Mx5100 let me down!

Bluegill2 · Mar 15, 2012

I used to pay little attention to loaded tires (a real pain when ya get a flat) and rear ballast when using FEL. I learned the hard way and have come to realize it's most important. When ya load the bucket, all the weight is on the front end and weight is taken off the back end, seesaw effect. And on a FWD, the front is doing all the pullin and is much weaker than the back end.

I just had to rebuild the front-end on our old 3750, because of years of FEL work with no weight on the rear and no fluid in the tires.

cdaigle430 · Mar 15, 2012

I thought thats why weight ballast boxes are sold? I really dont see a problem with the tractor. The problem is the operator not knowing his machines capacity yet and whats needed to get the job done.

dex3361 · Mar 21, 2012

General Lee said:
The thing is we don't know the actual weight of the furnace he lifted. The weight was estimated. I do agree tractors should be engineered to lift a full bucket of "common" material, such as loose stone, wet dirt, etc. Sometimes the loader on my L4400 disappoints me and sometimes I'm OK with it. I do think the hydro pressure is set to low and one of these days I'll get it checked. A couple weeks ago I was loading asphalt millings into a small dump truck. On a heaping bucket full, I was unable to lift to max height. I was able to clear the sides of the dump truck to dump but was disappointed it wouldn't lift another foot or so to get to max height. Tractor rear stayed put, I had 1,000 pounds of ballast. I'd like to know how much a bucket full of millings weighs?

My L4400 was a little weak till I set the pressure to spec. Now it does rather well.