Recent content by muddybuddy

Sounds to me like the curved part at the top of your bobtach plate has fatigued some - thus the curved portion has become more curved. I used a hydraulic 6 ton c- clamp and some heat from my torch to straighten the curve back to its original shape - then welded a small piece of metal in the...

I have an s-185 and what I do is use my stump bucket to tear up the roots on one side of the tree and then push them over, works real slick. Then I take my backhoe attachment with the thumb on it and grab the trees and move em into a pile or on to the dump trailer. My backhoe attachment is...

Thanks guys, I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Having some flooding up here in North Dakota. What is the deepest a guy should drive through water? I was thinking half way up the tire? What does anyone else think?

Great idea, I haven't seen that before.

I bought a brand new house on 2 acres 10 years ago that had no landscaping and lots of potential. I used my bobcat to build a pond, a nice driveway circle, lots of raised flower beds using boulders. The property was very rocky so I took all the rocks and built around 500 feet of dry stack rock...

Welded it up yesterday - almost a full day of welding. It was worse than appeared. Also found a crack where the hydraulic ram attaches to the arm. Actually it is probably better that I welded it rather than their shop - because now I know it was done right. It did not appear to be just normal...

They called back today and after discussing it with management told me that I bought a used piece of equipment and all used equipment is sold as is. Looks like I am SOL. They won't be getting any return business from me. I guess I will just repair it and move on.

Hey guys, Just purchased an S-185 with 2000hrs from a dealer. I was told the machine was inspected and ready to go. I have only put 4 hrs on the machine so far moving snow. I noticed some paint cracking on the upper part of the arm and on further inspection it turned out to be a crack in the...