Tweaked FEL

mikester · Jul 10, 2018

I’d suspect an off centered load causing the twist I.e. putting a chain around one fork and making a lift beyond loader capacity

ptsg · Jul 10, 2018

Unless someone had messed up the factory relief settings, it shouldn't be able to lift beyond capacity. Anyway, it should handle beyond the capacity to accommodate for the bumps during the ride with weight on the loader.

Stimw · Jul 10, 2018

If I pick too heavy a load with my 3510 Branson the back wheels come off the ground!
Then I know it is too heavy. And I have done it more than once.

ovrszd · Jul 10, 2018

4570Man said:
Yep. That is going to happen. Any loader that can稚 take it WILL fail.

Excuse me for interpreting your comment. Hitting the relief valve should not cause failure. Every time I use my FEL for heavy work I hit the relief valve with no mechanical failure. This failure has nothing to do with the relief valve. Pressures were exerted on the structure of the FEL frame way before the relief valve could save it.

ovrszd · Jul 10, 2018

Stimw said:
If I pick too heavy a load with my 3510 Branson the back wheels come off the ground!
Then I know it is too heavy. And I have done it more than once.

If you can sit on flat ground and lift the rear tires off the ground you simply need rear wheel weight or ballast. That's just not a balanced tractor/FEL and has nothing to do with brand.

MossRoad · Jul 10, 2018

CincyFlyer said:
Just one note: hasn't virtually everyone with a loader tried to lift over its capacity and simply had the relief valve open?

Mine lifts the rear wheels off the ground. The reliefs have never opened in 17 years. The FEL is strong enough to take it. However, it's a tiny machine, only 1500#.

ovrszd · Jul 10, 2018

The bent rams interests me. I've never saw a cylinder have the ability to bend the ram with a straight up lift. Just doesn't happen. Bent rams are caused by outside forces beyond the hydraulic pressure being exerted on the cylinder. When a properly installed cylinder has hydraulic pressure applied to extend the ram there is no forces present to bend the ram. It will simply lift the load of go into relief with no bending.

ovrszd · Jul 10, 2018

MossRoad said:
Mine lifts the rear wheels off the ground. The reliefs have never opened in 17 years. The FEL is strong enough to take it. However, it's a tiny machine, only 1500#.

Isn't yours the one that doesn't have the power to push an attachment down but if the valve is accidently put into "float" it will drop the attachment?

oldtimer 66 · Jul 10, 2018

Were both of the locks on the vertical arms set. From everything that has been said it is possible that one of the locks was not engaged. This would allow one of the vertical arms to move forward when a certain amount of weight was put on. Once the weight over power the structure it failed.