What do you do with your forks?

[Sodo]

Having any tractor at all is dangerous. So are motorcycles, chainsaws, ATV, driving on 2-way streets, guns, snowmobiles, families you name it. Some don't do anything dangerous but let their health go to h***. :shocked:

Watch it they call that the 30-year self-injury, it's more dangerous than tractoring. If I'm permitted to offer safety advice I say any of you fellas need to turn that around right away don't screw around.

Some people do more some less and I'm havin' a good old time. Anyway I hear ya, I like to keep my wits and agility too while I've still got them (and all my parts). But I get stuff done thats why I have a tractor. It's a very versatile machine.

Plus its springtime - and we all know that in the springtime an old farts fancy turns to ,,,,,, tractoring!

I'm not that much of an old fart but I'm starting the training !

 

[TomSeller]

Curious why the middle hook is facing forward, or do you lift from the back of your bucket with that one?

 

[Sysop]

Curious why the middle hook is facing forward, or do you lift from the back of your bucket with that one?

Good eye. I was looking more at the treads in the last picture. Looks like the fronts are wore way more than the rears.

 

[Sodo]

Curious why the middle hook is facing forward, or do you lift from the back of your bucket with that one?

Yep I'm kinda limited to lifting power, can get a bit more at the back (but stuff gets close to the grill guard).

Not sure what this tractor was used for but with the front tires worn down like that either they came off another tractor or this thing carried a lot of front weight during its life. The seals are weeping. I got it at 900 hrs.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

What do you do with your forks?

My pallet forks are my MOST used tool, that goes on my loader... It's used for everything from cleaning the gutters with a man lift,

Lifting building materials, or in this case, setting a 30' beam,

Pulling boulders out of hay fields,

And "setting" them, when I get them home,

Picking and loading big bales,

Then there's logging,

And the firewood that goes with it,

There's loading logs on the BSM,

AND dealing with all the lumber those logs produce,

And dealing with all the slabs and scrap off the sawmill,

even pulling an engine,

geeeeeeze, I could go on and on and on! lol

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Not sure what this tractor was used for but with the front tires worn down like that either they came off another tractor or this thing carried a lot of front weight during its life. The seals are weeping. I got it at 900 hrs.

That's a sure sign that it was run with the MFWD engaged all the time...and some of it on hard packed ground and pavement!

SR

 

[aczlan]

That's a sure sign that it was run with the MFWD engaged all the time...and some of it on hard packed ground and pavement!

And probably run fairly often with enough weight in the bucket to pick the back end up off the ground

Aaron Z

 

[Leejohn]

quote; Not a chance ! Filled rear tires is becoming appealing
but the cost is not ($1,000 ) and you can't get the value back at resale.

A $1000.00 to load your rear tires, no way I would pay that!!!!!! It only cost me $80.00 for my B7800, at a tire place.

 

[aczlan]

A $1000.00 to load your rear tires, no way I would pay that!!!!!! It only cost me $80.00 for my B7800, at a tire place.

Even loading with WWF, they will take around 21 gallons per tire (assuming a 12.4-16 tire), that would be $80 in fluid, plus an adapter ($10: Slime® Air/Water Adapter Kit with Bleeder Valve - Tractor Supply Co. ) and a drill pump ($9: Water Source Drill Pump - Tractor Supply Co. ).
Total $100+tag to add just under 350# to the back of your tractor.

Aaron Z

 

[jodebg]

Wooden forks passed the test again today.



I needed to lift and place some stones in the back of a garden bed. I set
the forks closer together and secured them with some wooden braces and straps.

Easily lifted and set the stones in place while not having to drive into the mulched and planted garden bed.
Great additional extension allowing me to work further ahead of the front tires and avoid damage to the finished beds.


Also used them to place flat stones higher up on a steep bank than I would have been able to with just the bucket.

Made the days work a lot easier and faster!!

Wooden forks did the job today.

Sold my MMM to a fellow TBN member in Arkansas and needed to move my it from storage in the icy woods, to inside my cargo van.
Not owning a set of forks, I had to fabricate a set out of wood.Today was the test run and they did great. Easily lifted
the mower with it positioned perpendicular to the bucket. Use one HD strap to secure them to the bucket, placed a scrap
piece on pressed board over the forks, slid the pallet on, View attachment 406646View attachment 406647View attachment 406648View attachment 406649View attachment 406650View attachment 406651View attachment 406652and off we went. Posted some photos below.