I love Chris's honesty. A lessor man would have cleaned up the block and hoses and then claimed to have put on the zip ties himself. Nice to know there are real men in NC.
That was definitely a nice surprise. And were the cows really excited, or were they merely entertained. I'm disappointed we didn't get to see it all nice and shiny clean! Thanks.
Oh all the YT channels I follow, this is the one that makes me the most happy to see the 'New Video' notification. I have to say it was impressive how accurate Chris was placing those load spreading boards on the trailer. Especially with a machine he has little experience on.
The best tools for working in tight places among hydraulic lines is a set of Snap On 30*/60* open end wrenches. I used the heck out of mine under the back deck of backhoe's for a number of years.
I recently bought an older Kubota mini ex to start my own little excavation business and it came setup to run john deere style. I too run cat pattern, and well I spent all my money on the machine and transporting it to the house from Dallas N.C so I was too cheap to swap the hoses and lose the fluid to change the pattern, lol...anyway now ive done changed my hands over and have gotten used to running john deere again, smh...Im gonna change it back eventually, I just never did quite like john deere style, it doesnt seem as natural to me. Love the videos, Chris. Keep up the good work, we all appreciate it.
In the words of fellow youtuber Andrew Camarata would say "well that is Fixed" lets get to work. Both take pride in the work that is done. Great small business owners on here anyone see why none are shy on getting work. Enjoy the videos and the building of an awsome dream homestead. Next is an enclosed shop built with others like Cotton top and logger wade with a hog roast.
@letsdig18 really looking forward to your videos on this machine, my Hitachi needs some cylinders done as well.I was thinking about sending them off .... we'll see Thanks buddy really Appreciate what you do and the time you dedicate to us very inspiring
I’m a hitachi and John Deere service fitter in Australia and I had to do a similar job on a EX8000 digger after a shut down some hoses weren’t correctly connected to the pumps/regulators and pumps weren’t ramping up and ramping down and power increase wasn’t working. Painful but got it sorted in the end. Wish the big diggers has everything so close! Haha good work though mate!
Okay, this can't be a good sign. The swamp pads are being loaded, therefore something is going swimming. I like the idea of randomly replacing the pilot lines back on the valve. A new unforeseen pattern could be very entertaining. LMAO !
On last night's video, we saw him prepping a pond for mud removal, so that's what I'm assuming that the mud mats were being loaded for. I'm also assuming that this Hitachi video was shot the same evening after he drained the water and pushed some mud, and was probably going to haul the mats to that jobsite the next morning (which has probably passed us by already).
I wish I’d known this when I was a machine operator. We were swapping from Hitachi to Hymac and JCB which were all different. It was a nightmare. Great tip.
Bit late commenting - but most modern machines have an easily accessed lever, rotary control, or push/pull knob to switch between A and B setups. For example - th-cam.com/video/Wj2fXp2Gcdc/w-d-xo.html
We have a 2 year old 250 John Deere that came with iso when new. We also run two gradalls that have sae on them. That is one hell of a learning curve when you go from one machine to another.
I learned on a Cat and have tried a different machine or two and it's like trying to be left handed when your right dominant, dangerous if anybody is to close! Glad it was an easy swap!
If you decide to keep it longer that the Link Belt will you add a cylinder for the thumb? I'm kind of spoiled on watching hydraulic ones! Good video as always.
So that's why they sell those 1000 peice buckets of multi colored zip ties! That was a great idea and made that a breeze to keep track of and swap. That's awesome!
You know the true wrencher someone who has done the work when they know to turn the wrench around when in tight spots that makes me like you even more Chris
Pretty much amazing that someone color coded the lines and fittings. I would have destroyed everything operating that in JD-backhoe controls. I prefer cat-iso on excavators but not on backhoes. Thanks for the information!
Kobelco Engineers were more thoughtful as to the location of the manifold than Hitachi's....but on the bright-side, you will never have to do that again :-).......Good Luck with her!
