Finally sealed the deal!

[21willys]

It has took me a couple months to get it done due to someone screwing up my credit but it and a big ol payment are all mine! Lol

 

[Yankee Transplant]

Hey thats nice .. I havnt run a Hitachi Yet ,,,I ran a kamatsu for years off and on ,, they got us spoiled now we got a brand new JD... but we still have another long-reach Kamatsu ..I think it has a bigger bucket than suposed to be on it , it tips over with you when stretch it out , and load it good . But it makes your day exciting and the seat gets chewed up sometimes

 

[smallfoot]

Looks like it's big enough to move a bad neighbor when he goes to the store for smokes...[cl

 

[Dirtyrat]

That thing looks like a beast!
What are your plans for it?

 

[21willys]

Hey thats nice .. I havnt run a Hitachi Yet ,,,I ran a kamatsu for years off and on ,, they got us spoiled now we got a brand new JD... but we still have another long-reach Kamatsu ..I think it has a bigger bucket than suposed to be on it , it tips over with you when stretch it out , and load it good . But it makes your day exciting and the seat gets chewed up sometimes

It operates the exact same as a komatsu.

 

[21willys]

Looks like it's big enough to move a bad neighbor when he goes to the store for smokes...[cl

Yea, it's on the heavy size at 62,000 lbs.

 

[21willys]

That thing looks like a beast!
What are your plans for it?

I have a excavation/demolition business. The motor in my old excavator managed to some how lock up over this winter. It ran fine when shut off and now it's locked up TIGHT! Instead of sinking money into a old machine right now I replaced it. I will eventually rebuild the motor in the old one.

 

[Tripper]

Now that's a serious piece of equipt... congrats! [cl[cl[cl

BoB

 

[sneakysnake]

My pond needs cleaning out, when can I expect you?LOL

 

[robert akers]

congrats

i admire you you did wellrobert

 

[blacksheep]

Hitachi made just about all excavators in the early 90's until around 99. That is one good machine. When I had my sand and gravel pit I looked into using long stick excavators instead of my 30B Bucyres drag line. I could dig about 2000 tons of sand a day with it . Plus go about 25' deeper. Now days young folks don't even know what one is. Hahaha. Good buy on the excavator.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Cool!! Needs a thumb for demo. Oh, and a shear!!

 

[Bamamav]

I could tear up some chit with that big boy!

I've never ran a track hoe, but have ran a knuckle boom and a back hoe. Knuckle boom is basically the same machine, only it has a grapple instead of a bucket.

 

[Yankee Transplant]

Bama if you run a back hoe its the same thing

 

[21willys]

I grew up around drag lines. That's all there was when my grandfather started our family excavation business. He had three Insleys. As those became out dated he replaced them with a Massey Furgeson 450s hydro hoe, and two bantam hydro hoes. The MF 450s was the first hydraulic excavator in our county. I still own it and want to restore it eventually. One of the bantams is still owned by a family friend and is still used on his property. The other bantam I scrapped about 8 years ago.

Man this has stirred up some good old memory's!

 

[21willys]

Bama if you run a back hoe its the same thing

No, not the same. And not all excavators operate the same.

 

[21willys]

Cool!! Needs a thumb for demo. Oh, and a shear!!

In time I will get a thumb. Dunno if I will ever be able to afford a shear tho!

 

[21willys]

Finally!

After a few delays I finally took delivery of my machine today. If it wasnt so hot out I would think it was x mas.

 

[Bamamav]

That's a big boy! [cl

All I have ever ran were the old 4 stick models, that one is new enough it probably has joysticks. And Yankee, all the backhoes I ever ran only the boom moved side to side, on a track hoe or knuckleboom, you swivel with the boom.

 

[Yankee Transplant]

yea Bama thats what I meant other than the swivel if you can run the hoe it wouldnt take long you can run the track hoe .. the kamatsu and deere operated the same on our track hoes , but the back hoe, the arm movement was different seemed backwards after being on the case and kamatsu , but it didnt take long to get it figured out .