Quick Attach Bracket To Wide?

[gbell1577]

Good afternoon,

I just had a quick attach bracket made so I can hook up to my common skid steer implements. I was researching a few others out there and they are advertising the compact design of them, the width being short enough to preserve the lift capacity. One I read about was 2-1/8" wide from the from of the adapter plate to the back- mine is 9-3/4". I haven't noticed any difference, but would that be of concern to anyone? I didn't know if the additional 7-5/8" inches over that 2-1/8" would eat up to much lift capacity or not, or if I should have went with a more compact design. This isn't on a compact tractor and I have been running a tree grubber since this adapter can side shift over left or right and be mounted at any given time.

 

[CoyPatton]

Not sure if it will matter to your application or not.
That said, think of the lever and fulcrum. That is basically what you are doing with your curl and dump cylinder from the pins. You need to see if you find specs for your loader. A frequent spec is either xxxx pounds at the pins or a more useful spec is xxxx pounds at 20” in front of the pins.
Now your almost 20” of latch mechanism cost you 1/2 of that distance For some uses that may not be an issue. For others, that distance may be critical.
Of course these concerns are much greater when the lift capacities are much lower. (IE 800lbs lift ability is a bigger issue than at 3000lbs)