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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Condor" data-source="post: 17185" data-attributes="member: 1887"><p>Thought I would share this maybe some can add to it. While digging a deep ditch in a muddy area last fall with my attachment backhoe on my Hydra-Mac skidloader, I heard a loud bang and immediately lost all hydraulic pressure and the low charge pressure (for the hydrostatic systems) warning light warning light came "on". I shut the loader off quickly. I assumed the hydraulic pump failed, snapped off at it's drive shaft, (hence the loud bang) and since the charge pump was driven off the other side of the hydraulic pump, it wasn't being driven either. After freaking out a while, I realized the 1st task was to get the backhoe boom,dipper,bucket out of the ditch, (the bucket had a full scoop of mud down at the bottom of a 8' deep ditch) and also get the outriggers up. I then borrowed a friend's Toyota skidloader, got it parked along side of my dead rig, and Mickey Moused hoses/fittings from the attachment backhoe (while it was still attached to my machine) to the aux hydraulics of the Toyota. It worked great to the backhoe back to "travel" position. 2nd task was to get my dead machine mobile and get it back to the shop that a was aways away. Terrain condition was very sloppy, and had limited access for a large rig to pull it out. Challenge at this point was configure a means of providing a charge oil supply to my loader's hydrostatic system so it could be driven. Knowing the Toyota's aux hydraulics had way too much pressure and flow for my charge oil supply, that wasn't an option. Then I got looking at my old logsplitter. Did the Mickey Mouse thing again with hoses/fittings to provide charge oil supply to my loader's hydrostatic systems from the log splitter. To my dismay though, once I started the log splitter, it ruptured the charge oil supply filter on the dead loader. Now learning the 5HP Briggs & Stratton motor couldn't be slowed down enough, I removed the Briggs motor and replaced it with a 24volt Bosch cordless drill!! Fortunately I had spare filters for the loader to replace the ruptured one. Experimentation with the loader motor off, I was able to chain the log splitter to the back of the loader and position myself to trigger the cordless drill while watching the low charge pressure warning light on the loader's instrument panel. Then I got my wife to start the loader, drive it idling back to the shop, while I would trigger the cordless drill whenever the low charge pressure warning light would come on!! All who were involved are still laughing about this ordeal!! Any suggestions for how I could have done things differently?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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