Float on 4010

[Woody1]

I would agree with Hoeman. One other post said something about putting skid-shoes on. No need! Curl your bucket to a position to where it just rides on the surface. the bucket will still tilt/curl in float and your could curl it from fully curled torwards you, or all the way in a dump position. The trick is to get it in "just the right place" and go slowly, cause if you do catch something you dont want to, then you will either gouge whatever you are on, or it will raise the front end of the tractor up. Again, no need for shoes. Kinda defeats the purpose of the floating on concrete or ashault to scrap with.

 

[Rus91]

Thanks for helping me find my float.

After reading the last series of posts I realized that I really was never using the float feature. It came in handy removing snow Christmas eve. It was only 4 inches worth but it gave me a chance to try out the FEL for snow removal.

Thanks for the help

Brent

 

[rmonio]

How quick does the FLOAT need to be engaged to get it to lock? I'll have to try it on some bare ground this weekend (we have no Snow in MN right now) - but it sure seems that you can't be gradual when you engage it. It just snaps back on the stick.

If that doesn't work then I'll have to have the dealer check it. This is on a 4600/460FEL.

Thanks!

-Bob

 

[rmonio]

wow - that is a quick action to lock it. I didn't try it when it was running but I can see that you have to pop it quick in order for it to lock. I'll have to see what happens when I have it out and running now.

Has anyone else noticed that Deere has removed the on-line versions of the 4000 series operations manuals? Now they only have the 4010 series manuals. I guess I'll have to order one from now on.

-Bob

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color=blue>"Deere has removed the on-line versions of the 4000 series operations manuals"</font color=blue>

Apparently not all of them. The manual for my 4200 is still online. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Thanks to Trev, Gary and the rest for the advice. I had a chance to work with it this weekend. As a fellow Minnesotan mentioned, we don't have snow yet, but this feature will work great when we finally get some. I wasn't pushing the control fast or hard enough to get into the float position. It was the TBN site (posts about using float) that got me to re-read my manual and figure out this feature was available on my tractor so thanks again.

Bob

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color=blue>"It was the TBN site (posts about using float) that got me to re-read my manual and figure out this feature was available on my tractor"</font color=blue>

Bob,

That's exactly how I learned that there even was such a thing as "float" for my bucket, too. That's one of the many great things about TBN. A year ago I saw my tractor for the first time (I actually bought it sight unseen) and now I'm able to help someone else using theirs. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif