#3000 on 6120 FEL

[Brute 23]

How well will a JD 6120 handle #3000 on pallets with the FEL?

I have some pallets of grass coming this week. They say they are #3000 each. I'm trying to find the lifting capacity but was hoping some one could speak to it directly.

At a minimum I need to take them off the trailer and set them straight down. Best case I can put them in the barn and move them to the area to be put out later.

 

[SBMF 2015]

3000lbs is a lot. What loader? Real pallet forks or the kind that go on your bucket?
We lift two 1,800lb sets of concrete slats at a time with our fwd 6330/ 673ldr and pallet forks. Fluid in the back tires, fwd on. Pick them up off the semi and set them down. It will do it, but it's a lot.

 

[Brute 23]

3000lbs is a lot. What loader? Real pallet forks or the kind that go on your bucket?
We lift two 1,800lb sets of concrete slats at a time with our fwd 6330/ 673ldr and pallet forks. Fluid in the back tires, fwd on. Pick them up off the semi and set them down. It will do it, but it's a lot.

540 M loader, it's a fwd

I have a big grader blade on the rear 3pt for counter balance even when hauling a full load of dirt in the bucket.

It's a full set of pallet forks, not the clamp on ones.

 

[wbvs58]

I lift a lot of stuff with my old 7570 Kubota using chains/straps. It has a 4in 1 bucket and with the bucket open the lifting is close to the end of the arms rather than right out on a set of forks which gives me a bit more lifting power but I lose a little in height. I regularly lift 1 tonne bags (1000kg or 2200lb) and I am sure I have greatly exceeded this from time to time. Always a counter weight and will just bring it off my truck straight down to close to ground before moving.

Ken

 

[Brute 23]

#4000 rating on the pallet forks

 

[callmefence]

I'm trying to think of a example. Usually use a skid steer around the house for a forklift but sometimes use a the 5100 with forks. The closest thing I can think would be the pallets of Sudan seed come 50 50 pound bags. 2500 pounds .
It will unload them with nothing on the 3 point. Ballest in the tires. Gets a little high in the back. I'll think you'll be fine on the 6 series . Just be careful.

Have some extra pallets handy in case you have to unload some by hand..

 

[Gary Dennis]

I've got the same loader on a JD 5083e amd a JD 5075e. I really think your max will be about 2,200 pounds. Much more than a pallet of cattle cubes is all the will take. Check your air in your front tires first because the can't handle as much as the rears. I picked up a squeeze chute that weighted 2,200 and all I could do was lift it and pull the trailer out from under it. Hope that helps.
Gary

 

[chaded]

6 series has a good bit of weight advantage over the 5 series. I have a 5075e with a 520m loader and the weak link is the tractor weight. I would think with a 6 series, counter weight, and a little stronger loader in the 540, you could at least set them on the ground?

 

[Brute 23]

I'm trying to think of a example. Usually use a skid steer around the house for a forklift but sometimes use a the 5100 with forks. The closest thing I can think would be the pallets of Sudan seed come 50 50 pound bags. 2500 pounds .
It will unload them with nothing on the 3 point. Ballest in the tires. Gets a little high in the back. I'll think you'll be fine on the 6 series . Just be careful.

Have some extra pallets handy in case you have to unload some by hand..

Don't put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!

 

[Brute 23]

It's all good level, flat ground and if I move it I can hold it inches off the ground.

I don't like to tear stuff up, though, either.

 

[Brute 23]

When I looked online it said right at #3000 full lift so it sounds like I will be right on the edge. No way I'm doing full lift.

This is what I looked at.

 

[callmefence]

When I looked online it said right at #3000 full lift so it sounds like I will be right on the edge. No way I'm doing full lift.

This is what I looked at.
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Wear a mask and you'll be fine.

 

[Brute 23]

This on shows lift at 59". It says #4400. That seems like a lot.

We will see what happens. Thanks

 

[rollinhills]

I've got a 6130 it will handle 3000# pretty easy we handle totes full of distillers slop all the time with ease.

 

[Brute 23]

The tractor handled the pallets of sod with out a problem. I didn't get crazy but I never felt uneasy about it. I had plenty of hydraulics also to lift, tilt, etc.

The tractor has wheel weight and I had a grademaster on the 3pt that probably weighs #1000-15000. Don't think I would want to do it with out the additional weight on back.

Thanks for all the replies.

 

[Nesikep]

The tractor handled the pallets of sod with out a problem. I didn't get crazy but I never felt uneasy about it. I had plenty of hydraulics also to lift, tilt, etc.

The tractor has wheel weight and I had a grademaster on the 3pt that probably weighs #1000-15000. Don't think I would want to do it with out the additional weight on back.

Thanks for all the replies.

Here was one of my sketchy lifts, that lathe is crowding 6000 lbs , I had to go over the front of the bucket to get close enough, but i couldn't move an inch with it that way, had to drive the trailer out from under it, then hook it up behind the bucket and it was good then.

 

[sstterry]

Here was one of my sketchy lifts, that lathe is crowding 6000 lbs , I had to go over the front of the bucket to get close enough, but i couldn't move an inch with it that way, had to drive the trailer out from under it, then hook it up behind the bucket and it was good then.

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I have that same loader Nessie and when I was building my house (close to 30 years ago), I moved big bundles of cinderblock and brick to where they were needed on the job. On more than one occasion the rear of the tracks came off the ground and I just sort of crept the bundle to where it was needed, never raising it more than a few inches off the ground. Those old JD track machines are workhorses.

 

[Nesikep]

I have that same loader Nessie and when I was building my house (close to 30 years ago), I moved big bundles of cinderblock and brick to where they were needed on the job. On more than one occasion the rear of the tracks came off the ground and I just sort of crept the bundle to where it was needed, never raising it more than a few inches off the ground. Those old JD track machines are workhorses.

without a doubt it's been the most useful and versatile machine on the farm, it's slower than a skidsteer but no skidsteer will compete with it for brute force, we have a hoe attachment for it and log forks.. wish I had a 3-in-1 bucket for it.

really handy for pulling engines, splitting tractors,etc, hydraulics stay put really well


Putting up the hayshed posts


Butchering


and it's dug a lot of ditch in some pretty horrid ground, that poor backhoe was soooo sloppy you just waited for it to dangle right and drop it in, sure has a lot of power to dig a rock out though

 

[sstterry]

I only have the bucket on mine, but it has a PTO in the back and the welded cleats on the tracks. It will climb a pretty darn steep hill.

 

[Nesikep]

I only have the bucket on mine, but it has a PTO in the back and the welded cleats on the tracks. It will climb a pretty darn steep hill.

this one got widened and has swamp tracks.. not really good in our rock, they're 6" wider pads than normal, and pretty worn now, I wouldn't trust it on slippery stuff and a steep hill