I have read about the funky brakes in the 2210/2305, but failed to apply that knowledge to my work this weekend. I got lucky!
There is a slight incline on the paved sidewalk that runs next to the swimming pool up to the enclosed space under our deck. There's a bunch of freshly milled lumber under there that needed to be restacked. Winter is over, so the snow blower was taken off the rear 3 point hitch on the 2210, and I put the forks on the front. Pulled the 2210 up the sidewalk partially inside the deck area, but the rear wheels stayed on the sloped incline. Using the forks as a temporary staging area, planks were taken from a stack of lumber and loaded onto the forks. My bright idea was to put all of that lumber onto the forks, and then restack with proper stickers so the fresh lumber could dry. When almost all of it (3 logs worth of lumber) was on the forks, the tractor began to roll back down the sidewalk and was drifting off the side toward the pool. The long planks on the forks block my path, making it impossible to get to the tractor to stop the roll. Fortunately for me, the doorway in the area was too narrow for the lumber to pass through, so part of the load was stripped off the forks and onto the ground. That's when the roll stopped.
I stood there dumbfounded about what just happened. I had done a dumb thing.
The funky thing about the brakes is that they are applied to the driveshaft before the rear differential. So even though the "brakes" are locked, it doesn't apply to the wheels individually. If one wheel loses traction with the ground, then the machine is free to roll on the other wheel even with brakes locked down. The heavy load on the forks eventually lifted one wheel enough for that wheel to rotate while the other wheel rolled on the ground and the whole machine started to get away.
There would have been a lot of 'splaining to do about the pool if that doorway didn't strip off part of the load on the forks and put the rear wheels back down. I have a weight box and have no excuses for not putting it on. A big lesson was learned this weekend. WEIGHT BELONGS ON THE BACK IF YOU HAVE A LOADER ON THE FRONT!!!!!!!!!!!! No excuses, no exceptions.
There is a slight incline on the paved sidewalk that runs next to the swimming pool up to the enclosed space under our deck. There's a bunch of freshly milled lumber under there that needed to be restacked. Winter is over, so the snow blower was taken off the rear 3 point hitch on the 2210, and I put the forks on the front. Pulled the 2210 up the sidewalk partially inside the deck area, but the rear wheels stayed on the sloped incline. Using the forks as a temporary staging area, planks were taken from a stack of lumber and loaded onto the forks. My bright idea was to put all of that lumber onto the forks, and then restack with proper stickers so the fresh lumber could dry. When almost all of it (3 logs worth of lumber) was on the forks, the tractor began to roll back down the sidewalk and was drifting off the side toward the pool. The long planks on the forks block my path, making it impossible to get to the tractor to stop the roll. Fortunately for me, the doorway in the area was too narrow for the lumber to pass through, so part of the load was stripped off the forks and onto the ground. That's when the roll stopped.
I stood there dumbfounded about what just happened. I had done a dumb thing.
The funky thing about the brakes is that they are applied to the driveshaft before the rear differential. So even though the "brakes" are locked, it doesn't apply to the wheels individually. If one wheel loses traction with the ground, then the machine is free to roll on the other wheel even with brakes locked down. The heavy load on the forks eventually lifted one wheel enough for that wheel to rotate while the other wheel rolled on the ground and the whole machine started to get away.
There would have been a lot of 'splaining to do about the pool if that doorway didn't strip off part of the load on the forks and put the rear wheels back down. I have a weight box and have no excuses for not putting it on. A big lesson was learned this weekend. WEIGHT BELONGS ON THE BACK IF YOU HAVE A LOADER ON THE FRONT!!!!!!!!!!!! No excuses, no exceptions.
