</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I can't see how it would damage the cylinder unless you sheared off the stop tabs. Maybe I'm missing something )</font>
When I mentioned cylinder pressure, I was talking about backdragging with the cutting edge, not going forward. Going forward, with the bucket in full dump may not put pressure on the cylinders, but it could stress the bucket and loader arms if pressure were encountered unevenly, bending something. To me, the bucket in that position is at about it's weakest point. I may be wrong, but I'm not taking any chances either!
Backdragging with the cutting edge, in float, will allow the bucket to lift up over an encountered obstacle and not allow the pressure to follow up the bucket to the cylinder rods and bend them. I'm probably not explaining this very well, so I hope you get what I mean.
John
When I mentioned cylinder pressure, I was talking about backdragging with the cutting edge, not going forward. Going forward, with the bucket in full dump may not put pressure on the cylinders, but it could stress the bucket and loader arms if pressure were encountered unevenly, bending something. To me, the bucket in that position is at about it's weakest point. I may be wrong, but I'm not taking any chances either!
Backdragging with the cutting edge, in float, will allow the bucket to lift up over an encountered obstacle and not allow the pressure to follow up the bucket to the cylinder rods and bend them. I'm probably not explaining this very well, so I hope you get what I mean.
John