I'm showing off my new toy!

[bearmtnmartin]

I don't know anything about the hydraulic fittings, but I have heard that story, and I questioned the salesman about it. He said that everything is available at NAPA, so perhaps thats just the euro machines.

 

[Builder]

Dude, that thing is awesome.

Would look even better running down the highway on a trailer behind my 4800.

Good luck with it. Glad you didn't buy that M-59. No need to sit outside and bake your arse off in the sun.

 

[scoutcub]

Nice rig!
What's that thing weigh?

 

[bearmtnmartin]

Dude, that thing is awesome.

Would look even better running down the highway on a trailer behind my 4800.

Good luck with it. Glad you didn't buy that M-59. No need to sit outside and bake your arse off in the sun.

lol. you wouldn't even see that tiny thing back there! I actually would have got a cab if I had gone the Kubota route. Those Laurin cabs are very nice and I would have had AC. I'm too old to suffer anymore.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

Nice rig!
What's that thing weigh?

I don't actually know yet. I would say right around 10000# as it sits. Maybe 10500.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

So heres a little update. I brought my toy home last Saturday and went right out and dug some footings for a guy. I had fun for a couple of hours and then one of the swing cylinders sprung a leak. Turned out it had a defective casting. Back to the dealership it went. Got it back today along with a new cleanout bucket. But the fab shop used a chunk of 3/4 inch plate for a frog and didn't bother with either a cutting edge, or bolt holes or anything. ?? OK, if it was a 300 you could get away with a 3/4 inch thick cutting edge, but on a 50 horse mini you need something a little sharper I think. So I glued on a piece of grader blade tonight since I need to dig with it all week starting tomorrow.

 

[Builder]

lol. you wouldn't even see that tiny thing back there! I actually would have got a cab if I had gone the Kubota route. Those Laurin cabs are very nice and I would have had AC. I'm too old to suffer anymore.

You're not getting older, you're getting smarter!

 

[bearmtnmartin]

heres some work pics from today. I don't think I took any more time today than if I still had my big machine. It digs pretty fast. Front end has lots of power. That must be close to a yard of material.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

I use a clean up bucket for most of my digging, and this one is only 4 inches narrower than the one on my big machine, but it loads it up just fine

 

[bearmtnmartin]

more pics, since I am in a posting mood. The last one is whats left of the old drainfield. They had a cedar box about 5 feet long. That served the house since the 50's. And the house is 6000 feet with 15 people in it. Shows how good our drainage is.

 

[CurlyDave]

How big is that tank?

Sure doesn't look big enough for 15 people in our neck of the woods.

Nice machine, btw.

 

[allenr]

more pics, since I am in a posting mood. The last one is whats left of the old drainfield. They had a cedar box about 5 feet long. That served the house since the 50's. And the house is 6000 feet with 15 people in it. Shows how good our drainage is.

That old drainfield would be rather smelly - I don't suppose the cab has a charcoal filter!

An investment property I bought a few years back (a 1920's house) had no less than three drainage trenches.

The kitchen trench had about 10 worn car tyres with a sheet of corrugated iron on top.

I installed a secondhand concrete septic tank with a sump pump to accept all three lines and now pump the effluent out to under some walnuts and a mulberry.

Nice machine - had a JCB 3CX once. Must check their website, I had no idea they come with a tpl and pto.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

How big is that tank?

Sure doesn't look big enough for 15 people in our neck of the woods.

Nice machine, btw.

That one, plus the original will be over 2000g US. plus a pump chamber.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

Discovered a couple minor glitches today. Hoses at the foot of the boom keep working out between frame and swing post. Result is I have destroyed one. And I don't remember ever having this issue with my old machine, but the boom contacts the stabilizer at close to full rotation to the side, which means that I have to be really careful when I work off to the side. I hope I get used to that.

 

[bearmtnmartin]

And heres what I got done today. Way too hot to work very fast and salesmen kept bugging me, but I got my beds ready for stone and got the pump chamber in anyway. I use my little red monster for most of the rest of the job, so my new toy gets to rest for a couple of days. That will keep the paint shiny a bit longer.

 

[allenr]

Discovered a couple minor glitches today. Hoses at the foot of the boom keep working out between frame and swing post. Result is I have destroyed one. And I don't remember ever having this issue with my old machine, but the boom contacts the stabilizer at close to full rotation to the side, which means that I have to be really careful when I work off to the side. I hope I get used to that.

Thats a bummer when you lose the rubber off of hoses, but particularly so when it's a new machine and they should have had the hoses secured safely.

Had a look on the JCB site last night and noticed that the PTO is a hydraulic driven one rated at about half the engine HP.

I thought yours was basically a 2CX but it appears to be an entirely new model between the 1CX and 2CX.

 

[Scooby074]

Nice work on the beds.

Kind of a bad design that allows the hoses to get in the way? Wonder if there's a factory fix for it. your probably not the first one to have it happen. A few cable ties or some hose wrap around the hose bundle may help.

 

[Builder]

Discovered a couple minor glitches today. Hoses at the foot of the boom keep working out between frame and swing post. Result is I have destroyed one. And I don't remember ever having this issue with my old machine, but the boom contacts the stabilizer at close to full rotation to the side, which means that I have to be really careful when I work off to the side. I hope I get used to that.

Every backhoe I have owned and the others I have operated all had booms that could contact the stabilizers.

I thought they were all that way?

 

[bearmtnmartin]

Every backhoe I have owned and the others I have operated all had booms that could contact the stabilizers.

I thought they were all that way?

Well, perhaps I just adjusted for it on the New Holland, but with this one, you can't swing 90 degrees and stretch most of the way out without contact. Thats with the stabilizer down of course. In fact anything after about 80 degrees you have to watch it. It is maybe not so much the stabilizer as the massive hose hold down block and cylinder guard that contact. Like everything else, its pretty heavy duty. But then thats why I chose this one too...

 

[Builder]

I hit one of my CASE stabilizer cylinders BAD with my bucket while trying to curl up a big chunk of concrete. I thought it would result in a lot of damage, but it just put a minor scratch on it. It didn't even leak.