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Read articles →A dealership staffer walks through eight specific loader mistakes, including bucket angle when approaching a pile, back-drag technique that can bend cylinders, skid-steer coupler pin engagement (with a useful warning about cheap import implements), tire PSI under heavy loads, carrying height during travel, and using rollback rather than lift to break into hard material. Includes brief live demo. Most useful for newer tractor owners still building loader habits.
Posted by the Messick's Farm Equipment channel, a dealership, so the advice is genuinely practical but ends with a sales pitch for their products and services.
Newer operators often have the bucket rolled back too far, so it rides up the pile instead of digging into it, rather than approaching with the bucket floor level.
Using too large a rollback angle extends the cylinders too far out, and if you hit something while back dragging it creates torque that can bend the cylinders.
Cheap import implements often have mating surfaces cut slightly off, so pins only catch the tip of the hole instead of fully engaging, and the tips can break off.
Roll the bucket back first, then lift into the pile, since the rollback function has more power than the loader lift for breaking material loose.
