Backhoe identification

[schizm]

Hi All,

I recently purchased a Kioti LB1914 and I don't know what brand of backhoe I have. I found an ID plate but it has been painted over multiple times, I am currently trying to strip the paint off to see if it has any markings.
The backhoe is frame mounted and uses the tractors hydraulics, it has 6 sticks and the swing is controlled by a ram with teeth that engage a gear. I have attached a few pics, anyone have any idea's to brand or model.

 

[schizm]

Anyone?? Surely someone out there has seen a backhoe like this before.

 

[schizm]

Well I managed to get a bunch of the paint stripped off the id tag, turns out it is a Davis D100-A. Apparently they were acquired by Case in the eighties, I managed to find a manual online but I am still looking for specs.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Glad you found what you needed. How well does it work. I havent seen too many newer BH's without the double wiggle sticks. I guess you will get some strong fingers eventually by pulling and pushing those 4 valve handles. I did hear one guy several years ago say that he preferred the 4 handle controls to the wiggle sticks but that was because he had learned on that. I am searching for a BH now and never used one before. I figure by the time I get all the known surface showing rocks dug up, I might be good enough to dig a ditch with it.

 

[LD1]

Glad you found the info on it.

Alot of the older backhoes from the 60's and 70's were 4-stick.

My new-to-me 1967 Ford 5500 is 4 stick.

The only thing I notice on that D100 is that it seems the contorls are awefully low in relation to the seat Does the seat move down or anything?

From the pics, it looks like the controls are going to be at your knees when sitting. That would seem pretty uncomfortable to me.

 

[schizm]

Hi Guys,

No the seat does not move down, it isn't the most comfortable set-up. Somebody permanently mounted the hoe seat to the tractor and it is a little high. I have banged my head off the ROPS so many times that I wear a hardhat now whenever I am playing with the hoe. I may try to come up with a seat mount that stays with hoe and is better ergonomically and easier on my melon.
It seems to function well, perhaps a little slow. The bucket curl is the slowest, it swings fairly quickly. I think this backhoe was designed for a slightly larger hp and pump gpm setup, my tractor may be a little on the small size for it. I have only been using it to digg out some stumps and making a pit to get fill for a sink hole left over from a previous stump pit. My soil at home is very sandy so the digging has been fairly easy.
I do need to use the boom lock or the boom will fall when i am driving around using the loader or when I park it. I usually lower the loader bucket and boom anyways when parked.

 

[GreenWannabe]

The Davis loaders and backhoes were sold off to Massey Ferguson, since Case already had a line of loaders and backhoes from their merger with American Tractor Corp. While the 100 series is not listed as having a parts book online, a MF dealer would most likely still have parts books on microfiche.

 

[schizm]

The Davis loaders and backhoes were sold off to Massey Ferguson, since Case already had a line of loaders and backhoes from their merger with American Tractor Corp. While the 100 series is not listed as having a parts book online, a MF dealer would most likely still have parts books on microfiche.

Hi GreenWannabe,

I think Massey Fergusson may have owned them before Case.

http://specialcollections.wichita.e...hen/pdf/People&Places/davis_manufacturing.pdf

Some of the dates don't appear to make complete sense, the article states that Tennecco purchased them in 1969 but then goes on to say that Case bought them 12 years prior to 1980?

 

[GreenWannabe]

I think you're right. It actually was two different companies: Mid-Western Industries made the Davis loaders and backhoes and was sold to MF in 1958, Davis Mfg Co which started up in 1959 made the trenchers, and was sold to Tenneco and merged into Case in 1969. I forget when Tenneco bought out Kern County Land Co, who owned Case at the time, but it was before 1969. The Davis name disappeared in 1980 when they renamed it as Case. I think the 12 years mentioned was just off by a year. Case eventually sold the trencher line to Astec, who in turn has sold it to Toro this year.