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<font color="blue"> Luckily I don't need the backhoe until the ground thaws. I'm dyin to do some digging in the mean time. Really could have used the blade and scraper Sat. though. </font>
Ctyler,
I am not sure if your 3ph backhoe is like mine...but...
In my case there are two pins, one the Kubota hoe just hangs over, and the other is the hardened one, probably just like the one you are having trouble with. [my guess is that both of mine are hardened, but I don't know off hand]
That is the pin that holds the backhoe and keeps if from raising up if forces are such that it wanted to raise up while in use.
My backhoe has a safety bar that goes under the lower link arms, that should catch the backhoe if that pin broke and the thing tried to raise up and pin me between the seat and the ROPS.
What I am leading into is that you probably should not use that backhoe if the set up is the same as I described. If you do, and that bent pin should break, you could be putting yourself in a shaky position, to say the least.
There used to be a write up at the Carter Equipment web site that described a fatality that occured when this kind of thing happened.
A thought just in case you might not have thought of this...
Ctyler,
I am not sure if your 3ph backhoe is like mine...but...
In my case there are two pins, one the Kubota hoe just hangs over, and the other is the hardened one, probably just like the one you are having trouble with. [my guess is that both of mine are hardened, but I don't know off hand]
That is the pin that holds the backhoe and keeps if from raising up if forces are such that it wanted to raise up while in use.
My backhoe has a safety bar that goes under the lower link arms, that should catch the backhoe if that pin broke and the thing tried to raise up and pin me between the seat and the ROPS.
What I am leading into is that you probably should not use that backhoe if the set up is the same as I described. If you do, and that bent pin should break, you could be putting yourself in a shaky position, to say the least.
There used to be a write up at the Carter Equipment web site that described a fatality that occured when this kind of thing happened.
A thought just in case you might not have thought of this...