Looking at B7800 or B2910

aloha · Dec 3, 2004

( I went to tractorsmart.com and found the parts area but could't get the parts list or a download. Is there a trick? )

Tractrorsmart B7800 parts books

snmhanson · Dec 3, 2004

No one answered your question about weighting for FEL use so I will give it a go. I have filled rears and use my FEL without any other weight on occassion but I can tell it is a little unstable at times - particularily if I get a heavy load and it is up a little higher. When I add the box blade to the rear it really helps stabalize it. Our land is almost all flat as well so I don't have any side hills to deal with. I guess my opinion would be that for anything but fairly light FEL work on flat ground I would put some sort of weight on the back. Better to be safe then sorry. The good thing though is that at least for me when I am using the FEL I quite often have uses for the box blade at the same time anyway. If you're not worried about the ground you're travelling over you can load the bucket with material and then pull at least that much more material with the box blade and cut your work time in half. Wait a minute, more efficient = less seat time = maybe that's not such a good idea. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Matt

bobintexas · Dec 3, 2004

Aloha, thanks for the files! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Any chance you have a B2910 set also? I am looking at pricing out a couple of the deluxe model features to add to a B7800 vs just getting the deluxe model. If you don't already have something readily available, I will send out the email to tractorsmart this weekend.

bobintexas · Dec 3, 2004

Thanks Matt. I figured both were best. I was wondering if the reverse was stable enough, ie box blade or weight box without filled tires. Just thinking that keeping the mowing configuration weight down could be desireable. Maybe I'm just thinking too hard about this /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif and should just consider getting filled tires.

ronjhall · Dec 3, 2004

No one answered your question about weighting for FEL use so I will give it a go 

I did respond to the weight question. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Try using a weight box or attachment. Regardless if rear tires are filled or not. 3PH weight will still be needed for safe operation of a loaded FEL on B27-2910 and B7800s.

snmhanson · Dec 4, 2004

Sorry Ron, I see that you did mention it early in the post. This thread is getting long so I must have forgotten about it by the time I wrote this reply. There is also a great thread dealing with this very issue right now under the general owning and operating section of the forum. You've probably seen it but here's a link anyway - hopefully it works:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/genoperating/Number/509625/page/1/view/collapsed/sb/5/o//fpart/all

BTW Ron, where in Michigan do you live. I grew up in the Grand Rapids area (Kentwood) but moved to the Pacific NW about ten years ago. I just got back from visiting my family in Michigan a few hours ago. When I was younger I just wanted to get out west but now being back there for a week it makes me think that maybe it isn't such a bad place to be after all - as long as I could have a sailboat and a slip on the lake. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Matt

Henro · Dec 4, 2004

( Once the top link is hooked up, you lift the 3 PH and the lower extensions generally click back in place on their own. ) 

 Of course you don't want to do this with a Kubota 3PT backhoe - unless you have the lift limiter on the 'hoe unbolted - otherwise you might hose the 3PT.


Just wanted to add that in the case of the backhoe, the extendable links do close on their own, but this happens when you lift the stabilizers. The weight of the backhoe causes the extendable links to push closed.

It is the same effect as lifting the 3PH when an implement is attached. Trying to lift one's backhoe with the 3PH certainly would not be recommended... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif