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Skid Steer-Mounted Chain Trencher
“I call it a poor man’s trencher, but it does the work of much more expensive machines,” says Chuck Hardenburger, Haddam, Kansas, who converted an old 3-pt. trencher to a skid loader-mounted model.
  The 10-ft. long trencher was originally designed for a Ford 8N tractor. Hardenburger bought it at a farm sale for $50. He bought a quick-tach plate for $100 and then built a steel frame to mount the trencher on it. He also bought a used hydraulic motor and attached it to the trencher’s chain drive system. The motor is coupled to a shaft that goes through a reducer gearbox to drive the chain.
  The trencher was equipped with an attachment that was designed to pull loose dirt away from the trench. Hardenburger removed it and mounted a pair of 2-ft. long, 1-ft. dia. augers that remove dirt from both sides of the trench. “I found the augers in a junk pile and built a sprocket that chain-drives the trencher and rotates the augers.”
  “I’ve used it for several years on my New Holland C190 skid loader with no problems. It makes a trench about 8 in. wide,” says Hardenburger. “I use it to do foundation work around buildings and to dig electric and water lines. I can trench going forward and have the entire operation in front, making it easy to operate.
   Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Chuck Hardenburger, 1995 Concord Rd., Haddam, Kansas 66944 (ph 785 778-2962; clhrdnbrgr@jbntelco.com).



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2014 - Volume #38, Issue #4