Don, one of the first times I was using a tractor much the way you describe a fellow told me you never do that. He mentioned you will rupture a line or break something. I have a gauge on my loader that shows the pressure on my dump cylinder circuit. If I back drag, it shows very clearly that the pressures go up very fast. I can very quickly peg it at over 5000 PSI in the blink of an eye. If I were to do the opposite and go forward as you did with the momentum and/or power of the tractors drive with the bucket tilted as your first picture shows and hit either a tough object or an immovable object, I am sure I would pop my gauge and could easily see 6000, 7000, 8000 or more PSI. At some point, somethings going to give. It's better to be a hydraulic line then anything else. You are correct, it is your fault, it's learning it the hard way but your experience should help others avoid it. Is anyone listening? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif