CoyPatton
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- Joined
- Aug 10, 2015
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- Location
- Poplar Bluff, MO
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM2002D with Koyker 110 FEL
I did a really quick look up on your Max28XL. At the pins you have 1400 lbs of lift. Unfortunately this is a common place and utterly useless for anything.
Just a while guess but I would think around 1100 lbs at the cutting edge (20” or so in front of your pins) of lifting. As you put weight further in front of this point (bolt-on forks begin a few inches further away from your pin point) your lifting capacity drops. My guess at the far end of 42” forks that 1100 lbs is now around 700 lbs or less. These numbers are not math worked numbers but educated calculations for consideration. As an retired engineer go for the actual math if you wish.
Bolt-on forks are a poor way of getting forks and as many have mentioned, they will work, but at potential damaging consequences.
I have a set that I built. My bucket is pin on. I built mine where the bottom goes past the rear of my bucket, and where I can attach a chain from each fork to hooks on my bucket or to the bottom portion of the forks. I later built a cross brace between the forks.
The clamp bolts move easily metal on metal with force applied especially trying to get under larger limbs—thus the cross brace. I also try to put a piece of old tire sidewall under the bolts when clamping.
Bottom line, I do not use them a lot, but I still consider every few months of converting my pin on bucket/loader to an SSQA system, and giving up 250 lbs or so of lifting capacity in my bucket between weight of the conversion and forward movement of my bucket. I have mot yet pulled that trigger, but still think about it often.
Just a while guess but I would think around 1100 lbs at the cutting edge (20” or so in front of your pins) of lifting. As you put weight further in front of this point (bolt-on forks begin a few inches further away from your pin point) your lifting capacity drops. My guess at the far end of 42” forks that 1100 lbs is now around 700 lbs or less. These numbers are not math worked numbers but educated calculations for consideration. As an retired engineer go for the actual math if you wish.
Bolt-on forks are a poor way of getting forks and as many have mentioned, they will work, but at potential damaging consequences.
I have a set that I built. My bucket is pin on. I built mine where the bottom goes past the rear of my bucket, and where I can attach a chain from each fork to hooks on my bucket or to the bottom portion of the forks. I later built a cross brace between the forks.
The clamp bolts move easily metal on metal with force applied especially trying to get under larger limbs—thus the cross brace. I also try to put a piece of old tire sidewall under the bolts when clamping.
Bottom line, I do not use them a lot, but I still consider every few months of converting my pin on bucket/loader to an SSQA system, and giving up 250 lbs or so of lifting capacity in my bucket between weight of the conversion and forward movement of my bucket. I have mot yet pulled that trigger, but still think about it often.