woodlandfarms
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- Joined
- Jul 31, 2006
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- Location
- Los Angeles / SW Washington
- Tractor
- PowerTrac 1850, Kubota RTV x900
I think one of the gags I am going to build this winter is pressure guages for my system.. Put it on the list is what the wife says...
Anyway, so when we were home for Thanksgiving I moved some dirt to level off a section of road. The soil is clay, wet as all heck. The bucket I use is a larger bucket than stock... My lift capacity is 1200lbs I think.
Anyway... So I would ram the dirt pile, get a scoop in which would fill the bucket half way (I mean fill it if I pushed it all the way back and leveled it out). And I could not get any more lift. the bucket would just stay in the position. To me it seems that half a bucket of wet clay should not way 700lbs.
So, I was thinking of finding / borrowing some sort of scale and bolting to the ground and lifting the other end to see if I can get 1200lbs of lift. Does this make sense or is my drug addiction addling my mind?
I do plan to replace my cylinders this fall to get more like 1800lbs of lift...
Carl
Anyway, so when we were home for Thanksgiving I moved some dirt to level off a section of road. The soil is clay, wet as all heck. The bucket I use is a larger bucket than stock... My lift capacity is 1200lbs I think.
Anyway... So I would ram the dirt pile, get a scoop in which would fill the bucket half way (I mean fill it if I pushed it all the way back and leveled it out). And I could not get any more lift. the bucket would just stay in the position. To me it seems that half a bucket of wet clay should not way 700lbs.
So, I was thinking of finding / borrowing some sort of scale and bolting to the ground and lifting the other end to see if I can get 1200lbs of lift. Does this make sense or is my drug addiction addling my mind?
I do plan to replace my cylinders this fall to get more like 1800lbs of lift...
Carl