On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:30:13 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, April 11, 2014 1:35:34 AM UTC-4, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:12:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:20:43 PM UTC-4, Carla Fong wrote:
On 4/9/2014 8:53 AM, wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:02:41 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
snip backhoe stories
find 'em upstream
My backhoe's a tired old man... leaking fluids from here and there.
It needs more TLC than I have time to spare. But I do enjoy keeping it running.

(Well most of the time, a neighbor borrowed it and somehow broke the rear axle.. but that's a whole 'nother story.) I figure in ~20 years it will be someone else's problem :^)

I hope he paid for the repairs.

Pay? He didn't even help me fix it.

I HATE people like that, and I seldom lend anything as a result. My
few loaner tools are HF non-power stuff, and I get a deposit before
they leave. g Most leeches can't -handle- that, so it stops them
dead in their slimy tracks. vbg


My brother helped me drag it back to my barn. (with my TO-20 Ferguson) I found a used axle in PA and drove down to pick it up. Then another neighbor helped me put it back together. Grumble....

sigh _Good_ neighbors are like gold in the bank.


The only good news is that the "useless" neighbor moved. Good riddance.

Very good.

--
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy
of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows;
in no way can the success of evil be made quicker or surer.
--Theodore Roosevelt

On Friday, April 11, 2014 3:14:32 PM UTC-4, Clare wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:30:13 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



On Friday, April 11, 2014 1:35:34 AM UTC-4, Larry Jaques wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:12:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:20:43 PM UTC-4, Carla Fong wrote:

On 4/9/2014 8:53 AM, wrote:



On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:02:41 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

snip backhoe stories

find 'em upstream

My backhoe's a tired old man... leaking fluids from here and there.

It needs more TLC than I have time to spare. But I do enjoy keeping it running.



(Well most of the time, a neighbor borrowed it and somehow broke the rear axle.. but that's a whole 'nother story.) I figure in ~20 years it will be someone else's problem :^)



I hope he paid for the repairs.



Pay? He didn't even help me fix it. My brother helped me drag it back to my barn. (with my TO-20 Ferguson) I found a used axle in PA and drove down to pick it up. Then another neighbor helped me put it back together. Grumble....

The only good news is that the "useless" neighbor moved. Good riddance.



George H.

Did he move or just dissappear?? A backhoe has a way of making things
like that happen!!!

Chuckle... No They (neighbor and wife) were getting a divorce and moving.
(which was why he needed to borrow backhoe.. to fix the septic system.)

George H.



I once heard the suggestion that there should be a "excavation" theme park for guys. (well gals too.) There would be a big field with piles of dirt, big rocks, old cars etc.. and several bulldozers, backhoes, excavators etc. that you would pay to drive around and "do things". The owner of the park might even pull a "tom sawyer" and have the guys pay to do some real work.







I'll bet it would go over much, much larger than Dizzyland ever did.



Count me in!







--



No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy



of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows;



in no way can the success of evil be made quicker or surer.



--Theodore Roosevelt

On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:34:52 -0700, SteveB wrote:

I have a Montana 4344 tractor. Some really crappy welding cut loose,so
I had to fix it. Now, I have the bars that lift the back box fully
pulled up, and can find no way in hell to get them back down. We've
tried every possibility, but can't get them to operate and drop. I have
an ad in for a mechanic in the local paper. Any ideas?

Steve

Both the Mitsubishi tractors I've owned had a lever in front of the
seat to lock the lift. In the locked position, you could tap into the
hydraulic circuit and use the up/down lever to control a single acting
cylinder.