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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: heidy on October 10, 2016, 10:58:28 am

Title: post borer not working
Post by: heidy on October 10, 2016, 10:58:28 am

I have a siromer compact tractor which I brought a post borer for, it worked really well, pulling up large stones etc whilst boring. The hydraulics went and I had to buy new seals for it. The borer works but only goes a little way in, it's a shadow of its former self, the hydraulics work, any ideas what's gone wrong. I need to put up a lot of fencing posts.

Title: Re: post borer not working
Post by: greenbeast on October 17, 2016, 11:07:25 am

low oil?
I assume these things pull themselves down rather than are driven down. So if it's low on oil it mught give up when loaded a reasonable amount

Title: Re: post borer not working
Post by: Buttermilk on October 18, 2016, 08:25:49 am

Blunt?  Tree roots can take some getting through here.

Title: Re: post borer not working
Post by: henchard on October 18, 2016, 06:39:41 pm

I presume that it is driven from the PTO? Which is probably hydraulically driven from an oil pump. So possibly low oil, blocked oil filter or a failing oil pump.

Title: Re: post borer not working
Post by: bazzais on October 20, 2016, 02:48:11 pm

Hydraulics went?  What 'went' what was replaced?

Have you put an aftermarket ebay pump on?