Chinese digger recommendations

[Mej13579]

Got mine delivered a couple of days ago

 

[LittleBill21]

im excited to see these in use, this was the model i was looking at, glad to see there are a couple people buying them now, do they have hydro filters?

 

[Carl_NH]

Yes they have a 80 micron filter in the tank and oil cooling radiator - half the raditor is engine cooling and the other half is oil cooling.

The kubota engine runs smooth and quiet, pilot controls work well and everything is tight - but the doors/hinges and little things need adjustment but no big deal.

I thought I would need to add a restrictor valve to the thumb/tilting bucket as it was too fast/too high flow (made feathering difficult) but when I adjusted the directional valve on the dipper stick (closed it halfway, this slowed the flow enough now to feather the bucket.

I will be changing out the foot pedal for the thumb/ tilting bucket as its too high - an aluminum folding pedal that bolts on is arriving today and will take pics once installed.

 

[LittleBill21]

will it fit in a 7ft garage?

 

[Carl_NH]

No - its 89" to the top of the canopy - you can remove the canopy and that might just make it (4 bolts) and its a molded / extruded plastic top about 5" thickness so not too heavy, I can measure mine later tonight.

Or there are 4 steel posts 1 1/2" as the ROPS and you could cut those down by 5-6" and reweld - it has enough headroom around 8" for me and I am 6'3

 

[LittleBill21]

No - its 89" to the top of the canopy - you can remove the canopy and that might just make it (4 bolts) and its a molded / extruded plastic top about 5" thickness so not too heavy, I can measure mine later tonight.

Or there are 4 steel posts 1 1/2" as the ROPS and you could cut those down by 5-6" and reweld - it has enough headroom around 8" for me and I am 6'3

Thanks for measuring!

 

[Carl_NH]

Thanks for measuring!

I measured to the top of the ROPS under the canopy and its 85 1/2" so too tall for 84" door height - lowering by 5-6" would not impact sitting in the seat much but would lower the height to get in/out.

 

[LittleBill21]

I measured to the top of the ROPS under the canopy and its 85 1/2" so too tall for 84" door height - lowering by 5-6" would not impact sitting in the seat much but would lower the height to get in/out.

appreciate you taking the time to measure this, I now need to consider my options, is this machine tippy like the smaller 1 tons?

 

[Carl_NH]

No - its stable 44" wide tracks x 55" long on the ground and there is a new version of this one made by VOTE Machinery and you can likely get this for around $11,500 and ask to include a quick connect and like a ditch bucket for $400. FREE SHIPPING NEW 1.8 Ton New Mini Excavator, KUBOTA D902 Diesel Engine 16 hp | eBay

These have 230MM tracks, vs 180 MM and a Kubota 902 engine vs 722, and a bit higher flow rate. The fit and finish is better IMO with little things like heavier bucket, flanges around the grease zerks, and pedals to control the swing and thumb.

 

[Carl_NH]

Still a work in progress here - waiting for the correct fittings to connect the Tilting grading bucket with the 14MM Hyd QDs I bought based on the Typhon suggestion (should have bought 16MM not 14)

Then have the drive motor protection from Central Digger supply on the way - not that this machine needs it - as the drive motor mounts and weldments are very robust - but I want to add the hitch plate.

Then the mod to the thumb/Bucket pedal was too sensitive and very hard to control. So I added a 2x3 plate and extended the pedal 3" out so I could easily control it with my foot. (the Aluminum ones were too low to activate the valve). Then by throttling back the control valve on the dipper stick was able to feather the tilting grading bucket with no issue.

More updates next weekend once I get the other stuff here. Then the mystery grease fitting on the dipper stick actually feeds the fitting in the stick (above the bucket pin).