Hey all,
Have a new 7520 with 511 backhoe. As I'm sure is standard, the backhoe hooks into one set of rear remote valves.
I only have experience with a much smaller tractor/backhoe which was much smaller/weaker, but I must say I expected this one to be stronger. Of course, I was attacking stumps as my first job, so maybe that's the problem. I was digging around the sides of some old half-rotten stumps with an 18" bucket. Of course I don't expect it to tear right through a 4" root, but it just didn't seem to have the downward ripping force that I was expecting. And the curl/dump on the bucket was quite slow, much slower than the boom and dipper cycling. This normal?
I would hook the bucket teeth under a root and curl the bucket while pushing the boom into the ground, trying to pry the edge of the root up. Instead, the bucket would just slip out from under the root. Just didn't seem like the 6000 pounds of ground ripping force that I was expecting. Does this sound normal? Anybody have any tricks to test these?
Thanks,
Jon
Have a new 7520 with 511 backhoe. As I'm sure is standard, the backhoe hooks into one set of rear remote valves.
I only have experience with a much smaller tractor/backhoe which was much smaller/weaker, but I must say I expected this one to be stronger. Of course, I was attacking stumps as my first job, so maybe that's the problem. I was digging around the sides of some old half-rotten stumps with an 18" bucket. Of course I don't expect it to tear right through a 4" root, but it just didn't seem to have the downward ripping force that I was expecting. And the curl/dump on the bucket was quite slow, much slower than the boom and dipper cycling. This normal?
I would hook the bucket teeth under a root and curl the bucket while pushing the boom into the ground, trying to pry the edge of the root up. Instead, the bucket would just slip out from under the root. Just didn't seem like the 6000 pounds of ground ripping force that I was expecting. Does this sound normal? Anybody have any tricks to test these?
Thanks,
Jon