Homemade Backhoe 4

I have now put about 12 hours on the backhoe and its working fairly well. Could use stronger stabilizers but will make do with 1.5 inch cylinders for now. All cylinders working quickly except the bucket curl seems kind of slow but it otherwise its probably better that things are not fast enough to get myself in trouble or break the machine.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Backhoe
• Homemade Backhoe
• small Backhoe

[selssius]

It is easier to control boom up and down movements with foot pedals... wink wink...

[unimogdave]

@selssius Practice makes the controls become second nature. I had about 15 minutes seat time. I paid $199 for the 6 spool valve unit. I would have been a bit more costly to buy two more valves and all the fittings and hoses.

[slayer236071]

So did you ever mount the pto pump or did you rebuild your tractors guts?

[unimogdave]

@slayer236071 I picked up a pump that puts out 5 gpm at 540 rpm but have been using it with the tractors pump for now. Other projects on the go. Perhaps next summer I will have time to work on that. For now its been working okay for me. Patient person I guess.

[poscoepete]

Ive been researching the same project. I have a satoh 630 4x4 with a loader. My factory pump is iffy too, in fact I just ordered a new one, but ive been shopping those prince PTO pumps, the have A PTO thru type construction that allows a PTO extension so that you can have the pump operating while still using the PTO for other stuff, by the way Great job on the backhoe!

[unimogdave]

The pump on my tractor has not been serviced in 40 years. I think if I took the time to check it out and rebuild it would do fine. If it moves your loader at a reasonable speed, it should be fine for a small backhoe. Mine takes forever just raising the 3PH.

[GatheringSticks]

wow...you sure did a nice job on your backhoe.

[NutsNBolts24]

Nice hoe, in your earlier video you questioned if it would be strong enough to hold up? looks strong in action, how is it holding up so far? any structure problems?

[ShawnCFarm]

Its nice to see that you fixed it over the number 3 video you made. That was way to slow to watch. Nice job.

[dmflyer]

very cool nice job