I have been following Chad22 and learning along with him. There are some issues with his use of 1/8th" material that have alerted me to what might happen in mine. His thread has been kind of quiet lately.
Yeah. Sorry I haven't updated my thread in awhile I got busy with some other stuff and hadn't worked to much on the backhoe.
I'm also waiting on another pump. Well first I'm waiting for paypal to clear the funds from my bank account then I can order it.
I'm now making a towable backhoe. I took it off the riding mower. The forward gears went out in the trans axle.
I decided it wasn't worth putting in another trans axle. I had a good trailer axle that I mounted the backhoe on.
An update on the reason the pump blew a seal. It was my fault. I had it it spinning the wrong way. :laughing:
I got the new "new to me" lincoln welder a while back. It's a great welder. Got it off a guy from craigslist for $100.00 he even threw in a helmet.
I used it to weld up the new backhoe.
I should be done with the backhoe pretty soon. Basically all I have to do now is put the stabilizers on, add some more bracing, and then get the last 4 hoses for the bucket cylinder.
Then it should be ready to dig.
I'm just gonna make the stabilizers out of some old pipe I got laying around.
I'm not gonna use hydraulics for the stabilizers. I'm just gonna make it where I can pull a pin and lift them up and lower them by hand.
So basically the stabilizers will be a pipe sliding inside another pipe.
If the wind stops blowing soon, I'll get out there and start working on the stabilizers while I wait for the pump.
This wind around here has just been crazy. Right now the wind ain't to bad. But a few days ago. It was blowing so hard it would knock you down.
Chad