Front-End Loader 3 point/FEL adaptor plate

[nikdfish]

I'd been looking at these for a bit (3 point/FEL adaptor) & recently Titan attachments ran a 20% off sale on theirs. Normally $299, $239 on sale (delivered price). Got here via Fedex ground in 4 days. The version I ordered works for both the 1025R & the 3038e FEL's and came with a CAT 2 top link pin & keeper and a solid link. I'll have to pick up a couple of CAT2/CAT1 bushings for the lift arm pins & top link connections on my attachments.

I can use this for moving 3 point equipment or using implements that don't need PTO, like the landscape blade/rake and I will probably also use it with the decked carryall for things like loading/unloading the truck.

This is what it looks like on the 1025R

... still got the Fedex sticker on it (no packaging other than wrapping the toplink bar & receiver crosspin wrapped in plastic & stuffed in the receiver & taped over). The Fedex guy was happy he could just push it off the back of the truck into the 1025R bucket. Shipping weight indicates 95 lb.

Toplink pin & keeper were shipped just installed in the toplink bracket. The Tri-ball mount was lying around unused since I went to a weight distributing hitch w/convert-a-ball.

Two sets of pins to accomodate a number of FEL's. It will also fit our 3038e 305 FEL.

It'll get stored where I can just drive in & pick it up with the FEL after dropping the bucket.

 

[Fallon]

I built one. SSQA plate & welded a quick hitch to it. Worked great & was the mount for my old snow plow. Handy for servicing the knives on the flail mower too.

It ran off with the plow & the old L3200. Picked up some SSQA plates from a garage sale & another QH (from a TBN member who doesnt like them) at cheap used prices. Need to get around to welding them together.

 

[Stomper]

I built one. SSQA plate & welded a quick hitch to it. Worked great & was the mount for my old snow plow. Handy for servicing the knives on the flail mower too.

It ran off with the plow & the old L3200. Picked up some SSQA plates from a garage sale & another QH (from a TBN member who doesnt like them) at cheap used prices. Need to get around to welding them together.
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Thats actually a neat idea.

 

[ruffdog]

Instead of having hooks on my bucket, I welded them on the adapter. Here is the Snowsport plow on it for the first time. And the carry-all.

 

[nikdfish]

I'll resurrect this thread to mention that I used the adapter this weekend on the 3038e FEL to mount the landscape blade for pushing snow on the drive & about 1 mile of development road. It actually worked pretty well. There is enough slop in the connection to have a "float" effect even with the FEL set to a particular position & not in the real float mode. No kick springs on a landscape blade like a snow blade, but the area I was clearing (the development road) doesn't have any particular hidden surprises & the stall mat strip sandwiched onto the blade edge handles things like speed bumps without any jolts (at the speed I travel).

It definitely beat the heck out of doing the same work, with the same blade, running backwards to avoid packing the snow! The FEL arm weight helped provide down-force that wasn't there when the blade is attached normally, and there was much better lift when pushing excess snow over an existing berm.

 

[Catman8]

Has anyone tried to put a quick hitch on this Titan adapter plate to see if it will fit. How thick of steel are the lower holes, will they slide into the lower slots on a QH. or will they hit the back plate before reaching the holes on the QH.