Strong b7200 with weak L1640 loader

[fatjay]

I'm not sure if it's weak really. I'm just coming off bigger machines. Tractor runs fine, but the loader not so much.

My oliver, ferguson, and bobcat loaders had some crazy breakout force with the buckets, but I feel like my b7200 struggles.

I can run into manure piles, scoop, lift, dump, all well and good. I have agressive teeth on my bucket. But if I dig into the clay soil, I try to curl and it just doesn't want to break up the soil. On my bigger machines, my curl is my strongest function by far. But the little kubota can barely break up the compacted clay.

Is it just the machine limits, or should I be doing better?

 

[TheOldHokie]

I'm not sure if it's weak really. I'm just coming off bigger machines. Tractor runs fine, but the loader not so much.

My oliver, ferguson, and bobcat loaders had some crazy breakout force with the buckets, but I feel like my b7200 struggles.

I can run into manure piles, scoop, lift, dump, all well and good. I have agressive teeth on my bucket. But if I dig into the clay soil, I try to curl and it just doesn't want to break up the soil. On my bigger machines, my curl is my strongest function by far. But the little kubota can barely break up the compacted clay.

Is it just the machine limits, or should I be doing better?

I believe that's a B1630/B1640 loader and hydraulic relief pressure is factory set @1500 PSI. Combine that with two 1.5" bore/1" rod cylinders and you wind up with a biscuit under 3000 lbf. In other words the loader is a weakling. Those silly big ass teeth that somebody added also reduce the mechanical advantage in the bucket geometry further compounding the inherent lack of breakout force. In short the B1630 is not designed for digging and the teeth made it worse.

Dan