Mount for Salvaged Pallet Forks

I have been needing some forks and found these in a salvage yard. They look like what I have seen on a fork lift. The forks slide on a 2 3/8 solid stock. After getting home with them I discovered that the vertical rise was to short for my bucket. That blew my plan of how I was going to mount them.

After about a week of thinking how to handle the problem, I came up with the idea of adding two 2 inch. receivers and useing two recovery hooks. The hooks have about a 2 inch drop and that is about what I needed to get the forks below the cutting edge on the bucket.

The nice thing about the hooks is, I can attach and remove the forks from the seat without ever leaving the tractor. Don't know the capacity, but they handled this 5 1/8x 12x 24 foot glulam, 2- 3 1/8x16 glulams, some scaffold boards and 4x6x12's without any problem. I'm happy with them.
Terry

Nice work. That's a neat way of putting that together.

Great idea, about as simple as it gets, as far as capacity goes I'm sure they will handle whatever the capacity of the loader is. you can also add 1 more of the hooks to spread the load more.

I started a thread 2 years ago about putting a receiver tube on my bucket instead of weld on hooks, recently someone posted to that thread they were thinking of doing what you did with three tubes. I didn't think it was necessary but figured it couldn't hurt, after seeing what you did I'd say that there could be other applications that could utilize the outer tubes as well. how about a removable grapple setup. or an extended screen back for piling brush up high.

I reinforced the top of the bucket with 1/2x4 inch plate. I kind of got carried away. First the chain hooks, then the D-rings, then the center receiver.
I put the center receiver on to move trailers around, then made a boom pole that fits in the center receiver and is braced across the bottom of the bucket. You can see a little of the boom pole in one of the pictures.
Terry

They look like brick/block tines the same thing I have just in better shape