Back hoe/ toggle switch

[1gr8bldr]

Bobcat S250
I just purchased a Loflin back hoe. I purchased it to dig footings. Not often, 2 or 3 a year. Just an excuse to buy another tool. I love it. I don't know why others are not using them. So mobile. Once I pass the learning curve, and can operate it without thinking about it, it will be much faster than the units I have been renting. Not to mention that since I have a skid steer, it cost pennies compared to buying another unit for digging. Anyway, I was wondering if the toggle on the handle could be reversed. I'm sure after awhile that I would get used to it, but it seems logical that to cup the bucket, I pull my thumb inward and to open/push, I push my thumb out. Yet that is opposite of how the controls are. Seems I recall in the manual that it can be reversed. Does anyone know? If so, I will find it and reverse it, if not, you have saved me the trouble of looking. Loflin Fabrication

 

[boggen]

no good pictures via google of the control valves. you should be able to swap the hoses around. but unsure if there are any pressure relief valves, or regen, or other options that might not work correctly if you swap hoses around.

they have toll free number directly on there website... give them a call to double check.

Mailing/Shipping Address
Loflin Fabrication LLC
1382 Cranford Rd.
Denton, NC 27239-8952

Telephone/FAX

336-859-4333
866-859-4333 Toll Free
336-859-5830 FAX

Electronic Mail

sales@loflinfabrication.com

 

[SSdoxie]

Swap the male & female couplers on the hoe that attach to the Bobcat.

 

[1gr8bldr]

I recall there being a way.... but it would take longer to find it in the manual than it did to switch the couplings