Mechanos
Veteran Member
Did my first heavy work with the 955 tonight. I finished up the rebuild late Friday night a week ago, and then woke up sick as a dog the next morning. That put me out of commission all of last week. Over the weekend, all I got done was mowing... the place got away from me and was way overdue. Some areas I had to use the brush hog to knock it down and then come back and finish mow it the next day.
Anyway, I've got an area next to my barn that I've been wanting to excavate for a trailer parking pad. The calculated volume of dirt that needs to be removed is about 78 ydウ. Got about 30 to 35 of that dug out and moved to a stockpile in a about 2 hours. I absolutely love the 4wd with R1's for dirt work! A brand new set of loaded Goodyear DynaTorque II's are just plain mean when it comes to traction. The extra ponies under the hood didn't hurt either.
I was also quite impressed with the 70A loader... quite powerful for this size of machine. The 60" bucket with a 7-tooth toothbar easily took heaping bucketfulls out of the undisturbed clay. It's so much fun, it's almost like I'm not working!
Not sure I really like the new subbed exhaust pipe's exit location, though. Seems like I'm eating more exhaust fumes than I did with the original "exit through the side panel" exhaust pipe.
In summary, this thing is a beast.
Anyway, I've got an area next to my barn that I've been wanting to excavate for a trailer parking pad. The calculated volume of dirt that needs to be removed is about 78 ydウ. Got about 30 to 35 of that dug out and moved to a stockpile in a about 2 hours. I absolutely love the 4wd with R1's for dirt work! A brand new set of loaded Goodyear DynaTorque II's are just plain mean when it comes to traction. The extra ponies under the hood didn't hurt either.
I was also quite impressed with the 70A loader... quite powerful for this size of machine. The 60" bucket with a 7-tooth toothbar easily took heaping bucketfulls out of the undisturbed clay. It's so much fun, it's almost like I'm not working!
Not sure I really like the new subbed exhaust pipe's exit location, though. Seems like I'm eating more exhaust fumes than I did with the original "exit through the side panel" exhaust pipe.
In summary, this thing is a beast.