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    bobcat excavators

    lectro88, I down loaded the parts manual with all of the Tak part numbers and photos. I look up all of my own parts before I go in to order anything. I also print out a copy of that page with the numbers and photo just to make sure nothing gets messed up. Or at least it is my fault if it does...
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    Operating during fire season

    If you are in a very dry area and think you need good insurance look at the northern tool site. I bought a 25 gallon weed sprayer. I wired up a plug so I gan strap it on the machine if I want water on hand. It works good. Some people even pipe it up the boom and use a switch so they can spray...
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    Common for a Tak TB145 to destroy hydraulic thumbs?

    I tweaked mine a little but I was asking it to carry a rock that was way to big. It is only bent and inch or so. Mine is made by CP. I have had good luck with my CP buckets etc and bad luck with all TAG buckets and quick changes. I had to add a lot of steel to the two TAG buckets, one of them I...
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    I know its not rocket science...but bucket teeth

    Awhile back I was having problems digging in some stuff that looked like natures cement. Clay and small round rock in viens through the ground. Next to it was a supper hard red clay that came out in big chunks or fine powder depending on if I could find a crack in it. The smallest bucket I...
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    I hope you are right. Now I just need to get a free weekend to slam them in. Have fun.
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    Thanks for the info Allgood. I was thinking the same thing about the grease or zerk. I am also a greaze a holic. The first thing I ever had to do when I leased a machine wash pump about two tubes in it! I grease mine every tank or more depending on what I am doing. I spoke with a few...
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    Cool and thanks. Picked mine up yesterday. Now I just need time to put them in!
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    Added Some Big Tiger Teeth to my 18" Trenching Bucket

    I thought they went on the other way too, until I looked at them and the word "top" was cast into each of them. I asked the dealer about them and he told me that they will not self sharpen if you install them the other way (up side down). Even with 'Top" cast into them I wanted to put them on up...
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    working in creek bed

    I used a bunch of old cross arms and ran cable through them instead of all thread only because that is what I had. I put a loop on each end to help move them around as suggested. The cross arms are mostly 4x6 timbers. I save all of the scrap lumber from any demo jobs just for making mats and...
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    I think I need to make a ripper 'saw'

    I spoke with the steel guy about T-1 and AR. After a conversation about my welding experience he told me that I would have no problem working with the T-1. So I just need to figure out if I am going with 2' or 1.5. It is $1.08 a pound with the plates weighing 81 and 61 pounds a square foot...
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    Added Some Big Tiger Teeth to my 18" Trenching Bucket

    I made up some side cutters and added some Wear Guard on the face of the teeth to cut roots when I am pulling roots. I tried it this weekend and it woked great. Going from 4 small teeth to the three bigger shanks and tigers made a huge difference on the nasty ground I have been working in. They...
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    Hey 74inshovel, what were the bushings you put in made out of? One guy I talked to the other day told me they might be nylon as they were used by Takeuchi in some spots. Thanks for the info
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    Thanks for the info. I have the bushings on the way.
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    Whats the craziest thing you have dug up?

    Silver Ingots???? Now that sounds like a real find! Were they in the escape tunnel? Sounds like you need to write a book. The worst is find thos old explosives and/or the mine shafts. You never know what is going to happen. We were logging and one of the guy fell in an old city well casing...
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    TB145 Pivot Pins

    I did not notice the play until I was fully extended over a bank. It moves back and forth about 2mm I would say. If you put the bucket on the ground and push then pick it up. I am sure the wear is from pulling stumps. I tend to clear and log a bit. That is why I am building a ripper witha...
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