Backhoe backhoe parking pad

[hacker]

I left my backhoe on soft ground just past my the edge of my gravel driveway for a week once. Big mistake. It had setteled into the ground so much that the hydraulic pressure in the hoe was too great to get it plugged back in to the tractor hydraulics. When I finally figured out what the problem was, I got out a car jack and jacked up the backhoe to take the pressure off. Nothing like an extra half and hour on a five minute job.

I will be building a pad in my tractor barn, when I get around to building that.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Peace,
Hacker

 

[TORQUIN]

I've got a BH90, and heard all of the surface recommendations from the dealer when I bought the tractor. I also read in the manual about what it says. I will tell you from experience that it doesn't matter. I drop my hoe on the ground in the woods out back, on a hill, just because that's the most convenient place to put it, out of the way. The only problem I had was after the first time I disconnected it and left it for 3 days, the stabilizers leaked down anought that I could not get the subfram under the BH. This was when I found out the dealer did not make the hoses long enough to connect without the subframe being UNDER the BH. I had to tilt the back end of the tractor to get it under the BH by lifting the front end with the FEL. The dealer then got the tractor back to lengthen the hydraulic hoses under warranty.

Why warranty? Well, after I showed him in the manual where Kubota recommends you retract the stabilizers completely, after disconnecting from the tractor, and resting the BH on the ground, I asked him if he could tell me how to do it the way I am "supposed to" with the lines as short as they were. He took care of it for free.

Now it doesn't matter if it leaks down (no, I don't retract the stabilizers completely like the manual says), I just connect the lines and lift it up, then back the tractor under it. As far as the unlevel ground goes, it doesn't matter since I can make all of the adjustments with the BH hydraulics. I don't see any time difference in hook up or removal when on level ground vs. the hill I usually use.

Chris

 

[moosetracks]

Torquin, Thanks for the reply. I'm currently planning a gravel pad (under roof) for the TLB which is where the hoe will reside when off. Hopefully that will stay dry and be fairly stable. Guess I'll find out.

Moosetracks

 

[Henro]

Hi,

I put a couple pins through the holes at the bottom of the backhoe, and put a jackstand under each side. The jackstands I have are made such that they have flat pieces of metal on the ends of each corner, so they don't sink in to the dirt, even in summer when the backhoe is sitting out in the weather.

When I have it in the shed in winter, I do the same thing on my dirt floor, but raise the stabilizers up and tie them together.

I don't know if my PTO pump has long enough hoses on it to set the thing on the ground or not. I do know that with it up on the jack stands it makes is pretty easy to put the PTO pump on without a struggle. When the hoe is stored outside, I leave the stabilizers down on the ground, just in case one of the jack stands would sink in, but so far I have not found that to be a problem.

Works for me... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif