It's ridiculous, but it will work great for picking up big rocks. Next video will be first job with the machine, lots of hot thumb action in that video.
There were a couple of things that swayed me on that because yes that was an early contender. First AC is a must and while the KU45 does have AC the condenser blocks a large part of your view out of the right side window. Second, there is a LARGE open gap between the outside fender and the interior of the cab where cold air and dust can just blow in. It's large, and hard to understand how it could have made it through the design phase. Third the CFG is actually built by Sunward who is a fairly large manufacturer overseas, I have no idea who makes the KU45. Overall the quality difference between the two machines is really huge, I walked around the KU45 at their warehouse when I picked up the CFG40UF and it's not even close on quality. It's also actually a little bit of a lighter machine and I think it has a smaller footprint so it's not going to be as stable. Great question because there are significant differences between the two machines.
@@galtsgarage5775 Yeah, the model nomenclature on the micro and mini excavators is terrible!! The "46" series for is 2 tons lighter than a "35" in a different brand! The "off brands" seem to fudge their weight to model number worse than the name brand machines. This CFG 40 series is much more inline with the naming on big brand machines. The KU45 is about 7700 lbs and this CFG40UF is about 8500lbs, a much larger machine. A GREAT way to group the class machines is by their bucket pin size. The cab is SMALL in the KU45 too, I'd had to hunch over with the slide up front glass open. My NT30 cab is tight, but I'll make sacrifices, it was cheap :)
Talk to Scott about just sticking a thumb in it.
That’s almost 19,000 pounds of force on the thumb cylinder !!
It's ridiculous, but it will work great for picking up big rocks. Next video will be first job with the machine, lots of hot thumb action in that video.
Did you consider the KU45? Seems like specs are similar in most ways. Would the 5+k in savings make the lesser quality machine worthwhile?
There were a couple of things that swayed me on that because yes that was an early contender. First AC is a must and while the KU45 does have AC the condenser blocks a large part of your view out of the right side window. Second, there is a LARGE open gap between the outside fender and the interior of the cab where cold air and dust can just blow in. It's large, and hard to understand how it could have made it through the design phase. Third the CFG is actually built by Sunward who is a fairly large manufacturer overseas, I have no idea who makes the KU45. Overall the quality difference between the two machines is really huge, I walked around the KU45 at their warehouse when I picked up the CFG40UF and it's not even close on quality. It's also actually a little bit of a lighter machine and I think it has a smaller footprint so it's not going to be as stable. Great question because there are significant differences between the two machines.
@@galtsgarage5775 Yeah, the model nomenclature on the micro and mini excavators is terrible!! The "46" series for is 2 tons lighter than a "35" in a different brand!
The "off brands" seem to fudge their weight to model number worse than the name brand machines. This CFG 40 series is much more inline with the naming on big brand machines. The KU45 is about 7700 lbs and this CFG40UF is about 8500lbs, a much larger machine.
A GREAT way to group the class machines is by their bucket pin size.
The cab is SMALL in the KU45 too, I'd had to hunch over with the slide up front glass open. My NT30 cab is tight, but I'll make sacrifices, it was cheap :)
@@skibik3r Honestly I duck for cover when I open the windshield in the 40 too...lol.