POST YOUR PICTURES OF FORKS?

[JimC]

Here is what I built for mu BX2200 Kubota.
I have been using a TSC 3 pt carry all platform, and didn't think I needed any forks, even after reading all the good info on the TBN page.
Well I had to move a bunch of pallets and some limbs I had cut off.
The platform will move stuff like that, but it will only lift as tall as the 3 pt will go, which isn't very tall and I had to pick them up to load them, pick them up to off load them, then lift them onto the burn pile.
So I started looking at what the TBN group had done about home built forks. Lots of good information, some real craftsmen and engineers in this group.
Anyway I didn't want real long forks, the FEL make you be careful as it is.
I figured that with only about a 400 lb load limit for the FEL, carrying a load up to 3 feet further forward plus the weight of the forks would limit the load to about 300 lbs so I didn't have to build a battleship.
I dug around in my scrap pile, found a couple of pieces of 3" structural steel that someone had made some detachable side boards out of and a piece of flat plate and some metal straping about 1 1/2 X 1/8" and I even found a heavy truck spring that my son had removed from his truck, cut off the ends about 5" long for the tips of my forks.
I started yesterday evening about 4 PM and I now have a dandy set of forks for my bota. Just goes to prove that some folks trash turns out to be a bota owners treasure.
I have a cutoff saw, an ac/dc welder and a metal worker that shears, punches and bends(breaks), which saves a lot of time.
I even painted the forks orange before taking the photos.

 

[Justaplain]

Mne are like that only the main iron [4" channel] is 15" under the bucket, held in place with a 3/8 bolt. Cost about $25 and just unloaded a bundle of 50 2x4x14'. All my Cub Cadet wanted. bcs

 

[JRP]

Well, I finally got around to posting a picture of my finished forks. Here it is. It is now adapted to fit the front loader bobtach. Bobtach is great and should be standard equipment for all FEL attachments. A bobtach adapter plate is easy to field fabricate with only a welder and a torch. No special drill bits and no critical hole alignment. Very forgiving.

The forks are pin type. The grid thing on the forks is a brush rake that I use when picking up tree limbs. It slides over the forks and has two clips that bolt to the rake and prevent the rake from sliding off the forks.

I added chain hooks to each side of the forks. The big guard at the top prevents stuff from falling on me.

Someday I will back my tractor up to the forks and see if I can make it also work with the Speeco quick hitch. If sssso I could put it on front or back in two minutes or less.

These fork are robust and could lift far more weight than the tractor is ballasted for.

It was a rewarding project.

 

[JRP]

side picture

 

[JRP]

photo showing clips

 

[PineRidge]

Store bought, Katsco I believe and heavy in construction.

 

[Bill_M]

These will work on the fel or the three point. They weight 195# and will hold together with a load that even the three point won't get more than 8" of the ground. Built forks out of 4" ship channel they are about 30" long if I remember correctly.

 

[swa240z]

I just built these over the last few weeks. They work on my loader and my 3PH. I have about $225 invested in this project. I bought a Millermatic 210 this fall and this project was my first welding project ever.

These forks are patterned after the JD pallet forks, but I had to make a few changes to accomodate the style of forks that I had.

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Steve

 

[Wildman1]

Here's my little offering. 2x3" steel tubing 32" long. Total cost to build was around $150. These are on a JD2210.

 

[TractorTruck]

Here's mine using a pair of take-off's, made frame from square tubing and had brackets custom made at a local fab shop. I have the plans if anyone is interested.