Loader Brand new BX2380 Front End Loader Issue/Damage

[airbiscuit]

We are coming up on 2 years since mummer43 had this (looking back on it, terrible) experience.

What was the outcome ? What finally happened and what was done ?

OP hasn't made a single post since June 2017

 

[atitus74]

Pictures taken with a Galaxy phone always end up upside down when posted on the webs, for some reason. If you click it to enlarge it, it appears correctly oriented.

Ok so this helps. You need to curl that bucket, that is for sure. Do you have a furniture dolly, wheel dolly or mechanic's creeper? If you can put it under one side of the loader bucket just so you swing it around a quarter turn then hook the tractor up to it. The whole bucket + loader weights about 500lb but you don't need to lift the whole thing just need a little relief so you can move it. a few pieces of cardboard underneath may even be enough.

 

[TheMadOne]

Ok so this helps. You need to curl that bucket, that is for sure. Do you have a furniture dolly, wheel dolly or mechanic's creeper? If you can put it under one side of the loader bucket just so you swing it around a quarter turn then hook the tractor up to it. The whole bucket + loader weights about 500lb but you don't need to lift the whole thing just need a little relief so you can move it. a few pieces of cardboard underneath may even be enough.

The whole thing is on a mat, I wonder if he could hook it to the 3pt somehow and give it a yank around?

For that matter, would the 3pt have enough range that if he chained a loader arm to it and lifted he could get the whole loader to come up enough to get under it?

 

[aczlan]

View attachment 595815Pictures taken with a Galaxy phone always end up upside down when posted on the webs, for some reason. If you click it to enlarge it, it appears correctly oriented.

That makes it clearer, is there room to back in alongside of it, so that the right side of the tractor is next to the hoses coming off of the loader?
If not, I would rotate the loader so that you can back up next to it. Then you just need to hook up the hoses, curl the bucket and extend the cylinders on the loader towers (where they connect to the tractor side of the loader frame).
If that is not feasible, take off the quick connects for the bucket dump/curl circuit over an empty bucket (or other liquid tight container) and then you should be able to stand in the bucket and curl it so that the part that connects the tractor goes up enough for you to drive the tractor in and get the hydraulics hooked up.

Aaron Z

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Do you have a neighbor with a FEL that can come over, sling lift it, and reposition it for you?

 

[atitus74]

If that is not feasible, take off the quick connects for the bucket dump/curl circuit over an empty bucket (or other liquid tight container) and then you should be able to stand in the bucket and curl it so that the part that connects the tractor goes up enough for you to drive the tractor in and get the hydraulics hooked up.

This came to mind when I saw it had SSQA but I wouldn't do it all by himself, even with the bucket off it may be really difficult to lift those arms I imagine they are still quite heavy. It may also be really difficult to get the loader arms on without the bucket attached, it may throw the geometry all off. Agreed that would be last resort. Slide some cardboard under the bucket and the arms and use the tractor to pull it around a quarter turn. So the hoses can get hooked up. I think this is the safest way.

 

[sixdogs]

I've always wondered how this turned out. Suppose they called it operator error and weren't sympathetic to the owner?

 

[grm61]

I've always wondered how this turned out. Suppose they called it operator error and weren't sympathetic to the owner?

Nothing to do with the op But I like your signature

 

[aczlan]

This came to mind when I saw it had SSQA but I wouldn't do it all by himself, even with the bucket off it may be really difficult to lift those arms I imagine they are still quite heavy. It may also be really difficult to get the loader arms on without the bucket attached, it may throw the geometry all off. Agreed that would be last resort. Slide some cardboard under the bucket and the arms and use the tractor to pull it around a quarter turn. So the hoses can get hooked up. I think this is the safest way.

Sorry, I must not have been clear. I would not remove the bucket at all. I would remove the hydraulic quick disconnects for the bucket. When you do that, the bucket will curl by gravity and that will lift the back where the towers need to go to connect to the loader frame on the tractor.

Aaron Z

 

[jsteinhauer]

Okay, you're probably all still anticipating the outcome. As you may recall, the nearest dealer said they would call me back within a week to let me know when they would come out. The dealer is [REDACTED]. Nobody ever called back, which is pretty par for the course in this armpit of the world, but I was annoyed nonetheless. So I decided to wait until a nice day (today was the first one that I did not have to work). I could have used the snowblower, if I needed it, and I did once. FWIW, it snowed several inches here this past Sunday night. Since it was near 70F and dry today, I could leave the garage doors open, for the space and ventilation, and if I screwed up, I can yield my side of the garage to the wife and just park in the driveway, without having to worry about winter anymore. I used a floor jack to lift it up enough to slide some cardboard underneath the pressure points and just slid it around by brute force and pulled up along side of it. Flattened out the bucket as suggested which gave me enough leverage to life the arms up by myself and deploy the stand. Got the other truck out of the garage and mounted it on the tractor then went and fixed some of the potholes in the private road. It probably took an hour or two, altogether, to get it back on, but if you include all of the time I spent just looking at it and thinking about it, it was a lot more than that. A neighbor would have helped, if I asked, more than likely, but I'm a child in this neighborhood at fifty years old, and I did not want to send anyone to intensive care. I do appreciate all of the genuine helpful suggestions here, and I apologize for my lack of participation, but I was pretty ticked off for a while and needed some time in denial.