Boom pole for front end loader

[futuresweets10]

Futuresweets10, of course with anything weight vs. fulcrum, But if you have braced good for amount of weight I would think it should work. Far as weight, a careful experiment would need to come in play. With that extra extension out there you could bend bucket cylinders. Dfkrug probably can give you good examples of that.
I do likeDfkrug's idea. Dfkrug has alot of nice builds you should check out.
Alanb has a nice setup there also.

Youve got me scared now.... After all ive been through with the FEL on my hoe the last thing I need is to bend a cylinder. Ive been thinking about it though and im wondering how the cylinder can get bent. My machine has work port relief valves. Isn't the point of these to allow the pressure to leak down if too much force or weight is put on the cylinder? Would this prevent me from being able to bend a cylinder or at least make using my FEL for this a bit safer?

 

[Army grunt]

I used the 3 point lifting pole I made. It worked great.
A word to the wise, when you travel keep it as low as possible, the weight will make the tractor tipsy as ****.Any tip at all will be 10 fold at the tip of the boom.
Army Grunt

 

[J_J]

I just adapted one of these for the front of my Power-Trac.

 

[mmurphy]

Youve got me scared now.... After all ive been through with the FEL on my hoe the last thing I need is to bend a cylinder. Ive been thinking about it though and im wondering how the cylinder can get bent. My machine has work port relief valves. Isn't the point of these to allow the pressure to leak down if too much force or weight is put on the cylinder? Would this prevent me from being able to bend a cylinder or at least make using my FEL for this a bit safer?

I am only trying to point out that could happen with the leverage out in front.
JJ has a good idea on his too. Maybe an attachment hooked to loader frame with out bucket on?

 

[dfkrug]

Ive been thinking about it though and im wondering how the cylinder can get bent. My machine has work port relief valves. Isn't the point of these to allow the pressure to leak down if too much force or weight is put on the cylinder? Would this prevent me from being able to bend a cylinder or at least make using my FEL for this a bit safer?

Yours is an industrial machine with more protections than most compact
tractors. But any tractor can be damaged, esp when you are pushing
the force limits of the hydraulics, then add some momentum.

The cause of bent loader cylinder rods that I have run into and repaired
have mostly involved spindly 1-inch rods, and the operator was back-
dragging with the bucket at full dump (cyl fully extended). Two other
causes I know of are letting a log roll back out of the bkt onto your
cylinders, and pinching something between the cylinder and the boom.

 

[J_J]

:Here are some more samples of boom poles.

 

[futuresweets10]

::UPDATE:: I got the pole set yesterday using the boom pole I made. I ended up simplifying my design and using chains to hold everything one. It worked perfectly, with out any problems, and didn't appear to put a strain on anything on the hoe. The first pics posted are of the contraption I built, then one of me ripping the walk platform down that I had built before I owned a back hoe, then some of the completed project.

 

[mmurphy]

Did good! That sure is a pretty good looking Cat!

 

[Jd1a]

If doing a lot of lifting, look at Agkrane for the 3point.