Slightly off-topic - Hydraulic hose crimping

Carla Fong · 2014-07-14T15:09:23+00:00

Hi all - I looked for a newsgroup about hydraulics but didn't find one... so here we are... We are in the process of repairing a truck mounted hydraulic crane (an old power company rig that digs holes, sets poles and generally does lots of stuff). Yesterday I replaced two of the approximately 3,218 hydraulic hoses on the rig and paid about $100 for them. Since there will be more hoses to replace as we get into the project (and we also have a backhoe with aging hoses that will need some attention in the future) we are considering getting the tooling to do our own hoses. The crimping machines seem godawful expensive - and there seem to be two or three manufacturers (Parker, Weatherhead, Gates, etc.) with apparently incompatible fittings and crimping dies... Is tooling up for what we want to do reasonable for the amount of hoses we will be making or is it more cost effective to run down to the auto parts and have them made for us as needed? Anybody do/done this and have any words of wisdom? Thanks in advance Carla Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without. Milton Friedman

Jul 14, 2014 22 Replies

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mogulah 12 years ago

Ed, its totally excellent that conservatives talk. Because actually, the more conservatives talk (as you see), the more they correct their own thinking.

(but don't worry, these anti-union types either hate it or don't know it)

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mogulah 12 years ago

Uh, Loud. You and Larry aren't fooling a soul. Just admit it. Larry accidentally told the truth.

(like you red-staters sometimes un-intentionally do and then try to back-pedal)

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clare 12 years ago

Or it is a "pathogen"

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