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DO ANY OF YOU USE BALLAST WITH A HEAVY BACKHOE?
My previous tractor would lift 1100 lbs with the laoder and weight on scales was 5040. My new toy Kubota L35 lifts 1650 and supposedly weights about 6200 w/HD bucket and fork brackets.
Today I was pushing over a sick 8-10" diameter fir tree because I felt it was safer then cutting it. It went right over so I knew the roots were bad. Actually it leaned over. I was going to lift up on the root wad so it fell all of the way down. Being real careful as I always am, tractor hardly above idle, but caught one side of the bucket on it and in a heartbeat the right rear tire was way off the ground. Dumped it and the tire came down and I started looking for those defibrillation paddles to get my heart going again. Figured if I was conscious was probably alive so went about my business.
Is this catching a corner of the bucket thing something that is going to be a problem no matter what I do? I try to be careful not do to that just for stress on the loader. With my Ford it might have the ability to do that but the hydraulics were so much slower at ANY rpm I had LOTS of notice. This L35 at almost an idle speed is so quick it's like turning the throttle on the 500cc dirt bike iinstead o my 200.
One thing I have absolutely no skill at since I've never had the need or luxury of doing it is feathering the loader controls like I do with the backhoe. Maybe that's what I've got to practice.
What I'm asking with this thread is I was under the impression if a heavy backhoe is on the tractor you don't and/or shouldn't be using wheel weights or ballast. Are any of you using ballast AND a backhoe? I've read the archives on ballast info but I can't seem to find this covered.
Are there any other L35 owners out there in tractorland? What are you doing? I enjoy not sinking in everywhere but feel that keeping all four wheels on the ground is a concern. Of course if I had ballast and caught the root would the loader now be at a 45 degree angle?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
thanks in advance
del
[email]oldcarparts@mygarage.com [/email]
My previous tractor would lift 1100 lbs with the laoder and weight on scales was 5040. My new toy Kubota L35 lifts 1650 and supposedly weights about 6200 w/HD bucket and fork brackets.
Today I was pushing over a sick 8-10" diameter fir tree because I felt it was safer then cutting it. It went right over so I knew the roots were bad. Actually it leaned over. I was going to lift up on the root wad so it fell all of the way down. Being real careful as I always am, tractor hardly above idle, but caught one side of the bucket on it and in a heartbeat the right rear tire was way off the ground. Dumped it and the tire came down and I started looking for those defibrillation paddles to get my heart going again. Figured if I was conscious was probably alive so went about my business.
Is this catching a corner of the bucket thing something that is going to be a problem no matter what I do? I try to be careful not do to that just for stress on the loader. With my Ford it might have the ability to do that but the hydraulics were so much slower at ANY rpm I had LOTS of notice. This L35 at almost an idle speed is so quick it's like turning the throttle on the 500cc dirt bike iinstead o my 200.
One thing I have absolutely no skill at since I've never had the need or luxury of doing it is feathering the loader controls like I do with the backhoe. Maybe that's what I've got to practice.
What I'm asking with this thread is I was under the impression if a heavy backhoe is on the tractor you don't and/or shouldn't be using wheel weights or ballast. Are any of you using ballast AND a backhoe? I've read the archives on ballast info but I can't seem to find this covered.
Are there any other L35 owners out there in tractorland? What are you doing? I enjoy not sinking in everywhere but feel that keeping all four wheels on the ground is a concern. Of course if I had ballast and caught the root would the loader now be at a 45 degree angle?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
thanks in advance
del
[email]oldcarparts@mygarage.com [/email]