That new pattern is what you find a rb auction when someone had some screw up and just connected those hoses up, tried one before, right foot track forward was right rotate and reverse was boom down. And so on, it was interesting... almost hit the lot beside me
Hitachi in Malaysia is an inversed version of ISO control pattern.Arm and swing remains at the left joystick but only the pattern is slight different.Swing inverse to arm and arm inversed to swing.Boom and bucket remains the same pattern.
You can change them under the underbelly just behind the cab. 4 hoses right together also. I've done that to a couple of my Hitachi and John Deere excavators.
@@erinloyd5535 shoot it's been a long time. What machine do you have? My John Deere which is identical to the Hitachi but I think years 92 to like year 97 is what mine covers. But most the time they are all the same unless it's newer. But mine there is a pilot block under a small panel. Hoses going in from the engine side and hoses heading out to the joysticks. There are 4 hoses that are closest to the swing on that block that are coming from the engine side. I'd say if you are sitting in the cab they would be the 4 hoses on the right side of the block on the engine side. Just cross those hoses in an x pattern and that should change it if it's one of those years of Deere or Hitachi.
Aren’t most major excavator companies now making them to where you can switch them between the 2 operating patterns. Also were y’all swimming it from backhoe to excavator or from excavator to backhoe?
Sweet Machine. Sounds Good, and will look great when it gets its new Hitachi Orange paint job. I can see it now! Nice!!!!! Time for more pasture expansion, and another "Huge Ass Bonfire".
Ran a kobelco long reach excavator about a year ago for a few days mucking out a pond . It had a tower behind the cab that had 4 different control settings . Not one of them was my controls (John Deere ) . I would say someone had done some hose switching on it at some point . First time I have seen a machine with 4 different settings .
You might want to think about sending a little gift to that mechanic who printed out the diagram for you since it saved you a service call! A little honey goes along way.
@mark spannar I was referring to the two big rust spots we can see at the panel to the hydraulic block and the counterweight as two really needed places to get fixed, to me, anyway. shrug
Chris, I heard you say you weren't happy with the thumb that came with your machine....Have you looked at USA attachments? They are out of King, NC- not far from you. They sell buckets, thumbs, manual quick couplers etc. I have been using their stuff for years and really like it. Not expensive either.
If it had operated on some pattern no one has heard of after you hooked it up, that pattern would be known from now on as the Letsdig18 International Pattern. LOL
yay they were labeled correctly for the original pattern. seeing your now control pattern, if those are reversed I would not be able to deal with it very well.
I once performed this operation on my old cat 225blc. I had to “guess”. The hose location was behind cab and I had to crawl up and under it with oil running down all over me. - I run deer because I grew up as a backhoe joystick operator. - I wonder what a universal pattern changer block would cost? Where to buy?
I worked on hyd 35 yrs and when I get the hyd fluid on me it was a pain in the butt to get it off. And boiler oil also them 2 is the worsted to get off in my opinion.
If you really wanna mess with your buddy, change the lines around so the sticks don't go in any direction they normally point, up is down, right is left, out is in, etc.
I modified a wrench for working on hoses on a manifold. Took and cut a bite out of the box end so it still mostly wraps around but has enough opening to clear the hose at the narrow part. Still need a good quality wrench to do that with or the cut box end will flex easily and just not be worth doing. Can still put some torque on it it's a decent quality. Sure makes life easy on that one job but now the wrench is still only good at the box end unless you get another manifold job. I make and modify tools all the time. Cut one in half to make the handle longer and things like that.
@@aaronpreston47 I know exactly what you're talking about. I use them on brake lines and the like all the time. I'm a heavy equipment mechanic and the last time I did this to one of my wrenches it was 1 1/8" wrench. Never seen a line wrench that large. Maybe they exist but can't find them on the tool truck.
