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    Purchasing first TLB and need advice

    Hi, I live in the canary islands as an expat, on the island with the recent volcano, and I've been looking for a backhoe or excavator for 6+ years. I've traveled to other islands half a dozen times to look at machines and did a tour around the mainland of spain looking at many machines. My...
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    variable vane turbo

    In the USA molybdenum disulfide seems to be in most anti-sieze products. I've even bought the purple antiseize with ground ceramic particles in the US. But in the UK they are crazy about copper grease. I mean, the grease base (often lithium) burns away, so the antiseize material that remains...
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    New Member in Canary Islands

    It would have to be something the locals absolutely can't get, or they'll continue to go to incompent locals to have simple things done. Maybe line boring. A guy tried to sell me a Terex, I think it was a 760. Pretty good shape compared to most of the stuff I see. But a "mechanic" changed...
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    New Member in Canary Islands

    Have you seen the Australian guy CCE Engineering who does machist work? His wife makes videos of his work. I love them. I fantasize about growing up and having a machine shop and a tiny portion of the knowledge that he has.
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    New Member in Canary Islands

    That's a good point. Thank you.
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    How Did You Find Us?

    Hi, by doing web-based searches for specific information about specific models of backhoes I continued to get hits to heavyequipmentforums.com Thank you.
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    New Member in Canary Islands

    Hello All, I appreciate the existence of this site and all the people who are on here. Over the past 3 years I have been studying and reading everything I can about backhoe loaders because I want one and because I have some sort of sickness in that I want to learning everything I can about...
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