one thing I would highly recommend, grease the ring, turn the house 90 deg grease the ring, turn the house 90 deg. so you get grease all the way around the ring. for everyone putting a thumb on, flush out some oil from the aux lines before you hook up to anything. lines have been sitting unused for quite some time have rust and contamination in them, killer for any hydraulic system.
I bought a Kubota mini x at an online auction sight unseen. pretty much did exactly what you did. add one new track but not the front idler. same thumb but bought direct from ox thumbs. I broke the bank with three new buckets (ripper tooth, narrow trenching bucket and a smooth 36" ditch bucket) all from rhinox usa. . replaced lights, bushings in the stick, oil and filters, made two buckets (a fang rake and a 8" x5' I beam). mine has 1400 hours. how many on yours? it seems that deere suffered from severe over maintenance. I can't figure how someone can treat a money making tool like that.
5100 hrs.. a little high, but not terrible. the guys I bought it from have a history of having terrible equipment ( I found out afterwards from a buddy that has dealt with them before.) Sounds like a nice selection of buckets!!! I'm going to build an adaptor plate to run my hammer/breaker on the excavator... I think that would be easier to use than on the skidsteer. A ripper tooth would be cool for stumping also. Glad to hear you made repairs to yours instead of running into the ground! I still have some hydraulic leaks to fix on some pilot lines, but so far so good with the jobs I've had it on.
Beltech, Did you lower the pressure going to the thumb? If not the thumb pressure will fight the bucket pressure..1200=1500 would be ideal. Great video. I will be waiting for more, Ken
@kenskip1 thanks for watching Ken! I didn't adjust anything, the bucket can easily over power the thumb as it is, I would like to adjust it higher to grip better, but I am able to grab stuff pretty good as is. Jay
I found it on Ebay. copy and paste all below. www.ebay.com/itm/255956165382?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20230811123856%26meid%3D19a8919bb2934527b20443beec26b4e2%26pid%3D101770%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D255956165382%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2%26brand%3DJohn%2BDeere&_trksid=p4375194.c101770.m146925&_trkparms=parentrq%3A25a0bdc418e0a77046ac7f89ffffb9b2%7Cpageci%3Aea86e895-de6f-11ee-b14d-2ef694935e7d%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage
one thing I would highly recommend, grease the ring, turn the house 90 deg grease the ring, turn the house 90 deg. so you get grease all the way around the ring. for everyone putting a thumb on, flush out some oil from the aux lines before you hook up to anything. lines have been sitting unused for quite some time have rust and contamination in them, killer for any hydraulic system.
Good Job ! A demo of the finished product in action would have been nice.
@@astonmartin2727 thank you!
Nice work. If/when I can ever afford an excavator, it will likely be a fixer like yours. These videos are super helpful thanks
Thanks for watching! Hopefully I can put it work this summer!
I bought a Kubota mini x at an online auction sight unseen. pretty much did exactly what you did. add one new track but not the front idler. same thumb but bought direct from ox thumbs. I broke the bank with three new buckets (ripper tooth, narrow trenching bucket and a smooth 36" ditch bucket) all from rhinox usa. . replaced lights, bushings in the stick, oil and filters, made two buckets (a fang rake and a 8" x5' I beam). mine has 1400 hours. how many on yours?
it seems that deere suffered from severe over maintenance. I can't figure how someone can treat a money making tool like that.
5100 hrs.. a little high, but not terrible. the guys I bought it from have a history of having terrible equipment ( I found out afterwards from a buddy that has dealt with them before.) Sounds like a nice selection of buckets!!! I'm going to build an adaptor plate to run my hammer/breaker on the excavator... I think that would be easier to use than on the skidsteer. A ripper tooth would be cool for stumping also. Glad to hear you made repairs to yours instead of running into the ground! I still have some hydraulic leaks to fix on some pilot lines, but so far so good with the jobs I've had it on.
Beltech, Did you lower the pressure going to the thumb? If not the thumb pressure will fight the bucket pressure..1200=1500 would be ideal. Great video. I will be waiting for more, Ken
@kenskip1 thanks for watching Ken! I didn't adjust anything, the bucket can easily over power the thumb as it is, I would like to adjust it higher to grip better, but I am able to grab stuff pretty good as is. Jay
How did you know what Thumb will work
I measured the length from the arm to the end of the bucket teeth to get the correct length of thumb.
Who provided the thumb kit?
I found it on Ebay. copy and paste all below.
www.ebay.com/itm/255956165382?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20230811123856%26meid%3D19a8919bb2934527b20443beec26b4e2%26pid%3D101770%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D255956165382%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2%26brand%3DJohn%2BDeere&_trksid=p4375194.c101770.m146925&_trkparms=parentrq%3A25a0bdc418e0a77046ac7f89ffffb9b2%7Cpageci%3Aea86e895-de6f-11ee-b14d-2ef694935e7d%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage
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