horticattleman
Silver Member
I bought a 335 over a 235 because of the 8TL loader and its lift capacity. I own a landscape company and we routinely load pallets of mulch on trailers. I loaded several pallets on a flatbed lowboy 20' er at one location with our John Deere 34 hp. Its a smaller tractor with a smaller loader and have been loading mulch with it so I assumed the new 8TL loader would load em no problem. WRONG I went to unload em and the dang thing would barely budge em and it almost tipped over, so I took off the box scraper that was on the back of it and put a HEAVY duty set of 7' Howse discs on the back. NO DICE! It would barely, and I mean barely, lift it up a couple of inches but wanted to turn over. I am sure if I slid them back off of the trailer it would tip forward. It is Cypress bark mulch that supposedly weight about 1000 lbs but was a little wet (it is still in the shrink wrap). What bothers me is the little John Deere loaded it no problem and this "big bad loader" sh*t on itself when I tried. Really really really disappointed. Now I have to spend extra money to have my guys unload it by hand.