Something You realized can do with your tractor...

[deepNdirt]

I 've owned my Ym now for almost 4 years and just this morning I did something with it I never realized I could do, actually never tried it before,
Not that it has anything to do with working the tractor, But I thought I would share it with those of you who might have FEL as well,
My tractor of course has a FEL and I have always been able to bring the front wheels off the ground when needed to inspect the bearings etc,etc, we all know that the rear 3-pnt is gravity down ( no hydraulic pressure ) to force it down therefor cannot lift the rear off the ground, However! if I lock out the hydraulics by turning the knob closed ( the one in front of the seat ) while the box scrape is all the way down I can then curl the front bucket lifting first the front of the tractor and then the rear by about 2 inches providing just enough to service or remove the rear wheels :thumbsup:..
No more need for draging out the ol-floor jack,
who else has stumbled upon things you can do with your tractor?

 

[deepNdirt]

OK.... I'll reveal one more thing I do with my tractor.. just to get the ball rolling Is! to Lift the FEL up level with the height of the ROPS and extend a 16 ft. walk board across from the loader to the ROPS providing a 8ft. high roll around scafolding to reach things around the house rather then having a ladder and moving it about every 3 feet,

 

[winston1]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Just yesterday I had my 3 point concrete mixer on. It is somewhat modified to make it work on my ym2002d. When I operate it I close the stop valve to lock the lift in the top position. I have an auxiliary outlet that I then operate with the 3 point control. Because of a balance situation the lower lift arms will actually kick up when I start the dump procedure. I chain it to the hitch to prevent it from doing that. Said all that to say my lift arms can be raised by hand even though the lift is locked out. I have never heard of a 3 point lift locking from going up, only down.

I like the scaffold idea. Only problem I don't have a roll bar. I do have a home made brush piler that goes on my loader and I attach a platform to that to use as a work scaffold.

 

[joshuabardwell]

However! if I lock out the hydraulics by turning the knob closed ( the one in front of the seat ) while the box scrape is all the way down I can then curl the front bucket lifting first the front of the tractor and then the rear by about 2 inches providing just enough to service or remove the rear wheels

Mr. Safety reminds you to never rely exclusively on hydraulics to hold up a vehicle. The safest thing to do is to insert blocks or jack stands once it is up. Yeah yeah, we've all done it, and yeah yeah, you already knew that, but I just had to say.

 

[joshuabardwell]

I have never heard of a 3 point lift locking from going up, only down.

I never really thought it through, but on my tractor, it says not to operate the 3pt position control when the drop rate valve is all the way closed because it will dead-head the pump. If the lockout was not preventing upward motion, that wouldn't be the case. So I guess it locks on both directions just by closing off all flow to the cylinder.

 

[npalen]

I never really thought it through, but on my tractor, it says not to operate the 3pt position control when the drop rate valve is all the way closed because it will dead-head the pump. If the lockout was not preventing upward motion, that wouldn't be the case. So I guess it locks on both directions just by closing off all flow to the cylinder.

I never figured either that the 3PT could be locked. That might be handy in a case where some tractor weight needs to be temporarily applied to a rear attachment such as a box blade cutting a hard spot.

 

[BC Dave]

a ha!; good idea on the rear lift deepindirt; interesting schaffolding idea; :thumbsup:

I have been using a schaffolding idea with bucket forks; use at you own risk AND I braced the hydraulics; using one pc 2X6ft 5/8 ply + 2 2x4 screwed to outer edges of ply evey 6in stagered; 4 pcs of plummers hanger bent and srewed around bucket forks ( min 2 screws)... good to 5 ft height with bucket fully extended... . Not only that, I ran the forks through framing and lifted ply to where I needed it to sheath a garage; the addition of a railing would be handy too; use at you own risk!

 

[tractchores]

Scaffolding idea is a good one! I sometimes use the FEL to raise my diesel can high enough to use a siphon to fill the tank when its low (annoying new venting caps make it a slow fill without siphoning).

 

[joshuabardwell]

I once used my loader to fix my pigs' waterer. It's a 55-gallon drum with pipe coming out the bottom leading to nipples. It was leaking. With the loader, I could easily put water into the drum and then raise it to see where the leak was coming from. Saved me having to crawl around in the dirt.

 

[clemsonfor]

View attachment 290964Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Said all that to say my lift arms can be raised by hand even though the lift is locked out. I have never heard of a 3 point lift locking from going up, only down.

Winston, i know u know why the arms can be lifted up when there locked, i figured id sasy this for those who dont. its because the shaft that drives the 3pt arms is not connected to the cylinder that lifts them, allowing it to be pulled free but not pushed down against the fluid, holding the pressure. i think its more that the arms are locked, which i think is irrelevant here but because he is lifting the front and the rear is anchored to ground by BB that instead of rotating on rear axle or roling rear a bit i think it just lifts the whole tractor as the curl pushes tractor backwards?