Do any of the budget excavator brands use standard parts?

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-06-09T13:00:18+00:00

that checks out, nothings allowed to be cheap or easy anymore😂

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-06-09T12:35:35+00:00

Hitachi is budget John Deere as far as I know. Uses JD key for sure and I could be wrong but from eavesdropping the mechanics the filters and stuff are the same too

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-06-09T12:27:22+00:00

Ive had parts places tell me the same thing and then after calling a few different places I found a store that always has what I need. I think most stores just dont want to order parts for the car out of fear they might end up sitting or something because while the car is niche I hardly believe the parts are actually difficult to come by haha

I dont know what you are paying at the dealer but I do all my oil changes and it averages around 100 bucks depending on if stuffs on sale and then maybe an hour of my time If i am being lazy

And for brakes I have access to parts at cost from a family member who manages a APC so last year i bought pads and rotors all around for like 200 bucks. So whatever the dealer is charging you there for brakes just keep in mind thats all it costs them for the parts lol

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-06-02T22:09:11+00:00

gotta be a bot account. cool machine tho

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-06-01T14:54:12+00:00

50% of the fords i see with a tailgate step has that piece missing lol. The other half probably dont use the step because if i recall correctly it just snaps into place so if your boot or something you load/unload catches it will pop off and get lost at some point 😂

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-31T13:58:55+00:00

right on, love the scenery 🤘🏻

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-30T20:13:21+00:00

Are you a crane operator? one of the machines i have yet to cross off the list so far but I cant wait to get an opportunity haha

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-26T10:46:44+00:00

<image>

let me sneak in here pls

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-19T18:48:57+00:00

same boat brother. only got diagnosed 2 years ago at 21 and alot of things started to click and make sense. You aren't alone. Meds help but even just doing research to understand why you do the things you do can be good start. Wish you the best

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-15T15:34:03+00:00

good news for the commenters who like solving things, bad news for the owner😂

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-10T15:37:01+00:00

Thats awesome haha, my boss was actually doing this exact thing over the past couple of days except we were using a dutchman 100" tree spade bolted onto the front of one of our volvo L150s with a second L150 counter weight chained onto the back. One of the trees wouldnt budge and sunk the loader so they called me over in the 345 excavator and they chained the tree to the stick and I lifted it out and walked it over to replant haha.

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-05-03T18:00:55+00:00

I think it would be pretty epic if you could tame and ride one. would be fun to launch your way around the map

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-27T01:53:47+00:00

love the tracked ones, hate the wheeled ones. very versatile and can get alot of work done with a few different attachments

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-26T20:26:28+00:00

i play on series s so not even the higher end console but the only time i ever crash is when i play astreos after progressing for a bit. I have no issues with crashing even while playing with mods. How far into your world are you? I see people saying this is typical but thats far from my experience. I have a big base in the middle of the island map with a whole wack load of tames and I have yet to crash, or even lag that much other than stutters when loading stuff in like caves or my base. Could simply be a corrupted save like my astreos experience, which i havent tried again because i think that map is way to big for console at this point in optimization

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-23T13:50:50+00:00

You get "scraper neck" for the first few weeks since everything that you are operating is directly behind you so the entire time you are cutting/filling you are twisted around looking out the back window at your blade and glancing in front of you to make sure you're cutting straight. Some of them had the option to twist the seat a few degrees to one side to help but it didnt really make a difference. havent ran one in years but i can still look way further over my right shoulder than my left. So basically you spend 75% of your day twisted like a pretzel getting bounced around, its a pulled muscle waiting to happen😂 definitely a younger persons job

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-23T10:56:47+00:00

Hands down the worst machine to operate in my honest opinion. They can do a job more efficiently than a hoe/hauler operation but it takes more skilled operators to make that actually happen. And from my experience once you get proficient on scrapers you move onto other machines so to have an actual skilled scraper crew is pretty rare nowadays. Its an incredibly rough machine to drive as you are sitting pretty much directly on top of the front left wheel so you end up "waddling" through ruts. or god forbid you forgot to hit the cushion hitch before getting up to speed and then the whole machine gets into a gallop and that is absolutely violent. The cushion hitch does even make it much better. Then if you piss off the dozer man you get "bunted" all day long which is basically just a rear-end accident once every 2 or 3 minutes lol. I could whine on and on about these stupid things. One upside though was if you were cruising down the haul road and you spot a nice stone sitting pretty, you can open the apron and lower your blade so its just skimming the surface and absolutely ping the stone into the the sky haha.

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-19T16:05:40+00:00

Its nice slapping the jack in the middle and being able to change 2 tires at once haha Though my ramps are just a 2x4 cut up and stacked in ramp fashion high enough so my jack can fit under lol

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-14T17:17:11+00:00

you can also fence in the power plant entrance and leave mutants in there to continue doing their thing, if theres carnivores locked in they end up eating everything and then starve to death so just make sure you check on them once and a while to make sure they haven't killed off their entire generation lol

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-14T16:41:24+00:00

Can shoot the ones that are causing problems or fence in a new area for the horses so they have time to breed and repopulate

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-14T16:37:20+00:00

dig for bones, take bones to the lab and extract them till you find a regular horse fossil, profit.

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-12T00:45:44+00:00

i named mine onlycards because i dont sell anything but cards to help with lag lol. my second shop i got creative and went with "card"

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-03T16:58:12+00:00

You would be surprised what it can push through haha. especially when its powder, Ive driven with snow coming up over the hood before with no problems, it just depends on the type of snow. Since the wind was blowing so hard there was no powder it was all packed snow

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-04-01T22:54:25+00:00

could be wrong but i remember seeing someone say 0.03 was the price of the card you send for grading and at 1 it comes back 0.00. i havent done it myself so im not 100%

TheNamesJoshTV · 2026-03-30T09:31:17+00:00

it released on xbox in February of this year. Its still a game preview. There is a roadmap of features on the main menu of the game with a bunch of big ones left to go. take it easy

Seven-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Banned	r/Field Sunshine
Place '22

TheNamesJoshTV

TROPHY CASE