Bolens 1476 loader project

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I got this old 1476 for 500 and the following week someone offered me a 1250 that was a basket case, but had a good Johnson loader, so here I am mounting the loader. I need one more stabilizer bar across the front to join the two front stabilizers, as well as fabricate a pump mount, I plan on using one belt to the inner most PTO pulley, I have no intentions of using the PTO for any other uses. I do have the factory 3 point on at this point and will be building a weight box as well as loading the tires. Once the pump is on and functional I'll replace all the hoses and do some beefing up of the home made bucket, not sure what happened to the original, with the PO you just don't know because he's dead and when he was alive he did everything possible to destroy the 1250