Lesson learned today with bucket hook
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DieselBound
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I can pull most T-posts out without any mechanical aid (myself only). To think that a tractor loader would struggle... And I even use the hydraulic arm/lift on my Polaris Brutus to pull T-posts.
Regarding grab hooks on FEL buckets, having multiple ones and using more than one at a time is better than using a single one in the middle (if messing with heavier loads). As a matter of fact, multiple hooks allow you to better balance something you're lifting: I recently used my pallet forks on my Kioti to lift out a newly acquired bush hog (weighing somewhere around 1,200 lbs).
I suppose that with larger tractors there's more concern with twisting the loader's torque tube. I know that I've thrown everything that could be thrown at my B7800's LA402 loader (even getting close to having only ONE wheel on the ground) and, now with over 1,700 hrs on it, it's a straight as the day it came from the factory. If one pays close attention to what one is doing then the chances of really messing something up is very low.
Regarding grab hooks on FEL buckets, having multiple ones and using more than one at a time is better than using a single one in the middle (if messing with heavier loads). As a matter of fact, multiple hooks allow you to better balance something you're lifting: I recently used my pallet forks on my Kioti to lift out a newly acquired bush hog (weighing somewhere around 1,200 lbs).
I suppose that with larger tractors there's more concern with twisting the loader's torque tube. I know that I've thrown everything that could be thrown at my B7800's LA402 loader (even getting close to having only ONE wheel on the ground) and, now with over 1,700 hrs on it, it's a straight as the day it came from the factory. If one pays close attention to what one is doing then the chances of really messing something up is very low.