Transporting with the loader in the air

[LoneCowboy]

I don't know that I have ever seen a loader that would pin in place. A backhoe yes.
p.

Me either
that's the point
You have to chain (restrain) it down.

 

[Reg]

Did you say a Kubota owner ?
or did I just guess that ?
(-:

 

[AKfish]

Me either
that's the point
You have to chain (restrain) it down.

Not that I would ever transport my JD 110 TLB with the loader up for any significant distance (I wouldn't..).

But, the loader has a "safety block" on one of the boom cylinders that pins in place and stops/holds the loader in the air. This allows you to work in the engine compartment, etc. without fear that the loader could drop and injure someone.

AKfish

 

[Reg]

I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe it was BROKEN in the raised position and he was scared to try fixing it - in case he succeeded and it came down QUICK !
SO - he was off the the repair shop with it.

No ?

 

[mjncad]

I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe it was BROKEN in the raised position and he was scared to try fixing it - in case he succeeded and it came down QUICK !
SO - he was off the the repair shop with it.

No ?

If that was the case, he could have relieved the pressure and lowered the loader; or built a temporary scaffold to support the loader while lashing it down to his trailer.

 

[niemeyjt]

I was behind a big Semi Truck one day going down a divided highway ...he was in one lane and I was in one next to him but I was about 200yrds behind him when he ran up under an overpass at about 60 MPH...sure did stop him quick and peeled the top of his trailer back like it was a tin can..I had to keep going due to traffic...but I'll bet from now on he pays attention to the clearance signs on the bridges and overpasses...LOL

I have to go under a railway bridge with a max 8ft / 2.5M to take daughter to school bus each day. Most weeks there are pieces of amber beacons around where another white van man has forgotten to add the height of the beacon to the height of the van when doing his sums . . . oops!

But the real fun comes, like last week, when a 44 tonner ignores the warning signs until they reach the bridge then have to reverse back. SatNavs are not a replacement for eyes and a brain!

J

 

[Reg]

If that was the case, he could have relieved the pressure and lowered the loader; or built a temporary scaffold to support the loader while lashing it down to his trailer.

You assume a greater level of mechanical knowledge and expertise in that stranger than we often see displayed by some members of this forum (-:

Some folk just have spare money (more often spare credit) to go out and buy dirt toys with very unclear ideas WRT their use or operation - as evidenced in the countless threads of the general type "Help me decide between (manufacturer/size/transmission/tires/etc.)" and the only clue given is the size of their acreage.

Mayhap the poor dude didn't even figure that the way to get the loader DOWN is to push the lever FORWARDS ?
Sometimes it is just about THAT BAD on this forum (-:

{Err, Yeah, I think thats right...
Back for up, forwards for down, left for curl, right for dump ?
Maybe I should go out and check that ? }

This post is subject to later correction, I accept no responsibility if you get hurt or do damage based on what I just typed.

 

[Soundguy]

and that's assuming a standard joystick configuration.. not some custom job or a twin stick wetup..

soundguy

 

[tlbuser]

{Err, Yeah, I think thats right...
Back for up, forwards for down, left for curl, right for dump ?
Maybe I should go out and check that ? }

This post is subject to later correction, I accept no responsibility if you get hurt or do damage based on what I just typed.

Plausible deniability, gotta love it

 

[Reg]

and that's assuming a standard joystick configuration.. not some custom job or a twin stick wetup..

soundguy

Funny thing happened this morning;
If I use my left hand it gets all opposite.

Try it sometime; Sit on the hoe seat so you can use your left hand on the FEL joystick.
A weird world we live in, but other worlds may be weirder and we may never know about those (-:

 

[whodat526]

i haul tractors all the time from texas and oklahoma back to louisiana all the time from tractor auctions with the loaders raised in the air when i have to many tractors on the tralier to let it down cause i dont wont to crush the fenders and the others but i always use angle iron and hose clamp on the cylinder rod and let the loader down against them to hold the cylinders up so i dont blow any packing in them but i wouldn't try and leave it raised if i didn't have them under them cause i have had packings blow just from leaving it up on the lot and i have seen the rods bend when hauling cause of the bumps

 

[mjncad]

Mayhap the poor dude didn't even figure that the way to get the loader DOWN is to push the lever FORWARDS ?
Sometimes it is just about THAT BAD on this forum (-:

Could be, and maybe the guy is the same dolt that left a driveshaft in the middle of I-76 for a buddy and me to dodge coming back from the local transportation museum the other day.