hancockcounty
New Member
Hello- I have a cat 289c skid steer with 1900 hours on it. I was running my forestry mulcher HF (which i have done many other times before) and the drive ability went extremely sluggish all of a sudden after about 1.5 hours use. The attachment still had good flow to it. I drove it about a tenth of a mile up my driveway to drop the attachment at a very slow speed. After disconnecting the attachment and shutting the machine off for a couple min it was fine and i drove off. Then an hour latter while running my HF stump grinder i had the same problem but less severe. I called CAT and they said to first cut open the Hydraulic filter to check for metal which i did and found no metal flakes. I drove it again today with the stump grinder and had the same problem after about two hours. It is not low on fluid. A friend came out and looked for a screen off the pump but we could not find one. I did find another guy online with a similar issue and it was his joystick. Not really sure what to do from here, but i really don't want to pay CAT to play diagnosis for 20 hours only to find something stupid. Has anyone had this problem before?