Updates to the Red Brake

[Jerry Christiansen]

Hi all,

These pictures are from September 10.





If you look near the top of the 540 PTO splines, you can see that the shaft has twisted a bit. This shaft has definately had a bit of torque run through it.

On September 10 Jon H, Scott F, Charles F, Bryce H, Seth H, Jane C and I met at the Red Brake to take the shaft out of the chain case.
Right now the chain case looks like this.



Both PTO shafts and all the other inards have been removed. The Brake is capable of running with a belt belt right now. Larson Welding is going to remake both shafts. They will both be the large sized so that hopefully we won't twist them again.

Here is a part of the tear down crew.



From left to right: Scott, Bryce, Jane and Charles. Seth had to leave early and I didn't get his picture. Jon was off to the side working when I took this picture.

Putting the chain case back together will be done very early next season.

Later,
Jerry Christiansen

 

[m kerkvliet]

I reminded you not to apply too much brake when I had my B John Deere on that shaft!

Seriously, I enjoyed hearing how the chain case was originally put together when we had lunch a month ago. You and Jonathan are a wealth of information on that machine.

Thanks for updating!

 

[Jerry Christiansen]

Mark,

Thanks for the warning about the torque your B has. Next time we will have to be sure to run it on the belt.

Later,
Jerry Christiansen

 

[cjmlarson]

That's his B Jerry, you should ask him about his R. I am sure it would have way to much power for you to even test it!!!!

 

[m kerkvliet]

That's his B Jerry, you should ask him about his R. I am sure it would have way to much power for you to even test it!!!!

It would have probably pulled it off of it's concrete pad, but alas... I have no PTO shaft so I couldn't taste a thing :-(

But... I have to throttle back to keep the water in the pond when I am on the pump!