It's a rubber bumper off of who knows what. It stops the stabilizer from slamming into the backhoe when I forget to slow it down on the way up. It also stops the hoses from being pinched between the framework and the cylinder as well. I sort of got too close when I took the picture.
I had the problem with my Kioti BH on the first use. Pinched the left side hose and had to get a new hose and cylinder. I has thinking of getting a coupe of the hood bumpers from Kioti and doing something similar.
What material are yours? How did you fasten them? I really need to do something 'cause one of these days I'm not going to be babying the arm up and..... OUCH again.
Never felt the need for a rubber bumper on the New Holland BH. The hydraulic lines must be better protected because I have slapped the stabilizers up on more than one occasion and haven't done any damage, yet.
If someone needed a set of bumpers I'm thinking that a set of toe stops like they use on roller skates might do the same thing and they are already pre-drilled to be bolted on and are inexpensive to boot. toe stop link
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My bumpers are from Jon DePratt. They are from land Pride. I'm supposed to be taking pictures for kiotijohn, but I can't ever remember to do it. I'll try to do it today! They work great.
You can buy rubber bumpers with a stud bonded on one side, then either drill and thread the hole or drill thru and put a nut on, they're cheap too. Grainger has 'em for example, in all different sizes.......
Looks good Steve. Something that just occurred to me is that one could go to a you pull it auto grave yard and take off the bumpers from under the hood used to keep the hood tight and not rattling. Should make a good bumper for the backhoe stailizers and shouldn't cost much at all.
John