FEL coming

[cleatus]

Here's my cad mockup for new FEL. When the cylinders get here I'll double check measurments and start cutting metal. This lets me see the full range of motion so that I can place cross member between arms and placement for single curl cylinder. I plan to have QC plate that bucket or forks can be interchanged.

 

[cleatus]

Here's another angle. Yes that grille is purple as most of the sheet metal will be.

 

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[Mith]

cleatus, nice project, looks like itll come out good
are you going for new or s/h hydraulics?

on a different note, have you ever put hydraulics on a small engine, say 12HP single cyl?
any advice for someone thinking of building a FEL for a really tiny tractor?

thanks

 

[Taylortractornut]

Good looking tractor Cleatus what is it an H or a C. If you ever want to go to a wide front end a combine axle will work good. Are you gonna mount the pump on the fron of the tractor or use the tractors hydraulics. The C should have a place to tap into the hydraulic lines for a live hydraulics. An H the pump stops if the clutch is depressed.
Mith Ive mounted a few pumps on different models of lawn tractos and have all worked pretty good. Theres several methods to do this and most are easy but some require you to remove the deck and use the cransk mower pulley to run it.

 

[cleatus]

It's a VAC with live gear driven vane pump. This will be changed to gear pump later. I now have lift working and will be adding cross member and single curl cylinder. This will be attached to sub frame that will be my version of QC.
Here's a shot.

 

[cleatus]

Frome the front.

 

[cleatus]

Here's a close up.

 

[cleatus]

And another.

 

[cleatus]

From drivers perspective.