Another use for the boom pole

[Kirk-NJ]

Found yet another use for the boom pole. I split a couple of 640's in my driveway and wanted to move this back half behind the wood shed. I usually would move it with the HD 4000 forklift but with the rains and snow melt I didn't want to rut up the yard so I hooked up the lighter 8n with the turf tire and drove it around back and even backed it into a tight space, worked perfect. The boom pole is a good implement for not a lot of money, saves the back plenty of times.

Kirk

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

Is that a Sherman I see on the 8N???

-Tim

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Yea, it's a step up. IMO not very handy on the 8n. If I was to split this tractor I would pull it and sell it cause I don't use it. I do sometimes use the sherman step up in my 9N. The half tractor I'm pulling also has a sherman combo. You can see the hole. I removed the handle to sling belt it.

Kirk

 

[Ultradog MN]

Agree Kirk.
I don't have a loader tractor so my boom pole gets used a lot around here.
Great tool for not a lot of money.

 

[Dean]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

Maybe you could hook your PTO shaft up to the transmission input shaft......

Dean

 

[Del Huebner]

Works great when you do not have anyone to help you move one.

 

[UpNorthNick]

Hey Kirk - OT, but can you post a couple pictures of you seat mount? I'm looking to replace/raise the seat on my 8n to give my old knees a break - yours looks MUCH more comfy!

 

[nashranch]

(quoted from post at 07:27:06 03/26/17)
Hey Kirk - OT, but can you post a couple pictures of you seat mount? I'm looking to replace/raise the seat on my 8n to give my old knees a break - yours looks MUCH more comfy!

I'd like to see that too

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Now there's a thought. Would that make it 4WD???

 

[Kirk-NJ]

It's the same seat that you can buy at tractor supply or farm supply box stores. It's about $100 or might even be a little less. Yes it raises you, better back support
and adjusts for your weight. I got this one off another tractor and added it to the 8n mowing tractor (that's why it has the turf tires)
Hit the link. As you can see it comes in different colors too.
link

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 09:58:15 03/26/17) It's the same seat that you can buy at tractor supply or farm supply box stores. It's about $100 or might even be a little less. Yes it raises you, better back support
and adjusts for your weight. I got this one off another tractor and added it to the 8n mowing tractor (that's why it has the turf tires)
Hit the link. As you can see it comes in different colors too.
link

I purchased this seat for my MF202 from YT. It's basically the same seat without the arm things. It's a good comfortable seat with up and down spring action for a good ride. It does raise you up quite a bit. But on the MF202 it brings you up rather close to the steering wheel, in height, I mean. It is adjustable forward and backward, but the added height to it makes it rather difficult to mount the tractor. It's not really that difficult once you get used to it but if I ever rolled that tractor, I don't think I would be able to bail off of it in time.

Kirk...How is it on the 8N? Any difficulty getting off quickly if you had to? I've thought about getting this seat for my 8N also.

I purchased it for the 202 which had the old stuck bucket on it. It had no pads on it and the first time I drove it and went over even small ruts or bumps in my field, it liked to have jarred my teeth loose.

 

[kev518n]

I was using mine with the extension pipe to lower a pump into this pond.

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 09:58:15 03/26/17) It's the same seat that you can buy at tractor supply or farm supply box stores. It's about $100 or might even be a little less. Yes it raises you, better back support
and adjusts for your weight. I got this one off another tractor and added it to the 8n mowing tractor (that's why it has the turf tires)
Hit the link. As you can see it comes in different colors too.
link

I got this seat here from YT. It's basically the same seat without the arms. I put it on my MF202. It's a comfy spring loaded seat that rides well. It does raise one up some. It's a bit more difficult mounting the 202 though. But once you get the routine figured out it's not that bad. The only thing that I don't like is that it raises one up closer to the steering wheel. If I ever rolled that tractor, I don't think I would be able to bail off of it in time.

When I do get off the tractor, I first push the seat back as far as it will go to make it easier but I couldn't do that in an emergency bail out.

Kirk...how does it feel on your 8N? Is it a problem being up closer to the steering wheel also? I was thinking about getting the same seat for my 8N.

 

[Ultradog MN]

Here's another use.
I welded a short stub pipe into the end of the pole so my flag staff slips into the end.
Used it once at our big family picnic and once at a tractor show.

 

[Kirk-NJ]

It's fine on the 8n. Sits you up high so you get a little more leg room. as far as getting on/off quickly I'm too old to do things fast anymore.

Kirk

 

[47fivewindow]

When I first saw your pic I looked for a fishing line leading to the pond. You could land a big
un with that pole :>}

 

[Tall T]

Kirk,

No doubt you've seen this before, but while nursing a recovering hip and wanting to re-fence my small garden I came up with this boom pole idea.

I put the roll of fencing on a steel table base with its upright pipe still on it. i ran a chain with a swivel down through and hooked to the table base. When I backed the Jube up it actually unrolled itself.

I surrounded the garden with inter linked logs and stapled the wire to it. for uprights I made pipe pockets.

 

[notjustair]

They make a really handy engine hoist, too. I needed to pull the engine out of a grain truck. I lowered the lift arms and just used to top link to crank it up and down and get it disengaged. Then I could use the hydraulics to move it. It was a breeze.

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Yea they make a good engine hoist. What surprises me is that a lot of guys that have tractors don't even know about them and how handy they are. I just had a guy ask me if I had some way to load a 2 bottom plow that he was buying off me on to his truck. I told him I'll load it with the boom pole. He said what that? After he seen me load it he said I got to get me one of those.

Kirk

 

[Tall T]

Notjustair,

Is your top link hydraulic?

Thanks,
T

 

[Tall T]

Kirk,

Better put a little piece of wood behind that nice steel wheel leaning up against one of your trees so it doesn't cut into the bark over time. :wink:

 

[S10Vette]

Does anyone have some thoughts on the best length for a top link, and related to that the best location of the top link attachment on the boom pole? I fooled with some different lengths for the link, and then finally ended up just using a chain with a hook at each end so I can adjust the length and get the initial lift height where I want it. Seems like ideal would be the link parallel to the ground with the lift down, but my boom pole attachment did not allow for that, so I attach the chain up higher to get that same effect.

 

[Tall T]

(quoted from post at 16:34:18 03/27/17)
Does anyone have some thoughts on the best length for a top link, and related to that the best location of the top link attachment on the boom pole? I fooled with some different lengths for the link, and then finally ended up just using a chain with a hook at each end so I can adjust the length and get the initial lift height where I want it. Seems like ideal would be the link parallel to the ground with the lift down, but my boom pole attachment did not allow for that, so I attach the chain up higher to get that same effect.

One novice DOH moment with my boom lifting, was to pick an implement up off of a truck deck, with the whole boom lowered and my life chains short. So I pick it up off the deck, drive it to a spot but now the boom won't drop down enough to put the load on the ground and unhook the chains.

So you have to have the boom at it's highest, then drop it down just a few inches then connect chains.

OR hassle with lengthening the top link or have a hydraulic top link, but even then if the truck or trailer deck is high you still might not get the load all the way to the ground if you start your lift with the boom high.

I find you have hooks always fixed to the lifting points it is handy for accepting chain.

Here's my boom end setup.

 

[Tall T]

Sorry, correction:

OR hassle with lengthening the top link or have a hydraulic top link, but even then if the truck or trailer deck is high you still might not get the load all the way to the ground if you start your lift with the boom too close to the load being lifted off the deck.