Hydraullic Strain

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DITTO's Mark, you say what I'm thinking. Why would one raise a loader continuosly when nothing was happening? I always work with it. How else would I know what something weighs or how stubborn its attached? With the hundreds of hours I have on tractors, I have never felt I am abusing them. The repairs are almost always done by me, and I avoid doing anything that will cause them. The loader is by far the most used piece of equipment I use short of the drive train, the most frequent repair I do on it is to repair a hose that I just had a large branch or stump catch and breakthrough, and thats happened once. Thats also why I will always have a tractor that has the front grille guard to protect the radiator and hood steel from damage. Some may consider my approach to a tractor as rather rough, I use the heck out of it, but I know the difference between abuse and a good work out. Mark, the other Mark