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300URandy

08-23-2004 11:53:26




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Yesterday I was out mowing my 6 acre prairie field
with my brush hog. I had a bunch of weeds in the bucket of the front end loader and went to dump them out. Only thing is I was going wide open in 3rd gear on my 300U. I almost stuck the bucket in the ground, luckily I got it back up just in time.
It made me wonder though what would happen if I had stuck the bucket in good at that speed. I think the tractor could probably have flipped over. My loader will lift my front wheels about a foot off the ground when down all the way. Anyway learned another good lesson without killing myself

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TimFL

08-23-2004 12:40:29




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to 300URandy, 08-23-2004 11:53:26  
Have done that once with a case backhoe. Nearly broke some ribs on the steering wheel. I dont know if it would flip a machine but done right it will sure tear something up.



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paul

08-23-2004 13:28:45




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to TimFL, 08-23-2004 12:40:29  
~25 years ago a distant neighborhood kid was driving the JD with loader home on the gravel roads - road gear of course, and the bucket dropped - single acting I believe. Flipped the tractor right over on top of him. It was a closed casket.

--->Paul



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TimFL

08-23-2004 13:35:59




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to paul, 08-23-2004 13:28:45  
It probably would flip with just a regular tractor. I was thinking backhoe when I said that. I have seen pictures of older tractors with narrow fronts with front buckets. Have to imagine that operating one of those requires alot of nerve.



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John in Nebr.

08-23-2004 16:04:26




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to TimFL, 08-23-2004 13:35:59  
Thats the only way I did it for over 20 years, never tipped a tractor, no power steering on the M farmalls either. Narrow front on all 3 of them, one just learned to be careful.



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paul

08-23-2004 16:00:52




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to TimFL, 08-23-2004 13:35:59  
Since I started when I was about 8 or 9 on the H, it's just ingrained into me I guess. No power steering & no live hyd is a real issue for operating a loader when you are looking at the manure 40 head of cattle leave behind..... ;)

--->Paul



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TimV

08-23-2004 18:44:13




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to paul, 08-23-2004 16:00:52  
LOL--You"re right on the money there! I learned the same thing at about the same age--our old IH 300 with no power steering beat the tar out of loading 50 cows worth of shutt by hand! If I had a nickel for every load of manure that the old trip-bucket loaders loaded I"d probably give Bill Gates a run for his money. It"s not fair to compare the old tractors to what replaced them--a better test is comparing them to what THEY replaced.

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paul

08-23-2004 19:38:31




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 Re: Not thinking again in reply to TimV, 08-23-2004 18:44:13  
I never thought of it quite like that. Like it.

I was walking a junk - er - salvage yard & saw an F-20 with a loader on it that ran off the belt pulley & a brake. Can you imagine trying to co-ordinate that contraption, shifting the belt pulley and the gears as you load & lift? Wow.

--->Paul



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