Got my 450!

[thetreed1]

Long time lurker first time poster...but just to join the club of Bobcat owners!

Here's our new CT450...it was clean for about an hour!

[woolyAcres]

Very nice. Looks like she's being put right to work. I'm referring to the tractor of course....

Hope you enjoy it and get many, many years of service.

[lilranch2001]

you did better than me.
I had mine in the mud before the delivery truck had cleared my driveway

[thetreed1]

Yeah if it wasn't for having to eat dinner before a customer came over she (the tractor) would have been up to its belly mud. Can't wait for everything to get worked in then I can really start to abuse, i mean use it.

[tinman955]

Congrats on the 450, I love mine. Is yrs a hydro or SST?

[thetreed1]

Its a hydro.
How long before it "broke in"? I would like to be moving some dirt and hauling trees but want to be sure its good and broken in first before I start really working it.

[tinman955]

Best way to break it in is work it, dont beat it or redline it the whole day, just try to vary RPM's and heat cycle it when you get a chance, it will be fine.

Oh yeah keep an eye on fluid levels, and keep it greased.

[woolyAcres]

How are you and your new tractor getting on?

[qed-cat225]

very nice congrats! you know that could be a bobcat marketing photo if I did not know better, submit it to the worksaver magazine!

[woolyAcres]

I just looked more carefully at the picture. Are you moving manure? How does that bucket do if that is indeed what you're doing?

Regards,
Peter