Caterpillar does not make a backhoe in china that is sold in the USA. Are you smoking wacky weed again?
It always amazes me that "rubber hoses" can with stand the amount of pressure need to move the parts of an excavator and stay flexible for years exposed to UV !
Wow, you really think its the rubber that holds the pressure. You do realize that they are mostly braided steel with a small amount of rubber inside to seal the braid and sometimes, depending on the hose, some on the outside. The uv striking the outside cover has little to do with the integrity of the hose. Most of the time when the outside covering is peeling off the work cycles and movement at that point have made steel braid failures imminent and when it breaks a couple of strands the rubber liner blows out.
Deere’s small excavators are Hitachi, made in Japan. Deere and Hitachi just dissolved their large excavator joint venture where they made Deere and Hitachi branded machines in the US.
www.equipmentworld.com
Not seeing a backhoe there, buddyChina-made Caterpillar 307E2 compact excavator debuts in U.S., fills gap in lineup
The new Cat 307E2 7.2-metric-ton compact excavator is positioned to fill the gap between the company’s 5.5-metric-ton 305.5E2 and 8-metric-ton 308E2 machine, says Sherrie Williams, product application specialist. At a Cat press conference in November, she announced that 150 of the models, which...
here you go buddy
Go back and read the thread and then read it again. Nowhere did I mention backhoe, My chinese reply was to FrancisJ who was looking at mini excavators and stated he was not interested in anything chinese and would prefer something us made like cat!
Firebrick said cat doesn't make a backhoe in china for the US, to which you replied with that link.
This is a backhoe thread(cat mostly makes them in the UK for the USA market) , and Francis mentioned both backhoes and mini ex. And your reply is the vaguest statement that I have heard in a while,China-made Caterpillar 307E2 compact excavator debuts in U.S., fills gap in lineup
The new Cat 307E2 7.2-metric-ton compact excavator is positioned to fill the gap between the company’s 5.5-metric-ton 305.5E2 and 8-metric-ton 308E2 machine, says Sherrie Williams, product application specialist. At a Cat press conference in November, she announced that 150 of the models, which...
here you go buddy
I never mentioned a backhoe that why
It definitely is a backhoe thread, my reply was to you and where are you stated you were interested in a mini excavator but nothing Chinese, And you specifically said caterpillar would be an option I was simply pointing out that Caterpillar is building excavators in China for the US market, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if caterpillar has the most Chinese manufacturing out of any supposed domestic heavy equipment manufacturer. I’m no fan of China, and recently purchased a brand new excavator, I did my homework and settled on Yanmar. My previous machine was a John Deere built by Hitachi and I still have a John Deere backhoe. I spent six months researching the purchase of the mini before pulling the trigger, through that I found a lot of people defending cat and considerate myself as my brother-in-law manages a fleet of them. After hearing of several issues with the newest models I decided those were not an option.
I never said I was interested in a mini excavator?????????
Correct I apologize I got mixed up with Francis Jay who was the original person I replied to and then everyone wanted to pile on and say that I was wrong, Francis posted that he was interested in a mini definitely nothing Chinese like caterpillar. This is why I replied to the previous person saying to go back and reread the thread, unfortunately this has gone off the rails and partially my fault, that’s what I get for trying to look at my phone with older eyes. If people go back to my first reply in this thread they will see who I was replying to and everyone wanted to jump on me stating that I was wrong, it seems I’m the only one who actually posted facts. Firebrick sorry for dragging you into this I apologize. As for the others who stated I was wrong I’ll say it again go back and look at my original comment and what I was replying to.
You're forgiven.
I think we could use some emotional support on Garage Journal.
Then people wonder why threads get shut down and/or people get banned.
me, too.