some pictures I found

[coopers]

Here are some pictures I found while looking through my photo album. These were taken a while back (5 years ago) when I used to work at this nursery. The modified bucket you see on one of the backhoes is from an old case tracked loader. The arms hooked into the two ears you see at the bottom of the bucket toward the front. At the time, my boss's husband who owns the extendahoe modified it to make it a full yard bucket. This was all before I was hired. They didn't like the bark and other materials constantly spilling out onto the ground because case's bucket is sometimes wider than a lot of pick up trucks that would come in, so this bucket was deeper and less wide allowing us to load some Nissan crew cab truck with a 5 foot bed.

It was fun working there while it lasted, got a little hairy toward the end but what can you do. My boss's husband made topsoil and compost and sold it to the nursery so whenever we ran low up front, I'd just go out back and start bringing it up. The pic with the backhoe in the mud digging in a huge pile of soil is that topsoil pile. It was a PAIN to get any decent scoop (that's where the bucket became a big disadvantage due to having to dig further into the pile since it was a deeper bucket) out of the soil pile when it was so muddy, so I'd have to turn around and dig the dirt down and "fluff" it a little for lack of better term. Amazing the improvements and total changes Case has made in their hoe, and any company for that matter.

Blake
WA

[coopers]

The rest.....

[Grader4me]

How did you like the foot petals for the boom swing? Yes, Case has come a long way. I tryed out a 580 case the other day that we have rented. The levers are really short and very responsive. I only run it for a few minutes, but I found it to be really nice. The only thing that I found was when I brought the boom up all the way, and pushed the lever ahead to lock the boom, it went into place with quite a snap. Surprised me a bit I guess. But overhaul a very nice machine.

[equipment fan]

This backhoe are looking tough!!!They are looking good after many years of work.

[coopers]

Yeah the backhoes held up pretty good for their age. They could have been much better if people before me knew how to grease!

I love case controls. I had no problem with them. The extendahoe's were a little more powerful/touchy. You had to learn to do everything at once otherwise just pushing a pedal and doing no other function would cause it to go flying to the left or the right.

The 580SL's I used a year ago where so much more touchy just because they were much more powerful. There was an obvious difference in the machines from back then to now (as it should be).

Blake

[coopers]

The only pain in the butt was the space, a 580B cab is not very comfortable for a 6'2" person to get in and out and turn around to use the hoe! :o

Blake

[Grader4me]

I love case controls. I had no problem with them. The extendahoe's were a little more powerful/touchy. You had to learn to do everything at once otherwise just pushing a pedal and doing no other function would cause it to go flying to the left or the right.


Yup, if you was working every thing together, the swing on the pedals worked pretty smooth. When you backed off on one function, example dipper up when swinging, you had to lighten up on your foot pedal as well. I remember the one that we had, if you just lightly pressed on the swing pedal without using anything else it was very touchy. Didn't seem to be any happy medium with it at all.

I remember one thing about it though. The "regular operator" when getting used to the machine somehow got his left and right mixed up, swung the boom around to his right(where we were standing) instead of left and came about 2 inches from my head with the bucket.:eek: