Hey guys quick question about operating in float mode.
I own a 5 ton excavator and a mini motor grader and I do a lot of driveway work up here in the Northeast. I recently bought a front mounted skid steer land plane to help speed some jobs up. I've been renting and borrowing a variety of skid steers to decide what best suits my needs, for an eventual purchase. Anyways yesterday I was running a newer A770 (EH pilot) with my new land plane mounted on the front and the float function operated different than I remember on other skid steers I've run. when back dragging it would function just like you would expect with the loader arms floating up and down, but when going forward... Whenever I was at a stop the arms would "build pressure" and lift the front wheels off the ground but as soon as I started driving the wheels would come back down to the ground but the arms would still not "float". They would always have a little bit of downforce unlike when going in reverse. this is a newer low-hour machine so I imagine nothing's wrong with it and it's just the way this thing functions. Anyone have any insight? I'd like to be able to push my land plane forward in float mode on a skid steer and have it only be gravity weight of the arms and the land plane on the surface of the road. Is there a skid steer that will function in float like this? I seem to remember most other machines I've run in the past functioning like I want. Although I was just using a bucket in float
I own a 5 ton excavator and a mini motor grader and I do a lot of driveway work up here in the Northeast. I recently bought a front mounted skid steer land plane to help speed some jobs up. I've been renting and borrowing a variety of skid steers to decide what best suits my needs, for an eventual purchase. Anyways yesterday I was running a newer A770 (EH pilot) with my new land plane mounted on the front and the float function operated different than I remember on other skid steers I've run. when back dragging it would function just like you would expect with the loader arms floating up and down, but when going forward... Whenever I was at a stop the arms would "build pressure" and lift the front wheels off the ground but as soon as I started driving the wheels would come back down to the ground but the arms would still not "float". They would always have a little bit of downforce unlike when going in reverse. this is a newer low-hour machine so I imagine nothing's wrong with it and it's just the way this thing functions. Anyone have any insight? I'd like to be able to push my land plane forward in float mode on a skid steer and have it only be gravity weight of the arms and the land plane on the surface of the road. Is there a skid steer that will function in float like this? I seem to remember most other machines I've run in the past functioning like I want. Although I was just using a bucket in float