New machine headed back to shop for the 2nd time Ridiculous

[jd2320]

Originally Posted by boogerman2000

Just wondering others opinions on the woods backhoe? I had a bx23 with the kubota backhoe and worked the heck out of it and never ever had an issue or a breakdown. Here it is the 3rd day after delivery and already 2 breakdowns.

When I bought my B7510HSD I went thru this also and I chose Kubota I haven't read much on problems with either really I just felt better haveing everything Kubota if there was a warranty issue Now my Kubota dealer told me he would put anything I wanted on but they quit carrying Woods because they had to many issues for what that's worth!? My main issus was 3 pt mount versus
frame mount I am veru happy with my choice and not had 1 issues as of yet!! Sorry for your problems hope you get them worked out even if it's free
of charge it's still a pain to have to worry about it all the time!! Good luck!

[KeithInSpace]

Really a terrible shame.

I have a Woods BH and have a solid 30 or 40 hours of seat time behind it pulling stumps and other random things. Regularly reach its (limited) capacity limits, maximizing hydraulic pressure at WOT. I have had no issues with it. Not a single leak.

In 6 months, I hope things are going so perfectly that you forget about these first 3 days. Doesn't help you one bit now, but it just sounds like you have a bit of a 'perfect storm' going through your machine right now and the bugs just need to be worked out.

Of course there shouldn't be ANY bugs, but that isn't here nor there when you have a shovel in your hand.

My Dad purchased a '00 Dodge 3500 Cummins Dually and in the first month, had the entire gauge cluster replaced twice. A month later, the transmission was replaced. Then it gave him 6 years of flawless service. He bought a '07 of the same truck. Within 1 month, he was back at the dealership for a new turbo. Then a computer re-flash. Now, 9 months later, he hasn't had any type of trouble.

Is that all a terrible shame and did it really torque him off? Absolutely. Shouldn't have happened. But it did. And I had to remind him about the dashboard thing when the turbo thing happened. All he remembered were the "salad years" of quiet, durable servitude.

Sincerely hope you get through this quickly and get to the salad.

Of course now that I said these great things about my BH, I'll pop a seal this weekend when digging out a particularly large Oak stump. Thanks a lot.

[boogerman2000]

I do appreciate the responses and feel somewhat better this morning about the whole thing. I'm sure the dealer doesn't want to have these issue either. They will be picking the machine up and fixing it. The nice thing is that my toothbar came in and they will install it while the machine is in the shop. I'm excited to see what she can do with the additional teeth on the loader. Hopefully I'll be getting it back this afternoon.

[vic4news]

I don't think you made a mistake going with the Woods BH80-X. It's a good hoe.
I haven't had a problem with mine and I've dug out over 60 stumps and several large rocks over 800 lbs.
It's just a bit of bad luck that yours has a problem, but I'm sure it is an easy fix.

It is frustrating to have a problem with new equipment, but that's what the warranty is for.
I had to have a whole new engine put in my B3030 after having it less than a week.

Vic

[brandoro]

I worked on a farm when I was in high school, the guy I worked for said he hated buying new equipment because he always spent the first year getting through all the problems. He bought a new combine while I worked for him and it was a prime example of why he hated new equipment. For the rest of the time I worked for him that combinme was great though.
I bought the Landpride BH when I bought the B7610. Had one hydraulic issue with the tractor that I took it to the dealership for. When I was done the project that I bought the BH for I took it back to the dealership so they could put an entire new valve body(?) on it. It was usable but annoying, the whole thing was bypassing so I would have to give the outriggers a bump every couple of minutes and if I had it stretched out to make greasing easier it would be on the ground by the time I was finished.
Point of the story, its three years since then and no other issues. Hope yours works out that way too, get the problems over with now then spend the next few years playing in the dirt

[mswlogo]

I don't know too much about the internals of these but it sure sounds like an install issue. The problems also sound related like the pressure is running to high or some sort of relief vavle is not kicking in or hooked up right.


For this size tractor if it was a Kubota BH would Kubota have installed it or would of it still been the dealer?

[boogerman2000]

It would have still been installed by the dealer. The tractor orginally did not have a BH.