SPQ13 KEITH

This section of pm finishing out the program was good to rap everything together. I've learned thAt really it doesn't do you all thAt much good to fix a big problem like a broken connecting rod of you have high silica in your oil. Pm is for stopping the problem before it happens that includes using it for right after you fix a problem. Everything needs to be how it was new for everything to work properly. That customer wants to know that after you fix it it will not come back.in with the same exact problem. Pm is to protect yourself and will help you keep customers coming back especially if they know that you will find this problems before they get out of control. Its hard in the beginning because no one lime the change or the initial cost but if we can work past thAt and then show all the benefits your set.

HRS WEEK 44
HRS TOTAL FINAL 351

SPQ13 KEITH

The oils I used We're all kubota oils. I found all the info on kubota.com. it's has all the ratings for the oil even temperatures. The paragraph is very specific about only using these oils in your kubota tractor. They have corrosion protection stabilizing parts to keep them running well. I was surprised how easy it was to find this info for the oil.

SPQ13 KEITH

This is where I went throughout a portion of a pm sheet from the DOT. I walked through some operational controls, exterior, and tires and wheels. The pictures are of some of those things including the dash light and gauges, the tread and valuable stem and last a body panel with paint damage.
As in was looking through 'll the criteria for a complete inspection I noticed it's very in depth and can be field specific. I think about what I should be looking at before I go on deliveries with the work truck. Not just check the oil but look at some suspension components and to look at my tires. I should absorb as much as I can about the truck so I can better keep it on the road.
I really would lime to see these being used on our rental equipment at the shop and keep record of it every time it goes in and out. I bet that even just the small dents and scratches being charges to a customer would make up for anytime "lost" in the process.

SPQ13 KEITH

When I went through finding all.the grease fittings I had some trouble. After counting two Times myself I teamed up with a couple other people and worked together to.come up.with 44 zerks for the undercarriage.

SPQ13 Keith

 

 

 

 

 

This week was the hydraulic final. Heres what I found out.
Slow speed in the book is 1.6mph. Me and Austin measured 10rpm. and track length is 15.3 ft.
By 60 minutes and divided by a mile gives the mph.
10*15.3=153ft/m   *60=9180 divided by 5280 is 1.74mph.
That is a bit faster than the book says it should be. I wonder how they do there testing maybe with some resistance?
The fast speed in the book is 2.9mph and I calculated that its about 3.48 mph
Overall the test went well but I want to know if its exactly the number in the book or just at least what the book says.

To start with a new pump you have to prime it. And initially before we do anything make sure that when you go to prime it its not against the system of pressure like a boom it needs to be in free position back to tank. If at all possible fill the area with oil before starting. make sure you can turn the pump freely by hand.

This week I learned a lot about this hydraulic system. Where to find test ports and how to not open the system to test. contamination  IS OUR ENEMY!!! Also testing the system with facts we know can possibly tell us if the pump or motors are not processing at there potential.

HRS WEEK 32
HRS TOTAL 307

SPQ13 KEITH

This week I didn't end up getting to help much with the 4960 JD because of other projects. But I got to ask question about it and learned so much. For example that the valve cover gasket they use weather strip adhesive to hold in the cork gasket or else it pops out. Also the listings and liners come with the piston already installed in the liner. I also learned a bit more on how to roll in bearings on the crank.

The picture is of the other JD Ray is working on that I took a picture because in the corner it shows a defect in the cast. But up close its welded in. Someone broke the corner of the cast and had to fill it in. Interesting to me wonder if they did it and actually cleaned up or with some oil in it. You just never know what people will do.

HRS WEEK 32
HRS TOTAL 275

SPQ13 Keith

This week I was learning about John Deere tractor. Its a 4960 and I was doing teardown to get to the radiator balancer and the engine for an in farm rebuild. I learned about how everything is mounted and how to disassemble. Hopefully this week I will get to help put in New liners. Well see what happens.

HRS WEEK 32
HRS TOTAL 243

SPQ13 Keith

This week we got in our new excavator.
I got to run the bobcat and it was really fun to practice tacking tires. We also looked at the sae and iso controls and which is cat (sae) and John Deere (iso).  I run cat controls and know how important it is to have them the way your used to because switched it can be a read bugger.  Also I learned more about hydralic pressure and work be studying the systems for the winch and windless and how they worked on lower and higher volume systems. The last the I learned was a walk through WE did of changing the pressure on a pressure relief valve just the process and how to read it and test the system was great!

HRS WEEK 36
HRS TOTAL 211

SPQ13 Keith

This week we went to B&G machine and the tour was amazing. Its so important to me to learn about business structure for the future and where it should be. We may feel disconnected from that side but we're not. In a good business model we're vital to the system and I forget that and can feel like a grunt. Bit don't aim low we are graduating as technicians, don't sell yourself short and don't settle for any less than the best product you can produce.
    It was awesome to.see the engine blocks they had around and what they are worth. The amazing tools they have! Come on balancing a crank that's freaking sweet.
I guess biggest takeaway is that I don't want to just be a wrench turner I want to be a technician and I have better goals for what that looks like.
This week I also got some time in on the hydraulic bench and figuring out troubleshooting and understanding different problems.

