Since we've gotten the new tractor, it has rained. And rained. And rained. It gives me time to do things like customize the bucket etc. Today in between rain and sleet, I got to play more with the forks. We picked up a couple of stacks of pallets to put yard stuff on to move out of the way so we can eventually work on that area should it ever quit raining. The forks I have are 36" so I load the pallet accordingly, keeping more weight towards the inside. In moving some rocks, I find they add up quick weight wise. As one would thing rocks would. I put a few more on that it wanted to lift the first time- in my mind thinking I was in the area of 500 pounds. Either I was wrong which is entirely possible- or I am expecting to much.
My thought was to experiment on a better day with some known weight. What should I expect weight wise to be able to lift if a pallet was evenly loaded? From the ground up vs moving a pallet off the back of a truck? I noted too that there isn't much power to curl / tilt the forks back with much load at all. Does this seem normal? I'm running the hydraulics at WOT. They plumbed the backhoe through an extra set of remotes. It doesn't seem to make a difference if that is powered up or not.
My thought was to experiment on a better day with some known weight. What should I expect weight wise to be able to lift if a pallet was evenly loaded? From the ground up vs moving a pallet off the back of a truck? I noted too that there isn't much power to curl / tilt the forks back with much load at all. Does this seem normal? I'm running the hydraulics at WOT. They plumbed the backhoe through an extra set of remotes. It doesn't seem to make a difference if that is powered up or not.