Tractor backhoe - homemade

[Renze]

It's just the way I like to do it because earlier when I hurried to paint something there were multiple ocassions where I had to do some adittional welding or drill some holes etc, so that ruins the color around it and the parts don't look so good...

With the standard of work you kept so far, this is the logical next step

 

[ArtMech]

What a staggering project!!! I'm burning with envy :muttering:.

 

[BFreaky]

I'm cool with that. Nothing prevents you to start a similar project

 

[ArtMech]

Fellow, I'm following your project from the beginning. I was delighted to see your first drafts. Man, you must be a very good guy, otherwise that, what you're doing, would be impossible.
I'm a bad one. All I have done was assembling a truck manually in my youth (KamAZ dumper, don't know if this brand name says you something). Now I'm too-oo lazy to start anything. :confused3:

 

[BFreaky]

Of course, man we live on the same continent, I'm familliar with Kamaz and many other similar brands.

 

[Renze]

Of course, man we live on the same continent, I'm familliar with Kamaz and many other similar brands.

Anyone following the Dakar rally knows Kamaz... Though they rally with trucks built from European components... Sisu axles, Steyr dropbox, ZF transmission, Liebherr engine...

A local contractor has a Kraz 255 (?) with a 22m3 slurry tank on it, and a non modified army truck in the bush for spare parts, because parts are not available in Holland.

 

[duke7595]

I wish the world would appreciate the fantastic skills that so many people have that go unnoticed and unappreciated. I worked a white collar job and retired at 59 three years ago. I have always be somewhat a do-it-yourself type guy that is somewhat mechanical and not afraid to try most stuff. I have quite a tool collection and a very nice shop that I hope to have organized someday! I am in the process of building a new cabin on 20 acres using some of my own trees for timbers that I have milled on a Woodmizer LT 40 mill that I own. I put in my own septic system that was permitted and that was an interesting exercise politically with the local health dept. I think they feel the common individual does not have the intelligence or know how to do such a project. Back to the point I am trying to get across! On the new cabin I got to the point of the siding. I like nice stuff and I know my limitations so I found a retired siding guy with 25 years experience who I hired to run the job and I would be his helper. He knew his stuff and I knew he took great pride in his work when he started yelling at me for cutting a cedar siding board a 1/32nd short which did not allow it to exactly snap in place! Never quite understood why even though we were caulking all of the end corners where the 1/32nd would never be seen he was upset with my cutting!
He was a professional with what he was skilled to do and took great pride in his work! What I see through TBN forums are very many professionals that have skills in many areas. I have learned from my siding experience, met a new friend and became a much more skilled DYI er! My hat is off to all you skilled tradesman and women.
Keep America strong and appreciate the trades.
Ultraglide62

I believe you said it all, well done, I'm sure many people out there agree with you.
Oh be careful w/ those 1/32nd mis-cuts.

 

[ArtMech]

Anyone following the Dakar rally knows Kamaz... Though they rally with trucks built from European components... Sisu axles, Steyr dropbox, ZF transmission, Liebherr engine...

A local contractor has a Kraz 255 (?) with a 22m3 slurry tank on it, and a non modified army truck in the bush for spare parts, because parts are not available in Holland.

Mine was full soviet one.

I had been driving KrAZ-255 6x6 for a couple of months. And a dumper KrAZ-256 for nearly 1 year before I've got a KamAZ to assemble. You can't talk to a passenger in a KrAZ cab, no way to hear each other because of terrrrible noise and vibration even while shouting.

How can that local contractor drive that truck in your country? Its emission control system is horrible, if not to say absent at all.

 

[Redneck in training]

Mine was full soviet one.

I had been driving KrAZ-255 6x6 for a couple of months. And a dumper KrAZ-256 for nearly 1 year before I've got a KamAZ to assemble. You can't talk to a passenger in a KrAZ cab, no way to hear each other because of terrrrible noise and vibration even while shouting.

How can that local contractor drive that truck in your country? Its emission control system is horrible, if not to say absent at all.

I remember Kraz trucks (When USSR invaded Czechoslovakia 1968) with gas engines. Czech army had few of those too. One guy familiar with those told me it used about 1L/1km or 2.4mpg.

 

[ArtMech]

I remember Kraz trucks (When USSR invaded Czechoslovakia 1968) with gas engines. Czech army had few of those too. One guy familiar with those told me it used about 1L/1km or 2.4mpg.

I don't know if KrAZ trucks were ever equipped with the gas engines. Unless export versions. I was driving them in mid '80s. All of them had YaMZ-238, V8, ~300HP diesel engine. In 1968 you could meet 2 stroke, 6 cyl. inline diesel engines on them, which produced more smoke than power. These yes, could use 1L/1km of fuel.

But I'm surprised, how much you guys know about soviet machines while living in the Western countries!