Shredding with FEL mounted

[Robert_in_NY]

I am like you Mike, we never remove the loaders unless we need to for some reason. When I would use the TN for baling I would take the loader off but that is the only time. There has been a lot of times when it has been handy to have the loader bucket there to put something into or push a tree over that I finally got upset with.

But I have ran the TN without the loader and it is a lot nicer cutting along fences without having to worry about the loader catching a stay on the fence and creating more work. Plus, the visibilty is a lot better if you are working around any trees or buildings while cutting. So there are advantages to both sides, it just depends if you look at the loader as a major part of the tractor or just a tool like any 3pt implement.

 

[MikePA]

Good points, Robert. You're right, you have to be more careful when mowing near a fence, with both ends of the tractor with the FEL installed! Much more often than not, I find a use for the FEL every time I'm mowing. At a minimum, I can always fill a FEL full of rocks out of the pasture!

 

[Zoombah]

Got my first FEL a few weeks ago. The few times I've shredded since I got the FEL I have removed just the bucket. With bucket removed the handling seems about the same as when I didn't have a FEL, and visibility is about the same. In my situation I do not see any advantage to removing the entire loader....just more work. The bucket is different though....flip two levers and back out of it.

 

[AndyG]

I was afraid that would be the consensus;
It looks like removing and mounting of the entire fel would be a fair sized job, was hoping for some other alternative.

Droy, Have you tried reomoving the loader yet? I'll bet that it wasn't nearly as bad as you had feared. My TC40D has the 17LA loader which hangs out extra far to clear the SuperSteer axle. Taking the loader off of my tractor turns it from a school bus into a sports car.

 

[droy]

Droy, Have you tried reomoving the loader yet? I'll bet that it wasn't nearly as bad as you had feared. My TC40D has the 17LA loader which hangs out extra far to clear the SuperSteer axle. Taking the loader off of my tractor turns it from a school bus into a sports car.

Haven't attempted to remove fel yet, finished shredding, and swapped shredder for box blade to do some dirt moving, and levelling, then hooked to plow to prepare food plots. After seeding the plots, I used fel bucket to back drag, covering the seed.

Now I need to rehook to shredder, and attempt my first unhooking of the fel. Only problem is between all this, I went into hospital for an ange o gram (pardon the spelling, er, pardon the misspelling I mean). Now I cannot lift, or strain on anything for a couple of days, so all projects are at a standstill.

While in this "laid back mode", I did take the time to read the fel manual, even went so far as to go outside, and read while sitting next to tractor, so I could look while reading. Looks to be as you'll stated, an easy to do task.
New problem has developed, though; wife crept up behind me when I was sitting in lawn chair, reading instruction manual out loud, and is now wanting to commit me for reading to my tractor.