Baby Grand
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FEL lifting capacity
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rustedduck
Member
If you want to keep from loading your shorts, use ballast.
The first time i lifted a rear tire, I was amazed how little
weight was involved.
The first time i lifted a rear tire, I was amazed how little
weight was involved.
Robert F.
Bronze Member
I hope that those of you saying that you only have braking in the front wheels when in four wheel drive are meaning "engine braking" and not braking with the brake pedal. My JD 2305 only brakes at the rear wheels when applying the brake pedal. I think most if not all tractors are the same.
Bob...
Bob...
carpenter383
Platinum Member
When the tractor is in 4x4 the front and rear wheels are "tied togeather" So when the back brakes are applied the front wheels brake too.
patrick_g
Elite Member
When unballasted weight in the bucket makes the rear wheels light it reduces their traction and the available braking force. Applying the brakes shifts more weight forward making the rear wheels useless for meaningful braking. If you only have brakes on the rear wheels you don't have brakes when the FEL is heavily loaded and you have insufficient ballast in the rear, preferably behind the read wheels.
Pat
pat32rf
Veteran Member
The instructions that came with my JD4300 gave very specific data on how much ballast you should have when your FEL is installed. I have the rears loaded and always try to carry another couple of hundred pounds of impliment or ballast on the 3pt but it still isn't up to specs. You wouldn't believe how much difference the proper ballast makes until you've tried it...
I can hook the FEL under my float and lift one rear tire enough to remove it and take it to the tire shop to have a new valve stem installed though ;-)
I can hook the FEL under my float and lift one rear tire enough to remove it and take it to the tire shop to have a new valve stem installed though ;-)
20 20
Elite Member
I was on level ground and in 4w drive. It was a VERY stupid thing to do anyway. I was tired and in a hurry luckily nothing happened. From then on I have changed my ways. Accidents aren't worth crap{especially dumb ones} parts are expensive and lives are not replaceable.
Robert F.
Bronze Member
I don't get it, what was a stupid thing to do?
Robert F.
Bronze Member
This does not make sense to me. If I have all four tires off the ground using the fel and the backhoe outriggers, and with the brake pedal depressed, and in 4WD, I can turn the front wheels both forward and backward but cannot move the rear wheels. Engine braking though does hold back the tractor from gaining speed going down a hill with both front and rear wheels.
There is obviously something here that I don't understand.
Robert F.
Bronze Member
Pat, I believe that my JD 2305 is adequately ballasted, I have the rear tires loaded with rim-guard, and I always have either the backhoe or the weight box on. The dealer that I bought the tractor from does not sell a tractor with a fel without including a weight box. My weight is filled with concrete and weighs about 800 lbs. I also have carried something very heavy on the pallet forks and had to go down a small hill to get to the basement garage to my shop. When I do that, with something very heavy I go down the hill backwards and that feels much safer. With the loaded tires and the weight box, I cannot lift the rear tires, the fel does not have the capacity to do that and my guess is that that is what Deere has in mind with their guidelines for proper ballasting which I meet.
