You're scaring the hell out of me with your over extension of your cylinders here... not my place to say it but personally you'd probably be safer having that bucket back halfway with the leading edge dug into the ground than with that cylinder reach... but I'm no expert.. you're not back dragging so probably good but extended that far, any impacts on the back end are going to be carried by those cylinder rods (unless you're laying it so far that your resting the bucket on SS system which I'd think can't be good for premature wear on the already tiny SS locking tips (mine are just barely able to hold the SS quick coupler on is it is, maybe yours are longer) ... zoykes...
I parked it like that only while changing out that busted hydraulic line. While digging, I dig the lower edge of the bucket in to provide stability and keep the tractor from slipping down hill. I didn't have the stabilizers down in the photo because the busted line was on that circuit. I was really nervous doing it there, but I really didn't have a choice as the tractor wasn't going anywhere as it was almost out of hydraulic fluid at that point.
You've re-instilled my faith in you.
Can you elaborate on which hose you had to replace, I may get a backup made, thanks.
Looks like a pretty good deal to me! It's amazing what Google can find. When I was searching for that trenching bucket, it found Hunt Tractor in Central Point (Medford), Oregon. Kubota gets $969 for a 12" QUICK ATTACH TRENCHING BUCKET (K78720). They sold it to me for $600.00 OTD. Oregon doesn't charge sales tax, so while I was up there I ordered a thumb for the backhoe and a top'n'tilt setup from the Medford Kubota dealer. They shipped everything for less than the sales tax my California dealer would have charged. A while later I was visiting a buddy in Klamath Falls and picked up a couple fivers of SUDT, again no sales tax. But Oregon kills him with a really stiff property tax, and I couldn't take the long wet and snowy winters up there (though I did give it considerable thought...).
k... we need to talk cus that's my next purchase, I should buy through them, may be worth the road trip... (thumb and rear hyd)
I wonder if it's not better to have rubber stems unless you have valve protectors on the rims - it seems to me that a rubber stem getting hit may cause a slow leak, but a metal stem is more likely to be broken off entirely?
What a relief! I was afraid you figgered out just what kind of an idiot I really am...You've re-instilled my faith in you.
There are metal protectors for the valve stem on the rim. But when you don't notice that the tire is flat (easy to do because the sidewalls are real stiff and the tire doesn't look flat even when there's no air in it), the bead unseats and pulls the inside end of the valve stem inside the tire. I'm a slow learner, and it's done it twice now. I'm gonna take a chance and order these.