Recently acquired Ford 3550 loader/backhoe

   / Recently acquired Ford 3550 loader/backhoe #1  

rajandura

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Just picked up my first backhoe. Drove it off the trailer and blew a hose for the bucket curl first time using it! Surely a sign of good times to come. As luck would have it, I had to remove most of the other hoses to get to this one, so I decided just to replace them all while I was in there. Still waiting for them to be made. Here are the tags from the machine. Any info would be appreciated! Seems like a great machine.
 

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   / Recently acquired Ford 3550 loader/backhoe #2  
Grand ole machine. My first backhoe was a used 4500 TLB. Cheerful in all weathers. Cleanest engine oil of any diesel I’ve ever owned.
Replaced some easy hoses. Those ones in the boom to the tractor always worried me but never leaked.
The shop manual set for those machines are some of the best written and explained repair guides I’ve seen. 9 books new from Ford was $110 back then.
Enjoy!
 
   / Recently acquired Ford 3550 loader/backhoe #3  
Nice! Feb 24, 1970 build.
750 model backhoe, 10'
735 model loader

Isn't 53 years old when we all start blowing hoses?
 
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