Can't lift it.,

flying belgian · May 19, 2017

Does that sound right that I can't lift a 12-30 cult. with my Case cx 100 tractor? 3 point lift capacity is 3665#. Guy I bought cult. from says it weights 2500 lbs. But now that I
look at cult., it looks heavier then that.

markct · May 19, 2017

Remember that may be at the 3pt balls, lifting further out decreases lift capacity. Still unless a real long impliment I would think it would lift it

flying belgian · May 19, 2017

Well I had dealer check relief valve and pump pressure and tractor is right to factory specs which I figured it would be because even though tractor is 18 years old it has less then 2000 hrs. on it.

Traditional Farmer · May 19, 2017

The lift capacity is at the end of the arms,the farther from the end of the arms back the less weight it'll be able to lift.Cultivators stick a good ways back of the end of the lift arms.

JD Seller · May 19, 2017

I looked up the lift rating on the CX100 tractor. Your correct in that they say 3665 LBS. I would bet that they are talking about right at the end of the lift arms. Many manufactures started doing this about 15-20 years ago. The old standard was 24 inches behind the end of the lift arms. That was a more "real" rating as that would be closer to the actual center of gravity on most three point implements.

paul · May 19, 2017

That is a 83hp (pto) tractor, pretty light for a 12 row cultivator. With the weight handing well behind the tractor arms, it wouldn't surprise me that it wouldn't lift it?

I took my 85hp tractor 30 miles to pick up a simple 3pt soybean planter. The bean planter was a 8 row-30, but converted to 15 inch rows so had 15 row units on it.

Pump squeaked when I hooked it up. Uh oh! Too heavy! I'd never try planting with that tractor, but thought it would transport it empty.... Took the markers off, took the fiberglass boxes off, the cylinders for the markers, whatever would come off pretty easy. The pickup got full.... Then the tractor finally got it picked up, but it was kinda easy steering in the 30 miles back home.

Person forgets how heavy the stuff gets when it gets wider, farm gets bigger....

Paul

Texasmark1 · May 19, 2017

You aren't going to hurt anything. Your tractor's hydraulics should have a high pressure bypass usually 500 or so # higher than your rated lifting max for your loader. If you try to lift something heavy, it will lift or it will just sit on the ground with the bypass valve open bypassing the hyd pressure from your lift pistons. Having the engine rpms up at PTO rpms helps the pump to develop max pressure.

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