3 pt attachments on the FRONT !

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OK, just SUPPOSE someone wanted/needed to drag their 3 pt implements around on the front of the tractor - nevermind "why ?" for now ?
Also suppose that they already have a skid steer compatible FEL.

Is there anything that hooks onto a skid steer type FEL and can hook up to 3 pt implements (class 1) already available "off the shelf" ?

If not, maybe one would have to buy an ATI or equivalent plate and weld it onto something like a TSC quick attach ?

Feasible ?
Anyone done it ?
{nevermind "Why ?" } (-
 
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I've also wondered myself. Think it a neat idea to have a landscape rake up front where you knew what it was doing. I'm sure a few other implements might be better up front as well.
 
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There are a couple of members here who have adapted speeco hitches to their FEL and use landscape rakes, boom poles, etc on the front. I can't recall just who, but do recall reading the threads (with pictures).
I've had plans with no action to do the same thing and use the rake to clean out water primrose from the pond yearly.
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've also wondered myself. Think it a neat idea to have a landscape rake up front where you knew what it was doing. I'm sure a few other implements might be better up front as well. )</font>
This might jog some thoughts of what would work better, in addition to the rake... such as using the FEL to put downpressure on your PHD... but sadly you don't have a PTO up there, only hydraulics -- and not enough hydraulic flow to serve as PTO power...

PT-425 Implements

I have seen 3-pt hitch adapters that fit the skidsteer QA setups....
 
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I plan on getting a three point to quick tach adaptor myself. Wolud be handy for landscape rake or blade for tight areas.

I seen one for $300 at Mid-State (Pirranha), I may order soon.

Check at: http://24.199.170.181:82/

ksmmoto
 
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I'd be nervous to put some serious ground engaging implements on the FEL, such as a box blade or rear blade. If they dig in, I'd think you could bend the FEL frame. A broom, or landscape rake shouldn't be an issue.

Maybe I don't understand what you are after?

ron
 
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Tractors destined for the European market often offer front 3-point systems. Seems like that became a standard approach for many implements over there. In some cases these are made for otherwise identical US-spec tractors (I know that happens on Deere compacts for example.) Possibly there is something available from your tractor mfg. already? Might take a little detective work and arm-twisting at your dealer but you never know.
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'd be nervous to put some serious ground engaging implements on the FEL, such as a box blade or rear blade. If they dig in, I'd think you could bend the FEL frame. A broom, or landscape rake shouldn't be an issue.

Maybe I don't understand what you are after?

ron )</font>

I agree, SERIOUS ground engagement might be BAD if you catch something big. I'm not sure about this, but I think that if I was pulling a box blade in REVERSE a sudden stop might be partly absorbed by the loader hydraulics, e.g. it might be (slightly) less bad than the same stop moving forwards with the BB on the 3pt.

My first goal was to be able to more easily load implements onto a trailer - THAT was stimulated by trying to get a couple of implements off a snowmobile trailer that was too short and too fragile for me to actually take the tractor ONTO, but it was also too high for my 3pt to hook directly to the implements and lift them. I solved that with chains and the FEL, but it wasn't comfortable dangling 600 or so lb items just inches from the front of the tractor.

Then came the thought that IF the implements could be lifted high enough they could be STACKED on a construction trailer and the FEL could certainly do that if I had a skid steer to 3pt adapter. EUREKA (or somesuch).
OK, I'd still have to build some sort of a rack for the trailer - and it would probably have to be a "knock down" type - and I'd have to be conscious of the instability that comes with heavy weights up high - and it would need to have the weight bearing capacity to haul all these bits,,,, and on and on, but it might avoid or postpone the problem of running out of trailer floor space ?
Alternatively, I could get by with a shorter trailer, now THAT has some appeal.

Rack 'em and stack 'em - heavies on the bottom, lighties on the top.
 
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I dont think anything you mounted on the front would do any damage to the tractor. The root rake on the front of my buddys 4wd JD puts up with alot of stress. Pushing trees with the bucket also. And when you pick your stuck front end out there has to be quite a load on it also.
 
 
 
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