Estimated usage hours of shown Pivot bushings going by their loosnes?

[SkidTracks]

Based on your experience with used skid steers and compact track loaders.

How many hours of use would you estimate Pivot bushings shown in two videos below have with their horizontal (left/right) and vertical (up/down) looseness?

Best guess as to how many hours are left before Pivot bushings fail?

Thanks in advance.

 

[brdgbldr]

The hours on the machine are not easily guessed unless you know what the machine was used for.

If only a bucket could be a couple thousand hours.
If a concrete breaker then maybe just a few hundred hours.

Same with how long is left on them.

If it were my machine I would replace the bushings, if there is anything left of them, and also the pins if there is wear.

 

[SkidTracks]

The hours on the machine are not easily guessed unless you know what the machine was used for.

If only a bucket could be a couple thousand hours.
If a concrete breaker then maybe just a few hundred hours.

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Thanks for reply.

Machine has been used for multiple purposes. Bucketing dirt and gravel. Some forestry mulching. Box blading trails. Grappling cut trees (small to large). Some brush hogging.

No heavy construction; like concrete breaker, asphalt grinding, or vibratory roller usage. No commercial work or rental.

 

[mrbb]

its honestly impossible to guess hours on a machine based on wear of a pin/bushing, as you have no way of knowing how often it was greased or not, which can change life span of them, by a huge margin! say a it was not greased that often and used in a dusty sandy work area! , it can wear things out way faster than one greased every 8 hrs of use or more often in a more forgiving environment! ! and you have no way of knowing if there high quality pin/bushings, or cheap china made ones!



and if your trying to age use on a machine by these pin's/ bushings, that too is impossible, as you have no way of knowing if there original ones or not!
many times they could have been relapsed, and then , you have no way of knowing if the pin's /bushings were replaced with high quality one's or cheap china junk!

so honestly its not possible to judge hours by them

better way to tell hours on a machine, is over all wear and tear on many area's, , and if possible a compression test on engine wouldn't hurt to give you an idea on where its at in its life span!

how a machine is cared for and used, can some times be a better way to judge a machine, than just by hours too!
a machine with low hours abused and never cared for,(lack of greasing, oil/filter changes, and or an abusive operator running abusive attachments) and or used in a bad environment, can be a bigger problem child, than one WELL cared for with twice the hours on it IMO, with in reason of course! ,
or thats just my 2 cents!

Hours alone will never tell the full story, seen brand new like machines get sunk, cleaned and sold, and the likes, so LOW like new hours on them, don't always mean its a good buy!

 

[SkidTracks]

its honestly impossible to guess hours on a machine based on wear of a pin/bushing, as you have no way of knowing how often it was greased or not, which can change life span of them, by a huge margin! say a it was not greased that often and used in a dusty sandy work area! , it can wear things out way faster than one greased every 8 hrs of use or more often in a more forgiving environment! ! and you have no way of knowing if there high quality pin/bushings, or cheap china made ones!
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For sake of estimating hours of use.

Among it's other uses, machine has been used to move dirt and gravel, and groom trails. Thus everything on machine exposed to dust, grit, and sand.

All bearing points were greased daily with factory recommended grease. And pivot bearings are original, never replaced.

Of course, that doesn't mean the pivot bearings were top-quality from factory. Lot of stuff is of questionable quality from countries known for going cheap. Along with decline in quality parts from manufactures previously known for high quality. Few months back, read where a foreign supplier was caught substituting cheap metal for high-quality metal; resulting in premature failure of plane's landing (?) gear.

Had a Bobcat T870 it was a Lion of a machine. Replaced it with a Bobcat T86 and it was Kitty-cat of a machine in comparison. T870's top grill was seriously tough perforated mesh steel. T86's grill was not.

So it is possible the machine's pivot bearings are of sub-standard quality by several ways. And all the machine needs is tilt (dump/curl) pivot bearings replaced.

Thanks for reply!