LD1
Epic Contributor
It would be interesting if this thread could keep going and eventually have hundreds of tractors with real world lifting capacities so that when people are looking at used tractors, they know what they should actually be able to do. From discussions on TBN, it seems some tractors are rated at the pin with vs without a bucket. Some under rate and some over rate.
I don't know how much my tractor can actually lift. I don't have enough objects of known weight around to measure it. The heaviest thing I ever lifted was a 9 foot long 3.5 foot diameter log (Ash). It's hard to say what this log weighed. I didn't dare lift it more than a few inches off the ground because even with a 200 pound cage, 1000 pounds of tire fill and a 500 pound blade on the back, the back end was hovering. With this same ballast, I can lift the back end completely off the ground if I'm digging up a stump with the bucket.
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Maybe deceiving, but just dont look like a 42" log?
But, 42" @ 9' long is ~86 cubic ft of ash. Weight depends on moisture content and species of ash. Bone dry is could be 33pcf. Green and wet, 50pcf.
So it could weigh somewhere between 2800# and 4300# assuming your measurement is accurate.