I can just make out the original part of the drawbar. It's the curved portion just to the right of the swing brace in the second picture. The previous owner has welded a whole bunch of junk on to it. If you were handy with a gas axe, you could probably slice the welds back off and return it to (sort of) original. Don't have a handy picture of mine unfortunately.
Cheers,
Neil.
I can just make out the original part of the drawbar. It's the curved portion just to the right of the swing brace in the second picture. The previous owner has welded a whole bunch of junk on to it. If you were handy with a gas axe, you could probably slice the welds back off and return it to (sort of) original. Don't have a handy picture of mine unfortunately.
Cheers,
Neil.
Here is a picture of the drawbar on my Cat......a bit different than yours 😊[attachment=13610]P1010468.jpg[/attachment]
Cysco, nice, nice, nice, nice!!! I wouldn't label it as drawbar envy, but you have set the standard very high. Thanks!
I do have a couple questions. Yours shows two riveted tags on the hind end. Mine has one (serial # duplicate), what is the other?
That swing bar looks to be super low hours. What are those four rectangular nibs sticking up?
Are those swing pins a factory setup (in black)?
Lastly, what does that gap measure inside for drawn equipment?
The nibs are part of a wear plate that fits between the drawbar and quadrant to keep the drawbar from wearing out.
The nibs are part of a wear plate that fits between the drawbar and quadrant to keep the drawbar from wearing out.
Go buy yourself a good used drawbar for your tractor, it will be cheaper, easier, and look 110% better than anything a gas axe could achieve with that thing of yours, think about Global Warming!😆 My D4 7J is exactly the same almost, with a nifty extension on it's original drawbar, but my tractor had a winch on the back for pulling a scraper, perhaps yours did too?
regards
Mike
[quote="Mike Meyer"]Go buy yourself a good used drawbar for your tractor, it will be cheaper, easier, and look 110% better than anything a gas axe could achieve with that thing of yours, think about Global Warming!😆 My D4 7J is exactly the same almost, with a nifty extension on it's original drawbar, but my tractor had a winch on the back for pulling a scraper, perhaps yours did too?
regards
Mike[/quote]
Good advice, I have considered that and will put a few feelers out there. Anyone with a bar for sale should PM me please. The CAT spent time in an orchard with a Towner disc that I still have. I'll bet they were not happy with the turning radius with the std drawbar setup and thus the nifty extension.
I'm imagining this setup as being similar to an upside down table (4 legs sitting up), and it's tabletop takes the wear. Would I be correct in the drawbar is installed first, then the wear plate slides through the bar, and then the quadrant gets fed through the bar and bolted up?
Cysco, thanks for the measurement. Appreciated.
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