HRS WEEK 43
HRS TOTAL 175

SPQ13 Keith

    This past week I tore into a tn85 a new Holland. The radiator had a hole in it and we needed to get it checked out. I had a lot of fun tearing into it and I am getting a lot better about knowing I can get everything back together. We pulled off a hose with JIC connected. the face of the angle had grooves around it. and the fitting we pulled off the frame has JIC one side and straight thread with a seal on the other side. I didn't have time to get the fitting all figured out but it will be back because it leaks. I think it was the face leaking for sure but I don't know if the seal was bad. The biggest thing I am noticing is how I have been able to pull from things I have learned. Recently I have been able to pull the information with ease which makes me more confident in my work.

HRS WEEK 41
HRS TOTAL 132

SPQ13 Keith

    Last week I did a lot of driving. I had one pick up. It was a dead tractor and when I got there I saw there was no way that I could get it on the deck. So I had no tools and no wires and had to jump start it. So I pulled out a key ring and stretched it out and used that to jump start the machine and get it on the truck.  All that to say I learned to stay calm in new situations and think long about all the possibilities you never know what your capable of.  think outside the box because practicing tis can make it easier when your stuck in a really bad way.

I am also enjoying learning about all the troubleshooting with electrical and hydraulic circuits. Troubleshooting is the thing that I want to be the best at. I know that it is very important and can make all the difference and for me its mostly fun!



HRS WEEK 41
HRS TOTAL 91

SPQ13 Keith smart phone meter links

I found some tech to let you make a meter and an oscilloscope out of your phone check them out in the links.

http://www.gabotronics.com/development-boards/xmega-xprotolab.htm
for the oscilloscope

http://www.redfishinstruments.com/
voltmeter

SPQ13 Keith

This week I was out for most of it sick. I did look up two terms that I did not know from Jeff's list. I looked up candle power and power. I learned that candle power is the beam focus or amount of light for a given area. These lights are usually for long range like spot lights. The lumen is the general term but a standard for how much light no matter what the focus is.
I also learned or refreshed that power is the rate at which you do something. So for a light it is the rate of electrical consumption measured in Watts.

HRS WEEK 16
HRS TOTAL 50

SPQ13 Keith

    This week work was fairly slow. I did do a job on a backhoe replacing the high and low pressure valves for the dipper cylinder. I had all the information, all the tools, and all the parts. What I didn't know was that the book had a different answer then the service bulletin and the parts breakdown. So I was going with the book and replaced the two valves and the cylinder didn't work very well. It would hold pressure and slowly raised. I was super disappointed my first service call a failure. After I got back to the shop the guy brought his tractor in and my boss got to taking a look at it. He started switching things around and found that if you switch the high and the low relief valves that it worked great. Then to find out that the book from Kubota was wrong. So that whole story to say and remind to check all your sources of information. Make sure they all agree.
    The other small Job I did on my own was replace my windshield wiper motor in my car. I started pulling things out and come to find out there was more then meets the eye to this replacement. I had to take out the dash as well. It all went well until I reassembled and the wipers tried to go down first then up which as you can imagine does not work... at all. I had hooked the linkage up the exact same way I took it apart but now I was 180 degrees off. So I took it back apart and readjusted and it works great now. Both these stories hit with me that there can always be changes or differences in the new parts or service bulletins. Check check double check and be careful. I was lucky in both cases there was no rush and no destruction.




HRS Week 34
HRS Total 34

SPQ13 Keith

Just did my homework releaning how to color schematics and navigating BTC.
I learned today or at least I am refreshed of the topic that if you are not practicing a
skill that you picked up on then it can so easily fall off the radar and with that out
of your brain. Coloring schematics was one of those for me i enjoy it and recognize the
benefits, but not using it makes it tuff to remember.

March 12th "signed up for classes"

 This week i got into a better position for where i want to be at scholtens or when i graduate. i think i have better mde my place there and let them know that i dont plan or want to leave. I got the money i feel i deserve and learned to be able to stand up for myself in this competitive field. I got to do a service on a bx2200 and its mower deck. im getting to do more services now and learning more everyday. Learning how to get faster and better at servicing is at the top of my list right now. coming up with an order to do things in and to overlap so im not waiting for oil to drain. And upcomig for me will be a claas school in lynden that we are putting o but i will get to learn from. and hopefully start on kubota school online.


HRS WEEK  40
HRS TOTAL 331

March 5th "power..."

This week i only did one thing that is forever cemented in my mind. hit a low hanging power line on a delivery. I was told about the line and told to be careful. i was backing in and the line at the road was low so i figured that was it. little did i know there was a line only 10 feet off the ground still behind me. so i hit it it ark and i sat there. it was layig on my excavator so icalled the boss an he called pse. a guy came out turned off power got it off me. then i unloaded i asked the guy if it was big he said nope it will take 20 minutes. but ow im always looking up.


