Recent content by Jimmy254

Thanks for the advice, good to have. Yeah I hate finding stuff that come off from some place but at least you found it. Let us know if you solve the mystery. I had the opposite problem. I was using the clamp on forks on my bucket to make a burn pile and I lost the separator bar that slides over...

I checked all the wheel nuts, some were a little loose. After tightening i think its improved. I almost totally forgot about it so it cant really be much of an issue.

few ideas for me to try, I'll report back.

I thought I had read somewhere that loose wheel nuts cause a creaking noise but I can't locate that thread anymore. This has been happening for a while. Not sure when it started. I have the wheels bolted on at the widest possible setting. I tried tightening the wheel nuts but the noise...

I hadn't thought to check the parts manual but after having a look it does confirm that there is no grease fitting and that is not just an ommission for my machine.

Easy solution there. You need more toys.

I did have my backhoe buried in the shed but have found it more than usefull for dragging around scrub and small trees in to burn piles. It also adds good ballast to the back. I welded a mechanical thumb on to yesterday hoping to increase its usefuleness.

Woops. Accidently posted the wrong photo. The 2nd? photo with the torchlight is the one i meant to post.

Can anyone who owns a jinma backhoe tell me if there are grease nipples on the pins at the ram ends that move the boom left and right. The photo might help show where they are. I cannot see any grease nipples or threads of missing ones. This is odd because there are no shortage of grease...

I managed to repair the leak. It was just the loose hose join. By extending the boom and stick and bucket out and lowering it all below the horizontal the gap to work through opens up enough to get a couple of spanners in there. Still needed to undo the two hard line clamps to get at it but did...

The back tips forward. I just got told by someone who remembers his family used them way back to clean the silt out of a dam/pond. He said they used 2 tractors, one pulling it via a cable forward to collect the load, the flap gets pulled up to empty it then the other tractor, that is hooked up...

Anyone know how to use one of these? I believe it is a silt scoop but the person I got it from hadn't used it and doesn't know how its used. I am hoping I can use it to maintain some dams that have not been cleaned out for a long time. Anyone got ideas as to how to use it?

no worries bob, your link was still helpful.

Funnily enough as soon as i posted that I couldn't find anything in Australia I found this 18 inch Backhoe Excavator Thumb Attachments Weld | eBay which had always been out of stock for as long as I have been looking so I am thinking think I will go with it.

Are you saying that will fit? I have seen those and thought that would do but can't find any shipping to Australia. If I had to negotiate shipping from the US I'd have to be really sure.