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    Considering a Bobcat excavator

    Well, best advice I can give is test as many as you can, before I purchased the Bobcat E50, I tested all the local dealers compact excavators at my property (Cat, Kubota, Tak, JD, did not test Yanmar at that time) of similar size. Cost was not a major factor for me but visibility, power...
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    Considering a Bobcat excavator

    I may be late to the game but I had a E50 with rear weight, which gave specs similar to E55. Really liked the E50 as it was powerful for its size, good visibility, came with boom hydraulics for attachments, able to work in tight spaces and I never had any concerns about reliability or getting...
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    Yanmar vs Case excavators

    I have had one for a year, not a single issue so far.
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    My New Bobcat T595

    Nice unit, I had the bigger brother 770 and an E50.
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    Kubota svl95 vs JD 333G vs Cat 299

    Having gone thru the same thing back a few years ago that you are doing now, I will give you my experience as I tested the 299 and 289, SL95, TL10 and 12, NH C238 and Bobcat 870 and 770. BTW- do not get hung up on lifting capability. For farm use, a good all around unit is best. If money is...
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    D4H II newbe questions, questions

    Here is the post Nige is referring. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/d4h-under-load-blows-light-grey-smoke.54715/#post-592103
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    cat 933

    With SN 8FL00277, it was built in 1996. You can use this website to look Cat equipment. http://www.ironrecord.com
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    What is needed to run a brush cutter/mower?

    I have a Yanmar VIO80 excavator with hydraulic thumb with no other aux hydraulics. First, can I run the mower from the thumb circuit? And how would I get the hydraulics to stay on continuous without holding the switch? Lastly, how would you run a case drain line on this unit? Thanks,
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    Which medium Excavator for personal use?

    Funny you say that, the 330 is just big enough to lift my D4H out the my pond when I get stuck. I would like to have a 50 ton excavator, just need to save my pennies. A few years back, I was offered a Komatsu PC600 with 18k hours in good shape for what would have been scrape price, getting it...
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    Which medium Excavator for personal use?

    Well, it has three modes of operation, depending on how fast you want to work, set on max and digging steady it would burn thru around 10 gph but that is a lot of dirt being moved. In 8 hours run time clearing trees I would burn about 50 gals which was a 1/3 a tank of fuel. In contrast, my...
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    Which medium Excavator for personal use?

    I went with a Link Belt 330 (78k lbs) for my personal use excavator on my property (used for fence line cleanup, clearing several wooded acres and digging a pond). Turns out after shopping around for over a year, it was about half the price of a unit half its size with twice as many hours...
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    lipstick on a pig?

    I sometimes scuff up the paint with a Scotch-Brite scrubbing pad but even then, I usually just hit the shinny areas unless it is a small piece, then I might go over all of it. I have painted a few after just wiping it down with acetone, nothing else and they looked fine. My oldest paint job is...
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    lipstick on a pig?

    I think if you spend a little time with prep, a ok paint job make your equipment look good, which makes you feel better about it. For a lot of my old equipment, I just pressure/hand washed with Dawn (getting the grease off is key to success), sanded the rusty areas and primed those areas with...
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    AW46 VS Cat Hydro 10

    I have an compact excavator that has AW46 in it but I have a pail of Cat Hydro 10 that I never used and was wandering if I can use it to top off my excavator when needed?
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    Help Please with computer on link belt 3400 Q

    Do you have the service manual? My LB 330LX manual had troubleshooting guides in the electrical section. For me they Kind of helped narrow down where the fault is at. I has a problem where one of the wire loop connections had been sitting in oil for several weeks and gave a fault that would...
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