Working Off Of a Front Loader?

[markie61]

<font color=red>OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</font color=red>

Mark

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Got to ask...

Did you put that second ladder into loader and jocky it around too with you up on it?

Now I will guess the answer. You did use the ladder in the loader, but came back down before moving it...

How'd I do? /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif I was younger once too.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I'm going to have to stop taking this notebook [with the wireless link to our home network] to my wood shop with me...ain't getting anything done! /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bill in Pgh, PA

 

[beenthere]

You did great. Caution prevailed, and the ladder was tied to keep it from moving sideways along the barn too. Could have thought of that earlier too.

An additional thrill came when the ladder was in the pig pen, and the 40' just barely reached the window of the cupalo on top of the grainary (corn bin) where the elevator was. To reach the trim on the top eaves, had to stand on the top rung and hang on to the trim. The pigs decided that the ladder in their pen was a good place to itch, causing the bottom of the ladder to move about a foot or two. That sudden drop at the top was about all I could take, and still stay up there. Locked the pigs out after that. Live and learn (a little). /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The old barn still stands, amid the Walmart, Lowes, Sears, etc, etc, to remind me of those days (even included a near crash in an airplane while flying over that farm) long ago.

 

[Tedman]

I too have a story for working out of a loader. We have a JD 450C crawler loader. We were putting a new roof on our house and was using the loader to lift bundles of shingles up to the roof line. As I creeped closer to the house with the bucket at full height, my father was standing alongside the loader guiding me closer and my brother on the roof ready to step into the bucket to unload the shingles. Just then the hydraulic hose burst! The bucket came crashing down in about a second just missing the house and my father standing alongside. Meanwhile my brother and the house were drenched with about 10 gallons of hydraulic fluid. Luckily nobody was hurt. That was about 6 years ago, I think I have only gotten back in the bucket once since then. On the bright side, the wood siding on the house hasn't had to be restained in that area since. Stain still looks new. Maybe I should stain the whole house with it.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I guess you just never know!

At this end I am going to try to make it a practice to be VERY careful if ever working on the loader bucket, and to NEVER let myself or anyone else get under it for any reason.

Glad no one got hurt. Guess all involved learned an important safety lesson. Thanks for sharing that with us.

Bill

In Pgh, PA

 

[yonahforge]

Not quite a loader story, but I had 2 different forklift hydraulic hoses burst with the forks at 10+ feet. One drenched me in hydraulic fluid, the other covered the floor in it. Both times the forks dropped like a stone to the floor. One time the forks were empty, the other time I had a pallet of light fixtures on the pallet (what a mess!).

 

[centex]

The hot water heater for my house is in the attic. When I had to replace it the only way to get the new heater into the attic and the old heater down was to remove the siding on the gable of the house and move them between the studs. I put the forks on the FEL and built a platform to stand on and to set the tanks on. I stood on the platform to remove and replace the siding also. I felt a lot safer than working off of step ladders.