![]() Now, you can see here as I'm chaining this thing up, full height on this loader is high. This is going to be your lift capacity at full height at the pivot pin. Our last test here is going to be at full height. Your lift capacity starts to dive off really quickly. As that bucket moves away from the tractor. You can see here how that loader geometry plays out. I'm coming in at 1200 pounds, a full 30% lower than what we were doing just two feet below. This one will be 1500 millimeters off the ground, which is just shy of 60 inches from the pivot pin. If you look at your loader literature, this is actually a number that is oftentimes published. That one's going to taken right about five feet. You can see here by the dogleg here that's in the loader arm that dog leg is going to be pointed basically out by 90 degrees here in the next test. That's going to show you that when you are lifting loads around- If you only need to be able to pick something up off the ground and carry it a little ways and set it back down again, you can really push a lot more with these tractors than what you would expect, but as you're going to see here as we move this thing up forward, higher and higher, those numbers are going to start to decrease. How about yours? Right? A very good example right there, so knee or basically waist height at this point now that I've pulled the slack out of the chain, right? If we were going to drop this down even further, it's pretty safe to say that you could probably get a 2000 pound measurement out of this tractor. To full height, into a dump truck or whatever, but this number is going to show a heck of a lot more than that. That's the conservative number that we as sales guys like to see used because it's going to tell you that you should be able to put 660 pounds just about anywhere. The very conservative number for this loader is right about 660 pounds. I've got the loader lowered down to the ground and I got my load cell hooked back behind my bucket where the pivot pins are at right about knee height which should give us a very, very strong lift. We're going to do the knees test here at first. Now, just like lifting something yourself, the lower that you are the ground and the closer that you are to your body, the much easier that it is, right? If you're going to try to lift something up above your head, it's going to be a lot more difficult than lifting it up to your knees. ![]() I'm going to show you a little bit here today just by moving around the point that my load cell is attached and running up to different heights of how we can come up with some radically different numbers. If you're trying to put on a good face and make a good marketing material, that's a very easy way to do it is just by not showing the full picture. The less honest ones that want to make themselves seem like a little bit more than they are are going to be very coy about exactly how they're taking those numbers by coming back closer to the loader and lower down to the ground, you're going to lift a lot more weight. Oftentimes, you're going to find some companies giving you a lot of detail, more honest companies, giving you a lot of detail on exactly where they're taking their measurements, the height, how high up, and how far forward on the loader they're recording those specs. ![]() One of the things that I really frequently get frustrated by is the way that a lot of tractor companies present the specifications of their product. I'm going to go through and do a couple of demonstrations here for you today showing how lift, height, and the positioning on your loader bucket impacts your lift capacity. ![]() I've got here buried about 10 feet underground a tire with a chain attached to it and a loader cell between my loader and that chain going down underground. Today we're going to do a little bit of load cell testing down in our test pit. Neil from Messick's here, out today with the Kubota LA 434 front-loader.
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