[AT] A favorite tractor attachment

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

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Brad

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On Feb 3, 2015, at 9:12 PM, "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> I don't know what I am more jealous of
> 
> 1.  The time to do it
> 2. The welding skills 
> 3. Having such a cool implement
> 4. Having an implement with paint on it
> 
> Nicely done!
> 
> Spencer
> 
>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 21:16, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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