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    Soiltac, Perma-Zyme And Other Soil Stabilizers

    I work for a local roads authority and we have been trialing the various soil stabilizers/dust control agents on our unsealed roads I reckon I have tried just about most of them ranging from lignum based, salt based, polymers, PVA (Soiltac) with varying results and now looking at Enzyme based...
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    Ripper For My Mini

    Me again :D I managed to pick up a used scarifier tine from a cat grader and had a local bloke weld it up to suit the mini for me I had a muck around with it today and it certainly digs well, I'm pretty happy with it and it should make tree stumps easier to get out What do you...
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    Little Komatsu, Rumble In Swing

    Howdy Guys I have a 1.6 ton Komatsu mini and I've noticed there is a slight rumble feel when swinging No real noise yet but you can definitely feel it when operating, Does anyone have an idea on what it might be and where to start looking I'd like to find it and fix it before it turns into...
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    Lazy/Floppy Ram

    Howdy guys On my mini Komatsu PC07-2 I occasionally get a floppy ram on the bucket circuit It will work fine for a while and then for some reason will behave like it's out of oil and just flops around, If I crowd or extend it will come good usually There are no leaks on the ram but I'm...
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    Komatsu PC07-2E

    Howdy guys I just bought a Komatsu mini PC07-2E, I think it's a 1999 model I'm pretty happy with it so far and being a long term backhoe operator I'm pretty amazed how versatile this little machine is particularly with the front blade and the boom swing The only real work it needs is the...
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    Case 580E, Should I, Shouldn't I?

    Howdy Guys I'm currently looking for a backhoe here in sunny South Australia (Not) It's winter here Anyway I have come across this 580E 4WD, 4in1 bucket and a selection of spare buckets for the hoe for $15k which isn't a bad price in this area A few issue I've picked up on after looking at...
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