Portable Hose Maker, Belt Lacer, And Press

Portable Hose Maker, Belt Lacer, And Press FARM SHOP Repairs 19-2-32 After years of making runs back to the shop to repair hydraulic hoses or fix round baler belts, Vance Vesco, Lovelock, Nevada, finally came up with a combination portable hydraulic hose maker, belt lacer, and hydraulic press. "It saves countless hours of downtime because I can do a lot of jobs right in the field," says Vesco. "I made it out of scrap metal that I had around my shop." Vesco used 1-in. dia. steel rod to make the sides of the unit and a piece of 1 by 2-in.dia. steel plate to make the top. A pair of steel springs run from the top to a mounting plate that supports a 12-ton jack that's free to slide up or down the rods. There's a table with a hole at center on the bottom of the unit. To use the hose crimper, Vesco feeds the hose up through the hole and into the crimper, then clamps the new end onto the hose and uses the jack to press it on. To use the vice as a belt lacer, he inserts a steel block into the hole and places the belt lacer on top of it. "I can plug the unit into a receiver tube on back of my pickup to hold it steady or lay it flat on the pickup tailgate," says Vesco. "It's really handy because I can back the pickup up to my baler right in the field and repair belts there without having to remove the belts from the baler. It actually works better than mounting the belt lacer in a vise because I can lay the belt down flat and put the lacers in perpendicular to it instead of having to stand the belt on its end. Makes it a lot easier to repair seams. "I also use the press to push univeral joints or ball joints out of bearings." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Vance R. Vesco, 1290 North Meridian Road, Lovelock, Nevada 89419 (ph 702 273-7312).

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