Skidloader ?
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Topic: Skidloader ?
Posted By: plummerscarin
Subject: Skidloader ?
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 6:53am
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Uncle has a Gehl 3825 skidder that the starter crapped out. I want to get it to my heated shop to work on it but I don't know if there is a way to release the hydraulic drive so I can drag it around. He does not have the owners manual so I thought I'd check here. Anyone Know if that's possible? TIA
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 6:59am
| Do not drag it, will damage the drive motors if do. Cannot remember the way to disconnect the motors on these, used to be at least as bad as changing the starter outdoors. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 8:54am
| When I run the equipment shop in the military we just left the parking brake on and winched them onto a trailer and hauled to the shop. Ours had winter cabs and you had to lift the cab to disconnect the drives. If they were parked in an open area its was easiest to pick them up with a forklift and haul in . But usually they were left in a giant snowdrift. With the brakes locked they slid on the jack trailer real nice. It's a very low wide trailer with 2' high side rails and a steel deck. I wouldn't try getting one up on a deck over trailer when your sliding with locked brakes you don't have the best directional control. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2021 at 10:07am
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Look on top or sides of motors---should be a small tab on there--- turn it to the open position and drag them wherever you need to go. All the loaders I have been around have the valves on them---usually very hard to find and even harder to turn. On my New-Hollands, they are on the top under some lines and battery cables making them hard to see. look and feel around yours --- they could be on sides or bottom. ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 12:50am
| can you pick it up and slide a skid under it? |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 4:45am
| I have a Gehl 4625 and have pulled it to the shop when it wasn't starting by just sliding it along on the gravel. No problems afterwards. Most pump motor problems come from not warming the oil before operating in cold weather. I know of several farmers who would start the skid loader in cold weather and drive off to feed cattle or scrape barnyard and destroy a motor or pump from cold oil. I always let mine run and warm up before use. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 7:40am
| I have not had a chance to slip down there to look yet but thanks for the replies. Uncle said he has lifted it before with the stack mover on 3pt. Another option. Will keep you posted |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2021 at 9:05am
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Well it looks like theres no built in bypass. Which makes sense because I think we can all close our eyes and image "that guy" flat towing a skid steer if they had built in a free-wheel bypass option. LOL httphttps://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/any-way-to-free-wheel-a-gehl.64386/s://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/any-way-to-free-wheel-a-gehl.64386/" rel="nofollow - httphttps://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/any-way-to-free-wheel-a-gehl.64386/s://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/any-way-to-free-wheel-a-gehl.64386/ ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:20pm
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I'm with Shameless... if you can't pick it up and carry it with some machine, jack it up on one end, set it on skids, and drag the skids to the shop. Another way to do it, is to slip an old trailer axle under it, then pull it. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2021 at 5:36am
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OK, silly idea... Why not contact GEHL dirctly and ask how do THEY move the little beastie ? If the drives don't have bypasses on them, makes me wonder just how GEHL moves them around off the assembly line....? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2021 at 8:54am
there ya go, thinking again Jay.  |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2021 at 6:31pm
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Update: Well we couldn't get under it cuz a where he left it and since Shameless dropped a couple inches here we set the brake and dragged it on to a tilt deck trailer. Snow worked in our favor today. |