Not another HFPB topic!

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

Got it all together and filled with fluids, will start it up later today. Got my extensions today for the valve handles to make them a bit taller and easier to reach. Will post pic of finished trencher later.

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

Ok so it is done till summer.

Here is the boom all done and attached.

Here is the left side.

Here is the right side showing controller extensions, tool box with grease gun mounted on the side and I have the updated hitch pin in so now the only thing to do is start it up and run the hydraulics then this spring I will do a review on it after I have used it for awhile, the only other modification I have planned is a bigger hydraulic pump, going from stock 2.7 to around 3.5gpm flow.

I will add that I am going to see if I can find a way to tighten up the control levers, they have pins and cotter pins holding them on each valve and I think a nylon washer in each one would take out some of the wobble in the levers, will see.

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

GeneV said:
Yeh nice, congrats. Actually, that seat looks similar to the one I put on my gc1710. Does the back fold down?

It looks like it does by loosening up the knob but I have not tried it yet, was too focused on getting it assembled hahaha.

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

Needed to add that my other two axles will be here Tuesday so I will have four wheels to move it around and I was two 3/4x4 hitch pins short, it should be eight 3/4x4inch and two 3/4x6 inch hitch pins to cover the whole unit.
I still have the new complete ROPS off a JD 1025R that I will try to make work so I can put a sunshade on it, it was only 75.00 and was dusty and coated with pigeon poo hahaha.

GeneV · Dec 13, 2019

Personally, I wouldn't be able to wait till spring to play with a new toy. I'd find something to dig.

She lookin good.

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

GeneV said:
Personally, I wouldn't be able to wait till spring to play with a new toy. I'd find something to dig. She lookin good.

Hahaha I do have lots of snow, could move piles of snow around hahaha or just pull it outside and practice using the controls.

quicksandfarmer · Dec 13, 2019

dodge man said:
I watched the video of the guy cutting the cable. I壇 actually say the guy had some skill. I壇 say he had run a backhoe before and it took a pretty good bite of dirt.

You'd think he would have learned to call Miss Utiity.

What really bothered me was the little kid running around while he dug. A moment of inattention could be tragic.

5030 · Dec 13, 2019

I'm old too. Some days more than others....:laughing:

Today was one.

Imold · Dec 13, 2019

There is a lot of good videos on YouTube on the Harbor Freight portable Trencher and I think I had watched about 95% of them before I made my purchase and I still watch and review them.

dodge man · Dec 14, 2019

I saw a video of someone complaining about how there tractor was bad at moving snow. Then the show him moving snow out of his driveway using a small backhoe on the back of his tractor. It was pretty funny. Use it to clear your driveway, good practice.

GeneV · Dec 14, 2019

dodge man said:
I saw a video of someone complaining about how there tractor was bad at moving snow. Then the show him moving snow out of his driveway using a small backhoe on the back of his tractor. It was pretty funny. Use it to clear your driveway, good practice.

That's pretty funny! I did do some tasks with the backhoe before where I was thinking, this is good practice. Like pushing a big boulder forward, it took coordinating the boom/dipper stick/bucket curl to keep it level with the side of the boulder.

Oldpath05 · Dec 14, 2019

("the only other modification I have planned is a bigger hydraulic pump, going from stock 2.7 to around 3.5gpm flow.")<<<<<<Why?

Imold · Dec 14, 2019

Oldpath05 said:
("the only other modification I have planned is a bigger hydraulic pump, going from stock 2.7 to around 3.5gpm flow.")<<<<<<Why?

With the bigger flow pump you are able to use two controls at the same time where as with the stock pump it is one movement at a time.

Oldpath05 · Dec 14, 2019

Wow I couldn't stand a one control at a time machine, why would anyone make or want a BH that way.......

Jstpssng · Dec 14, 2019

GeneV said:
That's pretty funny! I did do some tasks with the backhoe before where I was thinking, this is good practice. Like pushing a big boulder forward, it took coordinating the boom/dipper stick/bucket curl to keep it level with the side of the boulder.

After purchasing it I had my tractor delivered to my mother's house, where I put on my father's 750 Woods, then had the whole setup trucked to my home. By then I'd had the tractor for 2 weeks and a list of projects which needed to be done. The first night I had it I went into the garden and dug my potatoes with the backhoe and work light... it was easier than taking it off so that I could putthe potato plow on then reverse the process when I got done.

Imold · Dec 14, 2019

Oldpath05 said:
Wow I couldn't stand a one control at a time machine, why would anyone make or want a BH that way.......

It is built this way because it is mostly sold to people that have no clue how to operate a trencher/backhoe so with the slower flow pump it moves slow so those few idiots that get their hands on one won’t damage or hurt anyone AND for the rest of us it is just a pain that we can overcome with a bigger flow pump and the know how.

Imold · Dec 14, 2019

Think I will order a 18” bolt on thumb for it, I just remembered that I have a 4 foot chuck of a tree that weighs around 250 pounds next to my garage/shop and I could practice using the thumb, put on the snow suit and go at it.