Compact tractor loader needs twisted back straight

[Streetcar]

Metal hardening , fatigue then breakage could be the result. Most people here have broken something when they had it bend back just about straight.

Fatigue and resulting breakage is from repeated loading the metal. If the loader is not cracked now, the bend will not be an issue

 

[azeller22]

Saturday eve got it twisted back very close to where it should be. (Wont know if its good to go until i get the new tractor frame-to-loader brackets I ordered, the old ones are bent up) A buddy came over who's had quite a bit of experience straightening frames. We attached the left side boom arm to the right side loader-to-tractor frame bracket, chained the right lower boom arm down to a metal trailer ramp, then drove my other tractor with the loader bucket resting on the ramp, attached a come along from the chain to a low point on the tractor to keep the boom arm from wanting to move forward, then placed a handiman jack and jacked up on the right rear of the loader arm.

 

[Alesandro]

Soooooaahhhh.......... since it's fixed, you mind telling us how much you got it for?

 

[azeller22]

By the time all taxes and fees paid, $6500. Will likely have $9k total into it in the end.

 

[buickanddeere]

Fatigue and resulting breakage is from repeated loading the metal. If the loader is not cracked now, the bend will not be an issue

Lets give it a few hundred hours of use in winter. It may or may not be alright .