Loader Quick Attach for DL95 (GC1700 series tractors)

[jimmyhouser]

Dealers have to figure it out on their own. Usually it shows up as an option when the dealers order the tractor, but I haven't seen or heard tale of a quick attach here for a subcompact recently. Not even for the new 1526. 1726e and bigger get the option of pin on order skid steer.

Interestingly enough, that setup looks factory.

 

[Fiziksgeek]

Dealers have to figure it out on their own. Usually it shows up as an option when the dealers order the tractor, but I haven't seen or heard tale of a quick attach here for a subcompact recently. Not even for the new 1526. 1726e and bigger get the option of pin on order skid steer.

Take another look at my post, I just edited it and add some info. Looks like they may have an SSQA as well. I think I am going to contact my dealer and see what they know.

 

[Fiziksgeek]

Just to add. The price list I found online was dated "Effective Jan 1, 2017", so these options are not exactly new.

 

[jimmyhouser]

Hmm. I'm gonna look up some part numbers Monday. I looked in my parts books to go app and those options aren't pictured.

 

[Fiziksgeek]

Hmm. I'm gonna look up some part numbers Monday. I looked in my parts books to go app and those options aren't pictured.

Definitely worth some investigation. I just took at look at agcopartsbook and it didn't show up. However, under the DL95 loader, I did see the 48 and 54" bucket options. I also saw as options, a bale spear...and two different sets of pallet forks, one pin on, the other ssqa. Which leads me to believe there may be an ssqa option for the dl95.

 

[jimmyhouser]

Parts books to go calls it "Alo Compact" bucket and calls it non serviceable. No price or part number. Strange. As for the adapter, I didn't see it.

 

[Fiziksgeek]

Parts books to go calls it "Alo Compact" bucket and calls it non serviceable. No price or part number. Strange. As for the adapter, I didn't see it.

A couple years back, Massey switched the manufacturer for the loader and backhoe. I forget off hand who used to make them, but the new manufacturer is Alo industries in Tennessee. The previous loader was the DL100, and new one is DL95. The change happened right before they came out with the GC1700 series. Right before the switch, you could get a GC2400/2600 with a DL100 or DL95 depending on the locally available stock. I believe all GC1700 machines have the DL95 made by Alo.

 

[jimmyhouser]

Sioux used to make the loaders and backhoes. We sold very few GC1710 models with the Sioux loader and backhoes. It wasn't long and they just fell off the map. Alo bought Quickie. I've been to the plant there in Telford Tennessee. I wasn't impressed when I first saw them. Sioux put out a far better product at a little more expensive cost and of course, the fat got trimmed.

 

[RomanG]

Roman,
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Is your intention to offer the quick attach and then customers acquire skid steer implements from other vendors to use with it ? Or do you intend to build the implements as well ?
And do you intend to make quick attaches (or implements) for other scut brands like Yanmar, Cub Cadet, Kioti, etc. etc. ?
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AxleHub,

My intention is to get a quick attach going (assembled, installed and tested) and then start on other implements (I have a fork carrier design and working on a grapple) and also a conversion bracket kit, that someone can buy and weld on to their existing (or newly acquired) implement and adapt it for DL95 quick attach.

This is my hobby, more less, I have a "day job".
I do not have other tractors, so it would be difficult for me to design other quick attach adapters as I do not have information or access to other brands.

Roman

 

[AxleHub]

Sioux used to make the loaders and backhoes. We sold very few GC1710 models with the Sioux loader and backhoes. It wasn't long and they just fell off the map. Alo bought Quickie. I've been to the plant there in Telford Tennessee. I wasn't impressed when I first saw them. Sioux put out a far better product at a little more expensive cost and of course, the fat got trimmed.

Greetings Jimmie,

Obviously first hand visits of places helps a bunch. However I wrote some threads back in 2015 comparing the dl100 fel to the dl95. And the backhoe choices too.

The dl100 fel was a fine unit and was on the gc23xx gc24xx, and gc26xx and the first 2 years of the gc17xx series. But it's weight handling capacity was much smaller than was the dl95 unit. The dl95 and dl100 were both available in 2015 even though the gl100 series first came out in 2013. When I bought my gc1715 I specified I wanted a unit with the dl95 and not the dl100 (which were still available until later 2015). The dl95 design did much better protecting of the hydro lines and routing as well. As I prior mentioned the original specs on each often just used the dl100 specs but they were quite different when Massey finally got brochures and catelogs properly updated.
Just a single example of how they were different but many didn't know was the attachment pins used for the bucket to fel attachment. Most scuts like kubota's etc. used 3/4 inch or warmer and massey used heavier 1 inch pins because most scuts did not need more than the 3/4 for lifting strength. But the metal of the dl95 arms was sized heavier and the pins on the dl95 were heavier built than1 inch too. Even a 1 inch pin was not enough for proper engineering safety. . So the dl95 has a heavier pin than did the dl100. It all shows when the units were actually tested.

New Topic: I'm still quite confused about the status of the 1500 series Massey tractors. In early 2015 they were supposedly discontinued when Massey was out with their 1700 and 1700e series of cut units. I didn't even think there were any new1500s out by mid 2015. Yet even with brochures gone and none showing in my dealer showroom, I know some who were buying new units in late 2015 and 2016 and have even heard some got some later than that. My question is, when we're they no longer available or are they still available. They were a very attractive offering of features and comfort.

Jmho