Maybe someone can catch me up. You said the other day that this was “your” new machine for the farm and to pick up a few jobs. I had just assumed that the equipment you run daily was you and your family’s. Also as a new subscriber I would enjoy if you could give a ballpark idea of where you are working on each job. Ex. Fuquay, Coats,, Wake Forest etc 😊
Chris works for his uncle. His uncle owns the company and machines. Chris's grandfather started the company years ago. When granddad got out, his uncle took over/bought out the company. You can tell by the videos, that Chris is a lot more to his uncle than just a "operator". He is sitting in a great position if you ask me!!! Pretty sure he knows it.
Cant wait to see this baby in action hitachi is on of the most popular brands over here in Ireland. But hi watching other people operating them is torture. If only I was at those controls 😔
I love Chris's honesty. A lessor man would have cleaned up the block and hoses and then claimed to have put on the zip ties himself. Nice to know there are real men in NC.
I'm smiling. Sometimes it's just the small victories/successes that can improve our disposition for the whole day. Nice going, Chris.
That was definitely a nice surprise.
And were the cows really excited, or were they merely entertained.
I'm disappointed we didn't get to see it all nice and shiny clean!
Thanks.
They were utterly tickled in the high grass
Oh all the YT channels I follow, this is the one that makes me the most happy to see the 'New Video' notification. I have to say it was impressive how accurate Chris was placing those load spreading boards on the trailer. Especially with a machine he has little experience on.
The best tools for working in tight places among hydraulic lines is a set of Snap On 30*/60* open end wrenches. I used the heck out of mine under the back deck of backhoe's for a number of years.
I recently bought an older Kubota mini ex to start my own little excavation business and it came setup to run john deere style. I too run cat pattern, and well I spent all my money on the machine and transporting it to the house from Dallas N.C so I was too cheap to swap the hoses and lose the fluid to change the pattern, lol...anyway now ive done changed my hands over and have gotten used to running john deere again, smh...Im gonna change it back eventually, I just never did quite like john deere style, it doesnt seem as natural to me. Love the videos, Chris. Keep up the good work, we all appreciate it.
In the words of fellow youtuber Andrew Camarata would say "well that is Fixed" lets get to work. Both take pride in the work that is done. Great small business owners on here anyone see why none are shy on getting work. Enjoy the videos and the building of an awsome dream homestead. Next is an enclosed shop built with others like Cotton top and logger wade with a hog roast.
Chris, I know that feeling well. Same as when I fixed the Loader on my tractor with new cylinders and hoses.
I want you to know I look forward to your video's like a favorite TV show and when the notification isn't in my inbox I'm pissed.
Same here
Yep, this is my dinner entertainment every day. This is my reality TV.
@letsdig18 really looking forward to your videos on this machine, my Hitachi needs some cylinders done as well.I was thinking about sending them off .... we'll see
Thanks buddy really Appreciate what you do and the time you dedicate to us very inspiring
I’m a hitachi and John Deere service fitter in Australia and I had to do a similar job on a EX8000 digger after a shut down some hoses weren’t correctly connected to the pumps/regulators and pumps weren’t ramping up and ramping down and power increase wasn’t working. Painful but got it sorted in the end. Wish the big diggers has everything so close! Haha good work though mate!
Chris, I love it when one's day is absolutely made by something that other would laugh at, saying...."......THAT made your day?!"
Okay, this can't be a good sign. The swamp pads are being loaded, therefore something is going swimming.
I like the idea of randomly replacing the pilot lines back on the valve. A new unforeseen pattern could be very entertaining.
LMAO !
On last night's video, we saw him prepping a pond for mud removal, so that's what I'm assuming that the mud mats were being loaded for. I'm also assuming that this Hitachi video was shot the same evening after he drained the water and pushed some mud, and was probably going to haul the mats to that jobsite the next morning (which has probably passed us by already).
It's the simple things in life that bring the most joy...
