All the brew hoses sure looked good on the clean backhoe. Get a good look-they will never be this clean again. 😄😄
While we were struggling to get off the mountain job gone long the following Saturday, Joel, Amy, and her brother took over our shop for a final assault on the backhoe project and got the entire rear put back together! I somehow never got pictures of that.
We walked into the shop to find the front of the tractor torn apart for some rebuilding.
The front is a LOT simpler.
Those of you who are glamisdunes.com alumni from way back may appreciate the sticker that’s on the tilt cylinder that has somehow survived a decade of dirt work virtually unscathed.
One front bushing on the loader arm was being particularly stubborn, and our hydraulic tools just wouldn’t fit, so we resorted to good old brute force and all took turns whaling on it with a BFH. I happened to catch Joel giving it the final hits in a video that’s kinda cool.
And just a few hours later, the backhoe project that had drug on forever was finally miraculously done and it drove out of the shop.
Now all that’s left is an epic clean up.
Did I mention the stabilizer ram that required hydraulic pressure to get the gland apart and then shot high pressure hydraulic fluid all over a third of the shop?😄😄😬😬