Mousefield
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Think I learned something today. After reading the different posts regarding self leveling I will go out tomorrow and give it a try. Let you know how I made out.
Can someone explain these to me like I'm a 10 year old girl?
What are the advantages? How do they work? Is it mostly a safty feature or is it helpful in productivity? What tasks might they be important for?
Any help is appreciated.
My question is about loader performance with a Hydro self level feature?
Does it hurt loader cycle times and or lifting capacities?
Kubota gives you a lever to engage and disengage the self leveling feature. Why if it doesn't take anything away from its performance? Seems to me it would...
Not so much of a performance hit as without the self leveling feature you have more range of motion for the bucket. more curl when raised and more dump when down low.
Mike
This sounds about right to me. Thought there would be a "catch" to hydro self leveling. Thanks for the post.First off, yes it slows cycle times down. You have fluid going to 4 cylinders instead of just 2. On mine, (Mahindra 7520) it supposedly cuts the lift capacity by some, but no one knew how much. As far as Kubota having an on-off lever for their hydraulic self leveling loader, I sometimes wish that mine had that option. (mine is on all the time, no way to turn it off) It would be nice to have it off when you are using the loader at lower levels. That way when you lift the bucket to say transport height, the bucket does not have to be curled again to keep the material in. Each type of system has it's quirks I suppose, and we get use to them.