Imagine the power of the 4310...

[rockyridgefarm]

<font color="green"> chunk the size you mention would weight about 3000 lbs. </font>

It probably was a little smaller, I am not trying to say more than "it did a whole big mess" It was about a foot off the ground on the low side, I have an MX6 which provided a whole lotta ballast...

Sorry I didn't snap a pic!

 

[JDgreen227]

Hey Mike,

I'M JUST ENVIOUS....while out hauling concrete chunks today I had this one piece that was 7 1/2 feet long and a foot and a half wide and about 10 inches thick, about 1500 lbs. And it was half buried in the dirt....at 2000 rpm my little 4210 could lift one end about 5 feet in the air, and then the rear wheels came off the ground. I don't have any ballast or wheel weights and there was no implement on the rear. Looked up the specs for the 420/430 loaders and the 430 has over 1100 lbs. more breakout force at the pivot pin than the 420 does.

So, my apologies for being skeptical....I bet your machine COULD lift 3000 lbs. when properly ballasted....

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Bill

 

[JDFANATIC]

BIGPETE,

I'm interested to hear more about your sidewalk from $#@!%^&*() project with your 2210. How did you go about it? How large chunks did you take? Did you have to apply any special persuasion or techniques? I have a similar one that is coming up.

 

[bigpete]

Hi, JDFANATIC. Here's the original discussion.

Sidewalk to Nowhere

Keep in mind that my loader could raise a pretty substantial length of the slab off the ground only a few inches. My neighbor was a big help. He'd done this kind of work by hand many times. Technique is the key. If you can get a little leverage and lift the sidewalk even a fraction, then thump it a few times with a sledge, it will crack into big chunks. If you just try to crunch it up against its eart bed, you'll be there for a couple of days.

We dug down around one corner and I finally popped out a chunk with the loader. From there it was lift, thump, drag, etc. Once you get a slab going it moves along pretty fast. Like most jobs, I hated the clean-up. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif