Herkypilot
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I haven't had any time to mess with mine either. It's been sitting for a year. I've been too busy.
WoodMaxx WM-8600 3-point backhoe review
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Lowrider2120
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Hey Herk,
Were flying 130's in the AF or commercially or both?
Were flying 130's in the AF or commercially or both?
Mad Mac
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Same here. Mine is splayed out in the barn collecting dust and spider webs.
If I had known how much could be done with my Wicked Root Grapple, I would not have bought the backhoe.
I still want to try it out, though.
If I had known how much could be done with my Wicked Root Grapple, I would not have bought the backhoe.
I still want to try it out, though.
Herkypilot
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Both - 26 years in the ANG and now under contract.
Mad Mac
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Good news, fellow WoodMaxxers. We've got our WM8600 up and running like a son of a gun. After a disastrous beginning when we didn't know how to lock the hydraulics on our new tractor and bent the upper link arms, we mounted Maxxie to our old tractor, a Deutz 4506.
The old Deutz is heavy enough and large enough but not ideal because it lacks an FEL. But once we were through mowing with it we knew we would be able to leave the backhoe on all winter while we used the new tractor for feeding.
When I bought Maxxie, I bought a ripper. We started out with that and had fairly good success with small stumps and a minimum of dirt removal. The larger stumps demanded more digging, loosening and rocking to break loose so we went to the 12 inch bucket. I am really glad I got the 12 inch instead of the 18 inch bucket that is optional for the same price. I think the ripper will still be useful for ripping out hedges of Yaupon and the like.
With the bucket, we would dig down and around and do the Macarena on the stump until it broke loose. Sometimes we had to move around 90 degrees to attack the other sides. Until we got to Moby Stump.
We knew we had met our match with the stump of a big old oak tree. My ranch hand had to resort to getting down in the hole with the chainsaw and cutting the roots all around. Then Moby surrendered.
The teeth on the ripper or bucket usually achieved enough bite to haul the stumps out. On some, the hydraulic thumb came in handy to lift the stumps out of the way. A few times, in order to retrieve large, long stumps out of the ground, we looped a logging chain around the stump and hooked it to the bucket. Some of the tap roots were so long, Maxxie could not lift them high enough to clear the hole and we had to drive the tractor out from the hole to pull the stump clear.
Next week, we come back with the Mahindra accessorized with a root grapple and box blade to gather and pile the stumps onto a burn pile and grade the holes.
The old Deutz is heavy enough and large enough but not ideal because it lacks an FEL. But once we were through mowing with it we knew we would be able to leave the backhoe on all winter while we used the new tractor for feeding.
When I bought Maxxie, I bought a ripper. We started out with that and had fairly good success with small stumps and a minimum of dirt removal. The larger stumps demanded more digging, loosening and rocking to break loose so we went to the 12 inch bucket. I am really glad I got the 12 inch instead of the 18 inch bucket that is optional for the same price. I think the ripper will still be useful for ripping out hedges of Yaupon and the like.
With the bucket, we would dig down and around and do the Macarena on the stump until it broke loose. Sometimes we had to move around 90 degrees to attack the other sides. Until we got to Moby Stump.
We knew we had met our match with the stump of a big old oak tree. My ranch hand had to resort to getting down in the hole with the chainsaw and cutting the roots all around. Then Moby surrendered.
The teeth on the ripper or bucket usually achieved enough bite to haul the stumps out. On some, the hydraulic thumb came in handy to lift the stumps out of the way. A few times, in order to retrieve large, long stumps out of the ground, we looped a logging chain around the stump and hooked it to the bucket. Some of the tap roots were so long, Maxxie could not lift them high enough to clear the hole and we had to drive the tractor out from the hole to pull the stump clear.
Next week, we come back with the Mahindra accessorized with a root grapple and box blade to gather and pile the stumps onto a burn pile and grade the holes.
Herkypilot
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Common issue with bending parts of the top link. They’ve changed the design a little since I bought mine in 2013, but it still bends parts. The fix is to convert it to attach by a subframe. I have the old Chinese hydraulic valve they used to sell with the unit which makes movement very erratic with the boom up/down and left/right movement. The controls are like on/off switches vs graduated movement effecting speed.
