skid stear part

[schmism]

whats the red thing on the lift arm that seems to serve no pourpous but you seem to see on lots of machinery that has a FEL arm setup?

its not a the lift cylinder, its not a gard for the front hydrolic hose....

this case has one

I see them all the time but i can never figure out what they do.

 

[QwikDraw]

When you lift the arms all the way up(to do some maintenance, including tilting the cab up), you put that guard around one of the cylinders as a safety. It would keep the arm in the "up" position if the hydraulics’ had a failure.

You need two men to use it properly, one to be in the machine and lift the arms and one to install the safety.

Everyone knows...NEVER walk under a raised bucket...right? (although we all do it sometimes)

 

[radman1]

Quickdraw is too quick for me. Like he says, it is a safety device than goes over the extended cylinder. Now when raised, if a hose should break, the lift won't come down an crush who/what is under it.