Wayne_Freeman
Gold Member
My Kubota L3400 has an older 4690 backhoe that has done quite well until today when I bent the boom cylinder rod. I was digging some riprap around my spillway mouth and had the bucket four feet below the ground surface when I realized the boom could not come back up and the cylinder was visibly bent. The new cylinder is on order but I would like to figure out what I did to cause this failure. Searching this site I have found where dipper and crowd cylinders have bent when digging close in to the tractor but nothing concerning the boom cylinder. Does anyone have any information to share?