How much will that block pick up without the blade on it? Thinking about taking the blade off and taking the crawler along to load a fifty. The blade for the fifty is seperated already so I was wondering if I pull into the blade and use the lift to pick up the front and just chain the blade arms to the track rails. If possible I can drive straight on the trailor behind the fifty. My only concern is the being able to pick it up.

My d4 will pull a ford 3/4 ton ford with the parking brake set. Thats how I straiten out the cable on the drum when I mess up and drop the blade a lil hard. By the way my Let. angle blade weighs enough that my loader on my john deere 3010 wont pick it up. And it will pick up round bales of hay at idle.

I can hardly read the fuzzy chart I have but for the AN series it looks like about 3,500 lbs pull on a full drum and just under 5,000 lbs on an empty drum.