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<blockquote data-quote="AJ-17" data-source="post: 125219" data-attributes="member: 17245"><p>To answer the question from above. The balls are to be fully engaged when the boom is all the way down. I remember this from the 1970's and 1980's when I would rent a bobcat with a backhoe attachment. This keeps all of the stress from the boom and transfer the energy to the frame of the bobcat, to save on wearing out the pins in the boom and tach plate. That should help.[ATTACH]3429[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You guys have it easy compared to what have been working on over the last three days. Bought a 709 backhoe that was on a 2000 753 Bobcat last week and I am trying to get it to fit on a Thomas T133s. Have spent 20 hours cutting apart the brackets into individual parts. Then cutting, fitting, recutting, refitting over and over again I finally got the brackets to fit the Thomas. This was mostly 1" and 1/2" thick plates that needed to be cut and shaped, with all the holes that have to be hand drilled through the 1/2" thick side plates. Now that everything is fitted, brackets need to be removed and welded up 100% with my mig welder, cleaned up and reinstalled and hand drilled out to 5/8" holes for the bolts that came off the 753. When I looked up the price of the bracket kit from Bobcat, it was 1300.00 plus tax. I will NEVER buy anything directly from Bobcat for the backhoe. They want more than $750.00 for just seal kits for the cylinders and $1500.00 to replace the 18 hydraulic hoses that are 32 years old. Bobcat may be the largest manufacturer of skid steers, but way over charge for their parts. Even the decals for the 709 can be bought for less than 1/3 of the price Bobcat wants to charge for them. Sorry for the rant, guess I have never had to deal with Bobcat except for the renting of equipment over the last 45 years. I wish I only had the balls to deal with.</p><p>Be safe everyone.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3429[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AJ-17, post: 125219, member: 17245"] To answer the question from above. The balls are to be fully engaged when the boom is all the way down. I remember this from the 1970’s and 1980’s when I would rent a bobcat with a backhoe attachment. This keeps all of the stress from the boom and transfer the energy to the frame of the bobcat, to save on wearing out the pins in the boom and tach plate. That should help.[ATTACH]3429[/ATTACH] You guys have it easy compared to what have been working on over the last three days. Bought a 709 backhoe that was on a 2000 753 Bobcat last week and I am trying to get it to fit on a Thomas T133s. Have spent 20 hours cutting apart the brackets into individual parts. Then cutting, fitting, recutting, refitting over and over again I finally got the brackets to fit the Thomas. This was mostly 1” and 1/2” thick plates that needed to be cut and shaped, with all the holes that have to be hand drilled through the 1/2” thick side plates. Now that everything is fitted, brackets need to be removed and welded up 100% with my mig welder, cleaned up and reinstalled and hand drilled out to 5/8” holes for the bolts that came off the 753. When I looked up the price of the bracket kit from Bobcat, it was 1300.00 plus tax. I will NEVER buy anything directly from Bobcat for the backhoe. They want more than $750.00 for just seal kits for the cylinders and $1500.00 to replace the 18 hydraulic hoses that are 32 years old. Bobcat may be the largest manufacturer of skid steers, but way over charge for their parts. Even the decals for the 709 can be bought for less than 1/3 of the price Bobcat wants to charge for them. Sorry for the rant, guess I have never had to deal with Bobcat except for the renting of equipment over the last 45 years. I wish I only had the balls to deal with. Be safe everyone. [ATTACH type="full"]3429[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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