rbtjr
Gold Member
We have a Kubota L3800 with a Kubota LA524 FEL. We have a sickle mower we will use to mow around the edge of a pond. The sickle mower weighs 540 pounds. A majority of this 540 pounds is on the right side of the tractor--the side the water is on, where the mower bar extends. We will not be mowing any obviously dangerous slopes, but as an extra precaution I am thinking of putting some counterbalancing ballast weight in the left side of the FEL bucket when we use the sickle mower around the pond. I could use 8" concrete block, which weigh about 38 lbs each, and put a bunch of them on the left side of the FEL bucket. I could make a little plywood barrier to hold the blocks on the left side of the FEL. By my calculations, I can easily put 450 lbs of blocks in the left side of the FEL bucket. I could get this up to almost 700 lbs if I let the blocks protrude a little over the center of the bucket. My question is whether or not putting this load on only one side of the bucket would run the risk of damaging the FEL. Any opinions?