I've always been impressed by machinists. People don't appreciate the amount of knowledge and skill it takes to do things like this.

Dry ice works well for cooling, much better than the freezer.... If available. Good Job you can't argue with success. Bush Hogs lead a hard life and are most always in need of something.

Hi Tom, it never occurred to me that you would be able to buy a new 12 spline taper sleeve like that. Nice meaty farm implements. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

Great job there Tom. You turned a boring job into a pressing affair.

Hello Tom, Great to see some customer work is coming into your workshop... Take care. Paul,,

Great video. I really enjoyed following along from beginning to end. Thank you.

Hey Tom! Good to see the full shop view! Looks great! Farmers are some of my favorite people. They get stuff done to the point of complete collapse! Good project !

Bush hogs, ha ha. Yep been their. Thanks for sharing 👍

looks good.. that's a little big for grass lol. Id say corn stocks and junk in the fence lines, thicket , small trees. my family farms, so I've been stuck running the bush-hog . I believe the offset in the shaft and bushing is for the factory balance. they don't spin very fast. 250 to 300 rips

Good one , the pins pressed in nice . Might be time for a larger hydraulic press build ! 👍

G'day Tom. That was an excellent repair buddy, nicely done. I'm sure the customer will be very happy with the repair. Cheers, Aaron.

Very good job..thanks for your time

Nice one Tom, enjoyed watching the machining. Tony

That was a really neat fix, Tom. You get some really interesting projects.

Gday Tom, nice repair, Great to see jobs coming in the door, Cheers

I broke the blade bar on my Bush Hog. That exact part. That was years ago. Brings back memories Tom. Nice repair.

Had my share of broken bush hog parts good job thanks for sharing

Interesting repair Tom, I enjoyed the video.

Having fixed many many of these that’s a good solid repair. As small shops people always seem to ask why we don’t use processes that larger shops do like nitrogen and stuff like that but it’s hard to profit off something we might use a few times a year Mayby. As far as the height difference they adjust that with the 3 point and rear caster so no worries there

Howdy Tom, great job there buddy, really enjoyed this one, stay cool, best wishes to you and yours Ralfy

great job Tom, new to your channel thanks to rough cut 2022

Talk about a work out on your shoulder. You need to a pneumatic cylinder on your press. Repair turned out very nice Tom. Enjoyed watching, cheers 👍👍👍🍻

nice work tom , will cut many more fields.. love the jeep shirt 0lllllll0 .. enjoyed

Awesome job, looks like you seen my use of the green locktite

nice job

I'm not sure why you didn't support the blade in the middle under the bush but I wonder if the bush might have gone in further with each pump if it was deflecting each time.

I've found this before where a bore was off center from the boss, but when I measured from the outboard holes, the middle bore was actually in the center. IOW, the big round boss was welded off center some but the bore was machined centered. So, if you were to move the hole to the center of the hub without measuring, your new bore could be off center causing a pretty bad vibration. It almost caught me once then I started measuring after that. Old farm equipment might not even notice an 1/8" tho.

Good job Tom. I am no expert at heating metal. But it seems to me I have seen videos and heard others talking about how heating will swell metal a lot more than cooling will shrink it. Maybe someone else can chime in and explain if I am right or wrong. I guess it would be easy to mic a chunk of metal and then heat it and see how much it swells. I'm sure this has been done before but I am interested in knowing if there is a set of rules or scales to say how much a certain size of metal swells compared to other sizes. I'm wondering if the machinist handbook has something like this.....

If you had used a welding torch tip to heat a vertical line on one side while still pressing I think you could have gotten it to where you wanted.

Maybe dry ice would have helped? That'd be like -100 degrees Freedomheight.

Very impressive. I have a similar situation. Is this something I can ship to you to fix? For reference, the part # for the stump jumper pan is #50057117