Well its a long story but here it goes. The main idea was that the loader was crap and the hydraulics were weak. Before i got my 4320 i had a Kioti CK30 with a KL130 FEL. According to Kioti the loader is rated to 1,200lbs of lift capacity. Well a friends house was being built. They had rocks being brought in to build a brick wall. They also had a Deere 2320 with a 200cx FEL. The lift capacity on that was 899lbs. The rocks came on pallets and the truck that dropped them off left them right in front of the house. They said the they needed help moving them and that they didn't want to push their 2320 with no ballast and unloaded tires to hard. According to the company they bought the rocks from the the pallets weighted 1,012lbs. I figured my kioti would lift it no problem with a box blade on the rear. So the day before my dad and i jump in the truck to go borrow a pair of pallet forks from a friend with a kubota B2910. We loaded them up and drove to the people with the rocks house. I was going to move the pallets up a slippery hill (it rained the day before). That scared me a little, but with 4WD engaged the ROPS up and my seatbelt on i would be fine. I unload the tractor hook up the forks and get ready to lift the first pallet out of three. I am running at about 1,700RPM and when i go to curl the forks the tractor stalls. I rev the tractor up fully and try again. The curls and lifts them 3ft off the ground, but you could tell the was alot of strain on the tractor. I start to roll up the wet hill and all **** brakes loose. The pallets uncurled and dropped the load everywhereI got off the assess the damage and and none of rocks are broken. I was really mad. I asked the folks if i could barrow the 2320 to finish the job. They were all for it after what had happened. I was even more scared on this tractor. I unhooked the forks from the Kioti and but it on the deere, and i also put the box blade on it. It lifted it with no problem. I was shocked :shocked: Why could a tractor the was 7hp less and a loader that rated to almost 300lbs less lift it and mine couldn't. The next day it went to the kioti dealer. It needed new hydralic arms for the loader bucket at less then 300 hours. I was furious :mur: A week later my dad took the tractor to work to lift 1,000 concrete footings off a car trailer. It would even get them off the ground. I thought to myself it was time for a new tractor. Then after selling the kioti a summer and winter of tractor work, i had enough to buy a JD4320. And here i am.
Are you familiar with the physics of how the load rating of a loader applies? Loaders are typically rated at the "pins", and the load capacity of what can be lifted reduces greatly as the load gets further away from the pins. You also have to subtract the weight of the attachment from the lift capacity. Thus, your 1,200 lb. lift capacity was reduced to ~1,000 lbs. or less just from the weight of the fork attachment, and then as the load gets further from the pins this rating also reduces significantly. I'm surprised that the tractor could lift the 1,012 lb. load of rocks at all. This doesn't explain your failed "hydraulic arms" though, or the ability of the JD2320 to lift the rocks.
How did you transfer the forks from the Kubota to the Kioti to the Deere? Were these bucket forks?? These tractors typically don't use interchangable attachments on the loaders.
