Loader lengths ?

[Arky217]

I'm still trying to educate myself on today's tractors.
I've noticed that there is sometimes a significant difference in how far a loader's bucket is in front of the tractor. For example, I looked at a Massey with a 'Dual' loader, (it may not have been the right loader for that tractor and I didn't measure anything), but it seemed that the distance from the front of the front tire to the front of the bucket was greater than the wheelbase of the tractor. Some loaders, however, seem to have the bucket fairly close to the tractor.
Are some loaders made for a certain kind of use and others for another ? And if so, where in that range do the Kubota loaders fall. In other words, are they generally closer to the tractor than most, farther than most, or about average ?

 

[rbargeron]

Hello Arky217 - and welcome to TBN. The subject of loader length is interesting - and doesn't seem to get much discussion. The bucket edge on CUT's is often about 1 wheelbase ahead of the front wheel center. This seems true for a lot of machines - though I'm not aware of any actual industry dimension standards - there may be some somewhere - like there are for backhoes. If it's longer it may be a loader adapted to a machine it wasn't specifically designed for. In this case, the length is only one issue - also important is the loader frame design and how it reinforces the tractor for the increased loads.

I've been looking for a loader for my L345 - these tractors were not extra beefy so the original Kubota loader frame was a lot of steel.