Usable Yard Art

That makes sense, and explains the yellow wheels. I haven’t crawled under it yet, been changing out the rotten tires. With one jack stand and a log holding it up I wasn’t really that interested in crawling under there :wacko:   I figured when it wasn’t being used as yard art I could tow it around the yard and trim the dead stuff out of the trees.

P.S. That’s why you can’t be sayin’ Good Bye, at least on this site!

TONE-TONE wrote:

Hey Tinbender , not to change the subject. But did you ever do your “50 hour ” re-torque on your Jinma ?

Quote    Sorry. but life has a way of leaving tread marks on me. 163 hours and counting…

“My guess is the cable is attached to the hydraulic cylinder.” Bob, I’m thinking you’re right. That 3 foot long cylinder? It’s more like at least 6. As soon as I get it home (tomorrow I hope) I’ll start looking for tags I can take pictures of and send them to John Deere to get an idea what year this thing is. The splayed out sides I think I can fix by sleeving  the egged out holes in the 4×4 cross braces every 1-1/2 ‘ or so except the back one, that will have to be replaced. The steel runners with the bolts going through down the sides are beat up pretty bad, I can get Newhouse mfg. to make new ones reasonable. I don’t think it’s going to take much to make it look like it’s ready for use as compared to a falling apart POS. One’s a real piece of yard art. the other’s an eyesore. I paid 50 bucks for it, +24 for four oversize bolt together valve stems. Strangely, the left rear rim has the valve stem on the back side, other than that they are identical :unsure:

Well it’s home. Hooked up to the pickup with tow lights and a safety chain to make it somewhat legit to be on the road, only 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 miles away and completely uneventful :good:

Now to figure out how to lock the steering. I wanted to back it down the driveway but discovered it ain’t so easy to back something up when the front wheels don’t want to cooperate ! :negative:

I’ll have to get him over to back it up :yes:   I used to be good at backing up cars with a tow truck 40 years ago, but even then the steering was locked, but we had a yard behind another business where everything had to be backed up a narrow 75 foot driveway, you learned to be quick about it. Guess I’ll have to practice… :unsure: