Assessing Backhoe Condition and Problem Areas

new seat to put on it too all right that are in neutral we'll set our parking brake lower our bucket actually we're going to leave the bucket up just a little bit and we'll dump it down so water runs out of it as we clean there's a handle right there and pull that handle I can rotate my seat around and we want to extend this as far as we can bring it out and then down I'm doing this one-handed so push that guy out it just it's smooth is it it can be smooth as silk tight as a tick and we'll Park it just like this and that way we can wash everything here now this machine only has about 2200 hours on it and went on tractor house or tractor data or something like that one of those auction sites to check out what this thing would bring if I went to sell it machines like this with five six thousand hours or going for fifteen sixteen thousand dollars so we got a smoking deal once I get to washing this thing we'll raise a bucket clean up underneath there just need to clean it up make it look pretty we decide to sell it and if not I don't know I don't know I can rent a backhoe when I need a backhoe and not have to maintain this thing but the deal I got in it it's almost too inexpensive for me to get rid of so I don't know I'm kind of on the fence about it let's wash it up so we just got years of grime and gross stuff right here is just it's just mildew in the South where I live it's very humid and this mildew will grow on anything we've got like moss or lichen growing on here this is the pipe of us telling you about it's probably yeah it's not too hot but you can see it's kind of shaky as you can tell so I'm gonna have to cut that pipe off and put a new muffler bracket on there hold it in place good and this is what the operator station looks like it's just got dirt in there and the seat is all roached out and gone but everything else is really solid I could do a nice restoration nice krylon restoration on this it only has one leaking cylinder and that's the cylinder right here it doesn't leak a ton but it probably needs to be repacked or new seals put in it we greased up everything there are a few grease fittings like this gigantic mess I made that would not take grease so this is what the loader arm looks like oftentimes I think you judge a backhoe on the amount of slop in