While all of us would probably like to have a nice 40 by 60 barndominium with a big wood stove in it. I don't know. It's just a couple ideas there. If you're like me, you don't have enough space to store a lot of your tractor stuff. This is my kind of implement yard, I guess you'd call it. I got my snow blower and my sprayer and my loader parked out over here. The kids call it the lumber yard too, because we're collecting stuff to build a treehouse someday, who knows. But it's a far less than ideal place in order to take implements on and off of your tractor. Right?
A lot of these processes go really well when you're in a nice flat parking lot or a great level concrete pad. But when you're sitting outside and your hoses may have warmed up a little bit or you took your loader off here and one of the parking stands settled down into the ground a little bit, you might find yourself struggling to get these things to line back up again. If you take your time and you go through and think through the places that things are a little off and you look for some extra tools, maybe, in order to get this thing back on the tractor, it can be done without too much headaches. So, come along with me here this morning, we're going to reattach my loader here and show you some of the tricks that we're going to use in order to make this complicated setup work.
So, when you're taking your loader off your tractor, you always want to have in the back of your mind, that where you've left this thing is where you're going to have to go back to again in order to put it back on and you could do yourself a lot of favors by taking these things off in smart places, right? Places where you can easily drive your tractor into them, keep things nice and level, but also in a place where things are not going to sink down into the dirt. If you take a look at my parking stands down here, you can hardly see the ends of them or the pads anymore because they've sunken down into the ground. Now, if you're like I have here and you have really soft ground, taking, say, a three quarter inch piece of plywood or something and putting it on the ground underneath those pads that keep them from sinking in, is going to help keep this loader a little bit more level and easier to get onto your tractor.
So, we're going to go and drive back in here into the loader to hook things up. Now, really it's the twisting motion here, it's usually going to give us the most problems. I'm going to get back into the tractor here, steering a little bit left to right. You really got to be careful when you're steering going into your loader. We see a lot of tractors where we end up with scratched up paint and stuff from where the loader may have contacted the side of the tractor. See, I've got a little bit of grease right there, because I got so close to one of the pins. Being in low range, going slow, watching what you're doing, all smart things here when you're trying to slide in between such a tight area. Okay. Once we're in here, we're going to shut the tractor off, set our parking brake, wiggle our loader stick in every direction to release the pressure into hydraulics and reconnect the couplers.
If you look down the boom here, you can just see just how far off this is. There's a lot of things here to overcome in order to get these things drop down into the right spot. Now, if you've seen our other videos before explaining how to go through this loader mounting process, you'll know that ultimately what needs to happen here, is the lower pin here on the loader mount needs to drop down into this J shaped socket down here at the bottom. Now, because I have things so twisted out here, I'm going to grab this and actually just pull a little bit, right? Your loaders aren't as heavy as you might guess. And you can manhandle these things a little bit if you need to overcome some left to right problems. Another time thing that we sometimes see happen too, when you're in these funny situations, is that one side of the loader can be pushed in and the other side can be sticking out a little bit.
That's because hydraulically, these two sides are connected to one another. And by pushing and pulling, you can actually change the positions of these without the hoses being hooked up, because they're all internally connected. So, if one is too far front or back, you can manhandle this a little bit and push and pull to kind of equalize the left and the right side of the loader post. So, here's when things often get fun, getting both sides of this connected when you're on a level surface is a piece of cake. When you're all twisted up like this, it could be a bit of a challenge. So, when you come into this, if you find that the loader is too low, you can come and hook your hydraulics up and curl your bucket shut to lift things up in the air little bit more. But if things are really off, you can then go and push these things out further in order to give yourself enough space to get underneath of them.
Now, once you're underneath, I'm going to lower these down. Drive my tractor back here underneath of them and lower them down into place. So, what I find happens here to me a lot, is that I can get one side of the loader attached, but the other side is sitting just not quite right and not wanting to drop down far enough. That's when I go looking for a piece of wood, right? You could get one side of your loader connected to your tractor, so that you can pick your bucket up in the air, then take your piece of wood and throw it underneath the opposite corner. And now by pressing down on that, you could go and push that end of the loader back down into your tractor, so you can get your pin lined up. So, if you keep these couple of techniques in mind, the guidance that's always given to always park these things on flat level surfaces, isn't necessarily necessary, right?
It's not fun. It definitely complicates things a little bit, but just by knowing how you can manipulate the hydraulics on your load or to move things around to mate to your tractor properly, it's okay to go and use some of these more convenient storage locations until you have time to build the 40 by 60 barndominium. But simple things like lifting that loader up, placing blocks of wood underneath of it to wiggle things into the right direction, manhandling that boom back and forth if you need to square things up or pushing the loader post back and forth if you're a little bit twisted to your machine, is going to help you get this thing back onto your machine. I have never, ever in my life had to go at one of these things with a hammer and tap pins in or any of that kind of stuff, right? Force like that going in may require force coming out again, so it's best if you don't go those ways, right? By wiggling things around here, use the force of the tractor, use those hydraulics in order to make these things line up, you'll be thankful for it down the road.
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