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Post by gus » Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:06 pm

My old excavator was getting tired and doing the nickle dime thing so I figured it was time to move on.

My new crawler (well, it has tracks...) is a small Kubota 4000 lb class. I picked it up used (barely) for a good price. It was 9 years old and had 253 hours on it. First time I used it fairly long and hard, it smelled new!! I don't think it had ever been pushed.

After running a 25 year old machine, this is pure pleasure!! And it starts every time too..... :lol: :lol:

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Post by gus » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:43 pm

A couple photos of the little pup. Not very big, but strong hydraulics and a lot of power.

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Post by Stan Disbrow » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:14 pm

Hi,

Aw. It's cute! Did you tell your wife it followed you home? Did she let you keep it if you feed it? :P

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Post by scampr » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:36 pm

rats i forget the it followed me home line the other day when my wife caught me with my new 1967 chevy one ton dump... busted again
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Post by gus » Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:08 am

My wife was so happy that I had something that didn't require working on daily that she allowed it on the place without complaint!!

I converted the mechanical thumb to hyraulic right away. That little pup picked up a 600-800 lb rock like it was a baseball!! Didn't even cause the engine to rev. Grabbed a 20' tree (dry) and tossed it over the hill. I'm going to like this one!! :D :D

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Post by Stan Disbrow » Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:54 pm

Hi,

Keep the other one running so you can unstick this one..... :P

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Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)

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Post by gus » Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:37 pm

Stan Disbrow wrote:Hi,

Keep the other one running so you can unstick this one..... :P

Stan
To late, sold the other one. But I do have a good running 420!!

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Post by Stan Disbrow » Sat Sep 27, 2014 5:08 pm

Hi,

Just so long as you have another track to unstick the stuck one. Preferably one a little heavier. A 420c would be just the ticket! :)

And, the thing about trackhoes, is they seem to like to get stuck!

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Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)

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Post by oldtanker » Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:39 am

Nice looking unit!

Now let me see if I got this right. You have a 420 to unstick the hoe when, not if you get stuck? What do you have for getting the 420 unstuck when you stick it getting the hoe unstuck? :shock:

Rick

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Post by Stan Disbrow » Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:48 am

Hi,

One uses a 350 to unstick a 420. And a 450 to unstick the 350. What one uses to unstick the end of the progression, I don't know! :P

Growing up, we actually had customers who carted one larger machine to a work site specifically to unstick the smaller ones actually doing the work....

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Useta Have: '78 JD350C w/6310 outside blade
Useta Have: '68 JD350, '51 Terratrac GT-25
Have: 1950 M, 2005 x495, 2008 5103 (now known as 5045D)

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Post by gus » Sun Sep 28, 2014 11:15 am

oldtanker wrote:Nice looking unit!

Now let me see if I got this right. You have a 420 to unstick the hoe when, not if you get stuck? What do you have for getting the 420 unstuck when you stick it getting the hoe unstuck? :shock:

Rick
well, I still have my old 7U D4, but it's also going to be for sale soon. Actually, in 12 years of running my old excavator, I never even came close to sticking it. I'm on a hillside and don't have boggy ground, but my buddy wants me do do a little digging for him and he does.... :roll: :roll:

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Post by CuttingEdge » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:08 pm

Stan Disbrow wrote:Hi,

One uses a 350 to unstick a 420. And a 450 to unstick the 350. What one uses to unstick the end of the progression, I don't know! :P

Growing up, we actually had customers who carted one larger machine to a work site specifically to unstick the smaller ones actually doing the work....

Stan
A Tree Farmer Skidder perhaps?

Not the worst stuck I have ever been in with a bulldozer, but it was one I had a photo of online and easy to post. I got stuck after we got 4" of rain while clearing a 12 acre patch of forest into a field. (Yes we got the feller-buncher stuck as well while cutting off the wood).

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Post by CuttingEdge » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:11 pm

Sorry for the HUGE photo, that was not my intent.

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Post by CuttingEdge » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:14 pm

Nice Digger by the way. I don't have one, nor do I have a specific use for one, but I suppose if I had one (of any size) I would use it for far more then I imagined I ever would.

My dream right now is to get a JD 850 or bigger in the next few years so I can clear more land. Until then the JD 350 D will have do the smaller farm stuff and rent the big dozer as needed. :-(

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Post by oldtanker » Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:43 am

CuttingEdge wrote:Nice Digger by the way. I don't have one, nor do I have a specific use for one, but I suppose if I had one (of any size) I would use it for far more then I imagined I ever would.

My dream right now is to get a JD 850 or bigger in the next few years so I can clear more land. Until then the JD 350 D will have do the smaller farm stuff and rent the big dozer as needed. :-(
That's what I thought when I ran into a very good deal on an old JCB loader backhoe. Now my wife says the only way I can get rid of it is if it's replaced with a newer/bigger one. She claims that its the handiest piece of equipment on the farm. I sometimes feed hay with it, clean up manure packs and do other digging chores around the place. Pretty big difference between her thoughts now and her reaction when I first got it.

Rick

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