Fork attachment build.

[crystallake]

xfaxman--Yes this is my arrangement.

 

[Xfaxman]

I took it as wanting to use on the front or the back. The build shown in this thread has a Euro (I think) mount AND 3-point tabs on it. So it can be used with either. Crystallake (nor I) have ever seen a similar setup only with SSQA and 3-point tabs.

There have been some threads about home built fork frames that fit either end.

The one I have isn't pallet forks, it is a Speeco UltraFork, but the design would work for pallet forks.

 

[crystallake]

Thanks, that gets my brain moving.

 

[aeblank]

The one I have isn't pallet forks, it is a Speeco UltraFork, but the design would work for pallet forks.
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Not quite QH compatible, but interesting none the less.

 

[Xfaxman]

Here is one by SSdoxie: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/286916-combination-ssqa-pallet-fork-qh.html

 

[aeblank]

I like it.

I have a set of (claimed to be) Bobcat brand forks. The visibility is AWFUL on them. Beyond that, the guarding is all bent up. I was planning on cutting it off and rebuilding the top guard section to be like EA's or Tomahawk's forks. This could be integrated in pretty easily, I think!

 

[crystallake]

Perfect ! time to fire up the Miller bobcat.

 

[arrow]

Building another fork attachment, this one is for my brother-n-law. I won't be going back to his place until next spring, so I have all the time in the world to finish it.:laughing:
It's the same design as mine, just a little bigger.
Tomorrow I'll weld up the taper to the tip of the forks. Then drill holes in the tips, and weld a piece of pipe in the holes.
This is all I have done so far.

It looks SA that you used heat to cut the tube stock for the taper. I do suppose this method gives the ability to run the cut using a guide bar. I would have had to use a piece of angle clamped to the bar stock and run my jig saw against the angle iron for such a relatively straight cut. More than likely, knowing my impatient self, I would have just scribed the lines and cut the thing by eye.

I made a set of forks using 3" channel thinking I was only using them to pick up slash from tree crowns. Even though I beefed up the channel, they were still not strong enough as we don't always adhere to our own rules.

I made my taper at the bottom such as yours as I am dragging ground to get under slash. I am wondering if picking up pallets, the taper might be better suited at the top?

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I made my taper at the bottom such as yours as I am dragging ground to get under slash. I am wondering if picking up pallets, the taper might be better suited at the top?

The taper needs to stay on the bottom, especially for pallets. If the top were tapered, there wouldn't be a flat surface for the pallet to sit on and it would constantly rock and never sit solid.

 

[LD1]

Most forklift forks have taper on the bottom. It allows you to tilt (curl) down and not dig into the ground as bad.

With the taper on the top, even the slightest tilt down will want to bury itself into the ground.

But I like to live life on the edge. I have no taper on my pallet forks. Just a blunt open end of the 2x4x1/4" tube.