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Hydraulic repairs are always fun...

🕑 Added 2024-07-05 12:37:04 +0000 UTC

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Jeffry Blackmon

I delivered fuel oil house to house back in the '70s. One day I'm in a customer's basement when he yelled that my truck is spraying oil. It was a 4 inch hose that let go between the tractor pump and the trailer meter. I had a hard time climbing into the tractor cab to shut off the pump; the step was wet with oil. What a mess on the city street! The company repair guys spread bags and bags of dryer material.

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I think hydraulic fluid is basically poisonous also. If it gets under your skin you're in real trouble.

Chris M

This is why hydraulics terrify me. Not much does, even working on 3-phase high voltage, but hydraulics.....

Doug McCusker

My only experience with hydraulic lines happened when I was cutting cord wood with my cousin many years ago. We were out in the field cutting/splitting logs with his then father-in-law's homemade hydraulic log splitter. It was a pretty nice one...ran off of the 1948 Allis-Chalmers tractor that he let us borrow (on another note: it HAD original tires on it until WE ran over a small, sharp tree stump and took one out). Anyway, I'm splitting a big log and am at the controls...at the rear of the splitter. All of a sudden, a line bursts, I feel wet/pressure whiz by my head, and see that hydraulic fluid is spraying about 50 feet into the air and across the field. I was LUCKY that the hose didn't take my head with it.

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It the "new" tow rig. I'll make a video on it soon. 353,000 miles on the ticker...

Conner Wright

Is that 3500 a customers truck? I like the bed on it

Keith Mezzina

That doesn't seem to be much fun, especially if the oil is old and/or hot. The current safety standards notwithstanding, you'd think just common sense would have served to mitigate that a little bit in the design? In the long run, failure is a 'when' and not an 'if' and operators don't generally work well when being doused in oil.

Watch Wes Work

My dad had a bulldozer with a low pressure/high flow hydraulic system. Since it predated safety, the hoses were right next to the seat. Twice, a hose bust, and pumped 99% of the oil all over him faster than he could shut it down.

Keith Mezzina

Even more fun when something bursts in a confined space, soaking everything in oil, or a slow long-term leak that's managed to mix with dirt creating a fun, hard-to-remove 'mud'.