Tractor mounted forklift?
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Scooby074
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Theyve been around for a long while. Local farm market had one for years unloading apples etc. Better to have that amount of weight close plus you can lift more then on the loader. I dont know who made it. It could have very well been home built from a traditional forklift mast.
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I think Woods had one in their line-up some years ago.
Need to be mindful of garage doors, low tree limbs and soft or uneven soil.
-Jim
Need to be mindful of garage doors, low tree limbs and soft or uneven soil.
-Jim
Last summer I bought a Woods/Dual forklift (mast to be specific) at a farm auction. I think it will be quite handy.
They are no longer made by Woods. I found some other no name stuff on the net, around $2000 if I remember correctly.
You have to turn around to use it but you can see it much better than loader forks, pick up more weight with it, and it is more stable with a heavy load.
Perhaps hard to find, but a better option in my opinion.
They are no longer made by Woods. I found some other no name stuff on the net, around $2000 if I remember correctly.
You have to turn around to use it but you can see it much better than loader forks, pick up more weight with it, and it is more stable with a heavy load.
Perhaps hard to find, but a better option in my opinion.
LD1
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You still have to keep in mind what your 3PH is rated for. (IF it is indeed hooked up their). Because all of the weight you lift plus the weight of implement itself is on the 3PH.
And if you arent perfectally vertical, the higher you go, the farther back the weight gets. So even if you arent moving at all, you could either break the TL or flip the tractor just by raising.
And if you arent perfectally vertical, the higher you go, the farther back the weight gets. So even if you arent moving at all, you could either break the TL or flip the tractor just by raising.
Bob Rooks
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Normal forklift operation (and common sense) dictates that you always have the load as low as possible and slightly tilted back when transporting, which in effect would put the top link in compression and transfer weight to the front wheels. The only time the mast would be tilted slightly rearwards is when you are unloading the forks.
LD1
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You are correct. I just thought I would mention it as well because others might not know how to safley operate one. Common sense is something that some people lack. And also, just not knowing how to operate one. Example: I have seem people with SCUT and a MMM mowing their lawn with the FEL raised all the way so they could see, instead of simply removing it:confused2:
I'd probabally also be hesitant to have it tilted rearward at all, especiall if raised fairly high especially without ROPS. If a bottom pin were to fail, you would be crushed.
And it does take less weight off the front tires, but does not ADD to the weight over front. Unless the CG of the load is forward of the rear axle.
Bob Rooks
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But no one in their right mind would do that.
Yes you have to be aware of your hitch capacity, my hitch capacity is 2000 pounds more than the loader. You use a hydraulic cylinder setup for the center link and this controls the attitude of your load. And yes common sense must prevail, of course you should not run around with the load at maximum height, that applies to any lift system.
But no one in their right mind would do that.
I have also seen this and I'm pretty sure I've seen a video of someone doing this.
Just because someone can afford to buy a tractor, it doesn't mean they have the common sense and/or understanding of the basic laws of physics to use it properly, hence the endless array of product safety labels on virtually everything. Even when people think they know what's going on things can still go very wrong.
I thought I knew what I was doing when I first used my Jinma loader. I'm a pretty careful person as I work with some very dangerous things on a daily basis. I was lifting and dragging the backhoe crate with a strap. Well the strap was just a bit more loose on one side of the crate than the other (I thought it would self equalize) and when I began to lift the end of the crate to drag it, the tractor instantly flipped up onto two wheels and very nearly went completely over.
It flipped from left to right not back to front. Ironically the unbalanced load caused the tractor to flip up onto two wheels but also kept if from going over completely. Luckily I was wearing the seat belt which kept me from be pitched off the seat, so I got it under control. Without the belt I would have probably been pitched under the ROPS and with my foot off the clutch it probably would have went all the way over on top of me.
Hindsight is 20/20 and afterwards I realized how lucky I was because no one was home at the time and didn't return home for another 5 hours. It could have been a very, very ugly accident.
I never would have believed the tractor would/could flip that quickly and easily while not moving and with the bucket that low.
Live and learn.
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