TimT
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I posted here last spring about a Jinma backhoe we found and bought for $800. It was a subframe hoe and we needed to mount it on our 1953 Ford Jubilee with 3 pt hitch. With some photo help from a couple guys who posted on TractorBuy that did something similar to this, it is finaly done.
My 85 year old father did most of the fabrication and plumbing, but he fell a couple months ago and does not get around to well yet. I finished it with help from a couple freinds that are good welders. I made brackets and mounted the counter weight today, except for paint its done.
Not the perfect machine but to maintain our water line and do a few odd jobs around here it will work very well. It digs in hard clay with no movement to the hitch, no nasty cracking sounds in our mountings etc. Once we got the subframe cut off and mounted the first time, we needed to beef things up a lot, so it became a whole new project...We even found and bought a new control valve block, which works very well now for this type of hoe. With practice its a decent digging little backhoe.You want to take it easy on the slamming around when in transport mode with that tractor, but it seems to handle it ok. Here are some photos.
My 85 year old father did most of the fabrication and plumbing, but he fell a couple months ago and does not get around to well yet. I finished it with help from a couple freinds that are good welders. I made brackets and mounted the counter weight today, except for paint its done.
Not the perfect machine but to maintain our water line and do a few odd jobs around here it will work very well. It digs in hard clay with no movement to the hitch, no nasty cracking sounds in our mountings etc. Once we got the subframe cut off and mounted the first time, we needed to beef things up a lot, so it became a whole new project...We even found and bought a new control valve block, which works very well now for this type of hoe. With practice its a decent digging little backhoe.You want to take it easy on the slamming around when in transport mode with that tractor, but it seems to handle it ok. Here are some photos.