Yeh all sounds good you will get the hang of it as time goes by.
I operate mode B but what ever floats your boat.
Yes you are correct the machine will settle alot when you are digging on a slope because you only have the ends of the tracks and the blade in contact with the soil.
The grading i mentioned was not the sort you are taking about no big deal.
Don't want to get into a pissing contest with rocks but check these monsters out.
I pulled all of them out of a bank behind my place with the U25 a few months back and dragged/rolled them to where they are now.
The one with the coke can is 130cm across.
No idea what weight but not even the U35 would have been able to lift those suckers.
If you are careful so as not to abuse your machine its amazing the tasks you can tackle.
This is what you use your ripper for as it acts like a pry-bar and you just lever them out of the ground.
If you try this with your small bucket you are just going to rip the teeth off the bucket.
I used to have Hyd breaker on the U35 but now just the ripper and petrol jack hammer has to suffice.
I don't want to put hammer on my 25 as they are cruel on your machine.
Some of the new ones are low vibration but not if i can help it.
By the way if you are attacking big boulders your small bucket is the strongest as you can bend the floor of the wider buckets.
I operate mode B but what ever floats your boat.
Yes you are correct the machine will settle alot when you are digging on a slope because you only have the ends of the tracks and the blade in contact with the soil.
The grading i mentioned was not the sort you are taking about no big deal.
Don't want to get into a pissing contest with rocks but check these monsters out.
I pulled all of them out of a bank behind my place with the U25 a few months back and dragged/rolled them to where they are now.
The one with the coke can is 130cm across.
No idea what weight but not even the U35 would have been able to lift those suckers.
If you are careful so as not to abuse your machine its amazing the tasks you can tackle.
This is what you use your ripper for as it acts like a pry-bar and you just lever them out of the ground.
If you try this with your small bucket you are just going to rip the teeth off the bucket.
I used to have Hyd breaker on the U35 but now just the ripper and petrol jack hammer has to suffice.
I don't want to put hammer on my 25 as they are cruel on your machine.
Some of the new ones are low vibration but not if i can help it.
By the way if you are attacking big boulders your small bucket is the strongest as you can bend the floor of the wider buckets.
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