Feels funny without the loader

[Tractors4u]

It is not often that I take my loader off the tractor. When I do I feel like I a driving some kind of stream lined Indy race car or something. I almost feel like setting up orange cones and seeing how fast the 4310 will slalom. Anybody else?

 

[rmonio]

Absolutely... sorta like driving around a really BIG toy (not to say that some folks don't accuse me of that anyway!). But when I first took my loader off (just recently) and cut my grass, it sure felt funny! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Bob

 

[JDgreen227]

I used to mow with a JD 318...when I take the loader off my 4210 (not too often these days) for mowing, if I wear dark shades and squint my eyes a little it feels like my older 318 on steroids.... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Until I do something stupid, like drive under a tree with the ROPS up. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[bky]

I feel the same when iI take off a 3pt attachment since i run one 99.9% of the time
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[RoyJackson]

I drop my loader off frequently. Very rarely mow with it on...

But I'll admit...without those two FEL uprights just forward, the tractor does seem to have lost a lot of mass. I can't use the term "wimpy", but that might be a good description.

 

[RoyJackson]

I drop my loader off frequently. Very rarely mow with it on...

But I'll admit...without those two FEL uprights just forward, the tractor does seem to have lost a lot of size (beefiness might be a better term). I can't use the term "wimpy", but that might be a good description.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

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I haven't taken the FEL off yet, but I had the backhoe on from the get-go and when I finally took it off, it worked much the same way. The tractor changed into a different machine. Felt very strange.

Cliff

Took the Backhoe off so I could fill the FEL and the ballast box with ice and Mt. Dew(proper color and all) and go on a ride-about around the Chicago suburbs driving really slow, wearing a straw hat, chewing on a long piece of grass and humming, "She thinks my tractor's sexy" while staring strait ahead and ignoring the horns and yells and police sirens.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It feels like a big riding mower on steroids. Just wish I had a MMM...Kyle

 

[SteveBenson]

I've had my tractor for 4 years and I never took the loader off until this year. Now I take it off whenever I'm not using it. It is sooo much nicer working in the field mowing or doing hay work without the loader. The biggest thing is the bumps are only half as bad with the loader off. You don't get that extra jerk from having all that weight hanging off the front. And of course manuverability is much bettter.

 

[bigblock]

It's funny that you would bring that up. I did the 400 hour service a few weeks ago and decided to take the loader off. I've had it off before but never drove the tractor very far without it. For some reason I decided to drive around a little without the loader and boxblade. You're right, it felt pretty sporty.

I did discover one other thing. Without the loader, the tractor scares the c#*p out of the horse. Normally, the horse doesn't give the tractor a second glance. Well, apparently by removing the loader, I created a fire-breathing monster. The horse wanted no part of being anywhere around that thing! I guess that the horse just appreciates what a useful attachment the loader is and figures if the loaders is gone then she can't be far behind. Yeh, that's probably it. She has proven to be a deep thinker in the past.

Anybody else notice this about horses? (not the deep thinking part)

Bob

 

[Tractors4u]

We usually just walk out to the barn to carry the horses a bucket of grain. One tiem we put the bucket in the back of our Gator and it fell over and we let them eat the grain out of the bed. Now when they see me on the Gator, lawnmower or tractor they think it is feeding time.

 

[755inNY]

My horses don't seem to care either way (FEL on or off). That applies to my previous JD 755 and my new 4310. Maybe its because they are used to seeing it both ways. Or maybe they are not the deep thinking type.

I have a problem getting them to move out of the way when I am mowing the field. I can have the RPMs up with the mower or bush hog engaged and they will just stand in the way. I have to get real close (with in 2 feet) and yell, over the noise of the tractor, before they will finally get out of the way. Sometimes when I'm in the field with the FEL on and one of them is in the path, I have to bang the bucket (rapid movement of the curl/dump cycle) to get them out of the way.

I have the loader off whenever I'm not using it. It just comes off so darn easy and removing the weight from the front axle is a good thing.

Jeff