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SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENT PROBLEM!!!

  • 29-02-2016 07:05PM
    #1
    TheClubMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭


    I hired out a skidsteer today folks but I'm having trouble taking off the forks to put on the bucket. I pulled up the levers to disconnect it and played around with the foot pedals but the pins still won't release. It's getting frustrating! Are the pins seized? Any help appreciated


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,811 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Any photos? There might be a guard over a pedal in the cab floor to open the pins hydraulically.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    RightTurnClyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭RightTurnClyde


    TheClubMan wrote: »
    I hired out a skidsteer today folks but I'm having trouble taking off the forks to put on the bucket. I pulled up the levers to disconnect it and played around with the foot pedals but the pins still won't release. It's getting frustrating! Are the pins seized? Any help appreciated

    Don't know what brand you have, but in general there are 2 stages to the the levers.
    When flat it's locked, then they pull up easily to roughly 45 deg (that releases spring tension), but keep pulling to release the pins. They should end up nearly at a right angle to where you started (now point almost straight up). Obbviously have the bucket off the ground when you pull up the levers so there's no pressure on the pins.
    Pedals and levers in cab have nothing to do with taking off the bucket, assuming it's like most skid steers


  • #4
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    TheClubMan wrote: »
    I hired out a skidsteer today folks but I'm having trouble taking off the forks to put on the bucket. I pulled up the levers to disconnect it and played around with the foot pedals but the pins still won't release. It's getting frustrating! Are the pins seized? Any help appreciated

    Ring the hire crowd in the morning, they should have ran through how to use it with you


  • #5
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Ring the hire crowd in the morning, they should have ran through how to use it with you

    True but having been on the other side of that fence every fcuker knows everything about everything until they don't and then it's the hire co.s fault. And. ......and..... this is important, it was always like that when they got it. 😉


  • #6
    TheClubMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭TheClubMan


    freedominacup wrote: »
    True but having been on the other side of that fence every fcuker knows everything about everything until they don't and then it's the hire co.s fault. And. ......and..... this is important, it was always like that when they got it. 😉

    I'm sure there's lads out there that don't own up to damaging a machine etc. but I booked this skid steer last week for monday morning and i got it monday evening because they said they were fitting a new battery in it. Fair enough. I started work with it this afternoon and had to stop after a half an hour because it was overheating and leaking water through the radiator so they're sending out someone in the morning to look at it. It must not have beem used in a while since the pins on the loader were siezed as well. Two whole days wasted through no fault of my own and I needed the week to get the job done. P.s the delivery driver was not employed by the hire company and knew as much about them as me! Handy machine when they're fit though!


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  • #7
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    TheClubMan wrote: »
    I'm sure there's lads out there that don't own up to damaging a machine etc. but I booked this skid steer last week for monday morning and i got it monday evening because they said they were fitting a new battery in it. Fair enough. I started work with it this afternoon and had to stop after a half an hour because it was overheating and leaking water through the radiator so they're sending out someone in the morning to look at it. It must not have beem used in a while since the pins on the loader were siezed as well. Two whole days wasted through no fault of my own and I needed the week to get the job done. P.s the delivery driver was not employed by the hire company and knew as much about them as me! Handy machine when they're fit though!

    I wasn't having a cut at you. If it's as you have laid out Id be slow to pay. Definitely tell them the clock starts now.


  • #8
    sthilmick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭sthilmick


    I have to say there are a few hire companies near by one I'd hire stuff off no bother but the other the stuff always has problems and they are the exact opposite when you buy something off them it's a funny old world the good hire shop is **** for sales and services and the bad hire shop is excellent for sales and support and when you order something off them it's there in a day or two at the most


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