skipro3
Silver Member
I have a 4344 HST Montana tractor and I'm wondering how much load the front end loader will lift. Here's what happened; I have a 18ft flat bed trailer I built stake side bed for. This trailer holds just a little over 10 yards of what ever you want to put in it, up to the top of the stake sides. I loaded it full with horse manure/stable scrappings. I lowered the foot on the front of the trailer and unhooked it from my truck. I wanted to crank the foot so as to tilt the trailer a bit to aid in unloading the manure. To aid with that, I placed my FEL under the tongue hitch on the trailer to lift. Nada. Wouldn't move. Even curling wouldn't lift the trailer front end an inch. So I had to crank, and crank, and CRANK!
I thought I saw somewhere the front end will lift 2500 lbs but I might be wrong on this. That would mean by ball weight was more than the lift capacity for my tractor?? It drove fine down the highway at 55 mph loaded and the rear at the ball only sagged 3 inches from the stock ride height.
I thought I saw somewhere the front end will lift 2500 lbs but I might be wrong on this. That would mean by ball weight was more than the lift capacity for my tractor?? It drove fine down the highway at 55 mph loaded and the rear at the ball only sagged 3 inches from the stock ride height.