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  1. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    Finally got around to assembling the gantry crane. I could not lift the assembled parts with the loader, so I had to use the backhoe as a crane. I also moved an Ash log that was all the loader could handle. It is now 2.5” live edge slabs.
  2. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    There is currently a 1 week wait for a “clean fill” dumpster, so I used the FLU bucket to catch and relocate 4 tons of brick from my 2nd floor. The bucket only fit 31 five gallon buckets, so 8 Flu bucketfuls was 248 five gallon buckets filled and dumped by hand. Even with the added “flotation”...
  3. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    Hardly work, but helping a youngster learning to drive. He wanted to learn how to drive a stick and the Toyota 2ZZ-GE stalls too easy, causing frustration or too many revs and burning the clutch. A newbie can learn a unimog clutch pretty easily. Then I got out the orange cones to practice...
  4. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    As I continue my move and get used to a larger shop, I am finding that big tools can be found cheap if you have a way to move them. I bought a 30ft wide, 3ton Gantry crane for $250 at an auction. I think it went cheap because nobody else wanted to try to move it. Loading the main beam on the...
  5. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    I bought a new house and shop and have been using the FLU to unload things from the trailer. Adding forks to the loader bucket is mediocre at best. The bucket blocks the view and the suspension rocking when releasing the clutch really limits precision. The self leveling feature of the bucket...
  6. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    1/2” hose is 78% more diameter than 3/8”. Quickly checking a flow nomograph, velocity would increase from ~10 to ~17, which is on the upper end for pressure lines and unacceptable for return. Would the tool work? Yeah, probably. But higher flow velocity is more heat, more pressure drop.
  7. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    In my case, it was the whips on the Tools. The hose reel is doing fine. Most quality shops around here will refuse to re-crimp ends on used hoses anyway.
  8. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    All of my hoses have sprung leaks as well. Kinda dangerous so close to the user. Hydraulic fluid injection is no joke. These are probably a good preventative maintenance replacement.
  9. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    I was seriously at risk of violating my door placard prohibiting moronic operations, but I carried a vehicle lift to the hydraulic repair shop to get a cylinder resealed. This is the type of activity I would accuse other people of being reckless, irresponsible, and clubbing baby seals. I’ll try...
  10. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    You would be surprised what lowering the backhoe to the “use” position does to the CG. It does raise the dipper, but it lowers the large castings and large weld assembly that makes up a lot of weight. Because it shifts the CG rearward, it is easier on the front axle, particularly when carrying...
  11. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    Removed a mulberry tree for my neighbor and bent my backhoe thumb. https://youtu.be/tmQkfTBYHDM Eventually I will get the hang of editing videos, but for now it is raw. Fun stuff starts at 9:40 unless you want to listen to a Unimog idle for 9 minutes with some hammering interspersed...
  12. Speedwoble

    Using my SEE for real work

    A parts backhoe you say? I know someone with one. i have been debating parting it out to sell the plain backhoe bucket, and selling valve sections to anyone wanting to add an auxiliary circuit for a thumb.
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