FEL, TORO Groundsmaster Put Together

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Took it to a hydraulic shop to get hoses made. Here are pictures from 8-17-2005, if you right click on the pictures, you can open them in a new tab or window, depending on your browser.

Hoses on, it works!
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8-18-2005 Made this fork carriage many years previous for an old Craftsman loader.
Works on this one, using longer pins. I later added angle iron to support a shorter pin the normal way.
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Boom pole on the forks.
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9-2-2005 Wheel(less)barrow on the forks with a load for the recycle pile.
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Brinly cat 0 A Frame bolted through the holes in the forks that came with it many years ago.
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4' cat 0 box blade
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8-24-2005 Had this old tractor brushguard in my scrap pile, so I welded a piece of 2 inch square tubing to it, so that it would fit in the receiver hitch.P8241944.JPGP8241946.JPGP8241947.JPGP8241948.JPGP8241949.JPG

11-7-2005 Ten sacks of horse feed. Notice the old Craftsman Loader for sale by the fence. I was going to use it, but got this wider KW loader.
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11-10-2005
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P.S. it was dry dirt!
 
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Forking brush:)
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7-22-06 Removed the receiver hitch from the Toro, modified the brushguard to bolt on where the hitch was, and built a receiver hitch into the brushguard.
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That is a 100 pound block of steel laying between the brushguard and the frame.
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Two 100 pound tractor weights.
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11-30-2005 Added a guard to prevent full speed forward, when it touches a tree trunk at the edge of the burn pile. Guess how I know it would do that! :laughing:
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12-11-2005 Cut a 90° conduit, put it over the cut off exhaust pipe, to keep the brushguard cleaner.
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This happened 8-9-2006. Was using the forks to knock the dirt off of the root ball on a willow tree that the dozer dozed. Backed up, but it didn't turn uphill, because the right front tire was almost flat (slow leak). The right front dropped into a hole, and the Toro went over, I fell off of the seat onto the side panel. The engine was still running, I had to raise up and reach under my butt to turn off the key. I was right at the edge of the water, the loader tower was in the water. I got my tractor, put a chain on the left loader arm and pulled it upright.

Looking south from the dam.
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Bottom view.
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Rear view.
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Front view.
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This is the root ball I was knocking the dirt off of.
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Notice the 100 pound block of steel at the lower right, that fell off of the brushguard.
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I left it chained to the tractor, got on, crossed my fingers, it started and I backed up the hill.
The loader wasn't up very high and the hole wasn't very big, but it sure went over fast.
 
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Another use for the forks, 5-10-2009.
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   / FEL, TORO Groundsmaster Put Together #18  
That's a nice little toy, er tool. Looks very useful to have around.
 
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That's a nice little toy, er tool. Looks very useful to have around.

Thanks, it is both a toy and a tool, but not a toy tool.:D

I have used it a lot, some of the dead trees in that burn pile were pulled by the MF240D, but it didn't have a loader, so the pile was made with the TORO.
 
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Cool build, how much can you lift?
 
 
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