Tractor 1, House 0

[MChalkley]

Richard - I'm not graphics artist, either - I'm a plagiarist.

Out of curiosity, what are the FEL lift and breakout ratings on your JCB? And what about the backhoe bucket?

We still haven't come up with a name yet. The holdup is that it has to be sanctioned by my wife, as well - which makes it difficult to come up with something fitting, as you can imagine... /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Richard]

Well I'll be...I did some research with JCB because of your queston..so thank you for asking. I don't know what some of this means in the "real world", so I'll just post what I see in the brochure they faxed me

Brutus: (Aka, JCB 1550-B)

Perkins 236 cu inch 80 gross HP turbocharged, 77 net at 1,300 rpm..torque 228 ft/lb gross, net is 218

Backhoe: 15 1/2 digging depth w/2 foot bucket (that is what the "1550" stands for in model #

Digging force (all numbers in pounds)

Dipper Cylinder 7,136

Bucket cylinder:
"speed" 9,592
"power" 11,076
I have no clue as to difference there.

Max lifting Capacity Boom at full reach w/24" 2,477
Max lifting Capacity Dipper w/24" 4,940

Swing torque: 21,000 lb. ft

Loader:
Bucket hinge pin @ full height 10 feet 10 inches
Lift Capacity to full height 6,250
Breakout force:
Bucket 11,250
Loader arms 8,761

Machine weight 15,790
Hydraulic pump 28.8 gpm
Cylinders:
Boom 4 3/8 inches
Dipper 4
Bucket 3 1/2
Stabilizers 4
Swing 4
Loader arm 3 1/4
Loader bucket 2 3/4

Loader times:
Raise time to full height 3.7 sec
Dump 1.8 sec
powerdown 2.4
return to dig time 3.0
rollback 1.4

Backhoe cycle times
Boom lift cylinder:
Extend 5.0 sec
retract 5.0 sec

Dipper crowd:
extend 2.8 sec
retract 5.0 sec

Bucket dig cylinder:
extend 1.8 sec
retreact 2.2

Swing cylinder 90 degrees: 1.4 sec


I have been enlightened, and I suppose this will give you a good idea of what Brutus is/was capable of...out of the box. Today with 2,100 hours on it...I presume they might be a millisecond slower maybe??

Richard

 

[Mike_Dumond]

<font color=blue>We still haven't come up with a name yet. </font color=blue>

I thought "Enterprise" was a pretty good name. But, then again, "Agamemnon" was the name of an Earth Force battle crusier on Babylon 5.

Just my .02.

 

[MChalkley]

Richard - That clinches it - my EF-5 doesn't qualify to have the name "Brutus Jr.", much less "Brutus". /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Brutus is a monster!

Thanks for the detailed specs - they're a good reference point.

 

[jinman]

Uhh...Richard....Uhh, you forgot the the belly mower specs. ...and what is the PTO rpm? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[MChalkley]

jinman - It's a little known fact of history that JCB originally designed a belly mower for Richard's machine. They're not too proud of that episode, so they don't say much about it. After they built it, they couldn't move it over under the JCB, so they just drove the JCB over it to position it, which flattened the mower. It was at that point that they realized why no other full-size TLB's came with belly mowers, either. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Richard]

Ya'll just way to clever for this city boy!.

Markc, back to the name thing...my father in law, his wife and my uncle in law (because of him over hearing FATHER in law..)

Refer to Brutus as : Bertha or sometimes Big Bertha depnding on who is talking...

I'll be HAPPY to relinguish the Bertha moniker to you...and possibly...Bertha & Brutus could play some day??

/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Richard

 

[frank_f15]

what was going through your mind? when u were waiting for THE BOSS to come out to see what u did/w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif probably the same thing i was when i ACCIDENTLY mistook the hydo pedal for the brake and took a little chunk out of the siding on the house/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif (well the damm thing was new to me) glad it wasn't more serious!!!!

 

[Boondox]

You know, the tractor tore thru that wood so effortlessly I was hoping she never noticed! No such luck!

Pete

 

[MarkV]

Pete,

I can feel your pain./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif When I got my rear blade I was so excited I put that thing on and I was ready to scrape the world. Now I figure every new implement should come with instructions but this one did not. If it had, I am sure I would have read the part that says, the blade is wider than your tractor stupid. I am still trying to convince my wife that it was not my fault, it was lack of instructions, which caused me to drag that blade down the side of my brand new van./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

MarkV