stevenf
Platinum Member
I finally have started using the new tractor and I've got a question. I know you guys swear by the tilt meters and all but my sales guy told me that he uses the clinch method and that way he has his eyes on his work at all times which seems to make sense to me. When he starts eating the vinyl off of his seat its time to stop. My question is I had a bull dozer at the ranch a couple of years back and he dozed a level site for the house he left me three piles one of them is a thousand or so yards of fill that I have decided to move it is 20ft or so tall and 40 to 50 ft around, I've started moving it but it is packed pretty good so using the tooth bar that Henro recommended (which is stout its the H&H brand) I'm pulling up close to the pile and rolling the bucket down so teeth face ground then exert pretty good pressure on bucket and teeth which in turn drives downward thru the pile, I then backup a bit and pickup a full bucket. In the process of pushing the teeth thru the pile it lifts the front of the tractor a couple of feet in the air is this OK or will it hurt my loader and hydraulics everything is done at very slow speeds. I'm not experiencing any safety concerns but I rodeo'd for numerous years and I don't scare easy and just wondered if this type of useage is apt to hurt the tractor. I know some of the folks with the smaller tractors are probably shaking their heads but this is a pretty good size tractor and I'm using it the way I intended just not sure if I could go about this differently and maybe have less chance of tweaking the loader arms or something.
Steve
Steve