Backhoe BX-25 backhoe bent

[Martian]

thirded.

If the new stick is $300, id be all over that. At $60-80/hr shop time to straighten, youd be money ahead. Thats assuming the bucket linkages, pins and cylinders are OK.

As fourthing to late?

I'm guessing it was supposed to be 3,000. $300 does not buy you much steel these days and to have an entire new arm welded, painted and installed would have to come at a loss if sold at $300. It would make it way cheaper to buy all the parts for the backhoe separately. $300 for the arm, another $300 for the dipper another $300 for a bucket and the list goes on but it would be thousands cheaper by the sounds of this. Unless I'm looking/thinking of this completely wrong and do correct me if I am. But I'm thinking like Eddies problem - which he paid $600 to have a plate welded on. I know we are talking about to totally different sized machines but that seems like almost to good of a deal to me.

 

[thavil]

My husband was pulling al large stump out of a slash pile and bent the backhoe arm and the aftermarket thumb.
Is there a way to straighten the arm out and reinforce it or is all lost and will we need to buy a new arm? He knows he should have put a chain on the stump and pulled it out but I guess we all do dumb things once in a while.
Thanks

Any chance that you guys purchased the KTAC insurance when you bought the tractor? If so, they will pay to fix your backhoe less the $250 deductable.

 

[homeputter]

$300.00? I've spent that much on beer just trying to figure out how I could be so stupid to do what I just did.

Seriously, if it's only $300.00 for a new part, and that's all that is needed, spend the money. It will maintain the value of the tractor and you will never question whether the BH will hold up at the repair site.

Consider the $300.00 tuition on the lessons of life.

Fxfymn - lol at your comment and agree.

 

[Jlillie2]

I haven't been .......Otherwise the Kubota dealer wants $300+ for a new one.
Yes, he had the backhoe to one side when he pulled the stump and readily admits he put too much stress on it. It wasn't a product flaw, he just tried to do something it wasn't designed to do.
I guess you live and learn.
Thanks for all the input, I'll let you all know what his guru does or if we end up buying a new arm.

$300.00? There is nothing on a Kubota thats $300.00 except for the fuel pump. B-)
If the dealer is willing to eat it to keep the customer happy, I'd jump on that so fast heads would spin in Canada....They must have spotted some kind of defect, and decided to keep it quiet. I've done everything you can to a Kubota and never managed to bend it up. Granted, my machine is larger, but they tend to overbuild for people like your husband. (And myself.)

 

[Scooby074]

$300.00? There is nothing on a Kubota thats $300.00 except for the fuel pump. B-)
If the dealer is willing to eat it to keep the customer happy, I'd jump on that so fast heads would spin in Canada....They must have spotted some kind of defect, and decided to keep it quiet. I've done everything you can to a Kubota and never managed to bend it up. Granted, my machine is larger, but they tend to overbuild for people like your husband. (And myself.)

I think she misspoke as mentioned. I bet its $3000. That might be for the complete assembly though (stick, cylinder, pins and linkages)

 

[Jlillie2]

I think she misspoke as mentioned. I bet its $3000. That might be for the complete assembly though (stick, cylinder, pins and linkages)

Sorry, I didn't see that one. I'm thinking you are right. Or she saw the price and had a mental melt down. B-) I know I would have.

 

[kiotiken]

I'm a little surprised a bx-25 would have the weight and traction necessary to bend the BH, even if it's being misused. I'm also surprised the relief valves didn't prevent the damage by allowing the hydraulic cylinders to move.

$300, don't give it another thought, you have your answer.
$3000, have it fixed or use it as is if possible.

 

[jmolwitz]

There are check valves that keep the cylinders from moving .

 

[Herkypilot]

My brother-in-law did just about the same thing with his B3030 and BH75. Expensive lesson about not using the tractor drive system to pull something out with BH bucket attached to it. He bent the upper hyd. cylinder rod. I seem to recall the dealer changed it out for about $1500.

HP

 

[Georgia Peach]

jThanks for all you coments. The dealer said 300.00+, which would be about 450.00 with tax and shipping.
My husband thinks the BX-25 is a Teramite but it's not.
It's fixed. it has a small dent in the dipper stick like a dimple but works fine.
We took it over to our friends house and they put it in the driveway on some blocks and took a large excavator and pushed down on the arm. It did nothing and the CAT went up on its back tracks. He did it again and nothing. finally he raised the bucket and hit the dipstick nothing happened so he hit it again and the thing bent right back in place. It was pretty amazing, I had my eyes half closed invisioning the worse but they put a straight edge on all sides and it is perfect.
I'm real sorry I didn't get to get any pictures but I do have one of the CAT that fixed it.
I hope I did the picture upload right.
No insurance.
Thanks for all you input.

 

[Sasquatch4100]

Is that your tractor on the trailer? Nice looking 'bota on the trailer. Glad you got a good fix to it that didn't cost a body part or two.

Looks nice out there, I have family that lives near Everett. I live near central OR and haven't been up yet to see them yet.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Since I have a BX25 I've followed this post from time to time. At first I couldn't figure out exactly what was damaged and how. Finally figured out the BH Bucket was being used under an object , the hydraulics of the tractor would not do the job so with the BH bucket still hooked to the immovable object the operator raised his front bucket and arms and tried moving it by the power of the wheels getting traction. OK, I moved on and have came back from time to time to view the thread.
Yesterday I dug some holes for my Brother next door, went into my woods and dug up about 4 trees for him that he had marked, took them to his holes, dropped them in and then proceeded to dig up the Grasses he wanted gone that I wanted for my yard. Moved the grasses to my yard, dug holes, pushed grasses into holes, covered the grasses back up (did get off the tractor one time to move one of the smaller grasses) and started back to my tractor garage.
Remembered the job I had needed done was move a decorative tree that has about a 3" to 4" trunk. Beautiful tree but wife wanted it gone from near pool. So, dug around tree, pulled and pulled under it and finally got it loose enough to rock but couldn't get the hydraulics to muster enough strength to pull it on out, just needed a "little" bit more. Pondered what to do and decided the traction of the wheels may add enough power to pop it on out and had a good hook on it with the BH bucket. Raised front bucket, raised legs and started trying to pull it out and then..........WOW this is what the person on TBN done that damaged their BX25 BH!!:ashamed: :ashamed: Yes, I immediately stopped and finally dug it out enough to pop it out of the ground with the BH. This thread in this forum probably saved me some expense. Glad I read it and FINALLY remembered it.
This is the reason I like for people to post questions instead of doing searches. After seeing things posted more than one time, after doing a job that I've never done before and then start reading tthreads that apply to the machine I currently own is a help to me and I'm sure to others that are just joining or traded machines or have started doing a new to them job and sees an article about that job.

 

[Deano]

Raised front bucket, raised legs and started trying to pull it out and then..........WOW this is what the person on TBN done that damaged their BX25 BH!!

Exactly what went wrong!! Tempting, but NOT a good idea!