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Piggybacking off the post RR just made.
A couple of notes regarding this.
1. Buy the maintenance manuals (service) for the piece of equipment. Both the little user guide that shows how to operate and check fluids as well as the big high dollar one with exploded diagrams, etc. The actual SHOP type manual like that will likely set you back $200 or more. The last one I purchased from JD was that.
Or if your a net only type, you can probably find exploded diagrams, etc. online.
2. The nice thing about having the physical books is the notes I write in them. Filter part numbers, alternate for now hard to find fluids "Dextron II" etc. and most importantly service notes.
I am at best a casual user of heavy equipment and while I THINK I use my equipment a lot, the hour meters show that to not be the case. These notes help you in many ways.
Recently I had just done some other service to the power shuttle on my backhoe and had some friends re pack a cylinder for me. I was thinking to myself- it's likely time to change the oil in the backhoe again. I pulled my book, looked at that section and saw my notes. "Old" (previous backhoe) and "New" (current) both had notes of filter model number (different despite being same model backhoe) as well as hours on machine and date. I confirmed this via the date that was written in magic marker on the filter itself. Well darn... I had only racked up about 15 hours of use since the last oil change. That saved me some time I don't have and some money.
Noting the exact filter model numbers for oil, air, fuel, transaxle, hydraulic, etc. saves trips to town. Your local Napa, etc. may give you the wrong filter or like the above notation, there may be slight differences in filters for the same model just a few years apart or other slight variants.
I also try to plan out work that involves tracked equipment where it creates the least "travel" necessary. It's that time of the year again where our range starts to get dry enough to take the equipment off the hill and get back to work on range expansion. That means a 400 yard walk for some of the tracked equipment. I baby my stuff cause it's expensive.
So I make a list of things I want to do "along the way" to the major work. Rip out some trees for a new parking area closer to the square range, make some small berms along the big berm to protect the pop up targets, clean out the berm near the 100 yard range, stockpile some dirt near there for fill, etc. This saves the equipment "going back and forth" to work areas which saves travel which saves wear and tear on tracks.
A couple of notes regarding this.
1. Buy the maintenance manuals (service) for the piece of equipment. Both the little user guide that shows how to operate and check fluids as well as the big high dollar one with exploded diagrams, etc. The actual SHOP type manual like that will likely set you back $200 or more. The last one I purchased from JD was that.
Or if your a net only type, you can probably find exploded diagrams, etc. online.
2. The nice thing about having the physical books is the notes I write in them. Filter part numbers, alternate for now hard to find fluids "Dextron II" etc. and most importantly service notes.
I am at best a casual user of heavy equipment and while I THINK I use my equipment a lot, the hour meters show that to not be the case. These notes help you in many ways.
Recently I had just done some other service to the power shuttle on my backhoe and had some friends re pack a cylinder for me. I was thinking to myself- it's likely time to change the oil in the backhoe again. I pulled my book, looked at that section and saw my notes. "Old" (previous backhoe) and "New" (current) both had notes of filter model number (different despite being same model backhoe) as well as hours on machine and date. I confirmed this via the date that was written in magic marker on the filter itself. Well darn... I had only racked up about 15 hours of use since the last oil change. That saved me some time I don't have and some money.
Noting the exact filter model numbers for oil, air, fuel, transaxle, hydraulic, etc. saves trips to town. Your local Napa, etc. may give you the wrong filter or like the above notation, there may be slight differences in filters for the same model just a few years apart or other slight variants.
I also try to plan out work that involves tracked equipment where it creates the least "travel" necessary. It's that time of the year again where our range starts to get dry enough to take the equipment off the hill and get back to work on range expansion. That means a 400 yard walk for some of the tracked equipment. I baby my stuff cause it's expensive.
So I make a list of things I want to do "along the way" to the major work. Rip out some trees for a new parking area closer to the square range, make some small berms along the big berm to protect the pop up targets, clean out the berm near the 100 yard range, stockpile some dirt near there for fill, etc. This saves the equipment "going back and forth" to work areas which saves travel which saves wear and tear on tracks.
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