Is This Bad for FEL?

[strez]

I just took delivery of a new CUT (see sig below). One of my first tasks was to dig out a ditch which runs along the border of my property to help divert some ground water.

When I started digging in the muck, I managed to get stuck. The way I got out was by dumping the bucket, sticking it in the ground, pushing down (as gently as possible) on the FEL, and scooping the bucket. This action helped in two ways, it transferrred more weight to the rear wheels (I was backing up going uphill) and the obvious 'push' it gave me to get going.

I'm not planing on making a habit out of this, but I was wondering if this is something that should be avoided at all costs, avoid if at all possible, or it's OK to do.

-Jeff

 

[manganos]

I don't see a problem with it. I have done it with my BX 22 plenty of times. I've never been stuck with my Kioti 3054 and never hope too. It seems too heavy to try to get unstuck /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BillyP]

No, it's not bad for your FEL.

 

[frank_f15]

nope , won't hurt it a bit. thats why we buy tractors with that capability. your fel won't deliver more pressure or forces than what your machine can handel. the only bad part is u had to admit u got it stuck /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif, great part is u got it unstuck without any help /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[RoyJackson]

While I was moving the snow (after our blizzard this year), I had to use the FEL to get me out several times (6-8 times, I reckon). No chains here, unfortunately.

Anyway, as you've read with the other TBNer's, using your FEL to push your tractor out of a stuck spot is a pretty common occurance.

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> The way I got out was by dumping the bucket, sticking it in the ground, pushing down (as gently as possible) on the FEL, and scooping the bucket.

I was wondering if this is something that should be avoided at all costs </font>

Heck no! It's a right of passage! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[chrisjbell]

With the FEL on my tractor you have to pick up the front end in order to remove it. I also lift it off the ground when using the backhoe. 'Course, I've never gotten my tractor stuck /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif (uh, well, that might me a bit of an exageration /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif).

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Just adding my voice to the chorus with this post. I've done that very thing a number of times without any harm at all. I even managed to get hung up on my frame thanks to a couple of poorly spaced ruts. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif I had to use both my FEL and my backhoe to lift myself out of that one. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

That is something I would neither recommend nor relish doing a second time. To say the least, the stability wasn't all it could have been. The 'pucker factor' increase geometrically when I had to lift the tractor completely up in the air and simultaneously move the FEL bucket to scoop while moving the backhoe bucket to dump. I landed with a thud and left my backhoe where it was and used my FEL to help me back the rest of the way out.

The bottome line is that even with all of that abuse, both my FEL and BH operate perfectly. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Rick Jay]

strez,

Well....assuming you had it in AWD and the rear differential was locked, what you just did is called Four wheel drive (well...three wheels and a loader).

That's one of the plusses of having a loader on your tractor. Can't see where it would hurt.

~Rick

 

[frank_f15]

i had a guy digging a new septic system for me,he had a big deep wide trench dug and decided he wanted to work from the orher side, so he just used the fel and BH to skip over the trench, was a mazing to watch. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif would i try it? ont till i pratciced on a 6" trench /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif