I just got a call from a friend with an L3010 HST.
He put a tow ball on his 3 pt spreader bar to pull his wood splitter but did not like it rotating around as he towed the splitter.
In a fit of inspiration [without a lot of forethought] he lowered the sidelinks and attached the outboard end of his toplink to the spreader bar to stabilize things.
Here is where the lack of forethought came in:
He then got back on the tractor and pulled the 3 pt control lever to raise things and heard a loud bang behind him.
When he looked back he saw that the toplink had bent and broken
Oh well he said, and proceeded to load the bucket with split wood and drive off.
All of a sudden, the bucket curled down half way and dumped some of the wood. He pulled on the joystick and curled the bucket back up and drove to the barn and parked it.
The question he asked me was did he do some sort of damage to a component in the hydraulic system? He said all the loader and 3ph functions operated properly afterward. Initially he saw a slight fluid leak on one of the lift cylinders but later on could not reproduce it.
I know this is all 2nd hand info and I never saw the machine.
Any ideas?
He put a tow ball on his 3 pt spreader bar to pull his wood splitter but did not like it rotating around as he towed the splitter.
In a fit of inspiration [without a lot of forethought] he lowered the sidelinks and attached the outboard end of his toplink to the spreader bar to stabilize things.
Here is where the lack of forethought came in:
He then got back on the tractor and pulled the 3 pt control lever to raise things and heard a loud bang behind him.
When he looked back he saw that the toplink had bent and broken
Oh well he said, and proceeded to load the bucket with split wood and drive off.
All of a sudden, the bucket curled down half way and dumped some of the wood. He pulled on the joystick and curled the bucket back up and drove to the barn and parked it.
The question he asked me was did he do some sort of damage to a component in the hydraulic system? He said all the loader and 3ph functions operated properly afterward. Initially he saw a slight fluid leak on one of the lift cylinders but later on could not reproduce it.
I know this is all 2nd hand info and I never saw the machine.
Any ideas?
