XR4040H loader+ pallet fork lift test - would like comments from LS

GManBart · Aug 28, 2014

I lifted many items much heavier than that with my 4047. Heck, it lifted a 1,300lb block of steel (weighed as such) on the pallet forks with zero counterweight...add counterweight, and it toyed with stuff in the 1,500lb range.

k0ua · Aug 28, 2014

One way to know for sure, get your own pressure tester. Not much money, not hard to make.

3000 PSI 2.5" LF LM GAUGE

hitecredneck1 · Sep 3, 2014

The bags are clearly marked SALT 40lbs! Pallet forks weight? Have not lifted the salt on the 3 point. Moving that many bags again is rough on my back.

TractShackTimmons · Sep 8, 2014

I have tested a R4041 on my lot many of times and with 2,000 pounds of cement blocks on a pallet with the tires filled it did lift it over 4ft off the ground. Honestly i think the system psi on the tractor is not set right. I know you had your dealer check the pressure but i would say check the pressure yourself. LS tells me that the psi from factory is around 2200-2300 psi which i have been bumping some of them up to around 2600. With the weight you are lifting with that XR it should lift it even if it was on a pallet and on your forks. I have an XR4040 on my lot right now and i will test it as soon as i can and post the results.

hitecredneck1 · Dec 1, 2014

I tested the pressure 2200 psi

hitecredneck1 · May 11, 2015

latest test was 1/2 pallet of salt w/forks 1120lbs.

TSO · May 11, 2015

hitecredneck1 said:
I tested the pressure 2200 psi

Shouldn't it be somewhere around 2500psi?

gphil12873 · May 11, 2015

I have one of those plastic tanks with the cage around it. 275 gallons is what it will hold. I have 4000 pound Terra Force 48" forks. They weigh 400lbs just the forks. not sure what the tank thing weighs. i would say 100 lbs or less. I put 200 gallons of water in it and my Xr4046 picks it up pretty easy. How high I dont know but I know it will pick it up 3 or 4 feet. I figure this weight about 2160 lbs. I am gonna keep putting water in it to it no longer will pick it up and should be able to get a pretty dang close figure of what mine will and will not pick up.

TSO · May 11, 2015

gphil12873 said:
I have one of those plastic tanks with the cage around it. 275 gallons is what it will hold. I have 4000 pound Terra Force 48" forks. They weigh 400lbs just the forks. not sure what the tank thing weighs. i would say 100 lbs or less. I put 200 gallons of water in it and my Xr4046 picks it up pretty easy. How high I dont know but I know it will pick it up 3 or 4 feet. I figure this weight about 2160 lbs. I am gonna keep putting water in it to it no longer will pick it up and should be able to get a pretty dang close figure of what mine will and will not pick up.

How are you measuring gallons accurately

GManBart · May 11, 2015

hitecredneck1 said:
latest test was 1/2 pallet of salt w/forks 1120lbs.

Something is very wrong. That loader should toy with 1,100lbs like it's not even there. Here's mine lifting approximately 2,000lbs of concrete forms. Each form had a sheet of 3/4" plywood at 60lbs each, and 6 2x4x8s per form at 13lbs each for 78lbs per form...total of 138lbs per form.

15 forms x 118lbs = 2,070lbs.