How do I?

[LAWALLSTRACTOR]

To all of you on this thread, The ML112 loader fo the 3510 and 4110 Mahindra tractors is and always has been manufactured by KMW. As to removing and attaching the loader, I will give you some instruction. Start by finding a hard level spot, install you prop stand in it's mount bracket near the front of the loader, drop the loader till the prop stand rests on the foor then tilt the bucket forward till the front edge of the bucket also touches the floor. Remove the nuts on the bottom of the rear loader uprights and let the retainer flop down. Bump your joystick to the rear as to raise the loader, and the uprights will lift off their perch a couple inches. shut the tractor off and very quickly run your joystick arround in a circle, just to relieve a little pressure on the lines. Undo your hyd quick couplers and back the tractor out. To put it back on pull the tractor in to about an inch from engaging your front bracket, shut the tractor off and very thuroughly run the joy stick arround in circles. Connect your hydraulic lines (sometimes not easy even after relieving pressure), start the tractor and tilt the bucket one way or the other to line up the front bracket. This proceedure is only done if the loader has settled and the front bracket doesn't line up. Then pull the tractor forward to engage the front bracket and then bump the joystick forward to set the uprights down on their perch. Secure the uprights to their perch, raise the loader and put the prop rod back in it's storage position. I hope this is helpful.

Galen LaWall
Your Mahindra Tractor Dealer
Batavia, NY 14020
585-343-0770

 

[Slippy]

Always wear eye protection and thick gloves. Even when you try to relieve pressure, you can still get a squirt with a lot of force. See your manual for the warnings.

 

[skipmarcy]

Sorry, no I don't have any hints - that's why I got a bath too!! The bucket is going to settle some and it doesn't take much to give you a good squirt. That's one good reason I leave my loader on all the time except for a major repair on the tractor, too much hassle taking it off & back on. Plus, I would end-up needing it if I took it off just to have it out of the way. Besides the loader settling, the hot sun will build pressure as well, especially down here in Florida. I had a heck of a time getting the hoses reconnected with pressure on them, had to use a plastic mallet to pop the check valves in the hose ends to relieve the pressure (another wet experience I knew was coming) so I could connect them to the valve. I had wrapped a rag around them before popping the check valves but still got some spray. As far as I'm concerned, the loader is part of the tractor!!

 

[skipmarcy]

Bob, on my loader, the float is only on loader arm cylinders, not the bucket cylinders. I use it all the time for back-dragging and set the bucket at all various angles and can change the angle of the bucket while the arms are in float, that's the way I do some tapering in a swale etc.