SidecarFlip, maybe you don't know it all! Here's a quote from ConstructionEqip.
"The machine is most stable for backhoe work when it is set up in what can be called the tripod position. Stabilizers are spread for the widest platform possible ***8212; not necessarily fully extended, but down far enough to raise the rear tires. The machine should be leveled for normal digging, but stabilizers can also tilt the machine to dig around obstacles in the excavation, or to slope the walls.
Each stabilizer is one leg of the tripod, and the loader bucket is the third. The loader should be in solid contact with the ground. If the front tires are carrying even part of the machine's weight, it will bounce slightly as the backhoe works. That bouncing will be transmitted into the operator and amplified through the controls.
https://www.constructionequipment.c...om/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=308584ls
Here's another ole farmer telling you how he does it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDS-nM4Mh64
Never said I did. I do read owners manuals and do's and don't's with equipment. Been my experience with the Case that putting the stabilizer legs down but not lifting the tractor and placing the FEL bucket flat on the ground with slight down pressure, provides the most stable platform for digging. With the Extenda-Hoe, the bucket reach is twice what a fixed unit can do, consequently, the action of the lever (bucket arm and dipper stick) is much greater. Just machined a new set of bronze swing and stick bushings for the Case. Things wear out eventually, grease or not. A a rule, I don't attempt to use the hoe except for digging dirt. Trying to move immovable objects (tree stumps, large boulders, etc) puts a lot of strain on components.
You can exceed the design ls once in a while and get away with it but to continuously exceed the design limits is to invite component failure. The guy in the video was exceeding the design parameters of his residential hoe in a continuous manner and... it failed.
People buy residential rated equipment like a backhoe and expect that backhoe to accomplish tasks it wasn't made for and it fails.
Why I run the equipment I do. I know what the parameters are for my operation and I size the equipment accordingly.
Last year I seriously considered trading in the Case and buying a large hoe for the back end of one of the Kubotas but I decided against it. For one, with a subframe mount hoe, the subframe would interfere with the implements I use in my hay operation and two, a 3 point mount hoe is just another PITA piece of equipment to mount and take up room in the barn so I keep the Case.
One thing I find interesting is that most scenario's are spelled out in owners manuals as well as correct operating procedures but people don't bother to read the manual. Manuals today are items that only get referenced when something fails. There are always instances when a second opinion (like here) is helpful, I agree with that but basic operation is always spelled out in the manual(s) that come with a piece of equipment.
Each and every implement (and tractors) I own, each have their manuals and pertinent literature with the equipment at all times. What weatherproof manual carriers are made for.
In retrospect, I did have an issue with the flow control valve on the M9 but North Idaho Wolfman steered me in the correct direction and it wasn't the valve at all but the linkage that needed lubrication, couple shots of P Blaster on the joints and all is good again and I'll keep that in mind in the future if it gets stiff again.
I realize Kubota sells a boatload of compact tractors as does Kioti, Mahindra, LS, New Holland and Deere and others, but, people need to remember it's a compact tractor for 'compact' uses, not a commercially rated machine and when you exceed the design parameters, things break.
How I roll because with me, it's a fr profit business. Not a hobby.