HRS WEEK 32
HRS TOTAL 291

Feb 25th "doing my own thing"

    This week was alot of self assigned tasks. if i satay moving and there i not alot going i just get left alone and i can get stuff that i think should get done done. It has been slow at the show lately but it comes in surges. Ill be busy for 3 day and then have one just dead day. But im learning to find things  to do and having the confidence that i can do them and not be in trouble or something.
    This week i got to do a full service on a m9540 Kubota and it was fun. its alot to handle and try to do fast and efficiently. for me its very easy to not set things up right and end up wasting alot of time. But im starting to like figuring things out for myself. allbeit small projects but an rtv comes in with a list of things to fix and i just  get to start doing them i dont have to wait aound to be told step by step instructions of how the boss wants it done. On the 9540 i learned to always recheck all your fluids. I drained the front axle and the front hubs and refilled them. Some oe else got put on it the next day beffore i could get back to it and check all my fluids and they had to add about what i had put in the first day in the axle and hubs to get them to the right spot but its just a reminder to never let it leave without checking twice.


HRS week 40
HRS total 259

Feb 17th " ahead of myself"

    So this week i had two days off for a funeral and personal things so it was hard to actually get on a project becuse of time constraints. But i did get to workon a small b2550 on the injection pump and adjusting the throttle linkage. The reason i titled it ahead of myself is because the linkage adjustment i was going for a spent about half an hour pulling panels around he dash to find out the only way to adjust it was through the hole for the throttle lever itself so i essentially wasted all that time. But you have to learn from these things and its tough to slow down when you want to impress but i know i need to be more logical about these things. And the pump i worked on was a pretty simple change of orings and washer seal on the outgoing pump lines.


HRS WEEK 24
Hrs total 219

Jan 12th "more small things"

This week i learned about a few smaller things to help finish the big picture. I learned thTon some jcb equipment there is a ground wire coming off the starter. no i did not hook up to the wrong wire i got close but didnt. im so used to there only being one i never took a second thought. I know now i need to observe more before i procede with even small things like jump starting a dead tractor.
 Im learning to be a good delivery guy even when im nof sent with the proper info. telling a customer all the details ins and outs of the machine on the fly. and always take extra keys and books always.
those a two things i learned this week at scholtens and things are going well. i am currently waiting to dig into a fuel pump to replaced o-rings


HRS WEEK 40 
HRS TOTAL 195

Feb 3rd "AG SHOW AND FAST TRAC"

This week was alot of the usual. But a couple cool things happened. First i got to go down to Portland on thirsday to the ag show but only saw a couple things because everything was getting takin out and i had a purpose! I was thereto drive a new fast track homewith a claas bailer behind it. This thing is amazing it goes 45 Mph. and i drove it all the way from Potland to Burlington on the freeway.I guess i learned a bit at the show but more of the system for the JCB Fastrac. it had a drive mode like a car or you can paddle shift or run a power percentage. Its some very amazing tech in this thing with 4 wheel disc brake that make a trucks brakes look small.

HRS WEEK 39
HRS TOTAL 155

Jan 27th "washing and learning about JCB"

     This week was alot of washing and painting. Being outside in the rain and cold with wet feet. Im putting in my dues. We got in a couple new John Deeres and i did alot of painting on the wheels.
I did get to work on a JCB at the end of the week replacing u-joints.  as you will see by the pictures i put in the new u-joints but also found that the yoke on the rear axle had a chunk takin out of it. so i reported back and were getting a new yoke, nut, washer and seal for the rear axle. Im learning about different machine and how there systems work and on friday i learned a new way to mount a drive shaft on a jcb 416.

HRS WEE 40
HRS TOTAL 116

Jan 21st "volvo and being sick"

    Check out this Volvo video for there new emergency brake system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridS396W2BY

I was sick two days last week so i didnt get to do too much. Still learning to find some places that we take our parts too. Some of the bigger things are little things to do and keep track of while your working. things my boss like to keep organized and in place. and learned about the volvo system. how they are making it almost impossible to have a rear end accident.



HRS WEEK 24
HRS TOTAL 76

Jan 13th "cleaning"

    This week i did alot of pressure washing outside. i was even out at times of rain and snow. but one thing i did learn and would like to be better about is how thorough i am when cleaning. this skill i believe applys to everything else. IIf I can be thorough in cleaning i think it could help me be thorough when im fixing other things.
    This week i did do alot of smaller tasks like washing things up for other people to work on but from that i absorb lots of inormation about the machines. i get to see everything and find out where stuff is. i believe that these are all neccessary steps to being a good mechanic.
    Oneof the best parts of work this week was the very late Christmas party. it was great becuse i got to see the dynamics of the company and who we really are and i love what i see. all i could say is its a good place to be.

HRS WEEK 24
HRS TOTAL 52

Jan 5th "Going Back to School"

    I have been working at the new place for a while now. I really like the new place and I am getting to do alot more hands on learning. I split the b7500 Kubota and replaced the hydrastat and rewired headlights. That being my first split I learned so much about organization and how to remember where everything goes when going back together.

    This week I made two big deliveries one was after hours to oak harbor and the other was to Lopez Island. I feel like i learned how to stay calm under pressure. I had to go to an island in the dark that i had not been to in ten years. I really feel like i get more comfortable in difficult situations that I have the knowledge to figure it out.


HRS week: 28