GETTING SOMETHING NEW!
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jimmyj
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- Allis Chalmers 616 (Two) and a Kioti CK30 HST with loader and backhoe
Congrats, looks fantastic. I envy you with the QA loader. You will have a blast on that thing.
Dmace
Elite Member
Here is a picture of my backhoe, you can see the larger stabilizer pads. Even with these on I can pull the tractor on a good stump or rock. Sometimes I chain the loader to a tree of my truck as extra support to keep the tractor still. 
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Also, are those chains only around the loader and backhoe? I am not the highway patrol or someone who thinks you need a grade 70 chain on every point of the tractor but you should at least have two chains going to the frame or axles of the tractor. Just strapping the attachments down does not look secure. I highly doubt that tractor would still be there in an accident. I use chains on the tractor and just put large straps over the loader and backhoe to keep them from moving. To each his own...
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Also, are those chains only around the loader and backhoe? I am not the highway patrol or someone who thinks you need a grade 70 chain on every point of the tractor but you should at least have two chains going to the frame or axles of the tractor. Just strapping the attachments down does not look secure. I highly doubt that tractor would still be there in an accident. I use chains on the tractor and just put large straps over the loader and backhoe to keep them from moving. To each his own...
wallace
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Here is a picture of my backhoe, you can see the larger stabilizer pads. Even with these on I can pull the tractor on a good stump or rock. Sometimes I chain the loader to a tree of my truck as extra support to keep the tractor still.
Click thumbnail for larger image.
Also, are those chains only around the loader and backhoe? I am not the highway patrol or someone who thinks you need a grade 70 chain on every point of the tractor but you should at least have two chains going to the frame or axles of the tractor. Just strapping the attachments down does not look secure. I highly doubt that tractor would still be there in an accident. I use chains on the tractor and just put large straps over the loader and backhoe to keep them from moving. To each his own...
Derek
Why do you think that the tractor would not stay there during an accident with having the chains where they are?
This is not a wise ***** question just a curious one.
Dmace
Elite Member
Those attachments are not exactly welded on, they are bolted and pinned and each one of those connections has a certain yield that can and will be tested in extreme forces. The way the chains are run, if he was to get in a head-on collision the only thing stopping that tractor from moving is the single chain wrapped around the backhoe. I don't know about the Woods backhoe but my backhoe is only held on by two 1" diameter pins.
I honestly don't care how many miles someone has driving big trucks, that is just not a safe and certainly not a legal way to secure that load. Would you be willing to pull into a weigh station like that and see what highway patrol thinks about it? I know I wouldn't but as I said before, to each his own...
rcrcomputing
Platinum Member
That woods bh does not hang so far off the back of the tractor as my kioti backhoe. Do you have to take the lower arms off the 3pt to attach it? Just curious..
BTW, you are going to have a blast with that thing and be able to do things you never even considered doing before.. Congrats!
BTW, you are going to have a blast with that thing and be able to do things you never even considered doing before.. Congrats!
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I'm no Engineer in physics but when it comes to head on automobile crashes I can't help ponder some of these things. I keep wondering if anything we use could be stout enough to hold 4000 lbs of TLB from becoming a projectile in the likes of a head on crash or even a sixty mile an hour collision with an inantimate object. We can secure all the best of the methods known to man including a couple of hitches with all the 5/16 " grade 70 chain or doubling or even tripling those 1" diameter backhoe subframe pins.
I'm thinking we are doing our best to keep those loads honest but something major is going to give in a head on. Towing tractors can just plain be hazardous to your life. Drive safely and load well in order to minimize any damage or injury.
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