Swinging boom - Sideloads

[Rustyiron]

What your doing in your vid is fine. They set limits hydraulically on the available side loading power. Now if your "hammering" the ground, that is swinging with no load and hitting an object or grade, (shock load) no no no!

 

[Cataclysm]

What your doing in your vid is fine. They set limits hydraulically on the available side loading power. Now if your "hammering" the ground, that is swinging with no load and hitting an object or grade, (shock load) no no no!

I second what Rustyiron said. Your not going to hurt that machine at all swinging through that loose dirt like that.

I have hurt my Kubota K-008 mini-x doing just what your doing, however its just the oil seal on the shaft of the turret slew motor. Apparently on this tiny machine the shaft flexes and prematurely wears out the shaft seal. Keep in mind it has taken 1700 hrs to ruin the seal. I back fill pushing sideways (not hitting) and will continue to do so. It isn't that big of a deal.

 

[dfkrug]

I have hurt my Kubota K-008 mini-x doing just what your doing, however its just the oil seal on the shaft of the turret slew motor. Apparently on this tiny machine the shaft flexes and prematurely wears out the shaft seal. Keep in mind it has taken 1700 hrs to ruin the seal. I back fill pushing sideways (not hitting) and will continue to do so.

1700 hours seems like a lot of hours before this problem shows up. Did you have to buy and install a new house rotation motor?

Note that your mini-X has both boom swing and house rotation. Either can be used for pushing dirt sideways with the dipper. And using either one is not supposed to ruin your equipment, assuming that you are not ramming it into immovable piles at full speed.