. I don’t know if they make battery powered 3/8 right angle ratchet that works on that principle.
Thanks for all your videos.
Milwakee does, but it may not have enough torque. I find them good for low torque jobs only
Hi there you need grade 8 bolts to put in place
Hey Just in time ;D
Macdon 50’ head has worked great, but there hydraulic buddy wheels are under the head, follows contour well mike
I see you trading that in soon.
My old man was right from the beginning. It cost money to own John Deere equipment. For a $1000000 unit you think there wouldn’t be issues for at least a while. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
With the head of that Bolt being on a round surface you're only getting two contacts one on each side of that head of that Bolt now if you could grind it with a flat spot or take and make a washer with a flat spot on one side and you cut on the other side you wouldn't break them both I don't think as much because that bolt needs to have a flat surface where the head is
Would you crop sprayer make a good firetruck with a special nozzle..you've got 1000 gals or more
Here I am, wondering if all those bolts are actually supposed to be tight like that. What is the point of having an actuating arm when you tighten the bolt so much that the arm cannot actuate? Might they be intended to be loosened so that if it bumps something on the ground it would go up and over it?
Don’t like not having a drop cover on the header cyclinder
If Deere would but smooth straight groove tires instead of cleated tires, side slide would be much easier. The lug cleet tends to dig in when side sliding..
P.S., get you a stubby ratchet
@glenn hatley Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
Are you taking any combines from the south farm north?
Why is that header tire not a rounded profile slick, if it needs to slide sideways?
The person stating that you shouldnt put a flat head screw through a round pin might be onto something. If the screws break right under the head, maybe they can hold a little more if you place one or two washers under the screwhead.
Edit: Beveled out doesnt really make things better strain wise. The load rating on screws is only valid if they use the full contactpatch under the head, by putting them through a round bolt and beveling the hole out you remove most of the contact patch under the screw and create stress concentrations in the bolthead.
Source: Trust me I´m an engineer(ing student)
True. But thats only part of the problem here... Generally underbuilt
@@jesperviktorsson8027 Yes, but Mike isnt gonna solve the Problem that they are generally underbuilt, but he might make things better for himself.
@@jangobajovar8889 well it looks like the bolts die to tensile stretching... Not just at the head too.. but by the threads too... It just a small bolt... Modifying the mounting to put an m10 in there instead of an m8 is what i wouldve done, at the end of the season...
@@jesperviktorsson8027 Mike showed two broken bolts in this video.
One was broken right at the head and the other at the threads.
Me thinks that the first to break was the one who broke at the head. For the reason that Jango explained.
And then the second one broke because it had to do the work of two bolts.
So fixing the problem that Jango explained might fix the problem altogether.
Did you try some grade 8 bolts?
On another note, you have become my favourite thing to watch on UA-cam keep up the awesome content.
@mike mitechell - should that bolt loose on that tire for your header?
I seen that 2
Aint nobody said it yet today so i will ... macdon. . Wont down anything deere but from what ive seen ... no.. . Macdon dont make a good header either.. they make a great one..perfect no . But will do what the others still are trying . Do the job well and trouble free.. ive had 3 of em .
I agree
Why do you combine crossway to the direction of planting?
How many ground do you prepare? Ask somebody from switzerland.
I feel like if you modified for larger bolts you are then going to end up with thinner sidewalls on the barrels, breaking those instead. Definitely feels like something an engineer ran a computer simulation and decided a M8 bolt would be plenty good.
Jumping one bolt size especially if you can switch to a standard bolt you can get something a little bigger instead of a full jump
So Mike, are you considering replacing the John Deere header for a Honeybee header?
Hope you will be able to have some fun too soon. Did you manage to finish cutting the canola?
Haha one of these months we are going to take a day off! Maybe even 3 🤔😆
How is your comment from 18 hrs ago ?
@@kerryf8308 The video is released early to patreon supporters.
How many acres was harvested by the group of you guys and gals? How many acres did you cut with the new x9-1000 ?
Have you ever used air reel
I wonder if you could machine the lugs that receive the bolt to a larger size and then use over size bolts. Bearing in mind that the larger and stronger the bolt up to a point, could cause the lugs to fail with the same stresses. Correct torque for those bolts?
I don’t think you can modify the machine like that. John Deere is real funny about that stuff and warrantees/leases.
You are very correct. John Deere is definitely in the 'wrong to repair' camp.
Would high tensile bolts work better for the header table? Seems like a flawed design with small diameter bolts that appear to shear often.
My thinking, exactly
My years of battling mechanical issues when bolts are a problem if they gave the thread lengths accordingly--switch to Caterpillar bolts. Problem will be solved
Ashytn’s Christmas present to Mike this year with love a new Honey Bee header! 🎄🎄