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Recent content by Willie B

  1. Willie B

    How to Keep Dig Bucket Clear

    I haven't tried it but have heard of putting a tire chain in the bucket. Chains at one end attach to the cutting edge or the side cutters. Chains on the other end attach to the dipper stick. While scooping the chain lays inside the bucket. As you roll out to dump the chain pulls out tight to...
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    Electrician HELP..

    At the transformer provided by your utility company you get 240 volts. For some purposes the USA & others believe you don't need 240 volts. Here we cut the sandwich in half. The transformer secondary is center tapped. We get 120 volts from either half of the transformer secondary winding. To...
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    Dase 580K fanbelt

    Gee, I don't think so. You do have to remove the coupler & pump drive.
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    4 way pattern Changer on my hitachi

    I believe SAE Standard Automotive Engineering) is the dipper & bucket right hand, The boom & swing is left. ISO (International Standard Orginization) is boom & dipper switch hands. Swing left & dipper. Boom & bucket right. I have never seen other joystick patterns.
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    Dase 580K fanbelt

    Mine looked ratty in 2008. I bought a new & carried it around, Figured I'd do it is I had some other reason for major surgery. I sold the tractor a few year ago & I think the old belt is still functional.
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    So many Case threads. Either really popular, or unreliable?

    The area I live is almost all hillside. A recent project we did, homeowner borrowed a 4 ton Kubota mini EX. The job included a large propane tank on a hillside. Mini was small, & reach was small. I was able to dig the 5 x 12 x 5' deep hole only by beginning on one end working backward. Placing...
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    So many Case threads. Either really popular, or unreliable?

    Dedicated digger pound for pound, an excavator is faster than a backhoe. An excavator spends much of its time on a trailer. I give two examples: I own land three miles away. I can drive the backhoe in air conditioned comfort in 10 minutes. I can't hook the trailer to the truck in 10 minutes...
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    So many Case threads. Either really popular, or unreliable?

    Earliest backhoe I saw was a 1964? Case 530 Construction King. Guy made his living with it decades. Prior to that, were a truck mounted hydraulic excavator on a military 6x6, a Farmall M with a flimsy backhoe & trip bucket loader, a very few cable shovels. I don't believe I've ever seen a...
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    So many Case threads. Either really popular, or unreliable?

    The comparison has been made many years, a backhoe is a Swiss Army Knife of earthmoving machines. That is close to true. I can't argue, an excavator of equal weight digs faster. The excavator is not self propelled in that it can travel 20 or faster MPH down a highway. Excavator then needs a...
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    So many Case threads. Either really popular, or unreliable?

    My sons have run nothing but SAE controls. I've mostly used SAE, a bit of ISO, A bit of three lever/foot swing. We did a job 60 miles from home, too far to justify hauling a backhoe, or renting a mini. Owner, a widow, said I have a Kubota mini backhoe, use it. Greased it up, checked oil & Seth...
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    Overload of the Day

    September 11 2001 I heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center in New York. I was working on a new $1,000,000 house. Nobody on site had more than a radio in there truck & no cell service there. My first thought was amateur pilot, getting a great photo. Owner went where he was staying &...
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    Overload of the Day

    When they hang up at all, I expect damage. Mine held the whole load of boulders refusing to dump once. I made the bad decision to move. 14' bed shifted off to the side, I thought I might have twisted the frame, but it seems OK.
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    Overload of the Day

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    Purchasing first TLB and need advice

    The used market is a jungle! I've bought 6 backhoes in 22 years. My goal is to find a well maintained machine, at a price I can afford. I've looked at perhaps 100. Most I have bought were in good condition except for a disabling condition the former owner couldn't figure out. In some cases the...
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    Overload of the Day

    Or the narrator of every dramatic TV show, IE, Ice Road Truckers, Highway Through Hell, a tractor trailer loaded with steel, diesel, or orange juice: "THE MASSIVE THREE TON LOAD...."
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