Self Leveling Loaders for TN75

[Robert_in_NY]

As it stands, we do not have the loader for your tractor in our line up yet. It is in engineering right now. I do have to ask why you are set on mechanical self-level over hydraulic self-level? Having run both, I would never choose mechanical over hydraulic. Less wear points, you can take it on and off, you are not limited in dump or roll back, better visibility....

He said in an earlier post he didn't feel the hydraulic self level feature worked as reliably as the mechanical in terms of being the same raising up or lowering down.

 

[AndyMA]

Having a MSL loader on my TN75D I'm not sure I would do it again. It is great for forks, but the roll back limit really hurts for bucket work.

Andy

 

[MtnViewRanch]

As it stands, we do not have the loader for your tractor in our line up yet. It is in engineering right now. I do have to ask why you are set on mechanical self-level over hydraulic self-level? Having run both, I would never choose mechanical over hydraulic. Less wear points, you can take it on and off, you are not limited in dump or roll back, better visibility....

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Are you saying that you can turn it off and on like a Kubota, or are you saying that you can physically remove it?

 

[rback33]

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Are you saying that you can turn it off and on like a Kubota, or are you saying that you can physically remove it?

You can physically remove it, but you knew that. It can be done in less than 15 minutes.

I am not sure why he is worried about the reliability of hydraulic self-level. The mechanism has been very reliable for us. I have had to work on one valve and I KNOW that the owner had been messing with it because a spring was missing. It can't function without it and it HAD been functioning. There is a section demonstrating it on the video on our website. Brian posted a link to a page on our site earlier.

 

[charleyfarmall]

It's not reliability in the sense of failure that I am interested in. Hydraulics rarely fail so in that way they are reliable. The majority of the work we will be doing with the loader on this tractor is with forks and with with a large bale grapple to lift 8-12 square bales at a time and move them from ground to trailer, and from trailer to barn, then barn to customers trailer.

Maintaining a consistent (reliable) level position in both up and down directions makes a huge difference when you are doing this hundreds of times.

If this was mostly for materials then hydraulic SL would be fine and likely preferable.

 

[Tommyboy]

The true advantage to mechanical leveling is capacity. Especially when using Pallet Forks or Grapples where the load is moved more foreward of the pivot point. You can't match it with Hydraulic leveling.
There is also the reality of temperature fluctuations in hydraulic fluid. I now up north Hydraulic Levelling is inconsistent in the winter.
I sell both and can tell you there is no comparison.