CTI Wheel Loader Info Needed

Coyote Green · Aug 4, 2012

I am looking into buying this CTI C2B20 front wheel drive loader.
I can't find much info on them, i have found that they weigh in around 6000lbs and can lift 2000lbs 10ft in the air.
I think this has the Ford industrial engine but i am not sure.
Has anyone had much experience with one of these ? or know anything about them ?
This one is on a online auction and is only 16miles away, i have been looking for a smaller tractor / loader and this one looks like it would work great.
Thanks for any info

showcrop · Aug 4, 2012

I can't imagine it being able to push into a pile and filling that bucket. It doesn't appear that it could get traction. kind of like having a bucket 20 feet wide on a Cat 988.

Mike (WA) · Aug 4, 2012

I think you would find it to be pretty helpless when you get it off the asphalt. I'd keep looking, unless you have a real easy job for it, like loading sawdust or beauty bark.

oldtanker · Aug 4, 2012

Only place I've seen those used were at fertilizer distributors. Never seen one use off of concrete. I've been told that they have no traction.

Rick

Coyote Green · Aug 4, 2012

I'm thinking if i change the tires to something a little more aggressive and i can put on duels so it would set a little wider to lower the risk of tipping.
I would like to build some pallet forks for it and then i could use it to move tractor parts and ext. This will probably be used on gravel and some dirt.
This loader has a Ford Industrial 172 engine, which is around 65hp.
The guy who has the loader said he used it to dig out really big tree stumps, then it was able to lift them over the side of a Chevy C60 grain truck.
Thanks for everyone's impute.

flambeauone · Aug 4, 2012

Pass on it, its essentially a forklift with a bucket. They work
somewhat well on concrete moving loose material. Its not
something you will be happy with if you get it in dirt or even
loose gravel. Find a used skidsteer or a tractor with a loader.
Id definately like to see someone dig out stumps with that.
They usually have those at coops. The southern states near
me use to have one.

wisbaker · Aug 4, 2012

Let me start by saying I've never seen or driven one of those. But it looks like a fork lift with a bucket on it,
I have plenty of forklift experience. 1-forklifts will get stuck on a cow pie or dog pile. 2- they're called
forklifts because you can't pull, push or drag anything over 50 pounds with them, and then only on a dry level
hard surface. 3- they have like no ground clearance, if you avoid the previously mentioned animal excrement with
the tires then you'll probably get hung up on it in the under carriage.

So it looks cute but my basic instinct says "run, run very fast and very far away from this" Your mileage may
vary.

Bill in IL · Aug 4, 2012

I have a Michigan 75A. It's been agood machine for me to
abuse. But like others have said traction will be a problem if
trying to dig. The old michigans were selectable 4wd and
drive on the front axle like that machine in 2wd. When it's in
2wd I can't move anything cause when you put the bucket
down it takes the weight off the front axle rendering it about
useless.

Otherwise looks like a neat machine.

showcrop · Aug 4, 2012

Ford 172 makes 48 HP. Duals will have even less traction than with singles. Don't believe all of us, ask the owner to demonstrate digging out a tree stump bigger than two inches.

Coyote Green · Aug 4, 2012

Thanks for everyone's help.
I will probably go look at it and see how it does.
My old loader was front wheel drive so i am use to the issue of lifting the drive wheels.
I can't help but think that this little loader will be able to get a full scoop of gravel / dirt because the bucket is stock and not some over sized bucket that someone stuck on it.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2012

That loader would work good for pushing manure
from the barn into the pit or loading something
like wood chips and sawdust. Other than that it
would be almost useless. The bucket is already
bent and way oversize for the size of the machine,
similar to a snow/light material bucket on a skid
steer. What ever line the guy trying to sell it
tells you take with bucket a full of grains of
salt. You will be very disappointed with its
digging ability and usefulness working with dirt
and/or gravel. If you were a bee keeper or
something like that where you needed to lift
pallets and such with forks, it would be a good
machine.

Coyote Green · Aug 5, 2012

I just went and looked at it today, it stands higher off the ground then what it looks, he said he always used it on dirt and gravel, his son used it to move chunks of concrete and it could lift them with out a problem.
He also moved dirt and gravel with it and never had any problems with traction and he said it never got stuck.
He just re shingled his garage roof and that loader could lift a heaping full bucket load of tar shingles.
It does have a leaky hydraulic hose on the back and the brakes aren't working because it has a bad line.
Besides that everything looked good.

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