Combine loader

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With there being many used MFWD tractors out there the combine loader or, flipping 2wd tractors around for loaders, has about stopped being worth your time.
 
I was thinking I know where I can get a mf 860 with a good engine and trans and then I?ve got my farmhand f11 loader . I guess I could probably buy a cheap tractor and put the loader on
 
I'm surprised more people haven't heard of "Farm Show" magazine. They have all sorts of inventions like that and all 42 years' worth of articles are available online for your search.
 
A used articulated pay loader would be handier and would have more capacity. The video said the builder had $4,000 invested without anything for his labor. That sounds about right or a little low: combine $500; loader and grapple $2,500; plus another $1,000 for steel, hoses, counter weights, new fluids, paint, fasteners, welding supplies, etc. I would guess he has $2,000 minimum of his own labor invested (50 hours at $40 per hour), more likely double that. The resale value might be $2,000 at an auction. A used pay loader would cost more but would have better resale value.
 
Farm Show magazine has featured them for years every month.Some are well done,some are hatchet jobs. Also featured are reversed trucks.My brother in law had one of those. (40 something chevy and early F10 farmhand).And there are the reversed tractors,too.I have one of those. Reversed F12,repowered with a Jeep engine,with a hilift 'Lion' loader. Use it almost daily,handy as a pocket on a shirt.Maybe some here can post a pic,as I lost all my pics when my computer died last year.Steve
 
We had a farm hand on an old two ton truck . That?s something I could look into Is maybe putting this loader on a one ton truck
 
This might be hard to believe but there was a guy not too far away that used a very old combine to harvest his grain crop.
 
I?ve been thinking about this some more and the old farmhand loader I have Is pretty easy to take off and on I think I might just dig some telephone poles in the ground and hang the loader from them then when I want it on I can put it on and take it off when I?m done
 

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