Kubota B2601 3pt lift adjustment help?

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I was using the York rake trying to improve the steep uphill drive to my place. it's about 1000 feet, and the winter time and truck traffic (garbage, fuel, delivery etc.) makes for a bumpy ride.

This rake is the sulky type, with wheels out behind

So I adjust the "penetration" with the tractor 3pt lift after setting the implement level adjuster.

What I noted today was that the position lever control at the right hand of the operator had little response to initial movement. That is, positions number 0-3 were all the same, and at the lowered 3pt hitch position.

When the control lever was pulled to the greatest lift position, the lift arms were higher than I will ever need, so there is no loss of range.

I'm wondering how to set the position control feed back adjustment (under the seat) to obtain greater sensitivity in those initial position control lever settings.

I've not come across this adjustment in the literature I received with the tractor.

Anyone familiar?

ps

this Kubota tractor does NOT have draft control, only position control. The Hurlimann has draft control ;-)

 

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The control under the seat is a drop speed adjustment. If the rake is dropping normally when it starts to drop from fully raised then the drop speed is not the issue. Are you saying that when you drop the arms neither the wheels or tines drop enough to hit the ground? It sounds like they are just hitting the ground at a point before "0" on your position control and then of course don't start to lift until you reach "3" (or some other number) on your position control. This would be normal if that's the case.

I haven't run a Sulky type rake before but assuming it is hitting the ground what is coming into contact with the ground first as you lower the rake? If the rakes wheels are hitting the ground first and the tines are still in the air you need to shorten the top link to let the tines contact the ground or perhaps raise the wheels in relation to the tines if there is an adjustment for that on the implement. I would guess you'd want to adjust the top link so that the tines hit the ground just as the rear wheels do or perhaps just before when you set up on level ground, that way the tines will be able to dig on the high spots and drop gravel in the low spots.

I owned a std York rake for a while many years ago. I found it ok for occasionally dressing loose gravel but if the surface was compacted or heavily rutted then a heavy rear blade or a box blade was the ticket.

 

[CalG]

The control under the seat is a drop speed adjustment. If the rake is dropping normally when it starts to drop from fully raised then the drop speed is not the issue. Are you saying that when you drop the arms neither the wheels or tines drop enough to hit the ground? It sounds like they are just hitting the ground at a point before "0" on your position control and then of course don't start to lift until you reach "3" (or some other number) on your position control. This would be normal if that's the case.

I haven't run a Sulky type rake before but assuming it is hitting the ground what is coming into contact with the ground first as you lower the rake? If the rakes wheels are hitting the ground first and the tines are still in the air you need to shorten the top link to let the tines contact the ground or perhaps raise the wheels in relation to the tines if there is an adjustment for that on the implement. I would guess you'd want to adjust the top link so that the tines hit the ground just as the rear wheels do or perhaps just before when you set up on level ground, that way the tines will be able to dig on the high spots and drop gravel in the low spots.

I owned a std York rake for a while many years ago. I found it ok for occasionally dressing loose gravel but if the surface was compacted or heavily rutted then a heavy rear blade or a box blade was the ticket.

Thanks for the reply.
I guess I didn't do a great job of describing the "fault".

First, I am not confused about the drop speed adjuster. There is another double nutted adjustable link that is just accessible from above when the seat is fold up and forward, and visible in the region adjacent to the right upper lift arm. The entire piece may be six inches long and is nutted to a stationary plate while hooked to a lever arm that in some way influences the lift arm positions. I just don't know how it works....yet! ;-) I should have taken a picture or two.

Second, the rake tongue does not contact the ground even when the tractor control lever is in the fully forward/ minimum lift.

Third, there is no top link on this set up. the rake tongue is pinned to the tractor lift arm tool bar.

Yes, the rake has a rake height mechanical adjustment that sets the rake depth relative to the wheels, but that is not part of the issue.

You have it correctly in the part about "if the tongue is hitting the ground, it won't start to lift until it get to 3".

It's just that there is no change of lift arm position when the control lever is anywhere between 0-3.

I'll just go at it "trial and error", but it's cramped in there and may take some "special wrenches" to get any changes made.