Loader arm length (was Re: [AT] My New Toy

[Dave Merchant]

There are some skid steers out there that have double jointed lift arms,
ie a knee joint, so the bucket lifts approximately straight up.

They get a good dumping height, without much overhang.

Dave

At 03:23 PM 7/4/2006, you wrote:
>Bob Cats and other skid steer loaders are short-coupled and have plenty
>of dumping height, but you are restricted as to the position of the
>bucket when you want to get on or off the equipment.  When I adapted the
>Workhorse 10 to my Power King tractor, I made it as short-coupled as I
>could get it.  The back of the bucket only clears the front wheels by a
>couple of inches, but since the arms are tilted down considerably at the
>ground position, there is plenty of clearance between the bucket and the
>front of the tractor for me to reach the center of a five foot trailer
>for loading.  It does OK on loading a pickup truck, too, but there is no
>way I could ever load into a dump truck.  For that sort of thing
>something like the rig my uncle had out in Colorado would be much
>better.  He had a loader on a John Deere A with a monster set of arms on
>it that pivoted back behind the rear axle and at about the height of the
>driver's head.  He could lift that bucket nine or ten feet into the air.
>Since the tractor was a row-crop model, it was a little unstable with a
>load of fresh manure in a bucket that far off the ground.  He never
>would let his sons run the loader because he was fearful of them
>"playing cowboy" with the rig and turning it over.
>
>More than once, I've been very glad that my rig is close-coupled when
>I'm working in tight quarters.

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