Billrog
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- Joined
- Dec 9, 2014
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- Armstrong, British Columbia
- Tractor
- Kioti 2610, 580 SuperM Case Backhoe
The loader won't go below the tire bottom unless it's in float position.
The loader won't go below the tire bottom unless it's in float position.
The loader won't go below the tire bottom unless it's in float position.
Your question was the was I read it why isn't there something to stop it from lowering. If pushing why would it lower on it's own unless in float ?
Sorry I misunderstood your answer. Yes if it's not in float it will stay put. I guess my question is more why can it ever go blow the tires because it makes float useless for almost anything other than back dragging. When you are pushing a very light load it will follow the contour of the ground (to some degree) if that load increases the front end lifts off the ground and you loose traction.
When if float the oil in the lift cylinders can move back and forth between rod end and base end of the cylinder. When bucket touches the ground, there is still some available travel room in the cylinder for the rod to retract inward. While going forward if bucket sliding across the ground reaches point of "high" resistance to slide the forward push of the tractor makes the cylinder rod push in, moving oil from base end to rod end, and this raises front wheels off the ground. Float is not intended, by design, to be used going forward.
I understand how it works, I didn't know it was not intended for forward use. That essentially answers the question, I was trying to use it wrong and because of that it didn't work very well. But that still doesn't tell me why there is no stopper to hold the bucket at ground level and take all the stress off of the pins and loader towers and redirect it into the front of the frame.