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<blockquote data-quote="864wood" data-source="post: 426" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>I find that most things with bobcats seem stupid or immpossible I can achieve with ease. Not a glowing comment but factually accurate. I can stall my 864G when trying to push impossibly heavy loads and using the lift function at the same time. For example I did the demo in a block foundation and slab. It turns out the slab varied from 8'' to 24" in thickness. I had to use my Stihl 16" diamond concrete saw to do relief cuts and then worry the concret to the point of braking up. The task was then to haul these impoosible pieces out of the hole then load onto dumpster. I found I could stall it alot on this project. The builder that I was doing the work for had figured 4-8 hrs for block and foundation demo and 2-3 concrete dumpsters. It took me 16hrs, ten dumpsters(mostly overloaded), one broken backhoe cyclinder push rod, one extremly abused combo bucket with broken teeth and bucket has deformed sides. That is not the worst. I think I put the equvalent of 100hrs of abuse on my new tracks. Lets just say I wouldn't admit defeat and allow the bulider to get a different contractor to finish the job. Next time I will do a test drill for slab thickness with my hammerdrill to see if I take on the job. Hard lesson learned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="864wood, post: 426, member: 38"] I find that most things with bobcats seem stupid or immpossible I can achieve with ease. Not a glowing comment but factually accurate. I can stall my 864G when trying to push impossibly heavy loads and using the lift function at the same time. For example I did the demo in a block foundation and slab. It turns out the slab varied from 8'' to 24" in thickness. I had to use my Stihl 16" diamond concrete saw to do relief cuts and then worry the concret to the point of braking up. The task was then to haul these impoosible pieces out of the hole then load onto dumpster. I found I could stall it alot on this project. The builder that I was doing the work for had figured 4-8 hrs for block and foundation demo and 2-3 concrete dumpsters. It took me 16hrs, ten dumpsters(mostly overloaded), one broken backhoe cyclinder push rod, one extremly abused combo bucket with broken teeth and bucket has deformed sides. That is not the worst. I think I put the equvalent of 100hrs of abuse on my new tracks. Lets just say I wouldn't admit defeat and allow the bulider to get a different contractor to finish the job. Next time I will do a test drill for slab thickness with my hammerdrill to see if I take on the job. Hard lesson learned. [/QUOTE]
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