I have welded a 4 inch stub on my mud bucket then i have a pole that fits over the stub and bolts on and thats what my receiver goes on that way your boom and stick can be in any position and still be accurate. Its doesnt effort loading trucks at all. Great video and good work mate from Australia
It does make things a bit more challenging but you want to try and be roughly level in general when digging. But the short answer is no it shouldn’t. The height is based on the boom being plum so that height doesn’t really change even if the machine does a bit
Well yes and no. A box blade is the best tool for the job, its entire purpose is to spread and level dirt. It would be like using a wrench to drive a nail in a 2x4. Yes the wrench will drive a nail but a hammer would do the job a bit better.
Eh I more relate it to a nail gun to a hammer. Nothing like beating a 16 penny in with a hammer but easier on the body to use a nail gun an smaller nails. So much easier on the body running a skid steer and can get the job done just as good if not better, especially with some experience. Constantly looking over your shoulder using the box blade is hell on your back over the years. But there’s nothing like backing that thing up and putting a perfect grade down first pass. You constantly tinker with a skid steer
This particular job was done in a day and a half. All the grading and bring in the sod was first day. Second day we just laid the sod. Probably only a few hours in the morning to wrap it up 🤙
No the driveways were in with gravel. Then one day a paving company comes in and paves like 50 or more per day so they can do a huge subdivision like this in 2-3 days. But us digging these trenches was sort of unprecedented. It’s a new thing they incorporated on those houses in that subdivision. It’s not normal.
Haha not ignorant man, I thought the same thing! This was designed by an engineer and the town. I had to follow their requirements for culvert length. Wasn’t up to me lol.
@@gabrielpearson Yeah Exactly! If it’s an approved design and what the customer wants, as long as it doesn’t negatively affect us or anything else negatively, I have no problem doing it 👍🏻
Looks nice! I like how you flipped the dirt out of the bucket. I’ll have to try that. Does this type of work require you to have any kind of license or anything?
Thanks! Appreciate that. Yeah flicking the dirt or other material like that is a technique that can be helpful to spread material out or sometimes if you can’t raise the bucket to Dump for various reasons. And yes for this job we needed to have a permit for the culvert and also one to have a lane closed on the road when trucks were dumping because it was a very busy road
On some of the grease seals there is a spring in it to keep it tight on the shaft. If it is one that has a spring in it you need to pack it with grease before pounding it in. This will keep the spring in place when the force or shock from the hammer hits it to drive it in. Good job.
@@jsbackhoeop8180 now never will be 😔 all new machines are nice and great etc. but with all emissions and tech on them makes repairs and some operating a pain
As you can see you don't want the OE color at this point, you want a sun faded version of the OE color. Paying crazy amounts for a perfect color match is questionable at that point.
Yeah exactly! It would be very tough to custom match the exact same new paint. Even the gallon I ended up making, I just used a little from the spray paint on a scrap piece of metal so they could colour match it pretty close. Should have just done the gallon from the beginning lol
Fantastic video, thanks! If you need raw pushing power on a standard excavator, you should check out the Kobelco ED160 blade runner. Very impressive bit of kit, it has the 140 superstructure, and a really muscular undercarriage.
Thank you! I appreciate it! Yes that was one thing I realized when purchasing the Kobelco, they really go for strong drives on the tracks to have that extra pushing power
$175,000 CAD for Bobcat T87 ! It lifts slightly higher and can lift slightly more but wow expensive! I can't justify upgrading to another Bobcat at those prices!
Holy!!!! That is insane! I’ve always heard Bobcat was very overpriced. Recently I’ve heard a lot of complaints with them in terms of service and performance too. Not sure never owned one but every time I did operate one I wasn’t a fan of it
@dirty.diggers I really like my 2015 bobcat S850, ergonomics are great. I guess everyone gets used to their own machine. I've rented a few other machines and certain things are better or worse
@dirty.diggers I've tried a few larger newer kubotas yeah, overhead door is great, on bobcat I can NOT open the door if I have the work platform on my forks still! So lame. I do not like the DEF on my machine but I do prefer it to Kubotas regen system. Kubota has super smooth hydraulics too
Did you shoot points on it to be sure the water is flowing correctly? It honestly looks like that back area where all the sod is will pool in the center in many areas and/or flow towards the houses.
No we don’t typically shoot unless it’s close. We do thousands of homes a year and have a pretty good eye for getting the grades right, as well as bench marks like the heights at the house and grade stakes at the rear. This grade is designed to be lowest in the middle of the yard, and then slope to the side yards and out to the street from there. Very rarely the drainage doesn’t work, and that’s usually due to some type of problem with the building where we can’t achieve enough slope.
I sold mine after 100 hours. The machines are built too short for the tracks lacking power like all of them right now the machine will pop a wheelie on steep grade. Easy to maintenance definitely but to light in the front because of that. If you know you know would not buy another Kubota they've had so many issues. Do not like how the cab is set up. A cup holder is behind your right shoulder. If you miss a button on the code by accident, you have to start all over the window. Hit you in the back coming when you're coming out. There's no way to close the window from outside the cab
I agree with you on some of that for sure. The cupholder placement I did end up making a story about. Don’t think I noticed that during this video. The door can be a bit annoying to close on the way out for sure, but I wouldn’t trade that minor inconvenience for the overall design of the door going overhead. As for the balance, I only got about 50-60 hours on it right now. But I never found that an issue with the other svl 75-2 machines we had. Have you used the older model Kubota?
Hi, thanks for your great video... It helped me saving time... small question... can you tell me how to bleed Hydraulic line... I think air is traps in the lines.... thanks
Thanks appreciate it! Not sure if you already figured that out but usually to bleed a line you have to slightly open it on an end by slowly loosening a connected fitting. And trace back from there if it still seems to have air. Is pretty strange though I haven’t seen that really before. What makes you think there’s air in the line?
You'll love it im sure, one your whirly you can't go back! But those engcon digging buckets are useless imho, get a gryb or something that's more like a normal style but built for the tilt rotator.
Yeah the dig bucket was an issue immediately! They did some testing but with the tilt head on and then the bucket the way it’s designed you end up having to much length from the teeth to the pivot point on top of the tilt head. It has no breakout force. Otherwise with the ditching bucket it works amazing! Really loving it so far
You guys just F. Up that boom All that heat he put on there to cut that Existing rack of pin placement holes that you could have used. Your boom will start cracking in the near future future
Appreciate your feedback and that was a bit of concern but it’s been fine. This was done 4 years ago now and we haven’t had any issues. It’s pretty common from my knowledge to add a thumb this way
@@Braaaps in our area it varies so drastically from one county to the next. You can be digging clay like this, sand, or rock. Sometimes just going over 20-30 min drive one way lol
@@chefjerk8398 This particular video I was helping a friend so not a typical situation. However normally such a small job you’d need to factor in float costs and a minimum rate usually about 4 -5 hours. Its very expensive to move heavy equipment around even if the job will only take you an “hour” to do
