Loader position

[wedge40]

Darwinism????

Wedge

 

[RaydaKub]

First day I got my tractor I mowed the lawn with the loader on. Between higher tree branches, low branches on the pines, other obstacles, and a side hill, I had the loader up high, down low, back up high, back down low. Never again, I take it off for mowing. Period. For transport, I have it between about a foot off the ground. I found that if I had a bucket full of mulch or something that would spill, it has to go up a little more just to keep from spilling more, but never very high.

 

[paulfun9]

I have seen a few people around here doing the loader up too high while doing excessive distances. I was just told yesterday that someone over the hill from me rolled their tractor on top of themselves on sat morning. Right in the area I usually see the guy with the raised loader, I wonder if it was him?

 

[jim44]

"Ah grasshopper...all isn't as it first seems. When fine grading or material spreading, the bucket lifted above the center point of the loader arm radius increases the ability to feel the "bubble in the butt." Really."

Now this may not be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, but it also ranks right up there in the dangerous category, too. I tend to agree that it's probably not a bubble you're feeling.........:confused3:

 

[RDrancher]

"Ah grasshopper...all isn't as it first seems. When fine grading or material spreading, the bucket lifted above the center point of the loader arm radius increases the ability to feel the "bubble in the butt." Really."

Now this may not be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, but it also ranks right up there in the dangerous category, too. I tend to agree that it's probably not a bubble you're feeling.........:confused3:

Ok there master grader.

 

[Looking4new]

Loaded or empty, I never run with my bucket over the 4' mark. But I do not mow with my tractor.

 

[CobyRupert]

With a set of 4' pallet forks, I lift them up high when I approach the road when at the end of my driveway. I pretty much have to have them sticking out into the road before I'm close enough to see that traffic is clear. As the cars come whipping over the hill and I'd rather have them go under the forks than "through" them.

 

[GManBart]

I have seen a few people around here doing the loader up too high while doing excessive distances. I was just told yesterday that someone over the hill from me rolled their tractor on top of themselves on sat morning. Right in the area I usually see the guy with the raised loader, I wonder if it was him?

Either way...ouch!

 

[Cherokee140]

I was out late with it one night and used the lights for the first time....the loader really gets in the way of the headlights. Other lights are going on that machine as soon as I get back in town.....But that was the only time I had the loader up with no real reason to other then to get the lights to show me what was in front.

 

[KennK]

I have a belly mower and FEL on my JD 3320 and find it MUCH easier to simply remove the bucket while mowing. For the most part the FEL arms ride just in front of the engine and only get raised when doing tight turns near trees.

Like someone here mentioned, the first time I mowed with my brand new tractor I had attempted to do it with the bucket on. It bounced all over the place and made things real uncomfortable. Never again.