Yup. Left to right and top to bottom and visa versa. And you got real controls
Chris called it a repair, but you know it's really an upgrade, not a repair. 😉
Gotta be nice to have that thing around even just for loading things for your real job. Glad this part went easily for you.
I wish I’d known this when I was a machine operator. We were swapping from Hitachi to Hymac and JCB which were all different. It was a nightmare. Great tip.
Bit late commenting - but most modern machines have an easily accessed lever, rotary control, or push/pull knob to switch between A and B setups.
For example - th-cam.com/video/Wj2fXp2Gcdc/w-d-xo.html
Hello from Barbados! I still watch your post on vacation 😂
Chris, when you fired it up I was shocked at how quiet the motor run. Purrs like a kitten. Love the video and I can't wait to see it in action.
Hard to believe this was only 4 years ago and now running 2 nice Volvo 220’s and the Hitachi 330. 👍🏼
We have a 2 year old 250 John Deere that came with iso when new. We also run two gradalls that have sae on them. That is one hell of a learning curve when you go from one machine to another.
Must be one heavy manual thumb...I see a cylinder in your future 👍
I learned on a Cat and have tried a different machine or two and it's like trying to be left handed when your right dominant, dangerous if anybody is to close! Glad it was an easy swap!
I always remembered it as Boom/Bucket Stick/swing. The mats must be a glimpse into the future.
We know he loves to play in the mud....
You owe that prior mechanic a beer!
Finally a good quality video to watch on TH-cam 🤣
I was wondering how you would keep the different patterns in check while using the different machines. Now I know. Great videos!
If you decide to keep it longer that the Link Belt will you add a cylinder for the thumb? I'm kind of spoiled on watching hydraulic ones! Good video as always.
Thanks your video saved me the trouble and research. Mine was not labeled but they are now😊
So that's why they sell those 1000 peice buckets of multi colored zip ties! That was a great idea and made that a breeze to keep track of and swap. That's awesome!
You know the true wrencher someone who has done the work when they know to turn the wrench around when in tight spots that makes me like you even more Chris
Pretty much amazing that someone color coded the lines and fittings. I would have destroyed everything operating that in JD-backhoe controls. I prefer cat-iso on excavators but not on backhoes. Thanks for the information!
Awesome discovery. I have used zip ties for this before on the farm. Especially comes in hand when attaching equipment that you don’t use regularly.
Kobelco Engineers were more thoughtful as to the location of the manifold than Hitachi's....but on the bright-side, you will never have to do that again :-).......Good Luck with her!
I've operated both, and I prefer Kobelco over Hitachi.
@@maineman11 I do like mine!
That new pattern is what you find a rb auction when someone had some screw up and just connected those hoses up, tried one before, right foot track forward was right rotate and reverse was boom down. And so on, it was interesting... almost hit the lot beside me
Hitachi in Malaysia is an inversed version of ISO control pattern.Arm and swing remains at the left joystick but only the pattern is slight different.Swing inverse to arm and arm inversed to swing.Boom and bucket remains the same pattern.
Never mind the cows - I’M excited!
I think that the Cat pattern is also known as the ISO pattern. Rings a bell anyway.
Blimey, Wikipedia has a page for 'everything'! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator_controls
Very interesting.
Cat Pattern = ISO pattern.
John Deere Pattern = SAE pattern.
other pattern is SAE
Like a kid with a new toy,nice going man.
That’s my favourite excavator company
Great feeling when you have a win.
I really love watching your videos. I work for a company that supplies hydraulic kits for excavators.
Chris the kinda guy who works on excavators in flip flops.. ;-) 🇬🇧
What a heartwarming story.
Thanks for the video been watching you since you started your channel
Should have called Logger wade. He owns John Deers and a CAT and does a lot of hydraulic work on all of them.
It's nice to be pleasantly pleased occasionally! I, like you, would have changed the pattern too!
