QA plate angle

[MossRoad]

You can see that the forks are pre-bent to the correct angle for the plate and there is a 90 degree vertical plate at the back of the forks that provide both a stop for loads AND support for the forks to keep them from bending.

You are correct that the QA male plate on the FEL arms tilt farther forward than backwards... when the FEL arms are all the way down.

When the FEL arms are all the way up, you can flip dirt or logs or whatever right off the bucket or forks and into your lap if you are not careful.

This is because the QA plate is not auto-leveling. That would require a parallel linkage configuration that would ad cost to the FEL. So if you start off with the forks parallel to the ground, as you lift the FEL arms, that angle changes unless you manually dump or curl with the joystick.

 

[J_J]

You can also change the rotation angle by shorten or lengthen the link bar from the roll over assembly to the QA plate. My link bar has two settings in it.

 

[Badback]

Thanks everone! That works for me.

 

[stray]

the angles on my large bucket

 

[stray]

Flat on the Ground

 

[MossRoad]

That LARGE bucket still cracks me up. It is so disproportionate that it looks photo shopped. :laughing:

There are times when I could use something that large. Not too often, but just once in a while. Every time I see an old oil tank I think if it. :thumbsup:

 

[Badback]

Thanks Stray, great pictures!

So, I see that you had a little extra red paint leftover from the bucket and decided to start painting on the shed...

Is the drain plug a side benefit of using an oil drum?

 

[stray]

yea just cleaning the brush

 

[stray]

Moss that Red bucket has been one of the handiest attachments I have. I don't use it to hall rock or dirt but it will haul and haul with a full bucket most types of wood that has been split (level full with hickory and oak), moss, grass packed in with the smaller bucket, cat tails with mud and roots attached, construction debris, as long as the load is not over 500 lbs. If it is over you can of course tell by the pucker. With common sense The PT really handles it well. Except for the time I broke that wheel motor. But I had the wheels reversed and way too many big rocks in it, the rear end in the air and vigorously flopping the tail section back and forth. It was defiantly my fault. Every body needs a large RED bucket

 

[MossRoad]

Moss that Red bucket has been one of the handiest attachments I have. I don't use it to hall rock or dirt but it will haul and haul with a full bucket most types of wood that has been split (level full with hickory and oak), moss, grass packed in with the smaller bucket, cat tails with mud and roots attached, construction debris, as long as the load is not over 500 lbs. If it is over you can of course tell by the pucker. With common sense The PT really handles it well. Except for the time I broke that wheel motor. But I had the wheels reversed and way too many big rocks in it, the rear end in the air and vigorously flopping the tail section back and forth. It was defiantly my fault. Every body needs a large RED bucket

I use the tail flopping as an indication that I am abusing the machine too hard..... so I only abuse it a little bit more after that. :laughing: