The importance of maintainance

[Dean Lofthouse]

I think it's a bad design thats caused it's failure.

 

It had two 6mm thick pads bolted through together instead of using one 12mm pad.

 

I think they have been sliding between each other and eventually elongated the holes and then sheard the bolts, the pads are about 80mm x 60mm x 6mm

 

The new pad is 1000mm x 90mm x 12mm

 

Steve: It's a bendy steer one

[gensetsteve]

When my bobcat gives up the ghost I will be looking for one especially bendy steer as less damage to grass than my skid steer.

[NI Tree]

dean

i would say that people have been using it at full extension with it on the ground as it would alow them to see the forks excta beater. due to inexperance

[mdt]

we use waxoyl on our jcb. bobcat now make a 4ws skid loader now and is suited to companys that work on turf etc cause kinder turning no scruffling.

[Dean Lofthouse]

When my bobcat gives up the ghost I will be looking for one especially bendy steer as less damage to grass than my skid steer.

 

I have just been using it all week on a big job, stacking lumps of timber at the side of a lawn and then turning round on the lawn, I must have done 60 trips or so and the lawn still looks good. They are awesome Steve

 

dean

i would say that people have been using it at full extension with it on the ground as it would alow them to see the forks excta beater. due to inexperance

 

That will be a contributing factor for sure

[RichardT]

Well that was sufficiently worrying for me to have a look at the wear on my little CSF S20d, now with c550h.

 

Much lower rated weights obviously so you'd not expect the same wear, but the factory setup seems more like your proposed mod, ie wear pads mounted inside outer tubing. Still some paint visible on all 4 surfaces of tele booms thankfully.

 

I'm assuming that's a GT, with an oscillating joint immediately aft of the pivot point?

[NI Tree]

dose the outer boom have ware pads it the tip. i am just crousis. what are you going to to do about the ware top of the inner boom. i would say this is quite important you could cut the worn bit out and insert a smaller pice of box into it and then weld a nother plate to it.

 

 

i would say that the outer has worn unevenly more at near the open end than the other in terms of were the iner boom stops. this is fron the angle at the inner boom has worn at

 

ps do you have any pitchers of the end of the outer boom

[Dean Lofthouse]

Yes it is a GT Richard

 

NI Tree... The outer does have wear pads on the tip, they have a little lip on them and are inserted after you have put the inner back in, you push them in to the lip then they are held in place with a bracket.

 

The wear on the top of the inner wont matter so much. Because I am lining the top of the inner with a full width and length of nylon bush, I can do away with the top front wear pad and the whole pad will be 12mm thick it should bridge over any slight worn hollows.

 

The forces now should spread over a lot wider area now, apart from of course when the boom is tele'd right out

[spaz pants]

Just hire one From HSS and swap the boom over job dun.