Diggin it. YES I CAN!

[Corley5]

 8) 8) 8) 8) Drive it home. Brakes are a luxury. You've got one side. Drive it around his place to see how it handles and head out. I'd be leery loading it on a trailer though. Ernie Vallier, Vallier Trucking used to haul for Ponsse. He's out of St. Ignace. He used to pick up loads down here as fillers if there wasn't a back haul for Ponsse. Ernie may have retired but last I heard his son was doing it. Google Vallier Trucking for a #. 

[SwampDonkey]

As an aside, all the farms around here use excavators (not minis though).  Roads, stumping Christmas trees, drainage work, cleaning up old building sites, brushing field edges with hydroaxe head.  Been a guy all winter doing field edges, snow's no object. ;D

A mini would come in handy smoothing my hummocky trails. But the thing is clearance overhead, suddenly narrow trails are wide trails because of limbs rubbing the cab. I'll take the hummocks, throw some spruce rails across the bad dips. :D

[aigheadish]

Congratulations Jeff! Backhoe buying day is a big day!

Other have mentioned it but get ready for people to ask for help when you have it. I suggest "helping" for inflated prices. I didn't do that and now I'm kind of the nice guy, with a backhoe, that'll help the neighbors. For what it's worth a lot of people will make some good trades for backhoe work. 

[YellowHammer]

Congratulations!  

I had a tractor that didn't have brakes from the first day I owned it to the day I sold it.  

The heel of the front end loader bucket pressed to the ground is the best "hand brake" around.  The only time I wished I had real brakes was when I slowed to a stop on one of our local asphalt roads and when I drove down it later I saw I had "rubbed off" off a couple of the road reflectors that mark the center line.   Oops.

[doc henderson]

the L brake has not really worked on my JD 850 since I got it.  always tilled the garden in a clockwise direction so I could augment the steering in the loose soil.

[beenthere]

Doc
Brakes on the JD 850 are pretty straight-forward to fix. Exposed for easy repair, and maybe just new brake shoe and adjustment. Hope not a seal leaking oil onto them.


https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10180/Brakes_JD850.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1680016077
 

https://partscatalog.deere.com/jdrc/sidebyside/equipment/70311/referrer/navigation/pgId/212714807

[Jeff]

I have a case 

[doc henderson]

Thanks BT.  I have only had it for 30 years, so maybe time to fix it.    My buddy Dallas occ. roads it 2 miles to his place, but usually trailered.

[beenthere]

Here is maybe a starting place for the Case 580E brake work.
Case 580e Brakes adjustment Service - YouTube

See link to a manual, but suspect you already have that.
Case 580e Super 580 E Backhoe Loader Service Repair

[aigheadish]

I feel like it's already known but I love the guys over there like I do here... 

Heavy Equipment Forums

Tons of backhoe info, a bunch of good guys who want to help, and bs. 

[Southside]

Wait Are you saying there is another Forum out there on the internet?   :D

[Jeff]

Um, Ill try to get my info here on this forum thankyou.

[Jeff]

The first act of prudence. I drove over this afternoon to check out the route home. About 4 miles of it is back hilly gravel roads, and several of the grades are solid white ice. I dug several holes in my sleep last night.

[Patrick NC]

Congratulations on the purchase.  Case backhoes from that Era are relatively simple and known to be reliable. One thing that most people don't know is that Caterpillars first backhoe used the Case design for the hoe part. 

[beenthere]

Um, Ill try to get my info here on this forum thankyou.

Forum etiquette, as I understand, is to refrain from pointing out other forums. just sayin... 

[Resonator]

Gravel road is good. Traffic probably goes slower, and if you have to "drag anchor" to slow down you won't gouge the blacktop. 

[Southside]

Are you having a sleep over there with it tonight? 

[aigheadish]

I hope it's understood that my mention of the "other forum" on the internet wasn't to discount any knowledge or experience here. They spend their days elbow deep in grease, where here it's elbow deep in sawdust. Different expertise for different subjects. 

We'd have a lot less experience or knowledge going around online if we didn't have other avenues to explore or links to share.

For what it's worth I'm sure I've also shared links to the forestryforum.com more than any others. 

[Don P]

Wait for it to open up to move it FWIW I don't think there is a really functioning brake on any of the equipment here. Not good and not by intention!

Now once it is on site, they are very capable machines. The other day I mentioned that when you are building I call it running for the roof. The second you start building you are fighting the weather, and it will accommodate you  :D. The sun broke out, Michelle hiked up the mountain and began getting the snow and ice off the deck. We had a large beam to set to her left. This was that bugger winter 2011/12, I've just gotten to the top. I borrowed a backhoe in the neighborhood and hiked it up the mountain. I can't remember which, its been too long but it was in that size. I don't believe I ever had a rear on the ground. I came up from the right and it is almost that bad.   They are handy as a pocket on a shirt.



 

[Remle]

I'm sorry folks. But any thing with out a working brake system IMHO is just an accident in waiting. Case in point, my good friend, mechanic by trade was pulling a truck into his shop, to raise it up with his lift to fix the brakes, ( he knew they weren't working ), got the front end on to the floor and had to give it a little gas to get the rear end in. Then in that split second (he saw in slooooooooow motion Murphy showed up ) he realized that it wouldn't stop before he hit the back wall of his shop. Not only did it rearrange the wall, it caused minor damage to the truck, he pierced the hood of the truck with a nail. Moral to the story, FIX your brakes before Murphy shows up. I personally have two things I want to happen, 1) start when i hit the key and 2) stop when i hit the brake !!

[doc henderson]

on cars and trucks the old emergency brakes still work if the hydraulic part is broken.

[Jeff]

This won't budge with rhe emergency brake pulled

[Mooseherder]

Is it too big to load on a rollback flatbed?

[chevytaHOE5674]

Would have to check height but it would be very close to overheight on a rollback. Also would need a tandem axle rollback.

[Resonator]

You'd be over height on a roll back (guessing close to 15').