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    Default What am I building

    A gold star to whoever guesses what I am building.
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    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

    Andre

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    Hydrostatic drive go kart dragster.
    Cliff.
    ...if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

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    Backhoe, or something for agriculture perhaps?

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    A small front end loader.

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    Well that was hard. I am building a towable backhoe
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    Nice work Andre.

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    No wonder no one got it right, the seat was in the wrong place. Great job anyway .
    Kryn

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    They were very popular with plumbers and drainers back in the late 60's
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

    Cheers
    Ray

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    I'm glad I didn't say a lazy persons hydraulic log splitter, incorporating a seat and a drink holder. That could have been embarrassing for me

    I like it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    I'm glad I didn't say a lazy persons hydraulic log splitter, incorporating a seat and a drink holder. That could have been embarrassing for me

    I like it!

    Simon
    its a bloody good idea tho...

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    I'm glad I didn't say a lazy persons hydraulic log splitter, incorporating a seat and a drink holder. That could have been embarrassing for me

    I like it!

    Simon

    If it was a lazy persons log splitter, it would have a hopper on top to automatically load it, and a robotic arm to clear the logs and stack them!!!!!
    Kryn

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    Quote Originally Posted by rwbuild View Post
    They were very popular with plumbers and drainers back in the late 60's
    As I'm a similar vintage to rwbuild, I remember towable backhoes in the 1960's as well. They were generally towed by a tractor and used its power take off via a drive shaft to operate a hydraulic pump mounted on the trailer. Hydraulics on tractors were fairly rare back then. Their major disadvantage was their light weight i.e. you couldn't use the tractor's dead weight to increase your digging penetration.
    Great design and workmanship on the current build though. Hope it works well for you. - Peter

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    like this one peter
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    there a cranvel wombat i think
    this is my towable digger
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    its a smalley

    nice work Andre defiantly beats using a shovel
    my wife does get a bit nevous when i say im going to weed the garden though

    cheers
    Harty

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterbilt View Post
    As I'm a similar vintage to rwbuild, I remember towable backhoes in the 1960's as well. They were generally towed by a tractor and used its power take off via a drive shaft to operate a hydraulic pump mounted on the trailer. Hydraulics on tractors were fairly rare back then. Their major disadvantage was their light weight i.e. you couldn't use the tractor's dead weight to increase your digging penetration.
    Great design and workmanship on the current build though. Hope it works well for you. - Peter
    The ones I saw had a self contained Villiers motor on them driving the hydraulic pump
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    Ray

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    I saw one that was made by a farmer. It was mounted on an old truck chassis and utilized a complete backhoe assembly, complete with side shift. Hydraulics were run from the tractor, weight was helped with railway lines on the back end.
    Kryn

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