What? Tags doesn't have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

[JATO_RaT]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

I use the toothbar about 75% of the time, it does increase bucket capacity, does a great job at gettin into roots. It does a great job of picking up my brush piles although a 4N1 would work much nicer. Overall, it increases the ability to get the bucket into anything. I also use it to stab corners of rocks to break them loose, or catch a piece of root with one tooth and rip it out with bucket curl. Its a great tool for an ordinary old bucket. Temp gauge would be good just to know whats going on. My tires are filled with straight water as we don't freeze here and when speaking with the tractor companys around here, thats all they do to. I have not heard that filling your tires partially, (anything less then about 75%) would cause any kind of problem regardless of a hoe on it or not. If it did then the 3 pt hitch with a 1200 box scraper dozing into dirt and being lifted (about 3000lb lift) would certainly test the axle sufficiently. Mine looks as though even a 747 landing on it wouldn't cause any hardship. Its hard for me to believe that filling them up to the top of the rim would be that much more stress on the axle. I'm with you, throwing the Harley on back you will want the extra weight as a good deal of the Harley rests on the ground, not the tractor. Well, thats about it, just got off my tractor, about 6:00 PM moving dirt. I have the last 1/4 of about 2000 yards left to move next week. Then I'll throw the Harley on and level the rest up. It works so slick with the hydrostatic, just awesome. I'm spoiled, Rat...

Gonna go jump in the spa with some wine and watch the dogs play, man, I'm really spoiled.

HAPPY fathers day to all the fathers.

 

[JATO_RaT]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

Tags, did you try mowing with Spiderman? I notice that JD offers R3's for the 110 that fit the same rims as the R4's. Galaxy tire makes them I think. I did not know such an animal exists and Galaxy doesn't list them on their site. This is news as I wanted to replace the R1's on my International which uses 16's and 24's but would require a rim change for the rears to accomodate the R3's. I think Deere may have had Galaxy build the tire just for the 110. I hope thats the case as its what I need. Let me know how the HST works in high on a slope, particularly an up hill one up to 15 to 20 degreees, RaT....

 

[Tags]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

Rat,
I have not mowed with Spidey yet,but today I put the harley on,and man were you right,the hydro tranny makes raking much better,faster,and easier,all though I do reach for the shuttle shifter every now and then,I was raking in low range,but the machine still moves pretty quick for low but has plenty of torque.I also bucketed around about 40 yards of screened soil in middle range,no problem over fillin' the bucket,I was runnin at abot 2400 rpm and had the hyd gauge about three eights of an inch from the yellow portion of the gauge,which is where it seemed to stop at,I couldn't get it any higher,once again the hydro is the way to go,and as soon as I do some mowin' I'll let you know.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

Well guys, I saw a JD110 and a L48 side-by-side at the local JD dealer's grand re-opening of their new show room. Got to play and watch others, including some very seasoned operators, put 'em through the gauntlet. I will say that the L48 seems to have more oomph! when pushing into a big pile of dirt with with the FEL, but JD110's backhoe is faster and stronger digging trenches (both hoes had 18" buckets). Now before someone says - try a 24" or 36" bucket - get real, these are small backhoes.

 

[JohnMiller3]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

Well Mark,

When does the shoot-out begin...? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

IR appears to be doing careful moves on positioning it's EarthForce line... that should pay nothing but bigtime in sales later down the road...

When you take time and look at the EarthForce features... it sure has a lot of "bang for the buck"...

If only they would offer a "3-point hitch/rear PTO"... it would undoubtlessly become the "creme' of the crop" for TLB's in a class by itself... (and I realize you've worked wonders around those items)

(already the hydraulic horsepower and real-life lifting capacity far surpass all competition...!) /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MChalkley]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

JMIII - "The Beast" is ready anytime. She's still looking for something she can't handle. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I'm hoping I-R's current slow pace of development is due to "careful moves", as you put it. I'm a little too cynical to give them the benefit of the doubt completely, until I see a little more evidence. Unfortunately, large corporations don't have a track record of showing intelligence, wisdom and logical thinking ability in their decision-making processes. I really hope I-R bucks the trend in this area, but I'm waiting to be convinced. Based on history (Not just I-R's but the corporate world in general - but, again, I'm a bit cynical), I'd give them about a 15% chance of doing so.

The reason I didn't buy an EarthForce machine a few years ago when I bought the L4310HST was that it didn't offer a three-point hitch. I'd still prefer having that option (I never say "no" to options... /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) But now that I've had the EF-500 a while, I really don't think I'd use the three-point hitch often if I had it. I've gotten so used to backing up with the implement on the front, when grading or tilling, for example, that it's second nature. It's really a lot more natural than having the implement on the back and going forward, though I wouldn't expect to be able to convince anyone who hasn't spent a little time doing it of that. I used to find that when I was grading a road, I spent 3/4 of my time looking over my shoulder at what I was doing, and 1/4 straight ahead at where I was going. With the implement on the front, I spend 3/4 of my time looking straight ahead at what I'm doing, and 1/4 of the looking in the mirrors at where I'm going. The result is that I can work a lot longer, a lot faster, and end up a lot less tired than I could with a CUT. Now that I've gotten used to the EF-500, I would very seldom use the tractor and three-point hitch if I had both, and could just jump on whichever one I wanted. But, it would've taken somebody a lot of time and some pretty good salesmanship to convince me of that before I found it out for myself - so, as I say, I don't expect to be able to convince many others of it, either.

But, the capper, as you mentioned, is that I wouldn't trade the hydraulic capacity of the machine for anything else. At more than double the lift capacity of anything else within $15,000 of its price, not to mention the extremely strong build quality, overkill engineering, etc., I don't think there's anything that can touch it. It doesn't look as "sexy" as some of the weaker machines, but I didn't marry the tractor, it's a beast of burden. And as a "beast", "The Beast", the guys I work with call it, it's pretty much unmatched, as far as I can tell - I definitely don't think there's anything on the market available for less than $15k more money that'll come anywhere near it in capability, except for the pure hydraulic flow of the high-hp skid steers, which I don't have a use for anyway (neither the skid steer nor the high-flow hydraulics). And, like I say, if anybody out there thinks otherwise, she's ready to go into action to find out for sure. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[JATO_RaT]

Re: What? Tags doesn\'t have his Phantom 110 YET!!!

"I spend 3/4 of my time looking straight ahead at what I'm doing, and 1/4 of the looking in the mirrors at where I'm going"

Of course eating dust is part part of the adventure. Thats the part I always hated about using skid steers, well, that and the noise. I never get so dirty as I do when working from the front. Good to hear from you Chalkey, Rat...

P.S. still looking to see an EF in my area