Well... my son and I finally sprang for the L3560-LE (HST) with the 805 loader. It has a nice combination of features and heft and price. He got a good-sized grapple and logging winch for his woods-work, I got the BH92 for trenches. It was a struggle getting all the bits together from our regional (upstate NY) dealer even though they were trading around 3 franchises. It took about a month to get a configured unit. But it is mostly here now (waiting on a smaller bucket and one more set of wheel weights.)
It has been in the woods for over a week but is now on my place (10 miles away) and I have been experimenting with the backhoe. My son and I are both complete newbies with tractors. I have rented small, medium and larger tracked excavators over the years for some trench and drainage work but am still safely labelled a "newbie".
I noticed yesterday a possible issue with the backhoe hydraulics. Hoping for some thoughts.
When I am curling the bucket in I can't get the boom-lifter to engage until I stop the bucket curl. If I start easy with the boom-lift and use the separate joystick to engage a bucket-curl-in the bucket seems to grab all the hydraulics and the boom-life just stops. If I hold the boom-lift joystick and then halt the curl-in operation the lifter jumps on and jolts things pretty significantly. Since the curl and crowd operations dynamically change the digging depth the option of boom-lifting seems crucial - no?
This happened while running at about 2000 rpm and also when I bumped up to 2500 for some more oomph: I cannot combine the two separate hydraulic actions: boom-life + bucket-curl-in.
I found a thread here yesterday (now can't find it) with a similar concern about running both hydraulic lines at once on the BH92. The person posting eventually had a dealer involved and they found weak hydraulic pressure in one side and had to do some repair-replacement. I will call my dealer about this since the machine is very new - 15 hours on it and maybe 3 hours on the backhoe. But I thought it better to ask here first and get some sense of whether this is normal or a likely problem I can ask for warranty service with confidence.
thanks
Daryl
It has been in the woods for over a week but is now on my place (10 miles away) and I have been experimenting with the backhoe. My son and I are both complete newbies with tractors. I have rented small, medium and larger tracked excavators over the years for some trench and drainage work but am still safely labelled a "newbie".
I noticed yesterday a possible issue with the backhoe hydraulics. Hoping for some thoughts.
When I am curling the bucket in I can't get the boom-lifter to engage until I stop the bucket curl. If I start easy with the boom-lift and use the separate joystick to engage a bucket-curl-in the bucket seems to grab all the hydraulics and the boom-life just stops. If I hold the boom-lift joystick and then halt the curl-in operation the lifter jumps on and jolts things pretty significantly. Since the curl and crowd operations dynamically change the digging depth the option of boom-lifting seems crucial - no?
This happened while running at about 2000 rpm and also when I bumped up to 2500 for some more oomph: I cannot combine the two separate hydraulic actions: boom-life + bucket-curl-in.
I found a thread here yesterday (now can't find it) with a similar concern about running both hydraulic lines at once on the BH92. The person posting eventually had a dealer involved and they found weak hydraulic pressure in one side and had to do some repair-replacement. I will call my dealer about this since the machine is very new - 15 hours on it and maybe 3 hours on the backhoe. But I thought it better to ask here first and get some sense of whether this is normal or a likely problem I can ask for warranty service with confidence.
thanks
Daryl