LoneCowboy
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TN75DA, 32LC loader
So, after having a wee issue with a hose coming undone on a job and finally have some time and energy to take the loader off, we went after it last night. This was one of the reasons I wanted a utility so I could easily remove the loader and not have it there (and i bought weights for it, to balance it, but it shortens it considerably, easier to manuever).
Anyway, we find the poles to hold it up (interesting design, had to be shown where those were), hook those up and put the bucket down. Ok, stare at the loader brackets for a while and say "hey, it's just this one bolt and the whole thing should lift right out and then you disconnect the hoses"
so, we unbolt the bolt (after like 30 trips back and forth to the toolbox to get the right size socket.) and fire up the tractor and push down.
it slides forward a little bit, but not up and out.
huh?
this should work.
I look at it some more, get the wife's agreement, nothing holding it in, but it's just sitting in that top little hole and there's nothign there.
give it more fuel, maybe not enough hydralics to get it out.
nothing.
what is going on?
start over.
Finally, shut it down and I'm climbing around and I stand in the bucket (about 2 ' off the ground, held by the poles) and think "why doesn't this go down"
so I jump up and down
THUMP
that did it
quickly exciting ride to the ground.
Must have just been stuck
Funny though.
Wow, MUCH easier to see out of with no loader
Getting the weights on is a whole nother story
So, after having a wee issue with a hose coming undone on a job and finally have some time and energy to take the loader off, we went after it last night. This was one of the reasons I wanted a utility so I could easily remove the loader and not have it there (and i bought weights for it, to balance it, but it shortens it considerably, easier to manuever).
Anyway, we find the poles to hold it up (interesting design, had to be shown where those were), hook those up and put the bucket down. Ok, stare at the loader brackets for a while and say "hey, it's just this one bolt and the whole thing should lift right out and then you disconnect the hoses"
so, we unbolt the bolt (after like 30 trips back and forth to the toolbox to get the right size socket.) and fire up the tractor and push down.
it slides forward a little bit, but not up and out.
huh?
this should work.
I look at it some more, get the wife's agreement, nothing holding it in, but it's just sitting in that top little hole and there's nothign there.
give it more fuel, maybe not enough hydralics to get it out.
nothing.
what is going on?
start over.
Finally, shut it down and I'm climbing around and I stand in the bucket (about 2 ' off the ground, held by the poles) and think "why doesn't this go down"
so I jump up and down
THUMP
that did it
quickly exciting ride to the ground.
Must have just been stuck
Funny though.
Wow, MUCH easier to see out of with no loader
Getting the weights on is a whole nother story