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Skid steer does not have the capacity to pick the cylinder out. I tried and could only lift it just off the lower trunion mount but no further. I'm going to attempt to borrow a forklift and use the extension I build for this purpose from a section of old 4" I beam and a grab hook welded on. Here is the test jig with it clamped to my skid steer forks. Easily lifts rear wheel clear of the ground without budging the cylinder:


Thanks for the comment on the rigging. One of these days I'll learn to trust my welds.....
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Getting a better picture of what you have, and where you want to go. A lot of orchard removal out here has gone from a dozer to the excavators. Granted almond and most fruits trees will be smaller than what you have. But pulling stumps with a large excavator with thump leaves more roots attached to the stump, so less to be picked up out of the field. Using a root rake on a dozer is still the faster way to stake brush for burning.


If you are going to use your dozer to take trees down, the old times here rather have the whole tree than a stump. The idea being the top of the tree provide extra leverage to help pull the tap root out of the deep rooted trees. The excavator it doesn't make that much difference. Not that hard to dug down and cut roots off a stump. Just things to consider as go forward. 
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Thanks Ray and I think I'm swinging more the way of an excavator also. Much faster than a dozer and further justification for the root rake is there. Still a lot that son and I can accomplish but hiring some of it out would ensure it got done timely. 
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Decided against borrowing a forklift after remembering just how unfair the payback requests were the last time. Instead, went out behind the building and into the trees got my old crane truck running which has been setting dormant four years or so. Had to touch up the points to get spark and the carburetor will need rebuilt tomorrow so it will continue to run, but it started relatively easy and I was able to massage it towards the building.

Hydraulics livened right up but I need to get a pail of hydraulic oil tomorrow as still short some. I put this truck together back in 89 from a 56 IH S-160 pole setter, and this 65 R-190 which was a single axle road tractor. The RD-450 gas engine runs well, (usually)  and doesn't use oil. The boom swings 90 degrees to each side and back in 2004 I was loading scrap cars and the left outrigger/stabilizer sunk suddenly and over the truck went. It was slow so I was able to jump clear. Nothing damaged except truck and pride with that one. I have a photo of that on the office wall at the shop. I righted the truck with my skid steer with a fork under the upper boom and up and back onto the wheels she went. After refilling the crankcase it fired right up and I went into the shop and cut the crushed door off. Really rough old truck but still usable. I swung a lot of cabs with this truck prior to having the shop gantry crane.

 Once I get this going again steady it will pick that cylinder right out and swing it clear.
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Got the boom up to this point but can't keep the truck running any longer:


Pulled carburetor and it's a mess internally. And to think I rebuilt this in April, 1992:



After an hour or so in the Methylene Chloride bath:



I'll glass bead the iron castings tomorrow and it will look quite nice. All passages blow clear now.

Hope to have it back running tomorrow and pick the cylinder clear of the chassis as the rebuild shop is set to pick it up on Tuesday sometime.

Air compressor will require a rebuild gasket set as far too much of the gaskets came apart during disassembly. I scraped mating surfaces clean and was able to free up both unloaders, and unloader caps as they were stuck from the out of service duration. The compressor was getting slow to build air for the last several years so this may have been an upcoming problem regardless.
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the more TOYS you got, the more REPAIR work to do.......... always something !
Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Originally posted by steve(ill) steve(ill) wrote:

the more TOYS you got, the more REPAIR work to do.......... always something !


Oh man.....
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Originally posted by steve(ill) steve(ill) wrote:

the more TOYS you got, the more REPAIR work to do.......... always something !

That has got to be one of the truest statements I have ever read!!!
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