New guy question about unhooking implements.

[Ford850]

If you drop the loader down after shutting the tractor off, the weight comes off the tractor and the tractor rises up a bit. That might be what you are seeing, but it's not lifting the tractor. It's relaxing everything, removing any stress. Sometimes I think I hear my tractor 'sigh' when I drop that loader weight to the ground after a hard day or working it.

 

[YVS]

Thanks for the help. I'll play around with the float on the FEL and I'll also have to get smart about greasing and maintaining all the moving parts of my cutter.

 

[jeff9366]

Do not grease the PTO connection. Grease is too thick. It will bunch up when you try to push female coupler on tractor splines and prevent you from completing connection. Use Eureka Fluid Film if you have it. WD-40 is second choice.

 

[k0ua]

Do not grease the PTO connection. Grease is too thick. It will bunch up when you try to push female coupler on tractor splines and prevent you from completing connection. Use Eureka Fluid Film if you have it. WD-40 is second choice.

Another vote for the Fluid Film on the PTO shaft. Best thing I have found for this.

 

[boggen]

typical shut down procedures on all equipment...

---turn engine off.
---move all joysticks / levers and like for all hydraulics in all directions a couple times to let pressure out of the hydraulic system. and make sure everything is setting on ground and not up in air.
---set parking break.

if you do not need anything on rear end / 3pt hitch. for counter weight (say using FEL (front end loader). then would be suggestion is to unhook stuff from 3pt hitch.

with that said. many folks leave stuff attached to 3pt hitch. for just that counter weight. for FEL work. it could be a rear blade, box blade, weight box, etc...

rotatory cutter ( laman term bush hog,bush hog = brand name) due to overall weight and more so how far they stick out behind the tractor, you generally need some sort of "front weights" or FEL (front end loader) to counter balance the rotatory cutter and keep the front wheels on the ground.

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to above NEVER trust hydraulics to keep something up in the air. it is way to easy for something to happen. and have everything come crashing down in an instant trapping you or someone else. it does not matter if tractor is on or off. just don't trust hydraulics. ya there man lifts, etc.. but they generally have extra "saftey" devices in place. tractors on other hand = cheap, quick hydraulics, with min safety.

 

[PA hayseed]

Do not grease the PTO connection. Grease is too thick. It will bunch up when you try to push female coupler on tractor splines and prevent you from completing connection. Use Eureka Fluid Film if you have it. WD-40 is second choice.

so true. When my tractor was new i was a grease monkey, everything got greased including me. Now I know better and the PTO connector gets a regular spraying of wd40. I'll have to look into this Eureka Fluid Film, well , after I go through the many cans of wd40 i have laying around. Thanks.

That fine floating stuff (grass/weeds/dirt/dust)while mowing, will find it's way into and onto everything greased and it won't leave it no matter how nicely you ask it to.

 

[k0ua]

so true. When my tractor was new i was a grease monkey, everything got greased including me. Now I know better and the PTO connector gets a regular spraying of wd40. I'll have to look into this Eureka Fluid Film, well , after I go through the many cans of wd40 i have laying around. Thanks.

That fine floating stuff (grass/weeds/dirt/dust)while mowing, will find it's way into and onto everything greased and it won't leave it no matter how nicely you ask it to.

Try some Fluid Film. I think you will be pleased. It don't attract crap as bad as the grease. Just why I don't know. I am pretty happy with it overall.

 

[GManBart]

Try some Fluid Film. I think you will be pleased. It don't attract crap as bad as the grease. Just why I don't know. I am pretty happy with it overall.

True, and it's easy to wipe off if necessary.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Fluid Film is great stuff and I use it all the time, but it does smell a little funky to me. The little balls inside the female PTO coupler on my Woods RFM didn't want to retract when I pulled back on the collar, which made attaching the PTO to the tractor an exercise in frustration. A couple of applications of Fluid Film on the balls, and rolling them around to make sure they were completed lubricated, did the trick.

So, the end result is that I used Fluid Film on my balls and now they work great but smell funky.

 

[TSO]

Fluid Film is great stuff and I use it all the time, but it does smell a little funky to me. The little balls inside the female PTO coupler on my Woods RFM didn't want to retract when I pulled back on the collar, which made attaching the PTO to the tractor an exercise in frustration. A couple of applications of Fluid Film on the balls, and rolling them around to make sure they were completed lubricated, did the trick.

So, the end result is that I used Fluid Film on my balls and now they work great but smell funky.

That's funny... Me and KenB2920 were just talking the other day about how much we like the smell of FluidFilm! TomAto TomAHto right? I use both the spray can for lubricating, as well as the concentrate for undercoating. Love the stuff.