Canuck Digger
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2012
- Messages
- 264
- Location
- Mission, BC, Canada
- Occupation
- Business Owner, Equipment Operator, Fishing Guide
Howdy everyone,
Trying to figure something out and hoping some of you might be able to help. Running a flail mower on my 6 ton hitachi. Pressure wise the 2 are compatible, the valves end of things has been professionally installed and I've run numerous other attachments on this set up. I've run the mower for probably 10 days so far this year on other jobs with no issues.
Today my guy calls and says one of the hydraulic fittings that transitions from the female coupler into the machine valve (thumb or tool circuit) broke inside. Weird but had him go get a new fitting and off to the races. Ran the machine for about 20 minutes. Throttled down to talk to someone, and upon returning to reg. RPM/s to run the tool, it blew the hydraulic fittings right off. I've never had this happen. Assuming there is too much pressure. Can this be caused by heat? (outside) Again I've run numerous attachments on this machine incl. the same mower and never happened to me. Thoughts.
Trying to figure something out and hoping some of you might be able to help. Running a flail mower on my 6 ton hitachi. Pressure wise the 2 are compatible, the valves end of things has been professionally installed and I've run numerous other attachments on this set up. I've run the mower for probably 10 days so far this year on other jobs with no issues.
Today my guy calls and says one of the hydraulic fittings that transitions from the female coupler into the machine valve (thumb or tool circuit) broke inside. Weird but had him go get a new fitting and off to the races. Ran the machine for about 20 minutes. Throttled down to talk to someone, and upon returning to reg. RPM/s to run the tool, it blew the hydraulic fittings right off. I've never had this happen. Assuming there is too much pressure. Can this be caused by heat? (outside) Again I've run numerous attachments on this machine incl. the same mower and never happened to me. Thoughts.