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>>This one has the trip bucket. This one looks to be plumbed for down pressure as it has lines coming off both ends of both cylinders. They are spliced together and have pioneer tips that would go into one remote. This seems like a bad idea because the oil would more readily go to the side with less wieght, twisting the whole unit. Dunno if the powertrol has the capacity to put enough oil in the cylinders to lift it all the way up, either. Is there a better way to plumb up these loaders? You guys aren't doing a very good job of selling me on it ;-) I was just gonna use it to push snow and maybe some light excavation. Haul a little wood in the bucket from the woods, too. Pushing snow would be tough as I couldn't back drag, light excavation seems to be outta the question, and it wouldn't haul much wood as well. Hmm...
I have a 45W that came with the hydraulic dump option. That makes it a pretty handy loader, especially I installed a wider bucket on it. Equipped this way it can hold its own. The most imnportant part of using any loader around dirt is to have the soil loose first. It's not a backhow or an industrial loader built to shell out stumps. Remember, an old loader like this is a just large wheelbarrow. You can still find the wider snow wings for the Deere 45 bucket and they do a good job on snow, and when fitted, they'll carry a lot of wood that way.
On the plumbing, the lines to the fronts of the lift cylinders were used for oil storage since the Powr-Trol box didn' have much of a reservoir. When they are filled with oil, the loader will lift all the way up with no problems. You'll get a little bit of a down pressure bump with those hoses, but by then the oil starts pushing past the piston and the effective down pressure gets to be pretty light. BTW, the oil SHOULD go to the light side first, and once that pressure is equals to the load on the other side, the load will lift straight. That's parallel hyfdraulics 101. If you put a load to one side or the other, you can twist it, or any loader for that matter. A 45 trip loader is seldom worth more than a couple hundred dollars, and for that you can do quite a bit with them, but you'll always have that hand clutch to tie occupy one hand, hand number two on the steering wheel, hand number three on the Powr-trol lever, hand number four on the trip lever, and hand number five scratching you nose, adjustong your hat, running the throttle, and swatting at flies. BUT, all in all, they sure were am improvement over a pitch fork. Remember what they were originallly designed to do. Once you ask a 50 year old machine to exceed it's orignal design parameters, you'll likely be dissapointed, though it is seldom the equipment's fault. Frank
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