Davis 101A Removal

[Nightman]

Does anyone have any literature or procedures on how to remove a Davis 101A loader? Looks fairly straight forward, but I was wanting to do it safely so I figured I would ask. I found the parts and operation manuals but nothing for removal or installation.

 

[K-n-L Country Farms]

(quoted from post at 12:32:10 01/04/16)
Does anyone have any literature or procedures on how to remove a Davis 101A loader? Looks fairly straight forward, but I was wanting to do it safely so I figured I would ask. I found the parts and operation manuals but nothing for removal or installation.

Unfortunately how to install and remove these loaders was something that the company thought should be left up to doing it however you learned from doing it yourself.

Me and my husband had a Davis 100 loader which never got put on our tractor because their manuals and other information out there was so vague.

We even tried countless times searching for videos thinking with every other type of video known to mankind is on now on youtube, there gotta be at least one video on these loaders....uhmmm welllll NOPE...not that we could find and YES we searched for months in all ways, shapes, and forms!

If you had pictures of your specific tractor and pics of the loader this would help

Well generally from what we have observed from owning a Davis 100 loader and a Ford tractor, you are going to support the loader with jacks/blocks at the rear and front of the loader. Remove the u-bolts or other fasteners which secure the loader to the rear axle. Remove any fasteners which attach the loader to the frontend of the tractor which are usually located in the area below where the grill is...these bolts will often go through the radiator support area and into the engine block. After making sure that all other fasteners/things have been removed, start to move the tractor by backing it away from the loader in attempts to see that everything has been freed up...may have to nudge and bump some things here and there in order to accomplish. If everything checks fine, you might have to use a engine puller if it goes high enough or use an overhead beam with a chain hoist on it where by you're going to have to lift the front end of the loader high enough so that the loader will clear the front suspension of the tractor while you back up the tractor away from the loader.

 

[RogerinIowa]

I would not use blocks to support the loader. Use an overhead hoist, stout tree limb and hoist or other overhead device.

 

[K-n-L Country Farms]

(quoted from post at 13:10:38 01/04/16) I would not use blocks to support the loader. Use an overhead hoist, stout tree limb and hoist or other overhead device.

Definitely use both blocks and hoist...the blocks are there for 2 reasons but to make it short, the blocks are there as a safety/backup since a person is going to have themselves under or near it, and it IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be a golden rule to only trust our chain hoists and other lifting devices to support heavy loads especially when it only takes one time for something this heavy to come down on someone and getting killed or badly injured.

 

[Ultradog MN]

It might help if you told us what equipment you have to do this with - another loader tractor, overhead hoist, cherry picket, forklift??
Also helps to know if you are on the ground or on concrete.
I am not familiar with your Davis loader.
But for what it's worth, I removed this loader alone, by hand - ie, with no equipment.
First I removed the pins for the bucket and slid it forward out of the way.
Then I disconnected the hydraulic lines and pulled the pins on the lift arms and rolled them forward and off the tractor.
Lastly, the main frame is made in two halves - left and right..
So I unbolted them and lifted them off one at a time.
The whole process only took about an hour and I'm not overly big or strong.
I put the loader back on another tractor about 2 years later.
I installed it in reverse order - likewise by hand.
Maybe you can do yours that way too or have a buddy help you.

 

[K-n-L Country Farms]

(quoted from post at 14:08:38 01/04/16) It might help if you told us what equipment you have to do this with - another loader tractor, overhead hoist, cherry picket, forklift??
Also helps to know if you are on the ground or on concrete.
I am not familiar with your Davis loader.
But for what it's worth, I removed this loader alone, by hand - ie, with no equipment.
First I removed the pins for the bucket and slid it forward out of the way.
Then I disconnected the hydraulic lines and pulled the pins on the lift arms and rolled them forward and off the tractor.
Lastly, the main frame is made in two halves - left and right..
So I unbolted them and lifted them off one at a time.
The whole process only took about an hour and I'm not overly big or strong.
I put the loader back on another tractor about 2 years later.
I installed it in reverse order - likewise by hand.
Maybe you can do yours that way too or have a buddy help you.

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He's right...different types of loaders had the option to simply unbolt the left and right halves of the loader making it MUCH more simpler to attach and remove.

However on our Davis 100 loader and the other Davis loaders that we personally have seen, this wasn't an option whereby the manufacture or previous owners had welded some of the structural brackets together which limited the user on their options of attaching and removing the loader

 

[Nightman]

thanks for the post Ultradog MN, I have a cherry picker and a hoist on a A-frame. I didn't even think to remove the bucket to make things easier (safer). I will look tonight at what I can remove to make removal a safer endeavor, kind of like my hands and fingers where they are not to mention being able to still breath after the removal is complete.

 

[cliffyboy]

i have a davis 101a on a ferguson to-20. what i have thought about doing to remove it is to use my cherry picker to support it where the pins for the front arms are.. and then remove the front tires with a floor jack under it. lower the floor jack for the loader to clear the front axle and back the tractor out riding on the floor jack wheels (on concrete obviously). not sure if it will work but is my game-plan in my head.