I too would like to see what a new Kubota would do from my experience the older machines tend to be slower but stronger and the newer ones tend to be faster but weaker in the hydraulics, so I sure would like to see a new Kubota working to compare that what I saw in this video I say the Kubota would be my choice
I’d take an 080 over a 290 any day of the week. I did not like the 290. Very unbalanced. Lift capacity was very weak. And the boom was significant narrower on the 290. Big pass on the 290. 080 for a win. Say all that to say ill would take a mecalac over any other excavator
@VBELTandSON in n.h my dealer sold both and Hyundai they said Hyundai Takeuchi then Kubota. I always liked the cab on my Kubota the best but I had a mower and a feller buncher on it. And at 4500 hrs the swing break let go. And I did the top idelers twice. They said for continues aux flow Takeuchi had an aux kooler available and the tracks are interchangeable
I have a question about the swing I have the similar machine a 2011 model and I was working with it today as I was swinging to list it kind of lost a little bit of power and didn’t swing well. I just happen to you.
With are using a bobcat e85 and so far is doing everything we've need to do picking up Boulders and gigant stone block that weight between 2500 lbs to 3500 lbs.
I have an old bobcat 331 that is half the size of those machines with more hours, and she shows her age. But i did go thru it and turn up the reliefs(using a gage) to get back to the spec pressures to compensate for the years of wear. This can get your lift capacitys back but still won't help much with flows(slow operation). It buys a little more useful life. But if i recall from a past video the 080 has a newer hydraulic pump?? or maybe just a newer stage, so i wouldn't expect it to be too far off on pressures.
Rusty need to lay out a length of timber and practice getting from one side to the other, without touching the timber. Good examples of how to do this can be seen on any video showing an excavator operator conducting pipe laying activities. Also a good skill if you break a track and need to position the excavator back on top of the track chain. I was watching the digger come off the trailer. Tip: whenever the machine is on an incline (especially when the attachment is perpendicular to track frame.) or is about to pitch over a crest, lower the boom. Better yet, place the arm on the ground an walk past the pivot point then lower yourself down. Pitching over a pivot point like that with you boom up high places the GOG closer to the edge of the machines footprint. Coupled with the forward motion of the boom in a raised position creates a relatively 'top heavy' COM, which acts as leverage that can momentarily shift the COG outside the footprint as it pitches forward. This monetary breach is all that is required to unbalance the machine and results in it raising the rear to pitch forwards further and the problem can then compound. Remember... Boom/bucket close to the ground when tramming/operating on inclines and slewing around. (Bucket in reasonably close but not so close that the arm will bypass if it is used to catch the machine) And at any time, if things go wrong, your instinctive response MUST IMMEDIATELY BE, GET THE BUCKET ON THE GROUND. ASAP *Preferably facing directly 'downhill' but as close as you are able to manage.
