Goodbye Kubota, hello EarthForce

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: Home-made Soil Pulverizer

Mark

I've been lurking for awhile and really appreciate all the info. you've shared on the EarthForce. Have you checked out whether the machine will handle a hydrolic breaker on the bh? tia

micro

 

[MChalkley]

Re: Home-made Soil Pulverizer

Greetings, Micro, and welcome! Glad to have been of assistance. As a matter of fact, one of the factory options (which I ordered, of course), is a hydraulic rockbreaker connection. There's a button on the dipper/bucket joystick that you use to turn the hydraulics on and off. If you look at the close-up pictures of the backhoe I posted, you can see the spring-protected hydraulic connections at the top of the dipper stick. By definition, the rockbreaker hydraulics provide one-way hydraulic flow. So...

There's also an auxilliary remote hydraulics option (which I also ordered, of course /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif) that provides bi-directional flow for backhoe attachments that require it.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: Home-made Soil Pulverizer

Mark

Thanks for your speedy response. I'm sold. That was the last real question left. I had decided to purchase an EarthForce anyway, but with the option of a rock/concrete breaker it's almost to good to be true.

I was trying to decide between an L35 and a B2910 TLB for a landscape business but didn't like (at least according to my research so far) that they couldn't handle a hydrolic breaker. It isn't often that I need one but when you need one you REALLY need one if you know what I mean.

After researching the EarthForce, I 'm amazed at the power/digging/lifting force. I will be looking into the EF 4 and EF4.

Good luck with your machine and please keep us posted on performance issues.

Mike

 

[bryce]

Re: More EF-5 info, pictures

My only question is does she have a sister that's available?
Bob

 

[MChalkley]

Re: Home-made Soil Pulverizer

micro - You're welcome! I think you'll be a lot more impressed by the machine itself than my yakking about it. Where do you live? (If you'd like to e-mail me privately to avoid telling everybody, feel free to do so.) Jason @ Folcomer Equipment in Baltimore has been absolutely fantastic to deal with. I highly recommend him. (If you want to e-mail me, depending on where you live, I might have another idea that could save you some money.)

In your message, you said EF-4 and EF-4 - did you mean EF-3 and EF-4?

Don't worry, I'll be giving more details on the actual usage of the machine and implements than most folks here care to read... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif (Though I have to say I have been surprised at the amount of interest in a machine that is such a departure from "conventional" tractors that I didn't think many people would be able to get past it.)

 

[MChalkley]

Re: More EF-5 info, pictures

Bob - Does who have a sister that's available? The EF-5 or the pine tree? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[MChalkley]

Re: EF-5\'s first real

Today, I got the quick-attach backing plate welded on the Brush Brute (pics coming...) and tried it out on the EF-5 a little bit. I was plucking 4" diameter pines up out of the ground easier than you could run over them - it was amazing. Several times, I had 4 or 5 trees and shrubs in the teeth at once. On the smaller stuff, I just skimmed the Brush Brute along a couple inches off the ground and the EF-5 sort of pushed them over and pulled them up at the same time. With the bigger ones, it worked best to lift a little with the loader at the same time. It worked great! I pushed over some bigger ones 6-7" in diameter and ripped them up with the teeth of the Brush Brute, but I never did get it to spin the tires, and it never really acted like it was doing any real work. I used it about an hour doing this, and the hydraulic oil temperature gauge never moved. I would have suspected it of being defective, except that I saw it move on a much warmer day in SC when I was running it around, and there's a second hydraulic oil temperature gauge on the side of the tank - the glass bulb type - and it read very low, too.

Then, a friend called and said he had two HVAC units that were being delivered that needed to be unloaded. They were supposed to come on a flatbed equipped with a forklift, but showed up in a van-style 18-wheeler. Since they didn't have any way to unload them he asked if I could do it. So I put the forks on, and we took it over and unloaded them. Only problem was: They only weighed 700 pounds or so each, so it didn't even know they were there. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I'm still reallly impressed with the smoothness of the loader controls, though. A huge improvement in usability over what I'm used to.

 

[Woodbeef]

Yup,ain\'t those Brush Brute\'s great!!

See,I told you guys they were unbelievable,for something that looks so simple but works so well!! Go ahead and laugh about them taking off moose season,but was the wait worth it or not?

 

[MChalkley]

Re: Yup,ain\'t those Brush Brute\'s great!!

Woodbeef - I believed you! Otherwise, I'd have given up on them after the second week of moose-hunting season (I'm sorry, but that still cracks me up /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif) and I wouldn't have one now. I do really like the idea of having something for brush removal that is absolutely zero maintenance, and with the knowlege that, if I break it, I'll really have a story to tell! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Actually, the truth is, I use it with the knowledge that there's not a chance I could break it if I tried. There's some comfort in that. I don't think I have another single tractor implement I can say that about, in fact.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: Yup,ain\'t those Brush Brute\'s great!!

Mark,

Can you get a Brush Brute 72" wide... how much... what is the standard mount... how heavy... what is the depth...?