Loader

JRSutton · May 1, 2014

Somebody had posted a funny picture of a loader a little while back - I can't remember what it was- Might have been on an 8n with rops - ?

Looked very hard to get into.

Anyways - this picture made me laugh for the same reason.

JRSutton · May 1, 2014

and I meant to ask in my post - what is with that seat?

I'm not too familiar with MM's - but ... is that an add on seat, set way back?

Or is it a passenger seat?

mkirsch · May 1, 2014

No, that is *THE* seat.

For some reason you sit off to the side and hanging off the back on some of the earlier MinnieMo's.

So, it's not nearly as difficult to get on that tractor as the jungle gym appearance would have you believe.

rabbit-1 · May 1, 2014

They added the seat as an afterthought!

centralilbaler · May 1, 2014

I used to have an 88 with a farmhand loader just just like that. They used it to load corncobs after shelling.

JRSutton · May 1, 2014

Interesting.

... but I'm still wondering how you mount that thing
onto the tractor.

Doesn't look easy.

hd6gtom · May 1, 2014

that is just an older version of a high lift loader on a Minni.

Allan in NE · May 1, 2014

Those were a God-send back in the day of iron scoop shovels.

They were taken off via a large "H" made from poles and a 2x12 cross plank. Put the front channel up in the air and drove out from underneath it.

Allan

timbernt · May 1, 2014

It must not have been too bad to take off and put back on. My Dad had one and only one tractor (a dead shaft '41 DC Case). He took it off and put the mower on to mow and rake, then put the loader on to stack hay. If I remember he said he dug holes in the sand (Sandhills of Nebraska) for the rear wheels so the loader sat on the ground when taking off the tractor. To me the biggest PIA was the fact that those old loaders all used a pto hydraulic pump and with a dead shaft tractor, the pump stopped when the clutch was disengaged. That meant every sweepload of hay brought to the stack he had to stop, pull the hand clutch back, take the tractor out of gear, push the clutch lever forward to restart the pto pump and raise the loader to the needed level. Then if he needed to move forward a couple of feet, you can imagine the process.

jm. · May 1, 2014

Well I guess it is pretty easy for you young guys to laught at that contraption BUT in it,s day it was as Allan says god-sent and then some. First of all most loaders of that day had manual trip buckets as opposed to the hydraulic bucket. Then as bad as that mount looks it was very stable as the weight was transferred to the rear of the tractor. Was not hard to mount as compared to what ever one else had in those days. Thinking my grand father bought his in fall of 1956.

Traditional Farmer · May 2, 2014

Those are great loaders for tractors without power steering as they put most of the weight on the rear wheels of the tractor which is always a good idea and as Alan said beats the heck out of a scoop or
pitchfork

JRSutton · May 2, 2014

I may be laughing at the look of it, but in an appreciative way.

What I love about old farm equipment is the ingenuity that went into its design, and the its evolution over time.

Always amazes me that so many designers got it so close to right from the start that even over 50/80/100 years, the concept is pretty much the same with some minor tweaking.

A little more tweaking in the case of that loader, but the concept is good.

NNP · May 2, 2014

looks like whoever designed modern skid steer loaders got a look at ones like that back in the day......

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