Having a blast with our new M62

[MutzFarm]

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Well I dont have a work shot...ground is frozen in my area... But I did remove the grapple and put the bucket on yesterday! Hey I know you guys are experts but that took me a bit to get down

You got to find reference points on the loader and the bucket and sometimes that still doesnt help. Best advice is to be on level ground when you take it off and it will go on better. Sometimes I set it down on uneven ground and when I pick it up I can see its not right so I go find a level spot to set it back down on. Now if it only half catches I stop right there and do it again. Sometimes I can push it around a hair and get it on uneven ground. Other times I think it is spot on and it is a hair off. Usually when this happens I can set the brake, stand on the right / passenger side of the machine, set it down moving the loader stick and turn the steering wheel one way or the other to get that hair worked out.

 

[MutzFarm]

I don't know if the M62 SSQA bucket geometry is the same as the M59, but if so then changing implements can be frustrating at first. From the operator's seat the loader lift arms are just right to be wrong - making it hard to see clearly just how the SSQA fitting on the loader is lining up with the receptacle on the bucket - or whatever implement we're trying to mount. Getting a clear view of the situation required my standing up out of the seat and leaning a bit to one side while gently feathering the HST go pedal in low/low.

Going slow while standing like that helped a little, but what really helped was putting some vertical paint lines on the back of the bucket to help me line up the SSQA. Recommended....

Along the way, I learned that changing front implements was sure a lot easier if I was careful to choose a really level place to do the swap. And I learned to grease those SSQA pins every few years! I wouldn't have expected that a tiny bit of grease on those pins would make much difference, but it does on mine. A 4 foot length of SS thick wall tubing for use as a cheater bar for the SSQA lock handles does help if things are stuck, though I'm careful not to use the "cheater"s as a substitute for doing swaps on level ground.
rScotty - still mulling over just how I want to change the EGR valve...

As always well said rScotty.

Be careful with that EGR, but take pictures......lol.

 

[MutzFarm]

Problem on the M62 is the seat safety. When I stand up, I get no power. As heavy as my machine is it won't budge before the engine dies out. Next mini project is to install a switch that I can press to disable the seat safety while attaching implements. Hoping I can have it blink when the safety switch is disengaged to remind me to flip it back on!

That safety on the seat can get interesting. I wouldnt disconnect or put a switch in the middle. I just work around it. We got ours in August of 2017 and few months back my son finally got enough hind end on him to control that safety.....lol I make sure he wears his seat belt all the time. Anyways you will figure it out just keep at it. If it doesnt feel right set it down and start over.

 

[MutzFarm]

Scotty your first para above is exactly right on for what I go through my MF2660 loader and the SSQA attachments. First year I had it (2011) I bent the crap outta the cross bar on the SSQA adapter on the loader because I picked up an 1100 lb bucket and did not know it was only hooked on one side. A couple hundred dollars later and wiser, like you, I stand up and peer around the side to get a view of the connection points.

1,100 lb bucket is a monster. I think the M62 is about 700 +/- pounds. I know now when I take it off I have to raise it up and hit the bottom of the pins to get them to come out. Only on the bucket. Not the grapple, hay spear, forks, etc.

 

[JWR]

1,100 lb bucket is a monster. I think the M62 is about 700 +/- pounds. I know now when I take it off I have to raise it up and hit the bottom of the pins to get them to come out. Only on the bucket. Not the grapple, hay spear, forks, etc.

I suppose an 1100lb bucket is somewhat heavy but for a tractor that weighs 5 tons fully equipped and has plenty of hydraulic lift, that weight has never seemed like a problem. I will say when filled with mud cleaning out springs it is a worst-case loading. I have no experience with a lighter "stock" bucket.

 

[Jchonline]

My grapple is 920#. No issues throwing it around either!

 

[JWR]

My grapple is 920#. No issues throwing it around either!

Sure. I also have a 1460 lb Bush Hog on the back almost all the time so things are fairly well balanced/ballasted.

 

[art]

Hey Mutzfarm, congratz!

Can you tell me if your hydraulics ever get hot enough that the casings could burn you, if you held onto the metal for say ..... 5-6 seconds? I'm running my M62 with a Landpride 12' batwing at around 2200rpm & after an hour or so I can begin to feel the heat rising up from behind the seat. The hydraulics are that hot! Of course thats running in M gear using both hi/lo speeds & the PTO engaged. The metal casings are so hot that it's painful to remove the 3pt. hitch from the back end...

I've checked all fluids & I'm good there, the radiator screen is a joke, everything gets past it & clogs the radiators. It's a real booger cleaning and requires a pressure washer & shop air. Someone mentioned about putting bigger radiators on or an additional hydraulic cooler. I think I might just try doing that, but was wondering if anyone else has noticed the heatsoak.

Wormwood

Most new tractors will run about 200 for a temp on the rear
end.

 

[JWR]

I don't have an M62. My MF2660 gets very hot after a few hours heavy run time doing things like bush hogging or loader work, etc. The entire main body of the tractor (excluding sheet metal) is one big heat sink with 10 or 12 gallons of transmission fluid in it that does dual duty as hydraulic fluid for all of the hydraulics,etc. -- and I'm sure that is the case with your M62 as well. It gets pretty hot but I do not think it gets to 200 degrees -- I'm sure it does not, as 200 would definitely burn you and would be hotter than a 190 degree thermostat allows your coolant to get in the engine. I really should use the handy infrared thermometer and see how hot it actually gets. I'm guessing around 140 degrees. You can stand you hand on it but just barely so. All that said, there are extenuating circumstances like running a hydraulic motor driven brush cutter for example. That increases the fluid temperature a lot and indirectly the whole tractor frame eventually.

Come to think of it, I assume your M62 is hydrostatic rather than stick shift. Run a 12ft batwing for an hour and it probably does get rather hot because your "fluid drive" adds to the heat in the transmission fluid a whole bunch.

Suggestion: use or borrow an infrared thermometer and tell us how hot it really is.

 

[MutzFarm]

I will like to also add that I THINK the pto on the M62 is also hydraulic driven. I do not know this for a fact, but at some point and time I do recall someone at the dealer saying to run the motor at the recommend speed for the pto so the GPM will be right.