Harbor Freight Trencher, removing all the pins! After 7.5 years.

Lets see how much damage we can find after 7.5 years of hard labor. #harborfreight #towablebackhoe #excavators #miniexcavator #farming #homestead #farming

[@brianh2324]

And the Oscar award goes to Henry for all his informative and interesting videos. Keep up the great work for all us hf trencher owners. I also ordered pins and thought 3 would be good, replace 1 and 2 for spares. Well I got 6 new pins. You are right, it's a great little machine. Have a great day

[@davej7458]

On any heavy-duty equipment, grease all fittings at the end of the job or at the end of the day while everything is still warm. To force all the accumulated water, dirt, and grit out of the joint or bearing and to do a good grease job. You don't need to force a lot of grease out, just enough to see clean grease. Wipe excess off with a rag, it will hold the dirt and grit you want to get rid of.

[@johnafagerquist8235]

I'msorry you "lost" the video. That's a bummer; for both of us. I would have liked to see a guy wrestling with all those pins and joints. I put my trencher together by myself, and it took a fair amount of both strength and ingenuity. I would have liked to see a potentially, better way of manipulating everything. At any rate, this is a good video. Thanks for sharing it.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

Yea, I'm 70 so it would have been great fun to watch. LOL

[@pctek3511]

I've been a fan of these machines for a long time but I've never been able to justify buying one. I enjoyed your video very much! The KZbin machine suggested your video for me tonight and I subscribed. I like your style and wish I could give you more than one thumbs up.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

Thanks for the kind words and for watching and sub.

[@beardedprepper8606]

Hang on to the pins packed with mud. Let them soak for a long time in hot/warm water and then try to blow them out with air compressor.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

That's the plan. I'm still thinking if there is something good to add to the water to help.

[@beardedprepper8606]

​@@DoubleMFarmHomestead I would think that a good dish detergent would help. Or, maybe a parts cleaner fluid.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

@@beardedprepper8606 LOL I just put them in dish detergent. We're thinking alike.

[@user-fo4ve5fo4z]

@@DoubleMFarmHomestead Boil them outside in a old turkey fryer with a propane tank set on low for a low simmer or anything else you can set up. Find a good old deep pan and use it instead of the turkey fryer stock pot and put it on the burner grate and maybe put a small amount of simple green in the water or some non foaming cleaner to break the water tension and help lift the dirt into the water. I have some old thick aluminum pots someone threw away that I use because I wont cook in aluminum to eat from. Then pull them out while still hot after a good soak and figure a way to hammer them or vibrate them to loosen the dirt and then put them back in the simmer pot. Even if you only use a hard rubber mallet with a bunch of good whacks, I don't know what you have available, don't use steel hammers. If you want to up your game you can boil it in a pressure vessel like a pressure cooker if you have a spare like me and that will increase the water temperature to 250 degrees at sea level, subtract 2 degrees per 1000' of elevation if you live above sea level atmospheric pressure, other wise the water never gets hotter than 212' which is probably plenty.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

I later realized the pins with broken welds couldn't spin independently because of cotter pins!🤣 Also the other video was "corrupted", according to my computer.😁

[@beardedprepper8606]

Could the end possibly be welded back together?

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

@@beardedprepper8606 I'm going to try. Thing is, I can't tell any difference with the new pins. Not sure it even matters. The pin stays together even when broken. No where for it to go. LOL

[@johnossendorf9979]

I hate having heatstroke for lunch.

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

I'm telling you it ain't fun! LOL

[@phillyfathead]

I’m sure that corrupt video was probably one of ur best🤣😂

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

IT WAS THE BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!😂

[@user-fo4ve5fo4z]

@@DoubleMFarmHomestead The video is still there and if you can copy the file onto your computer you can maybe repair it with software. I think the word you were looking for was "corrupted file". All you need to do is copy it over. The problem is the standard software can't "read" the file like it's supposed to but other software can force it and can repair the corrupted parts which is usually the control structure files that are in the beginning and end of a video file that tell the software about what and how the file is to be read. The repair software will rebuild these system info files in the video so it can be used by the video software.

[@USMC-Sniper-0137]

Glad nobody will sit on that greasy bench now...........