LA1353 Loader Arm Reinforcement or Repair?

[ace10]

I just checked back on the unit, and it's been sold or is otherwise no longer for sale.

This one had me really puzzled (or I wouldn't have created a thread) but I think for the right price it might have been a possibility. The asking price was low, as low as I've seen for a newer M9540, but not low enough to get me to jump at it.

I do thank everyone for chiming in. There's no doubt I'll be asking more questions, because these tractors are not really in my wheelhouse, so to speak. It's been a few decades since I've spent any real time up in a tractor seat. I grew up using an IH Farmall that was fun and scary, often at the same time.

Oh, and my thinking was that those plates were either covering over some damage resulting from lateral distortion in the arms or it was preemptive to combat damage that was unlikely to ever happen.

 

[TripleR]

My father in law used equipment hard and after having some failures, often had one of his employees added reinforcement plates and gusseting. I guess we will never know about this tractor.

 

[Grandad4]

Just curious, I think all of the loaders that fit the grand L40 tractors end in a 4 while the older grand L30s end in a 3 (at least I think so). So why does the Mxx40 tractors have a loader that ends in a 3?

Someone once explained the Kubota numbering for FEL's... First digits indicate lifting capacity (i.e. 135 = 1350 kg, I guess); the last one is the model series (i.e. 3). Don't know if Kub is still doing it like that, but they evidently did at one time.

 

[TripleR]

Does it look like the loader came with the tractor or could it be an older one that was put on a newer tractor? It's also possible that the original owner had loader break on them at the pivot in the past and decided to weld a plate before it had a chance to break not really knowing if it would ever break or not.

Just curious, I think all of the loaders that fit the grand L40 tractors end in a 4 while the older grand L30s end in a 3 (at least I think so). So why does the Mxx40 tractors have a loader that ends in a 3?

My 2010 M8540 came with the LA1353.

Now my L5030 came with an 853 and the Lxx40 comes with a 854, so who knows if there is any rhyme or reason.

 

[slowzuki]

The numbers are roughly the lift capacity in kg, the last being increased when there is a model revision. The 852,853 and 854 are all in the same series.

 

[slowzuki]

And I would guess the plates are preemptive as old loaders used to break around there, unless they where driving it a lot lifting the front end with the bucket. Around here people do that to scrape ice and snow in parking lots and you'll see cracks on the backside of the boom. The cutting edge will be worn like crazy too. They don't seem to know how to use float.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

Don't fret about loosing that one, if someone busted up the loader like that I would question what else is wrong. Its highly unusual to see stress fractures like that even on machines that are abused.

 

[crazyal]

When I was looking for a backhoe I would often see some with the loader with plates welded to the FEL or welds along crack lines. After talking to a few people I got the impression that people were ramming the FEL into stuff to get a bigger load or to push something. I just learned to not spend much time looking at them. If the owner or operator was running the tractor in a way that would cause damage there then what else did they damage?

 

[slowzuki]

Cracks in that areas aren't from ramming. You'd get wrinkles or buckles in the tube on that area and cracks on the top/front of the arms.

Take a look at Case/IH 2250 loaders, I've never seen one that hasn't been plated, you can tell what type of work they did by where the plating is.

 

[art]

Cracks in that areas aren't from ramming. You'd get wrinkles or buckles in the tube on that area and cracks on the top/front of the arms.

Take a look at Case/IH 2250 loaders, I've never seen one that hasn't been plated, you can tell what type of work they did by where the plating is.

To look at the newer loaders and the way they build them I feel there were design flaws in the way we used to build things! I have seen them unplated!

I also know what I'd want to see in one that I'm buying!

We have people that ask or request extra fish plating on machines when brand new although they never keep a machine long enough to need it and don't abuse them.