Nacademus
Gold Member
Hi there,
-I'm sure this had been beaten to death many many times but I want to vent.
I have a 2018 Massey Ferguson GC1720. If I had paid closer attention before purchasing it to the way that the linkages need to carefully fold away when not in use and how the hydraulic hoses need to be run somehow to not get kinked or split when the backhoe is installed or 3pt arms are moving, I might have considered other makes.
I am always worried about how my lift arms move down while I adjust the MMM height while mowing since I cannot move one without the other. Sometimes I don't have anywhere to store the backhoe so I need to mow with my 1720 fully kitted.
There are 3 hydraulic hoses that have about 2ft or so in length that hang off the back of the tractor.
When the backhoe is not in use, one hose needs to be connected to another to complete a circuit, and another capped-then they just sort of hang there, which we can't have.
THEN, you have to find what to do with them. I cannot loop them around the top mount and tuck them under the fenders or anything since that would be too tight of a loop. I have to sling a bungee cord to my ROPS or somewhere and wrap them, suspending the hoses in such a way that they are clear of the 3pt moving parts. Even so, I am incredibly worried that I will damage them accidentally through normal use of my tractor.
Growing up, the few tractors I had been around had couplers mounted on the rear and the implements generally provided the line to them. I just assumed this was normal.
**** Anyone have any ideas or examples on how others have addressed this? ****
The owner's manual nor service manual doesn't show or suggest a safe routing for them or way to stow them. If you get a GC1720, you simply get a book for the tractor, one for the loader, and another for the backhoe-neglecting mention of what to do with any lines while not in use.
Even with the backhoe on, they either hang below the tractor when looped (I avoid this because something might snag it) or, I need to S curve them somehow to remain higher off the ground and secure up top with a bungee below the foot deck of the backhoe. The backhoe left and right position ram occupies the same space and worries me it could snag in there, too.
Ugh.
I thought maybe I would purchase a piper or round stock to look through my lower link arm eyelets at the ends to help keep them from flopping around, but that wouldn't stop the adjustable and static lift linkage from the 3PT arms from moving and doing damage.
Also, my lift arms are scratching the ever-living **** out of my backhoe subframe. When they go up and down while moving, the jostling causes the adjustment pegs to scrape the inner surface of the subframe. I will probably need to get some color match paint to assure these gouges won't rust.
-I'm sure this had been beaten to death many many times but I want to vent.
I have a 2018 Massey Ferguson GC1720. If I had paid closer attention before purchasing it to the way that the linkages need to carefully fold away when not in use and how the hydraulic hoses need to be run somehow to not get kinked or split when the backhoe is installed or 3pt arms are moving, I might have considered other makes.
I am always worried about how my lift arms move down while I adjust the MMM height while mowing since I cannot move one without the other. Sometimes I don't have anywhere to store the backhoe so I need to mow with my 1720 fully kitted.
There are 3 hydraulic hoses that have about 2ft or so in length that hang off the back of the tractor.
When the backhoe is not in use, one hose needs to be connected to another to complete a circuit, and another capped-then they just sort of hang there, which we can't have.
THEN, you have to find what to do with them. I cannot loop them around the top mount and tuck them under the fenders or anything since that would be too tight of a loop. I have to sling a bungee cord to my ROPS or somewhere and wrap them, suspending the hoses in such a way that they are clear of the 3pt moving parts. Even so, I am incredibly worried that I will damage them accidentally through normal use of my tractor.
Growing up, the few tractors I had been around had couplers mounted on the rear and the implements generally provided the line to them. I just assumed this was normal.
**** Anyone have any ideas or examples on how others have addressed this? ****
The owner's manual nor service manual doesn't show or suggest a safe routing for them or way to stow them. If you get a GC1720, you simply get a book for the tractor, one for the loader, and another for the backhoe-neglecting mention of what to do with any lines while not in use.
Even with the backhoe on, they either hang below the tractor when looped (I avoid this because something might snag it) or, I need to S curve them somehow to remain higher off the ground and secure up top with a bungee below the foot deck of the backhoe. The backhoe left and right position ram occupies the same space and worries me it could snag in there, too.
Ugh.
I thought maybe I would purchase a piper or round stock to look through my lower link arm eyelets at the ends to help keep them from flopping around, but that wouldn't stop the adjustable and static lift linkage from the 3PT arms from moving and doing damage.
Also, my lift arms are scratching the ever-living **** out of my backhoe subframe. When they go up and down while moving, the jostling causes the adjustment pegs to scrape the inner surface of the subframe. I will probably need to get some color match paint to assure these gouges won't rust.
