I have a John Deere 4510 with a 460 Loader. Looking for pallet fork ideas. I would like a quick disconnect set up. I've been reading about the bucket attachment option. Is the way to go. I'll be using it to put round bales in the field for horses and moving wood and brush. Tires are liquid filled in the rear. I have the round bale attachment for the rear but lloking for something for the front. Thank you in advance.
Forks Pallet Fork Attachment Suggestions
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Putting clamp on forks on the bucket of any tractor, ESPECIALLY CUT's drastically reduces lift capacity and safety factors. You really need to use a system that allows removal of the bucket and gets the load as close to the tractor as possible. I can't picture a round bale of any real size on the front of a CUT of any color. Sooner or later, it will end up on its side. The tractor, I mean.
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Get a bale spear for the front that replaces the bucket or forks that replace the bucket. I am not a fan of those clamp on forks. Especially when moving a 1000 lbs bale! I recommend a quick attach setup for your loader. That way you can switch the implements quickly. I am not sure if John Deere has one though. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
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ATI makes quick disconnect buckets, they make pallet forks and bale spears. They also advertise on this webstie.
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Glenn9643
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I bought a mast and the forks from a forklift in a salvage yard for about $200 and fabricated the quick-attach pin setup to match the one on my FEL. Others have found the forks/mast cheaper. Works great, reasonably priced, and plenty stout!
RE: <font color="blue"> "I recommend a quick attach setup for your loader... I am not sure if John Deere has one though. " </font>
I think all the current JD models of loaders have a basic bucket attach mechanism that is fairly "quick". Yes, you have to get off the tractor and pull some pins and then again to replace them on the new attachment, and yes its not compatible with industry-standard skid-steer attachments, but its "quick" enough for most purposes. I don't think there would be any need to get a seperate quick-attach from ATI or anybody unless you had specific need to be compatible with skid-steer attachments.
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I think all the current JD models of loaders have a basic bucket attach mechanism that is fairly "quick". Yes, you have to get off the tractor and pull some pins and then again to replace them on the new attachment, and yes its not compatible with industry-standard skid-steer attachments, but its "quick" enough for most purposes. I don't think there would be any need to get a seperate quick-attach from ATI or anybody unless you had specific need to be compatible with skid-steer attachments.
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JD4510,
I have a 4700 and a 460 FEL. I just bought the JD pallet forks. They are expensive but well worth the money. My first project is to move 26-30 cubes of bricks that weigh at least 1600 pounds. I looked at Markhams product as well as the forks that attach to your bucket. I never saw the Markham forks. The attach the forks to the bucket would not have worked for me. I don't know the width of the forks but the way the brick cubes are constructed I have maybe 1/2 inch of free space on each side of the forks and the holes used to lift the bricks. Even with the open design of the pallet fork fenders it is not easy to see and line up the forks and holes. With the clamp on forks I don't see how I could get this work done.
I'm pushing the limit of my 4700 lifting these cubes. with the forks the wieght is far forward on the tractor and your seat of the pants indicator can tell. I had the left rear wheel off the ground trying to move one cube with the front right tire was down in a mud hole. NOT fun.
This is with loaded R1 tires and a box blade. I was really wishing I had a welder and a couple square feet of steel to weld on the box blade for more wieght...
The JD fork are very easy to put on and take off. 5 minutes maybe to take them off or put on.
I don't know how much those round bails wiegh and if your tractor can lift them but you will need a heayv implement on the 3PH.
Later,
Dan
I have a 4700 and a 460 FEL. I just bought the JD pallet forks. They are expensive but well worth the money. My first project is to move 26-30 cubes of bricks that weigh at least 1600 pounds. I looked at Markhams product as well as the forks that attach to your bucket. I never saw the Markham forks. The attach the forks to the bucket would not have worked for me. I don't know the width of the forks but the way the brick cubes are constructed I have maybe 1/2 inch of free space on each side of the forks and the holes used to lift the bricks. Even with the open design of the pallet fork fenders it is not easy to see and line up the forks and holes. With the clamp on forks I don't see how I could get this work done.
I'm pushing the limit of my 4700 lifting these cubes. with the forks the wieght is far forward on the tractor and your seat of the pants indicator can tell. I had the left rear wheel off the ground trying to move one cube with the front right tire was down in a mud hole. NOT fun.
This is with loaded R1 tires and a box blade. I was really wishing I had a welder and a couple square feet of steel to weld on the box blade for more wieght...
The JD fork are very easy to put on and take off. 5 minutes maybe to take them off or put on.
I don't know how much those round bails wiegh and if your tractor can lift them but you will need a heayv implement on the 3PH.
Later,
Dan
jimgerken
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If you do a lot of brick cube moving, there are special brick forks made (for forklift trucks). They are narrower. I recently went to a forklift surplus place and bought forks for my little JD4100, to adapt to my combination base frame, which goes on in place of the loader bucket. After looking around what they had, I chose the brick forks, not for their original intended use, but because they weighed about 1/3 less than the standard ones. There's no way I could ever bend them, even if I used all my 1000 pounds of lifting force one one fork. Heavier forks reduce my lift capacity even further. These brick forks are still too heavy to lift by hand.