TODAYS SEAT TIME

[jinman]

Wish I'd have had this setup a LONG time ago. Future plan is to make a permanent setup with a 2' rise from the forks to get the reach to 10'.

Eric, if your loader curl cylinders hold without bleeding down, you have a much better seal than I have seen on these tractors. Mine would sure droop too quickly to use for a platform, and I've seen one other almost new TC40DA that drooped quickly too. My guess is that when you get a few more hours on your tractor, you'll need someone in the seat to keep the curl "touched up" or the platform will droop too quickly.

I don't have a problem with what you are doing because you are really not that high off the ground and even if you had to jump, it wouldn't be too high. I'd be more worried about having the platform touch the house and it scrape the siding as it started to droop.

 

[Thomas]

Gordon G.
Yep yesterday was gusty but great day for woods work..never broke sweat..my kinda weather.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Used Bigger Blue for portable scaffolding and took pictures just to give fits to Der Saaftee Poliza.

Much easier than messing with scaffolding or moving ladders!

That makes a nice staging and probably alot safer than the pumpjacks we used to use back when there were no Saaftee Poliza or at least if they were around they were more reasonable.
I use the bucket to hold up the end of a plank when I stain my house. It says put about an hour before I have to pump it up again.

 

[The Haymaker]

Eric, if your loader curl cylinders hold without bleeding down, you have a much better seal than I have seen on these tractors. Mine would sure droop too quickly to use for a platform, and I've seen one other almost new TC40DA that drooped quickly too. My guess is that when you get a few more hours on your tractor, you'll need someone in the seat to keep the curl "touched up" or the platform will droop too quickly.

I don't have a problem with what you are doing because you are really not that high off the ground and even if you had to jump, it wouldn't be too high. I'd be more worried about having the platform touch the house and it scrape the siding as it started to droop.

They droop, as does the lift. SLOWLY..... Still takes far less time to start and move occasionally than it does to fight with ladders and staging. For certain jobs, it'll be nice.

Speaking of, siding is DONE. 24' to peak. Started almost two months ago doing prep work and bending aluminum. All this on the three sided addition. HUGE sigh of relief.

Now for wood, interior finish work, blah blah blah.....

 

[rdoiron]

Spent several hours yesterday cleaning out a drainage ditch on my property and came across an old wheel sticking out from the muck and bulrushes. The area where I was cleaning had been over run by beavers about 20 years ago and I am recovering the land. What was under several feet of water is now dry.

A couple of minutes of digging with the backhoe and I had uncovered this very old plow. It was upside down with the driven wheel showing. It appears to be horse drawn with one wheel providing power to the control handles. Anyone know anything more about this antique?

Anyway, its now sitting as a monument on my driveway to the hardy souls that use to work this land.

 

[hawkeye08]

Warmed the tractor up to move it out of the shop (and it was raining) so I could work on daughter's car in out of the weather.

Farmer that rents our land plowed yesterday and today. 10 bottom with John Deere pulling it.

 

[logan97]

Eric, if your loader curl cylinders hold without bleeding down, you have a much better seal than I have seen on these tractors. Mine would sure droop too quickly to use for a platform, and I've seen one other almost new TC40DA that drooped quickly too. My guess is that when you get a few more hours on your tractor, you'll need someone in the seat to keep the curl "touched up" or the platform will droop too quickly.

What causes a "bleed down" ? My B78 does this on the curl and sometime the down only engages in the float position?

 

[RadarTech]

Eric, if your loader curl cylinders hold without bleeding down, you have a much better seal than I have seen on these tractors. Mine would sure droop too quickly to use for a platform, and I've seen one other almost new TC40DA that drooped quickly too. My guess is that when you get a few more hours on your tractor, you'll need someone in the seat to keep the curl "touched up" or the platform will droop too quickly.

What causes a "bleed down" ? My B78 does this on the curl and sometime the down only engages in the float position?

ya know sometimes you get those really really weird connections for things....
and for this I can see Arnold saying--- IF it bleeds we can kill it....



anyway, bleed down as I have seen explained can be anything from air in the system bleeding out, to a worn spool valve to a loose fitting or a hose with a small whole or even a cylinder with a leak somewhere.Think of the entire hydraulic system as a water system in your house. If you have a sealed 500 gallon tank, and you don't turn on any faucets, it should never go down...

My L3400 has 305 hours or so on it...
and when it was sub 250, I never noticed a leak down.. BUT about a month ago I parked it outside for the first time in MONTHS and left the bucket suspended about a foot over a log pile. After an unexpected 3 day trip out of town I came back to see the bucket resting on the wood pile. A little testing showed it took more than 10 hours to drop that foot with no load...

BUT I have noticed that if I have a large heaping bucket, that while traveling the dump will leak down ever so slightly ( bucket of dirt carried several hundred yards, or a bucket filling rock).... I think this is totally normal! I would rather it leak down a little than cause any damage ...

Hope that helps..

J

 

[angusman]

Spent half day bush hogging with new 2515 batwing...mowed great and am very pleased with overall build of this unit.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Anyway, its now sitting as a monument on my driveway to the hardy souls that use to work this land.

Right On !