Bald Squatch
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I have a 3515H (Bought new in May 2018) with just over 100 hours on it. I recently let the my neighbor use it to move a couple deer blinds. He has a Kubota 3700SU with a pin on bucket. He needed my tractor and pallet forks. He told me he thought something was wrong with my loader because it was really jumpy when he tried to lower the blinds which weigh around 700 lbs. This is my first tractor so I have no frame of reference. I can feather the loader going up along with dump and curl. While lowering, the loader is either on or off. You really need to push the loader stick all the way forward and let go when it gets to the level you want. If you tap the stick while dropping, the loader will bounce like you're dribbling a basketball. Conversely, his Kubota is so much smoother and rarely seems to bounce. The rated lift on the Kubota is only about half of my BL150's 2100 lbs. I am wondering if this is just a matter of the Kubota being smoother due to weaker hydraulics, or do I have a problem. I have watched several YouTube's on the Branson 15 series and my loader seems to react about the same as what I see in the videos. I have seen a few videos where the stick is pushed full forward and the loader bounces while dropping. Mine does not do that. It only bounces when the stick is released abruptly. After three years of experience I have gotten used to how my loader operates. Dropping the RPM's down to an idle seems to help with the sensitivity. Just wondering what other Branson (15 series specifically) owners have experienced.