This is one of your better videos, SUCCESS!
one of his better videos WHAT??? all Chris videos are top notch thanks Chris you just probably helped out many folks.
My hat is off to that mechanic 🧰!
You can change them under the underbelly just behind the cab. 4 hoses right together also. I've done that to a couple of my Hitachi and John Deere excavators.
Which hoses go where?
@@erinloyd5535 shoot it's been a long time. What machine do you have? My John Deere which is identical to the Hitachi but I think years 92 to like year 97 is what mine covers. But most the time they are all the same unless it's newer. But mine there is a pilot block under a small panel. Hoses going in from the engine side and hoses heading out to the joysticks. There are 4 hoses that are closest to the swing on that block that are coming from the engine side. I'd say if you are sitting in the cab they would be the 4 hoses on the right side of the block on the engine side. Just cross those hoses in an x pattern and that should change it if it's one of those years of Deere or Hitachi.
How Sweet was that !! already color coded for ya !! lololol.... Always nice when ya get to save a few Bucks... Have a Great Evening Chris....
Nice, I was missing your farm excavator duties.
Interesting video.Does that let air into the system? Also I think you said this machine has a manual thumb. Could you explain how that works.
This would be the first time iv ever seen a machine that new without a select valve behind the cab or under the seat.
The old switcharoo trick 99, well that worked. At least someone saved you some head scratching there bro
Aren’t most major excavator companies now making them to where you can switch them between the 2 operating patterns. Also were y’all swimming it from backhoe to excavator or from excavator to backhoe?
Sweet Machine. Sounds Good, and will look great when it gets its new Hitachi Orange paint job. I can see it now! Nice!!!!! Time for more pasture expansion, and another "Huge Ass Bonfire".
Thanks so much for the upload! I just bought one, grew up on takeuchi all the way back to orange tiger pilot machines and not a cat pattern regular.
So excited, thought you were gonna have to call works alot there for a minute!!
Ran a kobelco long reach excavator about a year ago for a few days mucking out a pond . It had a tower behind the cab that had 4 different control settings . Not one of them was my controls (John Deere ) . I would say someone had done some hose switching on it at some point . First time I have seen a machine with 4 different settings .
That monster ... he left the tale on the zippl tie
The tiny Kubota a neighbour asked me to drive recently because I let on I'd used one 25 years before had a simple switchover mechanism.
Uncle is about to miss this man!
Never Happen!!!!
Very interesting. Now I understand how a digger can change machine and run it just as well.
Do Hitachi have mm or inch?
You went from John Deere pattern to THE CORRECT PATTERN! 😎
Careful with that. One hose in the wrong place could turn your machine into a democrat.
Please leave politics out of a fun channel. Comments like that are counter productive to the harmony in here.
Sorry to the guardians of the forum that I offended the harmony and un-foxiness... I'll try not to cause offense in the future.
Yeah make her feel right at home!
You might want to think about sending a little gift to that mechanic who printed out the diagram for you since it saved you a service call! A little honey goes along way.
OK, Chris. Time to be thinking about body work and paint.
Yes. I dare you to paint it like this:
doubledare.fandom.com/wiki/Sundae_Slide
haha
@mark spannar I was referring to the two big rust spots we can see at the panel to the hydraulic block and the counterweight as two really needed places to get fixed, to me, anyway. shrug
You saved yourself a bit of beer money by doing that yourself. 👍
Well, that turned out to be easy!!
My hydraulics class cleanliness next to Godliness.
Lucky for you somebody was thinking ahead.
Chris, I heard you say you weren't happy with the thumb that came with your machine....Have you looked at USA attachments? They are out of King, NC- not far from you. They sell buckets, thumbs, manual quick couplers etc. I have been using their stuff for years and really like it. Not expensive either.
NICE!!!! ( always wondered how you could change that!!! )
Looks like your getting ready to go mudding!
