Adding forks to front bucket

[Stephen Newell]

Rather than adding forks to a bucket I removed the bucket and made a bracket similar to a modern JD tractor where I could quickly change attachments and made forks to fit the bracket.

 

[DIM]

Do not do what I did. Had long forks on bucket and dropped them over a log to roll log back. When I backed up it bent and broke both cylinder rods. In that position the cylinders were all the way out. A 350$ mistake.

 

[Royse]

I like the SSQA forks I have now but with your MF65 probably
not an option without some fabrication and/or additions.
For a while, I used an old set of 3 pt hitch forks. They worked fine
for lifting stuff on the 3 pt hitch and could move fairly large loads.
When I needed to lift things higher, I chained them into the bucket.
As others have said, visibility is not great, but they're even cheaper
to buy used than the clamp on ones that always seem to move.
Another issue I had with the clamp on ones is that my loader was
old and the bucket well used and abused, so it wasn't flat on the
bottom. That made the clamp on forks unlevel when tightened down.

 

[mnoliverguy]

There u go moving wood again just put it in the stove and b done with it.

 

[docmirror]

I do things cheap. I bought 12' of hot rolled U channel, 6x2" heavy gauge. Pulled the bucket off, welded a pair of pin cyl on each one, set it in place of the bucket and added cross brace. Then formed a standing triangle up to where my single bucket tip cyl end was.

Quite a bit of cut, weld, cut, weld, cut weld. It is not pretty but I only paid about $70 total and it is brutally strong. I flame cut the tip ends of the U channel to make a 'fork'. It was not pretty but with a bit of grinding came out ok.

 

[wp6529]

(quoted from post at 19:53:36 01/02/23) And I cannot tell you how many buckets I have seen ruined by those clamp on forks, absolutely the last thing i would advise anyone to do.

I think it's a function of using the clamp on forks on too small of a machine where the best option would be to adapt on a standard skid steer style quick change plate to the tractor and be done with it.

I use the clamp on forks on a full sized backhoe, no extra chains or anything and certainly not the slightest issue bending anything. The pair of forks are rated 4,000# and the loader is rates 10,000#.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Backhoe buckets tend to be made of much heavier plate. A far cry from your typical paper-thin old manure bucket on a farm tractor.

 

[cjunrau]

I took a 48 inch 4 inch heavy wall tube.
Cut holes out to weld the bushings in for bought bale forks. Centre of forks is 36 inches. 2 volts through the bucket and bolt it on. Cordless impact.
Weld two tubing to the back and have a pocket in the back where they go into. Then the weight is evenly distributed. I haul 1500 lbs bales like this for 10 years already. Having the long tube in front helps as you are not lifting on just the width of one fork.

 

[fdt860]

Thid kind of Euro quick tach is very unexpensive and weldable hooks can be had fairly cheap also.
I have not yet figured out why the same thing is 5 to 10 times mire in the usa?

I guess one can always lasered some pnayes and made his own for abour 250 to 350 plus time.


https://www.agrizone.net/chargeur/b...pide-avec-verrouillage-mecanique.AGZ000010990

 

[J.Wondergem]

My neighbor had clamp on's on his International that kept spreading apart. So he picked up the bale with the eye's side ways. One Winter he was putting a bale in the feeder and ran over a bump ,the bale rolled over him and broke his back. Crippled him from the arms down. He only lived a couple of years later.