Backhoe Attachment Project

[rbutterfield]

Nice job! Now we need some action shots...

Thanks.
I used it yesterday. Seems to do very well for an inexperienced BH operator.

 

[rbutterfield]

Really nice job!!


GREAT JOB, how long did it take from start to finish.


Joel.

Thanks Joel,

I ended up pinning through the pin collars in order to keep them stationary as suggested. Thought about welding tabs and drilling through and threading the frame but decided to see how this works.

To be honest I didn't keep track of the time I spent working on it.
Basically I would work on it on the weekends then get away from it for a month or more, then back at it again. We have horses so they take up a lot of my available time and I haven't put heat in the garage yet so I lost the winter months. I started it about a year and a half ago but have maybe 20 weekends worth of work.
Just a guess.

I'll have my wife shoot some video and get it posted.

 

[rbutterfield]

Here are a few photos with the BH detached.
Pull 2 pins on the subframe, disconnect the hyd lines and drive away.
Too easy!

 

[Scotty370]

Absolutely a beautiful 'build' !! Perfect color too! And (Not to 'hijack') But your pictures are beautiful as well! How do you get them sized so perfectly? Some folks thumbnails that I click 'blow-up' the photo so large, that you have to pan/scroll and they're just tough to view. ~"Scotty"

 

[rbutterfield]

Absolutely a beautiful 'build' !! Perfect color too! And (Not to 'hijack') But your pictures are beautiful as well! How do you get them sized so perfectly? Some folks thumbnails that I click 'blow-up' the photo so large, that you have to pan/scroll and they're just tough to view. ~"Scotty"

Thanks Scotty, I appreciate your comments. Thus far the BH has exceeded my expectations. I was very lucky.
As far as the photos go, I use PS to resize the width to 640 and the height will resize proportionaly. Most of the time I do not crop the original photo however the second photo in my last post was cropped prior to resizing that's why the thumbnail looks differnet

 

[rbutterfield]

As promised, here is a video clip that was shot yesterday by my wife.
As you will see, I have a long way to go the get in sync with my new machine. And I thought helicopters were difficult!

YouTube - Playing in the dirt

 

[MikesTractor]

Excellent job on the backhoe. Looks great and it digs good too! If you need to get rid of some of that top soil, I'll take a couple of loads...

Mike

 

[JoelD]

REally really really nice job, you are going to get many hours of use out of that backhoe.

I only see one problem.

I think your dirt is broken, I don't see you hitting any hard round things.

I've got about 50 billion of them if you need some

I find it boring to dig without hitting at least one every centimeter.

Again, GREAT job, you should be very proud of your work.

Sincerely,
Joel

 

[Ductape]

Great vid !

I can't believe you dug up that nice lawn for fun !

Wait...... let me rephrase that. I can't believe you dug up that nice lawn for fun and you're still married !

 

[mjncad]

Great job on the backhoe and I think you'll get your technique down fairly quickly too.