If it had operated on some pattern no one has heard of after you hooked it up, that pattern would be known from now on as the Letsdig18 International Pattern. LOL
yay they were labeled correctly for the original pattern. seeing your now control pattern, if those are reversed I would not be able to deal with it very well.
I once performed this operation on my old cat 225blc. I had to “guess”. The hose location was behind cab and I had to crawl up and under it with oil running down all over me. - I run deer because I grew up as a backhoe joystick operator. - I wonder what a universal pattern changer block would cost? Where to buy?
It’s getting serious breaking out the mats lol I’m going to have to come a check out Beaty one afternoon
I worked on hyd 35 yrs and when I get the hyd fluid on me it was a pain in the butt to get it off. And boiler oil also them 2 is the worsted to get off in my opinion.
Are you shitting me?
I have been looking how to do this for weeks on my excavator. I finally figured it out, and here is now a video to do it. Fuck
Nice purchase. If that is all you had to do to it. I can't say that about my ex120-2 but however it does run well
If you really wanna mess with your buddy, change the lines around so the sticks don't go in any direction they normally point, up is down, right is left, out is in, etc.
You need to get you a set of angle head wrenches for working on those hydraulic lines 😎
I modified a wrench for working on hoses on a manifold. Took and cut a bite out of the box end so it still mostly wraps around but has enough opening to clear the hose at the narrow part. Still need a good quality wrench to do that with or the cut box end will flex easily and just not be worth doing. Can still put some torque on it it's a decent quality. Sure makes life easy on that one job but now the wrench is still only good at the box end unless you get another manifold job. I make and modify tools all the time. Cut one in half to make the handle longer and things like that.
Robert Palmore they make line wrenches just for that.
@@aaronpreston47 I know exactly what you're talking about. I use them on brake lines and the like all the time. I'm a heavy equipment mechanic and the last time I did this to one of my wrenches it was 1 1/8" wrench. Never seen a line wrench that large. Maybe they exist but can't find them on the tool truck.
Robert Palmore sorry forgot they didn’t make them that big. If you ain’t got a tool make a tool.
@@aaronpreston47 No worries.
@@aaronpreston47 they are called tubing wrenches, we used them a lot on aircraft, I have a set up to about 1"
I don’t speak english, i understand nothing 🤦🏼♂️but your Channel is very good.
Off topic : Notifications didn't work. Best to check the channel every day ! 😃
From JD pattern to Cat pattern nice Chris old Betsy Hitachi working nice again Chris 👍👌⚠️
hello, I work on this machine, winter has come and I want to change the antifreeze, can you tell me how much liquid is in the entire system?
I used to be sold on that deere pattern. Switched over to cat controls lately and i will not be going back. i get it
I'm a believer!
Maybe someone can catch me up. You said the other day that this was “your” new machine for the farm and to pick up a few jobs. I had just assumed that the equipment you run daily was you and your family’s. Also as a new subscriber I would enjoy if you could give a ballpark idea of where you are working on each job. Ex. Fuquay, Coats,, Wake Forest etc 😊
Chris works for his uncle. His uncle owns the company and machines. Chris's grandfather started the company years ago. When granddad got out, his uncle took over/bought out the company. You can tell by the videos, that Chris is a lot more to his uncle than just a "operator". He is sitting in a great position if you ask me!!! Pretty sure he knows it.
explain carefully, patient, the video are so nice and clear
That was a nice surprise that the hydraulic hoses were marked!
Please do a video on deep cleaning your new machine. Thanks for the video!
wow galing. paturo naman😅
Excellent video!
Cant wait to see this baby in action hitachi is on of the most popular brands over here in Ireland. But hi watching other people operating them is torture. If only I was at those controls 😔
Whats the thing in the center of the pit? I have smaller hitachi and that part has a glitch. IM guessing its the break?
Sweet machine. Holy 🐄🙂NICE JOB 👍
bonus, now for seals and shims.
Do you have any plans about going to a hydraulic thumb?