Front-End Loader My New Coldwater Front-End-Loader (FEL) experience

[Marveltone]

Welcome to the FEL club! Awesome photo essay on the install. Now you can sell your wheelbarrow.

Joe

[kd5hnw]

Good on ya! That's a nice installation. You will find so many things that loader will be useful for, and you'll wonder how you ever got by without.

Don't want to be the safety police or anything, but please be safe when operating the loader. Your Yannie hasn't got a ROPS and will be easy to roll if you get that loader up high with any weight in it. Suggestions:
Keep it low when moving and watch out for potholes and uneven ground. Keep that boxblade on in back or something else that's heavy, and think about ballasting your tires if you haven't already done so.

And don't let your wife know how easy it makes garden and landscape chores or your "honey do" list will get out of hand!

Thank you...

The ballast and a ROPS are excellent ideas - I appreciate the suggestions - being a new users sometimes the obvious, common sense ideas are not so common or obvious

I am already fixin to water/antifreeze the tires as soon as it warms up a little. I am going for a 70/30ish mix.
The ROPS will be on the list for a future mod (sooner always better than later). Most of our property is flat, but that one time... nuff said.


- james

[kd5hnw]

Just short note follow up on note my 'new' Coldwater FEL.

We (me and now all my neighbors) have all been really using the FEL. Have only had one problem to date. The middle hydraulic piston broke. One of the pins came off and I did not do a walk around check before working, thus it was off center and the tension was too much. Use error, not FEL fault. Solution was simple too, went to Tractor Supply and got a piston off the shelf, all fittings were standard so we were back up in running in very short time.

Also the back tires now have water/antifreeze in them... great traction and much nicer ride too.

- james

[spruce Deere]

Excellent.

Fluid in the rear tires is nice. You will be able to pull more, lift more and have better stability, Its a good investment.

Having a machine with 'common' parts is nice to. Down time in the middle of projects is a real buz kill