wjkrostek
New member
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2004
- Messages
- 24
- Location
- palmer ak
- Tractor
- ford 3000 JD5310 Ford947 JD5525 Farmall 400
I'd like to put a pressure gauge on a JD 542 tractor loader to use as a scale to get a rough guide as to what large bulk bags of oats might weigh. I figure that will be better than a guess. Once I do some testing with some bulk fertilizer bags of known wt. and some known 50 lbs sacks of feed. So I figure that I should be able to weigh up to 2000 lbs using a pressure gauge. The 542 loader has two lift cylinders with a guess of 1 sq. inch each so I should be able to lift 2000 lbs with about 1000 psi. I don't want to take the cylinders apart to get the exact sq inch but I shouldn't have to. I know the loader lifts the ton bags of fertilizer but I have no idea of the pressure. Some of you guys have a lot of experience and I have none. Any idea which gauge to use or how much abuse a gauge can take. I was going to try a 3,000psi oil filled one But maybe that is to high. Will the gauge break if I stop it to fast on the way down and cause a spike in the pressure? Any ideas will be a help.