Chinese digger recommendations

[dfkrug]

Not saying you are wrong about breakers being hard on the machines but unless you are speaking from personal experience of it wrecking your excavator, or can point to someone with that experience, it sounds like you are just making crap up.

Yeah, as I said, that is my opinion. Where do I get that? Years of experience with 25mm pins and equipment with 2500 psi hydraulics. Also, my own experience making numerous hydraulic thumbs and other attachments.

I have also rented and used skidsteers with hydraulic breakers, plus I spent a few years looking to buy a used one. Even with 35mm pins, a hydraulic breaker is very hard on all the pivot points of a loader. Cutting out and welding in new pivots is a lot of work. Done a few of those, too.

I will be the first to read any anecdotes I see of someone with some hours with a breaker on a 1-2T mini-X.

...just making crap up here....

 

[Carl_NH]

DF I know you speak from experience! And yes I concur, anything that hammers wears pins and bushings much faster.

 

[TexTrctr]

Maybe you guys have seen some of this before but I ran across this YT video of Jimbo South Dakota using a Kymron XH20 with a jack hammer to break up a an old building entry step, an old tractor tire filled with concrete and a concrete cistern.
I don't have a real need for a jack hammer so never paid any attention to them but after reading some of ya'll's comments, and running across the video, I thought it might be of interest. It is a little long.

 

[nogaltractorguy]

Excellent, that's awesome, did you order it?

Not yet. I was talking to my wife about the third garage and I think that is priority. The funny thing is that if I had the excavator I could work on the garage pad. Also, I may hold off until January so I can buy a larger excavator.