SSQA - is there a standard/conventional width?

[Midniteoyl]

He said it was a cheap Ebay item..

 

[FlyFishn]

Sounds like the adapter might be some kind of low-end, off shore adapter, kinda slapped together?
Not accusing you of being cheap.

Oh in this instance yes I am cheap. The plow is a resurrected 7' rear blade I got for cheap as it was. However, I discussed with the dealer on plow options but with the hydraulics and what they had available it was going to be many thousands of dollars more to get one set up. We were already in to many thousands of dollars (about $11k) in front end equipment and hydraulics so I went the other way and adapted what we already had.

Interesting note - the SSQA to 3pt adapter from Ebay was in the lower $200's if I recall. I was browsing Everything Attachments and they want over $1000 for one. Crazy.

 

[Hay Dude]

Oh in this instance yes I am cheap. The plow is a resurrected 7' rear blade I got for cheap as it was. However, I discussed with the dealer on plow options but with the hydraulics and what they had available it was going to be many thousands of dollars more to get one set up. We were already in to many thousands of dollars (about $11k) in front end equipment and hydraulics so I went the other way and adapted what we already had.

Interesting note - the SSQA to 3pt adapter from Ebay was in the lower $200's if I recall. I was browsing Everything Attachments and they want over $1000 for one. Crazy.

Yeah, but that’s what it costs for quality American or Canadian attachments.
Here was mine. Converts Euro/Global to SSQA.
I don’t mind paying a price for quality, but USA/CD made stuff is now commonly 3 times the price of crap.
The last SSQA I had was my snowplow, I have sold that one.

 

[R Barger]

I was swapping front end equipment this afternoon so I did some measuring. Aside from being still pretty cold (temp in the teens) we had a nice day here.

First up is my fork set.
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This measures about 45-1/8". This is a Land Pride fork set.

Next is the bucket.

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This measures about 45-1/16".

Next is the grapple. This one I had trouble getting the tape to cooperare for the measurement.

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This comes out to about 45-1/2".

Next is the loader arms on the tractor that mate to the SSQA receivers on the implements.

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This measures about 44-5/8". See more detail below regarding this number and the associated clearance.

Next is the SSQA to 3pt adapter we have.

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This measures right about 44-1/2".

When I try to hook up to this adapter this is the result:
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Left side -
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Right side -
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So for now what I do is squeeze the loader with a large bar clamp:

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That gives me just enough "squeeze" to clear the adapter and connect:

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Needless to say, the clamp method on the loader like this is a pain in the butt. But it works.

When the weather warms Ill cut the sides of the adapter pate and lay more metal over that to open up another 1/4" on each side (1/2" total).

My gut tells me much less than 3/8" clearance total would make mating the loader arms unnecessarily difficult.

I bought the same exact adapter from Ebay and have had no problems connecting it. I'm going to measure mine and compare,

 

[shooterdon]

I got the adapter from eBay and it works fine. People might think I am foolish for buying CCC (Cheap Chinese Crap), I think they are foolish for spending four times more for American steel.