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Cab Interior and Hydraulic Operation Check

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How NOT to buy a Skid Loader!

What happens here

Inspect the cab interior for signs of wear and tear, such as tears in the seat, rust on the pedals, and overall cleanliness. This can give an idea of how well the machine has been maintained. If the skid loader has a liftable cab, try raising it to ensure it operates smoothly and fully. This also allows for checking additional hoses and components hidden beneath. Next, start the machine and run the hydraulics through their full range of motion. Lift the bucket all the way up and lower it, ideally with a load if available, to check for smooth operation and any abnormal sounds like chattering, grinding, or shaking, which could indicate issues with the hydraulic pump, filters, or fluid. Check the grease zerks (grease fittings) to ensure they have been properly maintained and aren't dry. Lastly, inspect the hydraulic fittings and connections on the arms to ensure they are not bent, damaged, or leaking.

Goal: Evaluate the overall condition of the cab and test hydraulic functionality.

Tools and materials

  • Ears N/A — Listening for abnormal hydraulic sounds
  • Eyes N/A — Visual inspection of cab, pedals, fittings
  • Floor N/A — Inspecting for rust
  • Grease Gun N/A — Demonstrating checking zerks
  • Hands N/A — Feeling controls, checking zerks, operating hydraulics
  • Hydraulic Fittings and Connections N/A — Inspecting for damage and leaks
  • Pedals N/A — Inspecting for rust and wear
  • Seat N/A — Inspecting for tears and wear

What they say

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sold it. Now, as we go inside of the machine, look at the seat. So, if they're telling you machine's got 500 hours or 1,000 hours on it, your machine, your sheet seat should never look like that. Also, look at your pedals. Your pedals will be an indicator of how well maintained the machine was. rusty pedals, a rusty inside. Those things are all all indicators of the overall well-being of the machine before you got it. I check greaseerts, too. You know, has it been greased? Has someone been taking good care of it? You can go and see like there's been grease in there. And you can see that there's been grease in those bottom ones. Like it's recently been greased. You see back here there's grease. You can tell that it's been grease. You come in here and those are dry. Who knows if they ever had grease in there? Also look at your fittings to make sure that these aren't beat up. That the hoses themselves, the the fittings themselves are in good working order. None of them have been used, abused, and uh put away wrong. Also, oil. Check your oil levels. You're going to have an oil level here. This one needs a little bit of oil. Where's the oil level on this one? That's another thing I was going to say is then start that start that machine up and run it through its cycles. Run and run your hydraulics. If you got scattering or shaking or you know when you when you lift it all up and it's doing this and you're good on oil, you might have something with the pump. You might have pump you might have something with the filters that are it could be just filters that are getting clogged. But yes, um chattering is a beautiful your machine is shuttering while you're lifting up and you're not knowing you're buying a a a fixer upper. I would walk away from it at walk away. I wouldn't even try to do the filters first. Also check your arms. We've actually New Holland we lost the arms. They snapped right on us. The New Holland LS190 snapped on us on a job while we were loading a truck. They just snapped. So, you want to look through even this one is covered. You can still see that all of the the welds are good on the arms. And the arms on a set of on a piece of equipment like this are back then it was 12 grand for an arms and this was two three decades ago. Now they're probably closer to double. Probably closer than what you paid for a full skid steer back then. Yeah. Yeah. So the arms the cab also look at the cab. Is the cab beat up? Is the cab beat up where the arms could be…

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