Boondox
Elite Member
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 3,873
- Location
- Craftsbury Common, Vermont
- Tractor
- Deere 4044R cab, Kubota KX-121-3S
It's here! I came home from work to find Clementine with a beautiful Woods 7500 sub-frame mounted backhoe parked in the driveway. (I'll wax it tomorrow; today I wanted to try it out before dark!)
I passed on the PTO pump since the L3010 has more than enough hydraulic capacity to handle the hoe, and I already had a pair of remotes. The dealer color-coded the hoses and the remotes to avoid confusion (wrong connections will cause serious damage) and also cut a small notch in the groove the auxiliary hydraulic lever goes in. Pretty nifty idea. The other dealer suggested using a bungee cord to activate the circuit, but this works much better. To power up the hoe I just slip the lever into the notch and go to work. (Hope I explained that okay!)
There's a chance of rain tonight, so the first thing I did was to remove several yards of silt and sand from the ditch just above the culvert that passes under our road. I went slow and worked on finessing my way thru the chore. Took about twenty minutes to clear the culvert, a chore that usually takes all morning with a shovel. I now have a pile of sand about 6 feet in diameter and 4 feet tall that is sure to come in handy at the bottom of some of the trenches I have planned.
Next I began digging out a tamarack stump that has taken a liking to my finish mower. I was warned that a backhoe was not the best way to remove stumps, that basically it was a matter of trenching around the stump until it was free, and this proved to be true in this case. The stump is around 2 feet in diameter, and has very large roots radiating out from there. So far I have a hole about six feet in diameter and two feet deep, with a stubborn stump in the middle. I had to quit for the night because it was getting dark and the wind was pelting me with pine cones that were starting to draw blood. I'll finish that stump tomorrow.
This hoe is great, guys! Lots of fun and very useful to boot. I'll try to get some pics later.
Pete
I passed on the PTO pump since the L3010 has more than enough hydraulic capacity to handle the hoe, and I already had a pair of remotes. The dealer color-coded the hoses and the remotes to avoid confusion (wrong connections will cause serious damage) and also cut a small notch in the groove the auxiliary hydraulic lever goes in. Pretty nifty idea. The other dealer suggested using a bungee cord to activate the circuit, but this works much better. To power up the hoe I just slip the lever into the notch and go to work. (Hope I explained that okay!)
There's a chance of rain tonight, so the first thing I did was to remove several yards of silt and sand from the ditch just above the culvert that passes under our road. I went slow and worked on finessing my way thru the chore. Took about twenty minutes to clear the culvert, a chore that usually takes all morning with a shovel. I now have a pile of sand about 6 feet in diameter and 4 feet tall that is sure to come in handy at the bottom of some of the trenches I have planned.
Next I began digging out a tamarack stump that has taken a liking to my finish mower. I was warned that a backhoe was not the best way to remove stumps, that basically it was a matter of trenching around the stump until it was free, and this proved to be true in this case. The stump is around 2 feet in diameter, and has very large roots radiating out from there. So far I have a hole about six feet in diameter and two feet deep, with a stubborn stump in the middle. I had to quit for the night because it was getting dark and the wind was pelting me with pine cones that were starting to draw blood. I'll finish that stump tomorrow.
This hoe is great, guys! Lots of fun and very useful to boot. I'll try to get some pics later.
Pete
