[AT] A favorite tractor attachment

[Richard Fink Sr]

Farmer that looks like a very handy item with some effort and knowledge. 
But let me tell you something about that heart condition. take care of 
it i was one of the bull headed ones and thought just keep working as 
much as possible and all will be well. It did not work that way for me 
May of 14 had 3 open heart August of 14 had to have a pace maker 
defibrillator put in now i can,t be around a welder any more. And a lot 
of med tests can,t have any more.
R Fink
PA




On 2/2/2015 9:16 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Sometimes in spite of my best efforts something goes right...
> Maybe over 20 years ago I made a 3 point lift fork attachment (picture link
> below) for moving pallets around so I could move stuff around on pallets
> instead of constantly loading and unloading stuff. I also used to move big
> round bales with it by using a big hook with a chain over the top to hold
> the bales forward.
> I was looking for some extra strong materials to use instead of the angle
> iron like the farm store forks use. Maybe a decade earlier I had bought a
> well worn John Deere pull type plow just to get the like new set of
> complete coulter assemblies someone had put on it. I bought the whole plow
> for less than 1/3rd the cost of new coulters. I had torn the plow apart and
> saved most of the steel and scrapped the tired old bases. I used two of the
> plow beams for the forks and they are remarkably tough. I have had some
> horrendous loads on that thing. Only a couple of pieces did not come from
> that John Deere plow. The spacer at the top-link was cut from an old piston
> pin from a truck engine. The pipe that sits across near the bottom is some
> common double strength pipe I had and it is there so I can drop the bucket
> from my loader and mount the forks to the loader with the bucket pins. The
> small steel pieces that add support to the pipe were just steel from
> "something". Everything else was from the plow frame. The third picture
> shows where I used the thick plow shank gussets to brace the forks to the
> frame.
> I have some "accessories" for it and want to make some more. I made it so
> that the bolt holes in both forks line up. I have a pallet (Need to make
> some more) that I can put on it and stick a pin in on each side and lock it
> on. I have a 10' horse lot drag that has a frame on top of it so I can back
> into it and lift the whole thing with the forks. I tow it with a couple of
> chains but can back the forks in and lift it to carry it from lot to lot
> and just drop it and start dragging. I have a heavy piece of "I" beam that
> I want to weld a couple of short pieces of 2" x 4"  steel tube onto so I
> can back the forks into them and pin it in place so I can do some light
> grading on the drives. Sort of like a Farmall Fast Hitch but backward.
> That steel tube is the right size to fit a common dimension 2 x 4 and I
> want to cut some short pieces of it to use as sockets on a few other
> implements I have. I also want to make a "sloppy stuff" scraper for it
> using half of an 18.4x34 tire I used to keep as a spare for my Deere 4020.
> It spends a lot of time on my TO-20 Ferguson because it is so maneuverable
> but after I get one of my 8N Fords going this summer I will likely move it
> to it so that I have the "Position Control to make it a bit easier to
> maintain lift height.
> I hope this is making sense, we are adjusting some meds.
> :-)
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110429518110019188498/albums/5409917730989419633/6110699768222850738?pid=6110699768222850738&oid=110429518110019188498
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