alabamatoy
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"There is nothing more exhilarating that being shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
Well, we were not shot at, but it was an exhilirating and infurating near miss anyway. 2014 Kubota L3901. I had a local Kubota dealership add a BH77 backhoe. When the backhoe is installed, there are 2 large pins which essentially hold the assembly in place on the mounting plates at the rear of the tractor. These pins each have a crosspin which is supposed to hold the big pin in place. Here's what mine looked like:
After a bit of vibration, you can guess what happens:
Now there's nothing holding the big pin in place. The manual is very clear about this:
The pins were installed by the dealer, but they put the keeper crosspin in the upper hole, not the lower hole as required by the manual. (I question why Kubota has this extremely dangerous design which makes such a mistake very likely to occur.) So after a few hours of operation, this happened: Backhoe accident (Sorry, I cannot post actual media here apparently. I hope linking to Rumble is not prohibited.) My friend's security camera just happened to record video of him as the entire backhoe came dis-attached from the mount, which launched him rearward towards the boom. The video shows him getting physically thrown onto the backhoe controls. Fortunately for him, he was running the machine at a fairly low RPM so he was able to get his body off the sticks and stop further movement of the boom. My buddy was not hurt (other than some temporary bruises and aches etc) but the outcome could have been MUUUUUCH worse.
My point in posting this is to urge everyone who has one of these to check and make sure the pins are properly installed. I am hopeful that our near disaster may be avoided by others.
Well, we were not shot at, but it was an exhilirating and infurating near miss anyway. 2014 Kubota L3901. I had a local Kubota dealership add a BH77 backhoe. When the backhoe is installed, there are 2 large pins which essentially hold the assembly in place on the mounting plates at the rear of the tractor. These pins each have a crosspin which is supposed to hold the big pin in place. Here's what mine looked like:
After a bit of vibration, you can guess what happens:
Now there's nothing holding the big pin in place. The manual is very clear about this:
The pins were installed by the dealer, but they put the keeper crosspin in the upper hole, not the lower hole as required by the manual. (I question why Kubota has this extremely dangerous design which makes such a mistake very likely to occur.) So after a few hours of operation, this happened: Backhoe accident (Sorry, I cannot post actual media here apparently. I hope linking to Rumble is not prohibited.) My friend's security camera just happened to record video of him as the entire backhoe came dis-attached from the mount, which launched him rearward towards the boom. The video shows him getting physically thrown onto the backhoe controls. Fortunately for him, he was running the machine at a fairly low RPM so he was able to get his body off the sticks and stop further movement of the boom. My buddy was not hurt (other than some temporary bruises and aches etc) but the outcome could have been MUUUUUCH worse.
My point in posting this is to urge everyone who has one of these to check and make sure the pins are properly installed. I am hopeful that our near disaster may be avoided by others.
