rookie needs advice

[murray]

hello all again, i need advice as to what i am doing wrong. i have a mahindra 25 series 3525di w/fel and i just finished installing a boom pole or as some may call a stinger pole the three point hookup in the back. Installing it was easy enough, after finishing installing it and befor lifting anything i used the position control lever hydraulics to test the range of motion. WELL, when i got to the highiest point I heard something snap and after careful investigation i found that the Draft Sensing Bracket had been damaged. The back of the bracket has two short arms with half circle tsupports that support or are supported a large springin a black boot that has something to do with the draft control. The two short arms are broken and the Draft Sensing bracket (this holds the top link) moves up and down freely. Also is the spring has a black rubber boot on it and it seems to be compressed down, is this supposed to be compressed when the bracket is off of it or did i mess that up too. Oh and while i am in the asking mood, who makes the 25 series tractors and motors for mahindra i am just curious, i am not complaining about the tractor or who makes it. I am sure this problem was very likely operator error.

 

[DavesTractor]

The 25 series tractors and motors are built by Mahindra, not some other outside source. They are a simple, strong, reliable tractor.

As to the boom pole problem, I'm sorry to hear about that. Sounds like something got in a bind and the incredibly strong hydraulics did some damage. We busted a hydraulic toplink once on a 6500 because it bound up when raised all the way up. Our error, but it was amazing that a hefty piece of steel can just snap when forced into a direction or position for which they were not designed.