Specs Say 900lb max, is 1140 too much?

[Harv]

<font color=blue>You all are probably a bit tired of this flame</font color=blue>

Actually, Paul, I think the fire has died out and we're all back on track.

All that really happened was that some feathers got ruffled (including my own) and nature took its course. If you review the entire thread, the "flames" were pretty civil, if not just a tad cynical.

I take responsibility, and offer Bird a public apology, for starting the whole think by misquoting him on this thread. I casually used the phrase, "Bird has <font color=red>said</font color=red> elsewhere that Kubota is quite conservative with its recommendations". When I later went to find the actual passage, it was, "<font color=red>In my opinion</font color=red>, Kubota is very conservative in their implement size recommendations". /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif/w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif/w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Sorry, Bird.

As for Dan, he has been on this board longer than I have, and has always been a respected member, so I'm guessing I just struck a nerve by presenting an opinion as a statement of fact.

Think about Sept.11th and decide for yourself just how big a deal this whole discussion has really been.

 

[Darren]

Kevin just made an excellent point and one I can verify. Years ago, 1985, I had bought a new truck and was planning on seriously abusing it. I wanted to know what the limiting factor (the weakest link) was.

I ended up talking to an engineer in the driveline engineering dept. I asked him how the rated GVW was set.
He didn't know but he promised to find out and call me back.

When he called back I could tell he was surprised by what he'd found out. The GVW rating was set by marketing.
Engineering made sure all the components on the truck could handle at least the GVW rating and that was all. No one really knew what the weakest part was.

 

[Bird]

Flames?

Yeah, maybe so, a "heated" discussion anyway. But maybe some worthwhile information from a number of people about engineers, reasons for their numbers, making your own decisions, risks and benefits of doing so, etc. And PaulT, maybe I was a little strong in my comments, but I'm sure not mad at anyone, and hope Dan isn't either.

And to some extent, I even agree with Dan; when in doubt, go by the book. You know we're all a product of our own experiences, education, training, and lots of other factors of course. And part of my training years ago included emphasis on "Go by the book until you know more than the book." Books sometimes become obsolete, are not updated, have misprints or mistakes, some authors know more about what they're writing about than others. In other words, they're written by humans. I happen to be one of those nuts who actually reads the manual on everything I buy, and I think in most cases, go by the book, but if in my opinion there's a better way, well . . . I go my own way at that point and sometimes that may be a mistake on my part, but at least I usually learn something from the experience, either good or bad./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

And I don't mind someone challenging my opinions. Sometimes I learn something from that, too./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif