Hey Tognot,

Remove the blade. Take the cable off the CCU and roll it up, bayle wire it in a nice loop, leave it on the blade.

Cable should be on the scraper already. Thread it to the CCU and wedge it in place. Feel free to call me, 415-720-5936
Glen

Im not a scraper guy ,but ive always used this trick for reeving tight sheaves. If you have removed cable from the sheaves weld , braze or fuse a 10 foot piece of 1/4" galvanized cable to the end of your cable.If your replacing cable weld the new cable to the old one and pull it thru.Ive always done this on clam buckets ,crane topping lines and even changing lines on the crane if your in an awkward spot like on a barge. It makes nasty cable work a lot easier,especially with bigger cable.The D6 and the scaper sounds fun,sure like the sound of the 318 when it works.

Thanks for all the good input.

TUG, when you used my D7 to pull that scraper wasn’t it was nice not having a blade on it. It allows you to get closer to your trees and fence. Also makes the front lighter and more manoverable without using your brakes so much to turn. Once you have the scraper hooked up you probably won’t need the blade anymore.

Set the blade down, put blocks under the trunnion arm to keep them lined up with the balls and back out. If you have good cable it’s easy to rethread.

Make sure you pin your draw bar in the center. If not when you raise the bowl it will pull the scraper forward and swing the draw bar side to side.

I leave my hydraulic blade on so the extra weight helps my traction. It's nice to be able to straighten the odd bump out too sometimes too, although very limited use is the rule most times. My Bucyrus Erie S90 is a hand full for the old D6 but with a little help from a D4 pusher it gets a full bowl. I'd love to find a Cat 60 to pull behind it, but they are scarce these days it seems. I have no trouble turning with mine, learned a lot running it this summer building a pad for my new building, was often doing 180 turns and driving back past my scraper so I didn't notice any issues turning. That is a nice looking Allis Chalmers, I need to get the paint crew out and refinish mine, lol.