The Question I forgot to Ask My Dealer - New Hydraulic Implement Start Up

[welyell]

I just purchased a Land Pride SA20 Hydraulic Post Hole Digger, hydraulic driven to hook up to my 3rd function on the front end. I picked up an extra gallon of hydraulic fluid to replace whatever flows into the unit the first time I hook it up - BUT - I don't know if there is a procedure for starting up a new unit like this. Is there a process to bleed off the air while initializing it, or will the hydraulic system just naturally aspirate any air introduced into the system? Thanks in Advance for the responses

 

[kthompson]

Hook it up and open the valve to operate it. I would do this is tractor engine idling. It should not take but a minute or two to fill the hyds on the auger.

 

[5030]

Hook it up and open the valve to operate it. I would do this is tractor engine idling. It should not take but a minute or two to fill the hyds on the auger.

+1.... no bleeding required.

 

[SDT]

The augur is continual flow so it will self bleed.

That said, you may want to avoid getting the cheap tractor fluid already in the augur into your HST.

I would open the return line into a container and flush it before connecting to the tractor return.

SDT

 

[welyell]

Thanks All!!!