MikePA
Super Moderator
<font color="blue"> I was moving a cedar tree. </font>
<font color="blue"> The loader was a New Holland loader. It was equiped with a 4 and 1 bucket.</font>
According to my 7308 FEL manual, its lifting capacity is 800 pounds. I checked at the Carver website and a 4n1 bucket weighs between 340 (std duty) and 445 (heavy duty) pounds. This leaves between 355 and 460 pounds for the contents of the bucket, in this case a cedar tree. Any idea what the cedar tree weighed?
<font color="blue"> Dump on a brush pile and backed up. The bucket fell and the tractor bowed up in the middle. </font>
I would imagine that the tractor broke, or was at least cracked, before you started backing up and the movement of the tractor completed the job. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I think, at a minimum, NH should investigate to see if this was caused by a manufacturing defect.
<font color="blue"> The loader was a New Holland loader. It was equiped with a 4 and 1 bucket.</font>
According to my 7308 FEL manual, its lifting capacity is 800 pounds. I checked at the Carver website and a 4n1 bucket weighs between 340 (std duty) and 445 (heavy duty) pounds. This leaves between 355 and 460 pounds for the contents of the bucket, in this case a cedar tree. Any idea what the cedar tree weighed?
<font color="blue"> Dump on a brush pile and backed up. The bucket fell and the tractor bowed up in the middle. </font>
I would imagine that the tractor broke, or was at least cracked, before you started backing up and the movement of the tractor completed the job. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I think, at a minimum, NH should investigate to see if this was caused by a manufacturing defect.