Looking for some information on a Ford 720 Loader

remghoost · Sep 4, 2021

Recently bought a tractor that has a Ford 720 Loader on the front of it.

It's missing the hydraulic rams for the bucket dump and we need to find replacements. We still have the housings for the rams, but the guts of the hydraulic are missing.

I've looked around online and found this site, but the measurements I've taken on the ram housing seem to be different than the ones listed here.

I'm fairly certain I could bring the housing to a hydraulics shop and they'd be able to find one that would work, but I was curious if anyone had one of these loaders and knew the exact size of the hydraulic ram I need to be looking for. I'd prefer to get some off the shelf rams instead and save a few hundred as opposed to going to a hydraulics shop and paying their premium.

Also, if anyone has a PDF of the manual for the Ford 720 Loader, that'd be much appreciated too.

Thanks in advance.

Sean in PA · Sep 5, 2021

Measure center to center of the pin mounting holes for where it needs to mount, with the bucket curled as much as you want it to be able to curl. That will be the closed length. Then measure again with the bucket dumped as far as you want it to be able to dump. The difference between the first and second measurement is the stroke. Then find off-the-shelf cylinders that are as close to those two measurements as you can find that have the correct style and sized ends for mounting. That's how I bought the cylinders for the Freeman loader that I mounted on my 4000. The old cylinders were so rusted they wouldn't move, and they were only partially extended, so I couldn't measure them closed or fully extended, so I measured the mounting points on the loader itself. It worked out fine. I think it lifts a little higher than original, but it still goes down far enough to lift the front of the tractor off of the ground.

This post was edited by Sean in PA on 09/05/2021 at 04:37 am.

davidbrookstone314 · Sep 5, 2021

https://www.mycnhistore.com/us/en/newhollandag/tractors/attachments/legacy/720-series-ind-loader-frame-assembly/complete-machine/cylinder-bucket-double-acting-19-249/cn/9D56C5C9-B8BF-E111-9FCE-005056875BD6

Dopp Creek · Sep 6, 2021

The manual for my 735 series loader shows the bucket cylinders have a 19.75 stroke. Extended length 53.44 and retracted 33.68. I see three diameters for the
packing glands; 2.25, 2.63, 2.75 so roughly 2.5 if you are shopping for replacement cylinders.

Hope this helps.

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