POST YOUR PICTURES OF FORKS?

[1948berg]

Found these forks on a scrap yard. They were worn out on the "heels", see pic, thinner in the back, does not matter for me, can lift 1500kg. Self made frame with Trima quick hitch. Wide frame, very stabil for lifting logs and lumber.

 

[tglass]

I'de like to see more details on this. Looks fairly easy to build. Have you got any plans or more pictures?

 

[vanisland]

I got lots of ideas from this site.
I mainly wanted them to pick up brush.
This is what I came up with and they seem to work pretty well.

 

[mjncad]

You need to name your X-Tractor "Wolverine" with those forks Vanisland.

 

[rkhpapa]

Here are mine...

 

[TTTTTT]

I was looking for cheap forks or was going to make my own. I haven't seen this one yet but thought it was a great use of an old pallet pump truck.I got the truck for nothing, so nothing to loose

Before
Gutted

Now the Fun
Primed and ready to paint. To recap. After gutting it, I had to design an suitable (strong) way of adapting it to my loader brackets. As I have adapted other things this part wasn't too hard. I was able to use the top of the frame and cut out a notch that fits over the bar of my FEL bracket. I reinforced it to take the weight and used the 4"x2" channel at the bottom to attach to the bottom loader brackets. All quick attach as my bucket is. As I discovered, I need to widen this part so it distributes the weight better and does not bend the loader bar (see final pics)

As I was making this, I thought it would be a great to be able to have a 3pt hook up as well. This actually worked out quite well. With being to lift more on the 3pt, it would come in handy for the heavy jobs




FEL Mode
Worked better than expected with the 3pt part just clearing the loader frame. As can be seen, I need to reinforce where the top part of forks frame hooks so the bar won't bend


3pt Mode
Needs a little work as you can see, I forgot the lower arm pins at home, so I just put some bolts in to test it, but seems to work.



This was a great mod and so far works great. Moved some logs around and was very happy. Its always great to make something useful out of nothing.
Probably forgot a few things that I can add later

Enjoy Dave

 

[GIJOE]

Here is a picture of the forks I built and a link to the thread of build, and more pictures.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/142514-completed-new-project.html

 

[JB4310]

Don't know if this thread is just for home made forks, but here are my factory built ones, been using them quite a bit lately.

Modded mine to work with JD and HF 3 pt quick hitches, the HTL on JD makes for very easy pallet engagement.

JB.

 

[beergut]

Here are my forks...

I'm sorry- I had to do it! I've been thinking about it all day! I know I'm the new guy but it just had to be done

The real question is... are the fork tines facing up or down???

 

[Mighty Dodge]

Here's mine.

M.D.