i got a old bucket wheel tile machine, it has the bucket cleaners on it, but the inside wheel "rim" will build up with clay when digging after awhile(about 1/2" thick or so). if it drys overnight it usually falls off, but it starts digging like crap after it builds up too much...i just took the wirewheel grinder to the inside to "polish" the inside up some,as it wasnt used much before i got it... will this be enough or is there something i can apply on the metal to keep the mud/clay from sticking to it.
Around here it is dry enough that there shouldn't be any machine with rusty buckets.Everyone here are runing or making rooterband cutting edges. Find some dry hard digging,if nothing else then just clay hillside.Just dig not install tile to polish the bucket,also sandy area. Desiel fuel or old used oil helps start taking off the rust.Good luck
thanks for reply, this isnt really on the buckets, its the inside "rim" that the buckets bolt to. the wheel "frame" so to say. i'd run about 1500 ft and then i have to take a spade and knock it off the inside mud. this part of the wheel doesnt really dig. i think either my cleaners need be adjusted to where they rub the inside of the wheel frame or hopefully i helped it with wire wheeling the inside to where its polished. just know i got plenty of time to work on it if i knew what it takes to fix it, so i can run when i can in a month or two thanks again
What is your trencher Speicher?I had a 7060 for years. There are cleaners at top of the rear frame or can be added,then there are some at top ahead of the conveyor belt that scraps on the rim.Cleaners maybe wore out,bent you name it!
Basically, it's a hydratandem, a speicher's red headed brother..... I just put new rear scrapers on last week. But they don't rub the sides, maybe I need to shim them out. Are they suppose to actually rub or just close. The back ones aren't spring loaded like the frts. Maybe I'll put new ones on the frt also.but they look fairly new.
Actual needs to rub.Sometimes over the life of the machine the rims get spread out from all the side cutters or teeth catching rocks in the side of the trench.So cleaners may rub in some places and not in others on the rim.You can also heat them and bent to get them to fit better if not to far off.Front should be spring loaded and mine has a curve at the tips to help some with the cleaning of buckets also.Mine are hydraulic.
i think ill heat them up alittle, im about 3/8-1/2" from rubbing. frt are spring loaded in and out and frt to back, hasnt been upgraded to the hyd.... all the new ones i put in are the curved style. i got this machine to just do mains, i got a plow for lats...its slow, but it seems to do what i want if i get this figured out thanks again
Tj, I'm just wondering if your having problems with the dirt or mud hanging up inside the wheel and not dropping out and just following the wheel around again or are you talking about mud on the outside of the wheel. Basically what conditions are you running in, wet sloppy muck or dry dirt? The reason I'm asking is last fall mainly we ran in muck so bad the mud wouldn't drop out of the wheel at all, just follow it around, wipe by the cleaners and just keep hanging in the buckets, if your in those conditions, the wheel will never scour and clean up no matter what you do, we ran for two months in those conditions and the buckets never did clean up, then we moved to a farm with sand on it and within a half hour of running the buckets were highly polished. If your in mucky conditions even if the buckets are polished up, it won't help for the mud to drop out of the buckets. I've never polished any of the buckets with anything, either the ground conditions will or they won't, either way it shouldn't matter much. The scrapers should rub, but last fall we were is rocks so bad, we kept bending the cleaners and then we'd take the excavator bucket and chain and bend them back up against the inside of the wheel so they'd rub again, but depending on how wet it is and what your soil type is will determine how the dirt comes out, not really if the wheel and buckets are polished.
we had pretty dry conditions last fall. the wheel would clean out to the conv. real nice. it was a layer of moist clay that stuk to the inside wheel frame, almost like a ribbon of clay. im think you guys were right and i need to get them cleaners adjusted in one way or another. nothing looks bent up, so thats a good thing for sure. we dont have much for rocks around here in 80-90% of our soils thanks again guys