Skid steer attachment angle?

[ruffdog]

Yep, that is why I bought this one: Skid steer Bobcat 3 point implement hitch adapter Heavy Duty

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If Pat's still offered the weld-on quick hitch ends I would be set.

 

[jmc]

I知 not finding this info online. Might end up having to take an angle finder to dealer with me to check them if no one here knows the answer. Thanks

If you already have an angle finder, you can calculate that best angle for each of your implements and not have to visit a dealer for a measurement.

Roll your tractor's SSQA to fully curled and measure its face's angle, relative to a plumb or horizontal reference.

With the tractor end of the implement on the ground, block up the implement's tip until it looks like it's as high as you'll ever need it. Then measure the angle between the implement bottom and a plumb or horizontal reference.

Then, depending on which reference you used, the plate angle you want is either adding or subtracting angles. Personally, I'd have to sketch mine first to figure out the arithmetic.

 

[jmc]

One of the reasons manufacturers may seem stingy with their rollback geometry is to prevent loads falling off the back of the implement when the loader is fairly high.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You need to mock it up. Tack weld it strong enough not too fall on anyone and try it. Often making it right will look quite wrong visually. I have a fork carrier that will only tilt up a few degrees but the forks will go straight down and back still farther. Total screw up! But making them right would have added weight and required a bunch of material

 

[tree grower]

This is a little off topic, but related. Whatever implement you are adapting to ssqa, be sure to build it with the bucket arms at least 3-6" higher than all the way down. I adapted a Meyers snow plow A-frame to my ssqa with the arms all the way down, and the plow doesn't float correctly. I should have had the arms 6" up when building. I built a set of forks, and made the same mistake. With any attachment--even the factory bucket--sometimes you will want to use down pressure to lower it below 'bottom'

 

[ddbackhoe]

I must have misunderstood your question. Your actually looking for the angle that the qa plate attaches to a plow, rake, bucket, etc? Simple answer is 45 degrees. But like Mikester says, it kinda depends on what it is. A set of forks would be closer to 90. A bucket you would want about 45 so you get the full roll back and dump/curl.

This one was just finished and the qa plate is 1/2" up from the bottom View attachment 647659

 

[Xfaxman]

The picture didn't post

 

[ddbackhoe]

This one was just finished and the qa plate is 1/2" up from the bottom. Oh and at 90 View attachment 647659

Hopefully picture works this time.

 

[Rustyiron]

Not all tractors should use the SS angle. The "range of motion" is not always equal to a SS and that range does not always start in the same place, in other words make sure that you build it so that you have the desired "rollback" or carry position of your attachment so that with the bucket low to the ground you have a decent roll back to carry a load. Just remember that the more angle you "build in" the less dump angle you will have up high as in loading (dumping) into a tall truck.

 

[Xfaxman]

Hopefully picture works this time.

Yep, did :thumbsup:.

Looks like a gooder-un .

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