FEL -- Rear wheels in the air!!

[Larry Caldwell]

While you are doing concrete, form up a 1/2 cubic yard box with 3-point attachment pins. A half yard of concrete weighs about 1800 lbs. Hang that from the 3-point and you will have plenty of weight on the rear to do loader work.

 

[jonyyuma]

Good details here, Newbie to the Loader scene, I must remember to put the front axle in drive, before approaching going down hill. Most of my loader work will be moving dirt down a 30 deg. grade to fill in a cavity behind the house. I am considering maybe backing down the slope? Plan to use a boxblade for ballast, first...I hope 20 yrds of dirt is enough to do the job.I am sure he would be glad to send more too.It would probably be better if I had Ag tires? Thoughts?JY.

 

[repete]

Good details here, Newbie to the Loader scene, I must remember to put the front axle in drive, before approaching going down hill. Most of my loader work will be moving dirt down a 30 deg. grade to fill in a cavity behind the house. I am considering maybe backing down the slope? Plan to use a boxblade for ballast, first...I hope 20 yrds of dirt is enough to do the job.I am sure he would be glad to send more too.It would probably be better if I had Ag tires? Thoughts?JY.

4wd is your friend when going down a grade with a load in the bucket. Occasionally I forget and I can't get the thing stopped. I have to just put the bucket on the ground to regain control.

 

[jonyyuma]

Thanks for the tip, drop the bucket..be sure the seat belt is tight...How many seconds? Puckerfactor might be pretty high. I am going to play in the garden a while before i take on this loader scene. If I go into the hole it would not be pretty, i could bury a VW in it. JY.

 

[newbury]

I like to keep my BH on, about 900lbs of weight.

 

[TripleR]

Good details here, Newbie to the Loader scene, I must remember to put the front axle in drive, before approaching going down hill. Most of my loader work will be moving dirt down a 30 deg. grade to fill in a cavity behind the house. I am considering maybe backing down the slope? Plan to use a boxblade for ballast, first...I hope 20 yrds of dirt is enough to do the job.I am sure he would be glad to send more too.It would probably be better if I had Ag tires? Thoughts?JY.

On that steep of a slope, with a full bucket, I back down. Another option, if you don't have to drive far is to take smaller loads. I drive about a mile round trip from my gravel and dirt source, so I carry as much per trip as I can.

I use Industrial tires on my L5030 and get good traction. My M8540 has Ag tires.

 

[RFB]

My SA (situational awareness) drill is:

1. FEL load carried as low as possible.

2. Single movements whenever possible.
(FEL or tractor, not both) There are exceptions of course, working piles etc.

3. Right hand never leaves FEL when filled with a load...with a continual memory loop of "drop the bucket" playing in my head.

 

[jonyyuma]

RFB, outstanding advice. Thanks.JY.

 

[crazyal]

It just gives you more reason to buy a backhoe for it.

 

[Reg]

We are adding 30'x60' and 26'x60' shed roofs to the sides of our shop building.

We have been moving sacks of concrete for the post/column holes and 20', 26' and 30' steel members. We have foamed rear tires on our tractor.

I know how often this comment is made, but I must add that it is amazing how easy it is to lift the rear wheels with a load on the FEL.

Yeah, loaded rear tires and/or back-hoe on there - backing up in 4WD with a heavy load can certainly raise the pucker factor, especially if you're backing up hill.
Trying to pluck a shrub out with a chain on the FEL bucket - again while backing up in 4WD can also convince you that;
"Physics is physics and it's laws don't get suspended for special projects".