With Cat it is very handy, especially since much of our work is pretty remote, to be able to call in with the number off the tag on the hose and have one built and set outside so that we can pick it up in the wee hours if necessary. I guess other brands do this as well? Purchasing a Cat o-ring kit has also more than paid for itself in downtime savings.
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What's your hoe doing?
- Thread starter aighead
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NH575E
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I don't miss having to worry about hoses on a backhoe. All of my hose worries now are on loaders and rarely go bad.
Not a fan of Parker hoses since I had some develop cracks all over in just a couple of years. I switched to Gates which were more expensive than the generic brand hoses I was having made but I got away from it before the latest increases. I never had any single hose cost over $200 even in Gates brand.
Not a fan of Parker hoses since I had some develop cracks all over in just a couple of years. I switched to Gates which were more expensive than the generic brand hoses I was having made but I got away from it before the latest increases. I never had any single hose cost over $200 even in Gates brand.
eKretz
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Gonna have to change my hoe's rear tires at some point before too long, they're getting awfully cracked. Picked up a new helper for when the time comes. Facebook Market sure comes in handy now and again.
HATCHEQUIP
Senior Member
She dont need new shoes the old sayin was barefoot and pregnant
HarleyHappy
Senior Member
Nice find!
I always keep an eye out for stuff like that.
Yesterday, couldn’t pass up the Vevor mag drill, fully kitted out, even with the drill chuck, for 239 bucks shipped.
Already have a few jobs for it.
I always keep an eye out for stuff like that.
Yesterday, couldn’t pass up the Vevor mag drill, fully kitted out, even with the drill chuck, for 239 bucks shipped.
Already have a few jobs for it.
Sweet! 1990. Still the good stuff too!
DMiller
Senior Member
Just be cautious of the Wind Up!!
eKretz
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It has a built-in ratchet to catch and hold it. You pretty much *have* to be careful of it by design on this one. Apparently Enerpac bought this design from Sweeney (or maybe bought Sweeney itself) and produces the same model with their name on it now. Several other companies including Williams also license it from Enerpac and make the same model. Seems to be a pretty good bit of kit. I only need 800ft/lbs. for the back lugs. That's only 59ft/lbs. on the input side.
Deere500a
Senior Member
Well that takes the fun out of finding a longer cheater or a fatter date honey I said you'll bounce with a pipe not on
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Sweeney makes high end tools. Worked at a shop that used a Sweeney hydraulic torque wrench to tighten flange bolts to 5000 ft./lbs.
eKretz
Well-Known Member
Y'all ever see one of these FLIR cams? Fun little buggers.
aighead
Senior Member
My hoe kicked *** today! Woo! It's exciting to be back out doing stuff. After finally replacing the hose I got out.
We had a good wind storm a few weeks back and my neighbor had a pine tree blow over. She asked me if I knew how to run a chainsaw and if I could cut this 30 foot tall tree up "in 4 or 5 pieces" and she would take care of it from there.
She doesn't get around too well, and I knew 4 or 5 pieces was still going to be a LOT of tree to try to move, so I spent the past week convincing her to let me take the whole thing with the backhoe (she's called it a backhole before, which is funny). She finally stopped fighting it when I told her I'd have to make probably a hundred cuts for them to be the size she can handle (she said "I don't really know anything about trees" and I said "they are really heavy and it'll take you weeks to move it, it'll take me an hour, maybe").
I was going to dig the stump out but upon inspection I did follow her suggestion to just cut the tree from the stump and let the stump fall back into the hole. I'da made a much bigger mess pulling the stump out too. It ended up taking me longer to mix fuel and fill the chainsaw than it did to make the cut and move the tree.
The tree was pretty big and fat and rather than stick it on a precarious fire pile in the yard (where chances are decent that my wife starts it on fire producing 40 foot flames likely to light the woods on fire) I ended up dragging it to the back field and shoving it into the scrub. If you didn't know it was just moved there you wouldn't even notice it. Good stuff.
I effing love the backhoe.
It even swept my driveway and now it looks cool!
