MF 80 loader for MF265

Thomas5060

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Livestock Farmer
Have you any thoughts about a weight for it all joking aside it would be advisable
Have a weight here, it was a 40gallon barrel that was filled with concrete, but we will hardly need it, mostly just be lifting digger buckets and things like that, if we start into bease again this year we will probably use it to feed round bale silage so a weight would probably help
 

Lincs Lass

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north lincs
Have a weight here, it was a 40gallon barrel that was filled with concrete, but we will hardly need it, mostly just be lifting digger buckets and things like that, if we start into bease again this year we will probably use it to feed round bale silage so a weight would probably help
You,ll soon find out how light the back end is with a silage bale or with the bucket full of stone
 

Lincs Lass

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north lincs
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like this
 

two-cylinder

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Location
Cambridge
Have you any thoughts about a weight for it all joking aside it would be advisable

Very advisable if you are on hilly land.
I once came down a hill with a full half tonne fertiliser bag on the loader, and a slight bounce caused one rear wheel to lose traction and the tractor started freewheeling down the hill. I averted disaster by quickly dumping the bag on the ground but could have been nasty!
Always using a counter weight.
 

wdah/him

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Location
tyrone
A bit of warning the front stubs will break easy enough if used for round bales, we fitted 2-3 one year and the replacements arent hardened right so went to get 590 stubs and got them lathed down to suit, all sorted now.

have went with the barrle of concrete but it is a pain to put on and off easy. a more counterbalance weight isnt that dear for the convienicne of easy to fit and take off.

very nice loader to use, best in thier day i was told. we have another here to fit the 4wd 390 but dont use it now with the loader on the 7740. the 265 stacks round bales and feeds in another yard, with the 7740 doing most loader work.
 

J 1177

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Durham, UK
Looks well. The bushes look like theyve been replaced so it should be nice and tight? Id put a weight on it if i was u. I had a similar sized ih and if you got in a bit of sticky going it was useless but if i stuck the old howard rotorvator with a few four stone weights on it would climb mountains. Heck i even have a 45 gallon weight to go on the back of my nh when loading wagons.
 

Thomas5060

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Livestock Farmer
Looks well. The bushes look like theyve been replaced so it should be nice and tight? Id put a weight on it if i was u. I had a similar sized ih and if you got in a bit of sticky going it was useless but if i stuck the old howard rotorvator with a few four stone weights on it would climb mountains. Heck i even have a 45 gallon weight to go on the back of my nh when loading wagons.
The 2nd boom we had to buy is abit worn so in a whiles time we will get it pinned and bushed. If we do anything heavier than what we plan we will use the concrete weight, but mostly we will be lifting light things like digger buckets etc
 

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