I'm tickled Pink with my Undercarriage. It's a Genuwine CattlePuller. Because Down here in Arkansas that's what we Hi-Rollers Run.
Wow. I love it.
As far as the Berco UC goes
1) I said I didn't know anything about them. :beatsme
2) I showed a picture of a Berco UC that was as froze up as anything I have seen this year "On a 2005 JCB with 2600 Hours" and said before I bought a Berco UC I would talk to someone that had some experiance running one. The main reason I didn't buy the 2005 JCB was the condition of the UC. Since I bought 1) 2004 & 2) 2005 model Excavators in 2008 with between 175 and 5000 hours on them and looked at between 2 and 3 hundred other excavators this year I think I'm a pretty good judge of what an undercariage should look like.
Oh I see. So from your hundred units you looked at this year what was the best u/c manufacturer?
3)On a different thread some people were HAPPY with there Berco UC and I left them a link to this thread and told them people would be happy with their input.
Yeah and also a "seems to me we have a berco salesman blah blah blah note there too. I could care less what is said normally but wanted to be clear that I wasn't representing a NAME. You know just in case I don't come off right.
https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=9819
A person running a machine 500 hours a year has different needs from someone running one 2500 hours a year. That's the good thing about HEF, people can ask questions and talk about what works for them and explain why.
I always thought people should get both sides of an issue and make up there own minds.
But I'm also not on here trying to sell something either.
I am on here to help people get what they want.
The funny thing about having an "Almost" Photographic Memory is you never know when it will come in handy. Here is some of your advice from a while back.
When I get dozers or excavators in and they have links that are froze even when they do break free and look like they are flat as soon as you make a pass around the sprocket and idler they are kinked again. Only method I found is knock the pin out and clean adn replace. I have a portable track press that is rated for 50 tons and without heat and this press they are too much work to press out. Normally I give up even with this high dollar press and send them to u/c shop for a turn. Better than beating myself up with out the proper tools.
Keep us posted on yoru luck though.
Darin
https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?p=113569#post113569
As per your advice I passed on the JCB with the Froze up Berco Undercarriage pictured above because I didn't want to buy a 2600 hour excavator that was 3 Years old and have to send it "To the u/c shop for a turn". Because down here in Arkansas "I got enough problems without Paying For One".:cool2
True
Just my 2 Cents,
Roddyo