Homemade forks for mini loader

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farm boy00

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John Deere M&MT, Case 1030 comfort king, Sears ST16, Craftsmen 6000, homemade articulation mini-loader
Well back at it with this mini loader. Now it's pallet forks. Have been needing some lately and will need them to move burn barrels. Moved first one with bucket but second one is a steel 55 gal stock tank with is wider then my 36 in bucket.

So I started picking up parts around the farm
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Finished product 1459250691520.jpg
Bottom tube is 2x2 not sure which thickness.
Upright are 1 in unistrut and that is where my pins will go in for the loader. Cross members are some bed frame angle.

Forks are some 1 in black pipe. Had to grind the end some to get it to go into the 2 prices of angle welded together to make tube steel1459250691520.jpg1459251010557.jpg



Not to worried about bending the forks cause I have problems just picking up a 6ft backblade in the bucket before and that's with counter weight. Now I need to make brackets to hold a few truck rotors for more counter weight
 
   / Homemade forks for mini loader #2  
:thumbsup:

Following this build.
 
   / Homemade forks for mini loader
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#3  
Well bent the heck out of the forks but that don't matter. Used the forks to move burn barrels and haven't used since. Been doing mostly clean up
 
   / Homemade forks for mini loader #4  
Well now you can bend them back straight and reinforce the weak spot.
 

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