Moving my Travel Trailer around the house

George3037 wrote:
I watched the vid and saw no mention that you put any weight in the loader. When you max out the 3 pt lift especially on a sub compact with the hitch back as far as yours was, for safety reasons make sure to put counterweight in the loader. That weight on the 3 pt of your tractor surely made the front end light and could have applied enough down pressure to lift the front of the tractor off the ground. I move my trailers around all the time but my tractor weighs more than my trailers.

I CC this from another post so everyone could see the response.

The max 3 point hitch lift rating is without a loader. The loader is the extra weight. It also has the extra weight of the backhoe frame which is an extra weight the standard tractor does not have. The front tires never felt light at all. A good example was, the yard was soft and the front tires were marking it pretty bad. All was uneventful in the end. It is well within the tractors capabilities. I think lifting a bush hog up is harder, because the weight is so far back. Thank you for the insight. Always two ways of looking at things. A load of dirt in the bucket surely wouldn't have hurt. Well, maybe my yard! LOL.