Working on tractor with loader up...do you?

[Jstpssng]

I either block the loader, or if I need the working space I'll bring it up against a tree for support. Someday I'll get my garage built, with framework strong enough to lift a V-8 motor and support my loader and other essentias.

 

[johnk]

You have to remember... All that seperates you from being crushed is a little 59 cent o-ring...Just a word to the wise and wasted typing to the foolish!!

 

[art]

Dealer showed me a trick he uses. Take a piece of angle steel and zip tie to the ram on the hydraulic cylinder of the loader. If loader starts to go down, the piece of angle will catch it. Of course make sure the steel you use has no burrs on it.

We use hose clamps normally but either would work, we have several sets cut to cover the different sizes of loaders.

 

[BTDT]

The angle sounds like a good idea.

 

[JerryG]

Use either angle iron over the ram or a piece of pipe split in half. Like the others said, you can zip tie it or use clamp, bungees or just about anything to hold it in place. Just make sure that you secure it so that you are safe.

 

[N80]

Okay, I'll step up to the podium: My name is George and I'm an idiot. The photo below is from the time I skewered the radiator with a stick. As soon as it happened I headed back up the hill watching the temp gauge carefully.

Once I got it to where I could work on it I was afraid to run it any longer (no radiator fluid left) and that's why I didn't remove the FEL. I just got it raised and shut the tractor down.

Getting the radiator out is not hard and I was very cautious about the FEL the whole time (like it would help). But, I survived. I did lock the joystick, but it is important for folks to know that all that does is keep the joystick from getting moved. It does nothing to prevent the FEL from dropping if the hydraulics failed.

Even dumber yet, about 10 feet in front of the tractor, just out of the frame of the picture below, was a yard swing made of 6x6 posts. All I had to do was drive it a few more feet and set the bucket on the beam of the swing.

In any case, I wouldn't ever do it again. Just wasn't using my head at the time.

 

[schmism]

when cleaning the screen i dont worry about it, course half the time i do it without the FEL up anyway....

for longer service ive done i just take the 3 min to pull it off and set it asside.

 

[D7E]

Dealer showed me a trick he uses. Take a piece of angle steel and zip tie to the ram on the hydraulic cylinder of the loader. If loader starts to go down, the piece of angle will catch it. Of course make sure the steel you use has no burrs on it.

Yup this is the way i do it too .

 

[DUMBDOG]

Guess that I am an idiot, have cleaned the screen with the loader up.

 

[mechanic]

Take a piece of steel tubing and cut out the side so it will slip over the extended rod. This will keep the bucket from drifting down. You might fix a way to put a pin through it also.