hough mini payloader

I'm looking at a couple of what I think are Hough 25 mini payloaders. Anyone have some experience using these? Do they have some utility moving snow/hay/manure? Do they get stuck very easily? Do they usually have a common IH engine? I looked at them quickly in a snowstorm but will have to go back to check them out it more detail... or maybe I am wasting my time. I think it's about $2000 for two-- one runs if jumped at the starter-- the other is unknown-- maybe stuck. Thanks
 

I found a 1971 25B on Machinery Trader. It looks like an indoor hard floor only machine. The main reason I say that is that it looks like there is very little room for any axle oscillation so it would tend to loose traction very easily.
 
(quoted from post at 14:17:45 11/18/14) I'm looking at a couple of what I think are Hough 25 mini payloaders. Anyone have some experience using these? Do they have some utility moving snow/hay/manure? Do they get stuck very easily? Do they usually have a common IH engine? I looked at them quickly in a snowstorm but will have to go back to check them out it more detail... or maybe I am wasting my time. I think it's about $2000 for two-- one runs if jumped at the starter-- the other is unknown-- maybe stuck. Thanks

They were designed to move loose material on a hard surface. Local guy here got one he's sorry he bought. He thought he could move snow and do a little digging. He says it was a big mistake.

Rick
 
There was a pair of little Hough HA loaders (an earlier version of the Hough 25) at the concrete pipe plant where I worked for a couple summers in college.

We used them to scoop sand and aggregate into the mixers and to scrape the shop floor. They worked well for their intended purposes - fairly flat floor slabs/roadways, no ice or snow, etc.

They had 4 cylinder flathead engines I don't think they were made IHC. The Hough 25 however I believe has an IHC 4 cyl OHV engine - perhaps the C123?
 
I have an HA. It has a Waukashaw 4-cyl engine. I wanted it to move steel, etc at my fab shop so I took the bucket off and made forks for it. It has to be on hard gravel mostly but I have used it to load logs on bare frozen ground. If you"re going to use it on ice you need to have someone near to throw sand under the tires.
 
I have a WaIdon 500, buiId Iike a tank,2 speed fuIIy hydrostatic.
I have a 10' wide snowbIade for it.
It is unstoppabIe with a set of tire chains on it.
Handiest machine i own.

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