aighead
Senior Member
You rock Tinkerer, thank you.
If the bucket is on the ground and curled all the way in or out you shouldn't lose much oil.
With the engine off, move the control lever back n forth to relieve any pressure in the hoses.
The steel protectors that look like steel springs are excellent for hose protection.Is there value in the steel protectors? That spot, with the extendahoe, sees a lot of action. I also don't know, maybe that hose has lasted the 20 years it's been on there...
Hoo! Never mind, at those prices! 20 foot for 730 bucks!
The Parker hose that came on my grapple was cracking on the cover in just two years. It hasn't gotten worse or broken at 4 years.The easiest place I've found (and really one of the only places I've found) is the Parker Store down the way. I made a trek after my first hose breakage to 3 different places who appeared to make or repair hoses and after one pointed me to another that pointed me to another I eventually was pointed to a Parker store about 20 miles up the road and then I found one (on an oil search I believe) that is only a few miles from the house. Yeah, a hundred bucks is about right.
I'm hoping to get the hose off this weekend or maybe tomorrow night and I'll see what options the hose store has. My guess is it'll be more of the plastic like what was on there. If I could get metal wrapping for less than a hundred bucks I'll consider it.
Thanks gang!
I'd get it out of harms way. Pictures.I got the hose replaced. They seemed to only have a Kevlar protection sleeve where I went.
In the process and after looking at Swetz's pictures I found that my hard line, the metal one running from about halfway down the cylinder was all out of whack, after diving into some trees to rip them down. After I bit of studying I realized I needed to loosen the hard line and swivel it around a bit, tucking the top of it and the soft line connection kind of up over the top of the joint where the dipper meets the boom (I think I'm saying that right), which led to that soft line (the replaced one with Kevlar) falling into the channel just right. Woop. I think I have to modification to do to the other side with the tabs that I suppose are there to guide the hoses into that channel for the extendahoe part? When I tried to bend the one out a bit to catch the hose on it's way down that tab is about to snap off. I guess I should weld that up, though I may have to crack some of those fitting a bit to move that around too. Can I weld right next to a hydraulic hose (with plastic wrapped around it) or should I put some kind of shield between the tab and the hose?
Wrapped with plastic ? ------ No. Not worth taking a chance.Can I weld right next to a hydraulic hose (with plastic wrapped around it) or should I put some kind of shield between the tab and the hose?
Here this should save you a few bucks with some strong zip ties your hoses should last long time of not rubbing through and save you few bucks to buy some good bourbon. If you have a chainsaw it works as a sheath on them too.I have a bunch of 1/8" thick steel plates that will be perfect for the shielding needed. I wander if there'd be any value in cutting a new tab from these sheets to weld up in the original's place...
I'll try to get some pictures tonight.