LD1
Epic Contributor
I think you would have been fine with the box tube forks. But then again, we dont know "how much bigger" the tractor is you are building for.
MY forks are 2x4x1/4 and clamp on style.




I cant remember, I think they are somewhere between 36 and 42". I dont think they are a full 42" but I think longer than 36.
Have had them maxed out on my tractor, moving nearly 1000# or more. Some old concrete slabs that I just couldnt lift but could curl and push dragging just the heal of the bucket.
Some of them were just too big to even think about. Put the forks on the backhoe and moved them. The BH bucket flexed pretty good cause of the clamp on style, but the forks were solid and no flex.
Have also moved a heavy steel rack still loaded with steel with the BH and forks. As well as used them with a 10k 12' long forklift boom to set my 40' trusses.
So gut feeling is the forks would be fine on a tractor quite a bit larger than mine. But I am sure I could bend them if I wanted to suspend a load on just a single tip and use them on the BH with 5k+ lift capacity.
What is the length of the forks you are making. I may play with some numbers for a cantilever style beam/load which is basically what they are. How are you planning on doing the flat bar inside them?
FWIW, I think the 4k clamp on forks that are sold everywhere on the net are 2x4x1/4 tube
MY forks are 2x4x1/4 and clamp on style.





I cant remember, I think they are somewhere between 36 and 42". I dont think they are a full 42" but I think longer than 36.
Have had them maxed out on my tractor, moving nearly 1000# or more. Some old concrete slabs that I just couldnt lift but could curl and push dragging just the heal of the bucket.
Some of them were just too big to even think about. Put the forks on the backhoe and moved them. The BH bucket flexed pretty good cause of the clamp on style, but the forks were solid and no flex.
Have also moved a heavy steel rack still loaded with steel with the BH and forks. As well as used them with a 10k 12' long forklift boom to set my 40' trusses.
So gut feeling is the forks would be fine on a tractor quite a bit larger than mine. But I am sure I could bend them if I wanted to suspend a load on just a single tip and use them on the BH with 5k+ lift capacity.
What is the length of the forks you are making. I may play with some numbers for a cantilever style beam/load which is basically what they are. How are you planning on doing the flat bar inside them?
FWIW, I think the 4k clamp on forks that are sold everywhere on the net are 2x4x1/4 tube