RE: (ET) ET Loader.

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

You can break anything given the... desire?

 

I bought an Farmall 'H' once for parts; that's a full size farm tractor.  Casting broke clean in the middle.  Turns out the guy left the loader on, about 10" from the ground, and tried to do some ground work at high speed at the edge of a pond.  The tractor bounced at about 6 MPH, the bucket dug into the sand, and the back wheels came up a foot or so.  The casting broke.

 

I have used loaders on larger farm equipment with and without power steering.  The real key is how and when.  On packed ground or pavement you are OK.  On soft stuff you have to move to turn the wheel.  Although I don't have a GE loader, I wouldn't be afraid of it.

 

Larry Elie

 

-----Original Message-----
From: oleoranch aaahawk com [mailto:oleoranch aaahawk com]
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:05 AM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: (ET) ET Loader.

    Just a note here, Do not overload 
when working with the loader.    I have gotten several free 
Elec-Traks with loaders where the tractors were broker in half form the 
loader.    Rob.

No trees were destroyed in the creation of this E Mail, however many electrons were severely inconvenienced!  RAV (DofTI)