FEL, TORO Groundsmaster Put Together

[Xfaxman]

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!

 

[Xfaxman]

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.


Boom pole on the forks.

 

[Xfaxman]

9-2-2005 Wheel(less)barrow on the forks with a load for the recycle pile.


Brinly cat 0 A Frame bolted through the holes in the forks that came with it many years ago.


4' cat 0 box blade

 

[Xfaxman]

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.

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.


11-10-2005

P.S. it was dry dirt!

 

[Xfaxman]

Forking brush


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.


That is a 100 pound block of steel laying between the brushguard and the frame.


Two 100 pound tractor weights.


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:


12-11-2005 Cut a 90° conduit, put it over the cut off exhaust pipe, to keep the brushguard cleaner.

 

[Xfaxman]

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.


Bottom view.


Rear view.


Front view.


This is the root ball I was knocking the dirt off of.


Notice the 100 pound block of steel at the lower right, that fell off of the brushguard.

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.

 

[Xfaxman]

Another use for the forks, 5-10-2009.

 

[Don87]

That's a nice little toy, er tool. Looks very useful to have around.

 

[Xfaxman]

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.

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.

 

[Dr Dave]

Cool build, how much can you lift?