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    Bent line on boom cylinder

    The gas inside will help it not scale up too bad
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    Bent line on boom cylinder

    Definitely not an expert, but I did rebend several lines when I swapped booms on my Komatsu. As others said, take hose off drain, and I would clean it out good. Then take your mig bottle, and keep it full/ or flowing of the mig gas, heat to to a dull red with acetylene torch and carefully bend back.
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    No safety lockout solenoid??

    2nd picture down, shaft above your hand should most likely hove a solenoid on it. If I am seeing correctly that is the tube that the solenoid slips over. Inside the tube there is the mechanism - valve that the solenoid body, when energized moves. I am sure there will be somebody come along that...
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    MINI EX COMPARISON

    I will say that my Komatsu is easier to be smooth with than the 60G. But the Komatsu is bigger older and slower. The 60G is definitely a step up from the 5 tone class machines- reach and abilities.
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    MINI EX COMPARISON

    The 60G I had was a nice machine. That CAT seems overpriced. Never heard a bad thing about TAK and that seems to be a good price
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    Name that Hyd Noise; Yanmar B50 mini excavator

    If Iam seeing and hearing correctly - You are bottoming out the cylinders And opening the relief valve - that’s the squealing noise you are hearing. This would be normal for the relief valve to open when you are at the end of the cylinder travel. The relief valve has to open, otherwise you...
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    What Class Excavator?

    I will give you my 2 cents, based on 11 years of owning and running them. Having owned three machines,10000, 14000, and now 18000, I would personally NEVER get the 260 size machine for your described scope of work. My 18000 lb machine with steel triple grousers is easier on the lawn than the...
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

    This is what I was looking at when I built it. Painted. Red line around the cylinder where the buckets parallel to the ground. After dumping, while backing up I run the bucket back to the line and then lower the boom as soon as I am clear.
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

    Think mine may have had auto bucket level at one point. There were some brackets on the bucket cylinder that had whatever was attached torched off.
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

    Yes, so I can tell when the bottom of the bucket is parallel with the ground. works good, used it this weekend while cleaning up some property loading 15 yards or so of dirt. Bummer thing though - punched something - probably a nail thru one of my new tires! I had also ripped out the remains of...
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

    Bucket edge finished and added some side cutters to save those edges from more wear. And made a bucket position indicator. Roughly copied the one in my manuals picture. She ready to go to work for the summer!
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

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    terex 72-51aa operators manual

    I bet your correct!
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    6 ton hitachi - rubber to steel/pads

    I don’t know if you made a decision yet, but I ll throw my 2 cents in! I have had 2 rubber tracked machines, hitachi ex50 and a JD 60G. The tracks on the 50 were pretty wore out when I bought it, and they were pretty easy on the lawn when I had to go on it. The 60 was brand new, and it messed up...
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    Hough 50 C - I maybe crazy!

    My guess is as yours, DMiller. I put 18 hrs plowing on it this winter, and then a bit of other odd jobs around here, probably ran in around 25 hrs since I bought it, and I have not heard or felt anything odd. So hopefully it was something left from the past!
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