MY2012 5085M ordered today!

[AKfish]

How wide is your grapple? Looks to be pretty big! Be easy to get ahold of more than you should...

Last night, our local hay Co-op received half of our 88 ton order. I unloaded 22 tons of it with the 110TLB. Picking those ton bags from the straps at the top of the semi-trailer was all the 110 could do! 'Course the loader was nearly at the top of the boom cylinder lift, too. Had to use the curl to clear the bottom off the pallets.

Unloaded the second trailer (22 tons) with the neighbor's 5425. No weight in the tires and just ~400lb wheel weights... oh, oh! One of the neighbor's started out unloading before I got there and grabbed a bag and left the load high while turning - darn near tripped the tractor onto it's nose! :shocked: Dropped the 1 ton bag onto the ground and puked fertilizer all over!

Nonetheless, they didn't want to operate the tractor anymore after that; so, I started using it. The 542 NSL loader didn't impress me a whole lot. I stalled it into relief trying to lift a bag over the fender on one of the trailers. My 110 did just as good (or better).

AKfish

 

[AKfish]

Yesterday my dealer told me that my 5085M is in manufacturing, which means it should be delivered to my dealer next week! :thumbsup:

Can't wait for next week!

That's good news! Should be a couple of new, Spring "babies" (with Edward's 6430) real soon!

Be interested to learn your impressions with the loader suspension system, too.

AKfish

 

[pclausen]

How wide is your grapple? Looks to be pretty big! Be easy to get ahold of more than you should...

The grapple is 77" wide. I had the W.R. Long RBG-60 on my 4700. It tipped the scale at 567 lbs, so this new one is almost twice as heavy, but the loader can lift 2000 lbs more. I was originally going to get another W.R. Long (RBG-72), but the dealer gave me a price on the Frontier that was only $200 more than the Long, for a significantly stronger unit, and I could finance it at 0% for 60 month with the tractor, so it became a pretty easy decision.

My RBG-60 was a great grapple and I hope the Frontier will be even better. I did read a lot of posts here by Island Tractor about the benefits of a relatively narrow grapple, but I think 77" is going to be ok with my substantially larger 5085M compared with the 4700.

Here's a pic of my 4700 with the Long grapple. A very capable combo.

 

[pclausen]

Can you buy me one for the 5420?

Crutchfield has free shipping.

 

[pclausen]

Bet you'll be sleeping well this weekend knowing what's coming next week!

Shot, I'm already hardly getting any sleep at night!

 

[pclausen]

Unloaded the second trailer (22 tons) with the neighbor's 5425. No weight in the tires and just ~400lb wheel weights... oh, oh! One of the neighbor's started out unloading before I got there and grabbed a bag and left the load high while turning - darn near tripped the tractor onto it's nose! :shocked: Dropped the 1 ton bag onto the ground and puked fertilizer all over!

Scary! That is one of my concerns. I'm going to start out with just the ~400 lbs of wheel weights on the rears and no rimguard in the radials. I'll need to be careful when handling heavy loads, especially if I don't have something hanging off the back. Of course I always lower my loads for transport, but still.

 

[Zebrafive]

Here you go:

So its made by Hydac of Germany and the capacity looks to be 85 cu. in.

Thanks!

 

[Edward. S]

That's good news! Should be a couple of new, Spring "babies" (with Edward's 6430) real soon!

Be interested to learn your impressions with the loader suspension system, too.

AKfish

Its not even here yet.. I doubt its even on a truck its probably sitting at the port or it f*cked it self over at customs.... Jeez I'm getting tired of waiting I need another tractor to use I already put 55 hours on the 6420 since I got it back from the dealers.

 

[pclausen]

Its not even here yet.. I doubt its even on a truck its probably sitting at the port or it f*cked it self over at customs.... Jeez I'm getting tired of waiting I need another tractor to use I already put 55 hours on the 6420 since I got it back from the dealers.

Man, that got to suck! They do this day in and day out. You would think they know the timeline and can give their customers a decent estimate of when things will show up!

Supposedly my M5085 is shipping on Monday from Georgia to Virginia, so in "theory" it should be at my dealer Wednesday or Thursday.

 

[Edward. S]

Man, that got to suck! They do this day in and day out. You would think they know the timeline and can give their customers a decent estimate of when things will show up!

Supposedly my M5085 is shipping on Monday from Georgia to Virginia, so in "theory" it should be at my dealer Wednesday or Thursday.

It's at the border now. Trucking company says their "stuck" at the border. The f*ck does that **** mean...

Nothing pisses me off more than a few idiots trying to run a business...