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We've had lots of "electrician tractors" and they have a manbasket on the front.

Sometimes the basket simply has fork pockets, and sometimes the basket clips in place of the forks.

Always a pain in the ass with the second type, since we'd always be far away from wherever the forks got dumped and we'd need the forks.

One of the manufacturers that built us a tractor that used the forks to hold the basket was going to make some kind of hydraulic thumb to securely grab/latch the basket on the forks, but it ended up being a purely mechanical latch. The hydraulic thumb thing would have been nice as it would take out all the slop of the lopsided basket on the forks.
 
Really he needs to post a SN so I can be sure which machine he's looking at, I'm guessing FJBXXXX
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speed bump gonna try and pick up a new to me feed loader. How bad are a 15-20,000 hour 988H? Not sure if I could afford to got with a lower hour k series.
 
What I really should be looking for is a mini telehandler. That would come in handy for lifting screens and what not up to the screen boxes.
I've kept up a casual search for one of them if it pops up cheap. They are really limited in capacity. I think 5k at retract, and 2k at 10'. Still cool though.

One of my I'll get to it someday projects is build an electric one on rubber tracks with an extendable counterweight/battery.
 
I bought some actual line lock parking brake kits I’m gonna install in the trucks. They are made by mico

Curious to hear how they work, I also have a ford with fuckall for parking brakes, and I'd like to have them. I thought someone else tried line locks and found they bled down with time, or maybe that was an effect of the Chinese mfg.
 
Curious to hear how they work, I also have a ford with fuckall for parking brakes, and I'd like to have them. I thought someone else tried line locks and found they bled down with time, or maybe that was an effect of the Chinese mfg.
yeah, and apparently the fix is to cobble on an electric park brake unit off something newish (doesn't bleed down...).

hydrodynamic has a thread about it I think
 
What I really should be looking for is a mini telehandler. That would come in handy for lifting screens and what not up to the screen boxes.
We are looking at these to replace the Lull in high traffic/tight areas in the city. The tracked ones look neat but can't see them holding up long term well... I do love our tracked man lifts though...
 
Curious to hear how they work, I also have a ford with fuckall for parking brakes, and I'd like to have them. I thought someone else tried line locks and found they bled down with time, or maybe that was an effect of the Chinese mfg.
Yeah I put a line lock in and it just burns out because of the continuous duty. This is a lever lock. Lock the lever stomp the brakes and it’s set. It can sound a horn if the pressure bleeds off.

 
speed bump gonna try and pick up a new to me feed loader. How bad are a 15-20,000 hour 988H? Not sure if I could afford to got with a lower hour k series.

Ours has been mostly solid we bought it rebuilt in 2018 with I think 15k hours. Biggest gotcha is in 5 years we did 2 transmissions so I would lean towards one with a fresh transmission and keep it in the back of your mind that you will do another one in 12-15k hours but that might of just been our luck.
 
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Yeah, for those of us that don’t know a thing about this stuff, the truck gives it some scale :smokin:
Funny thing about cat is for some reason their newer excavators seem really small when you look at them. A Hitachi or a komatsu you say I could see that being a 49 mTon machine. Cat it's that so cute, until you're standing next to it.
 
What I really should be looking for is a mini telehandler. That would come in handy for lifting screens and what not up to the screen boxes.

I think that would be way more useful than the Toolcat. You can always get one with or buy and adapter to make it ssqa. Something like my little clapped out JCB 520 or a Genie 5519 would be perfect for what you're describing.
 
The tool cat is a nice machine and it’s definitely more than a glorified golf cart. It’s also 90k
 
The tool cat is a nice machine and it’s definitely more than a glorified golf cart. It’s also 90k
Local garden center has 3 of those.
Every time they go to get gravel or mulch...stalls when pushing into pile.
They hate em.
 
What I really should be looking for is a mini telehandler. That would come in handy for lifting screens and what not up to the screen boxes.
That is what I was thinking when you posted your needs. A toolcat won’t carry 200 gallons of fuel. Plus you can buy a half busted one from the same guy Bgaidan and Scooter can drive it to you in Wisconsin. Then start a thread of the rebuild for our entertainment. I know you got extra time. :flipoff2:
 
speed bump gonna try and pick up a new to me feed loader. How bad are a 15-20,000 hour 988H? Not sure if I could afford to got with a lower hour k series.
Stanard or long boom, whats hopper height requirement standard boom will just barely load a 771, euch r40 on the 3rd pass. Long boom will load a 773 cat 4 pass.
 
Funny thing about cat is for some reason their newer excavators seem really small when you look at them. A Hitachi or a komatsu you say I could see that being a 49 mTon machine. Cat it's that so cute, until you're standing next to it.
Are you saying it’s even bigger than it looks in the picture?
 
Funny thing about cat is for some reason their newer excavators seem really small when you look at them. A Hitachi or a komatsu you say I could see that being a 49 mTon machine. Cat it's that so cute, until you're standing next to it.
He's not wrong, I think the lines are so sculpted instead of "heavy equipment" they are sleeker, faster or something.
 
It's a old number 345, 3rd from the largest conv excavator, still a big hoe.

390 is a really big hoe.
 
That's just a bobcat thing, they aren't into anti stall hydrostats for some reason.
My baby cat loader has a lever to manually control the max of the hydrostat so it won’t bog the engine when getting a bucket. Pretty slick until you get a retard in there and they accidentally bump the lever all the way and then it won’t move.
 
Stanard or long boom, whats hopper height requirement standard boom will just barely load a 771, euch r40 on the 3rd pass. Long boom will load a 773 cat 4 pass.
Hopper height is 14’. We usually build a ramp so the 980 sized loaders can feed. My 115 only needs about a foot of ramp to comfortably dump into it.

Unsure what this one has on it for a boom. Will go look at it next week. A komatsu 600-6 showed up on my radar with the same hour and half the price I will go and look at also,
 
My baby cat loader has a lever to manually control the max of the hydrostat so it won’t bog the engine when getting a bucket. Pretty slick until you get a retard in there and they accidentally bump the lever all the way and then it won’t move.
Rimpull, gonna want to nail that on the 988.
Might be the source of speed bumps trans issues.
 
Ours has been mostly solid we bought it rebuilt in 2018 with I think 15k hours. Biggest gotcha is in 5 years we did 2 transmissions so I would lean towards one with a fresh transmission and keep it in the back of your mind that you will do another one in 12-15k hours but that might of just been our luck.
The one i ran made it to 16k before needing trans done, it ran 10 hours with the nose of the starter grinding its way around when it broke of.
 
Hopper height is 14’. We usually build a ramp so the 980 sized loaders can feed. My 115 only needs about a foot of ramp to comfortably dump into it.

Unsure what this one has on it for a boom. Will go look at it next week. A komatsu 600-6 showed up on my radar with the same hour and half the price I will go and look at also,
Understand the saving some money, but i think the 988h has less issues than the 600s. Well thats with the company I work for has seen.
 
Wow I missed some updates on this thread.

This mine has started renting all of our surface equipment instead of buying. I believe we have a dealer tech on site every day for support and if it's down for x time they have to drop off a replacement. They got sick of emissions issues costing them money and this was their work around. I think part of the decision was also based on finding people competent enough to troubleshoot the emissions stuff. There's also some sort of accounting advantage as well.

How's the pump working out? I put my packing in dry, a pump engineer told me using patrolium products on the packing fills up all the tiny little cooling passages. He suggested something like dish soap or smooth gojo. They also make a packing install lube, I've never used it. Lubricant for Use With Compression Packing | Garlock

Most of our slurry pumps including our ball mill discharge pump (anything from fine particles to 1/4 that doesn't pass through the ball mill trommel goes through it) have steel impellers. I'll have to do some digging on our life span on them, I know we aren't in them very often. We run some rubber lined impellers though not many.

Our warehouse has a mini telehandler. I love borrowing it, it's handy till you try to do dumb things. You could always throw a hitch on the back and make some sort of work bench/ tool trailer.
 
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