Caution Catastrophic FEL failure

ovrszd · Sep 13, 2019

Me too.

countrybumpkin · Sep 13, 2019

1010 said:
Looks like a JD tractor to me, and the loader broke up by the hood and steering wheel, pin broke or something, causing the loader frame to hit the operator just above the knee breaking his leg..
The skid steer is just carrying the bucket.
The loader frame is DEF apart and a pin is missing. Very easy to see how that could come back on the operator..

You need to reread the posts, he had a couple different failures over about a year i think it was, the bucket come off and slid backwards down the arms causing his injury. Later on another failure was the loader pins breaking.

jmc · Sep 13, 2019

jmc said:
I just noticed your pics/docs at the bottom of your consumer affairs report.

Time line:

07/31/18 Reported purchase date
11/23/18 Incident 1, broken femur/safety latch
11/23/18 X-ray of broken femur
12/19/18 TBN join date
07/02/19 Incident 2, broken pin
07/29/19 Incident 3, safety latch
08/02/19 Date of Westendorf loader QUOTE, not INVOICE, as reported
09/12/19 First TBN post ever

That quote makes your case look shaky.

Right or wrong, sometimes the manufacturers sue people who launch an online campaign to make them look bad.

And the other flag here is that I've never seen any implement looking that faded and rusty, that was only a year old, as the consumer affairs report says.

SmallChange · Sep 14, 2019

RickB said:
Yeah. I can now understand that the series of events described can happen. But I知 still at a loss to understand why anyone would willfully do them in the order required to produce the reported result.

Maybe back dragging, then moving on to another task that involved trying to lift something with the bucket edge as high as possible? Not a load of material in the bucket, but maybe lifting a board, propping up a tree branch, or pulling up on something on a chain hooked to the bucket edge? Lifted and curled would be the position that gets any part of the machine to the highest possible height.

Not that I'm proposing it is a good idea. A bucket in that position is a bit scary. Imagining what would happen if it came unlatched in that position is pretty unpleasant.