I also took care of the stump from the tree in my yard that blew over and another big chunk of wood I cut from it, reaching over the fence strapping them up and lifting them over without incident. And rearranged the fire my wife started to make it a bit more productive.
We had a good wind storm a few weeks back and my neighbor had a pine tree blow over. She asked me if I knew how to run a chainsaw and if I could cut this 30 foot tall tree up "in 4 or 5 pieces" and she would take care of it from there.
She doesn't get around too well, and I knew 4 or 5 pieces was still going to be a LOT of tree to try to move, so I spent the past week convincing her to let me take the whole thing with the backhoe (she's called it a backhole before, which is funny). She finally stopped fighting it when I told her I'd have to make probably a hundred cuts for them to be the size she can handle (she said "I don't really know anything about trees" and I said "they are really heavy and it'll take you weeks to move it, it'll take me an hour, maybe").
I was going to dig the stump out but upon inspection I did follow her suggestion to just cut the tree from the stump and let the stump fall back into the hole. I'da made a much bigger mess pulling the stump out too. It ended up taking me longer to mix fuel and fill the chainsaw than it did to make the cut and move the tree.
The tree was pretty big and fat and rather than stick it on a precarious fire pile in the yard (where chances are decent that my wife starts it on fire producing 40 foot flames likely to light the woods on fire) I ended up dragging it to the back field and shoving it into the scrub. If you didn't know it was just moved there you wouldn't even notice it. Good stuff.
I effing love the backhoe.
It even swept my driveway and now it looks cool!
I also took care of the stump from the tree in my yard that blew over and another big chunk of wood I cut from it, reaching over the fence strapping them up and lifting them over without incident. And rearranged the fire my wife started to make it a bit more productive.
Willie B
Senior Member
In the Otter Creek Valley there are lowland areas where native white pines grow huge. Swamps grow Hemlock, a few get huge. Soil may be shallow over bedrock, or water table may be only a few feet down. Very big connifers aren't so protected from winter wind as deciduous trees. Conifer roots in these areas are very shallow. We get uprooted trees as much a 12 feet diameter uproot, 44" trunk diameter. Cut one off, it makes a perfect grave for a domestic animal. My father kidded that that would be his grave. He was diagnosed with kidney cancer January 2nd, died January 29. I asked if he was ready for that one way trip? He quietly said he wasn't up for the walk.
materthegreater
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DMiller
Senior Member
BILs farm at Gladden MO has Shallow Soil, Severe Karst Structure Limestone. Straightline winds came thru at 50-90mph several years ago, showed how shallow even Oak or Hickory root systems were. Similar serious diameter but less than a few feet down 50-80 year old trees toppled. Fast became a forest of Widow Maker Leaners.
Willie B
Senior Member
Yup. Seen a lot of those. One wind storm I had about 100 white pines ruined. Only a few uprooted, others only the top taken out, lots broke at the stump. I only know of one place 10 miles away the same storm did the same damage to another young pine forest.
Super happy for you aighead!
Soon you will forget the pita hose and just love the hoe!
I have been working on my hoe 2. Soon I will post.
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Big trees make the best driveway sweepers, provided you can turn around at the end for a sweep back down the other way. Flipping around on state highway leaves too much debris in the roadway.
Willie B
Senior Member
Mount Washington Auto Road used to be part paved, part gravel. They researched heavily what product made the most durable surface gravel. It was a mixture of fines & crushed stone up to 1/2". Their maintainer was a frame with a ?dozen? stiff push broom heads screwed to it. They dragged it a number of times a day. I guess after hours. It was always the nicest gravel road.Big trees make the best driveway sweepers, provided you can turn around at the end for a sweep back down the other way. Flipping around on state highway leaves too much debris in the roadway.
aighead
Senior Member
To the point of sweeping gravel, my driveway, at the yard end, has big pieces of gravel 3-4 inch and upon putting the hoe away and walking back to the house I found lots of that big gravel had been dragged, with the tree, into the yard. It cleaned up fine but I was surprised. We went on a dog walk later that day to find a piece of that gravel made it as far as it could during the dragging. About 900 feet!
