Opico Skidster or sherpa mini loaders

[AHPP]

Hence curious what doobin means by it. 

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[AHPP]

I was thinking the other day how unnecessary quick connectors are for me. I’d happily use a spanner. 

[Mick Dempsey]

I think he means close the grab or implement so there’s the minimum of H oil in the hydraulic ram.

[Mick Dempsey]

2 minutes ago, AHPP said:

I was thinking the other day how unnecessary quick connectors are for me. I’d happily use a spanner. 

If you’re switching implements regularly during the day back and forth, quick connectors are very handy.

[AHPP]

Aye. If they go on without making you look like an idiot. And don’t leak. And don’t cost fifty quid each. I’d trade handiness for that. For me, how I work now anyway.
 

Aware you’d be less slick on a building site, picking up drain covers with a tilt rotator one second, dustpanning gravel, picking up forks to move a pallet, picking up a powered brush, then putting a whacker on etc etc. 

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[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, AHPP said:

Throw the auxiliary lever with machine off. I’ve found it’s more often pressure left in the implement though. Crack those and get used to storing them in such a way that they don’t exert push/pull on rams. I have to make sure I shut my grab fully before storing it on its knuckles or its own weight shuts it harder and builds pressure. 

We had this with a grapple fork on a JCB 525 telehandler, easy to get off but for some reason it always seemed pressurised when we came to refit it, so the pressure had to be bled of about an eggcup full of oil each time.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

If you’re switching implements regularly during the day back and forth, quick connectors are very handy.

Yes but they do have more resistance to oil flow, I had to remove them on the supply to the motor on the RT100 and mulcher head as they got the oil too hot.

[AHPP]

43 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

We had this with a grapple fork on a JCB 525 telehandler, easy to get off but for some reason it always seemed pressurised when we came to refit it, so the pressure had to be bled of about an eggcup full of oil each time.

A JCB telehandler of my acquaintance had similar. A roving mechanic had put it down to a pressure vessel balancer/equaliser/something the last thing I knew. Black steel bulb about the size of a pint glass that lived in the machine’s armpit. Replaced and it worked but, for a reason I can’t recall, I’m not 100% convinced it was just that. I’m back on that telehandler at the end of the month. It won’t have changed. It was two years ago I was last using it and it won’t have had an oil change in that time, probably ever. Let’s see if I can remember how to do it. I did write the bloke a long WhatsApp message of instructions (for his own machine, at his request) but no guarantee that’s still visible.
 

My life would be easier if I could bloody remember bloody anything but here we are.

 

I’ll take spanners. 

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[doobin]

39 minutes ago, AHPP said:

A JCB telehandler of my acquaintance had similar. A roving mechanic had put it down to a pressure vessel balancer/equaliser/something the last thing I knew. Black steel bulb about the size of a pint glass that lived in the machine’s armpit. Replaced and it worked but, for a reason I can’t recall, I’m not 100% convinced it was just that. I’m back on that telehandler at the end of the month. It won’t have changed. It was two years ago I was last using it and it won’t have had an oil change in that time, probably ever. Let’s see if I can remember how to do it. I did write the bloke a long WhatsApp message of instructions (for his own machine, at his request) but no guarantee that’s still visible.
 

My life would be easier if I could bloody remember bloody anything but here we are.

 

I’ll take spanners. 

Accumulator. Stores hydraulic oil at pressure, used to supply pressure to the servo levers when the machine is off so you can still lower the boom etc in the event of an engine failure.

 

There isn't one on a Sherpa.

[doobin]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

I was thinking the other day how unnecessary quick connectors are for me. I’d happily use a spanner. 

I have no problem with quick connectors on anything other than the damn Sherpa!