GENERAL INFORMATION
The purpose of this manual is to assist in setting up, operating and maintaining your backhoe. Read it care- fully. It furnishes information and instructions that will help you achieve years of dependable performance.
These instructions have been compiled from extensive field experience and engineering data. Some informa- tion may be general in nature due to unknown and varying conditions. However,through experience and these instructions, you should be able to develop pro- cedures suitable to your particular situation.
The illustrations and data used in this manual were cur- rent at the time of printing, but due to possible
■Some illustrations in this manual show the backhoe with safety shields removed to provide a better view. The backhoe should never be operated with any safety shielding removed.
Figure 1. Backhoe Directions
Throughout this manual, references are made to right, left, forward and rearward directions. These are deter- mined from the backhoe operator seat position facing rearward as shown in Figure 1.
Terms for backhoe components have some variations throughout the industry. We use SAE designations as shown in Figure 2.
1.Bucket
2.Bucket cylinder
3.Dipper cylinder
4.Boom cylinder
5.Console
6.Stabilizer
7.Swing cylinder
8.Boom
9.Dipper
10.Stabilizer cylinder
11.Swing frame
12.Main frame
Figure 2. Backhoe Components
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