RickB
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Claiming to have experience with construction equipment makes your recommendation more foolish and concerning.Come on Rick, you know what I'm talking about. A couple hundred pounds of compression I'm assuming that the op is concerned about for a few minutes while checking the oil. A day long repair or service job would prompt anyone to take the 5 minutes to drop the loader completely.
I was being extreme with the 2x4 comments and possibly the op has a very leaky valve with rotten hoses in which case I'd make these repair repairs first.
Maybe it's just that I'm around loaders (big construction) where just the buckets are 5-6k pounds and this concern is more realistic.
I agree that steel is the proper method
There are people here that just don't know any better and could follow reckless and unsafe guidance like yours thinking you actually know what is safe or not.