LouNY
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- Joined
- Jul 4, 2015
- Messages
- 10,796
- Location
- Greenwich, NY
- Tractor
- Branson 8050, IH 574, Oliver 1550 Diesel Utility (traded in on Branson) NH 8160. Kioti CK2620SECH
I've added a camera so I can see the pallet fork tips without getting out or relying on guidance from others.
I thing that I do enjoy with the loader forks is the reach, loading a pickup with the tail gate open I can still get a pallet far enough forward or placed in the center of a trailer. Also I can load round bales in the center of two rows for a second tier. Unless your forklift has the extendable forks which most don't, also unless it's an off road fork most of them get stuck just looking at a dirt roadway or parking pad.
I have no issue using my power shuttle transmissions with their wet clutch paks and easing the clutches with forks or anything else on the loader or tractor.
Dry disk clutchs do take a bit more attention but most can go many thousands of hours even in loader work.
When doing loader work, manure or dirt with the power shuttles I do use the foot throttle quite a bit, as I drive into the pile I'm backing of the throttle to reduce the rpm as I start to curl back and lift, then I move the direction lever to reverse and get back onto the foot throttle, when backing out and turned and ready to go forward it is very similar, off the foot throttle, reversing lever to neutral, braking to a stop, lever to forward and back on the throttle.
Doing it faster then writing it out.
I thing that I do enjoy with the loader forks is the reach, loading a pickup with the tail gate open I can still get a pallet far enough forward or placed in the center of a trailer. Also I can load round bales in the center of two rows for a second tier. Unless your forklift has the extendable forks which most don't, also unless it's an off road fork most of them get stuck just looking at a dirt roadway or parking pad.
I have no issue using my power shuttle transmissions with their wet clutch paks and easing the clutches with forks or anything else on the loader or tractor.
Dry disk clutchs do take a bit more attention but most can go many thousands of hours even in loader work.
When doing loader work, manure or dirt with the power shuttles I do use the foot throttle quite a bit, as I drive into the pile I'm backing of the throttle to reduce the rpm as I start to curl back and lift, then I move the direction lever to reverse and get back onto the foot throttle, when backing out and turned and ready to go forward it is very similar, off the foot throttle, reversing lever to neutral, braking to a stop, lever to forward and back on the throttle.
Doing it faster then writing it out.