Bolt on forks

Anonymous-0 · Feb 7, 2013

Has anyone had experience with bolt-on forks for a loader? I'm shopping for some.

Thanks

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 7, 2013

I looked at them but ended up hiring a local guy to make a set of forks that pin on in place of the bucket. It works really well and I use that tractor a lot to load logs. I think the set cost $240 few years ago. Trouble with bolt on forks is they put the load further forward and put a lot of strain on the bucket, plus you can't see what you are carrying very well.
Zach

WAYNE-N-TX · Feb 7, 2013

I tried the clamp on, can't remember the brand name off hand. Save your money, they will work you to death trying to keep them straight and digging them out of the pile you're making.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 7, 2013

I'm still tring to get my loader working but I went ahead to a friends junkyard and bought the whole front of a forklift. Its the forks with the slide bar that mounts to the mast all together for $60.00. I'm going to make and weld on brackets to use the pins that came with the loader so I can swap from bucket to forks pretty easy.

evilboweivel · Feb 7, 2013

don't work well at all

set of forks in place of bucket works pretty well

good luck
Ron

rrlund · Feb 7, 2013

Are you looking at any particular brand? I've had real good luck with products from WorkSaver.
Worksaver

DoubleR · Feb 7, 2013

I had them and they worked fine for a while. Then they bent my bucket and were uneven and hard to get under a pallet. Not to mention my bucket being screwed up and not being able to scrape manure and snow off the cement clean like I like.
I brought a new loader tractor and got a quick change bucket and a set of forks for it. Best move I've made in a while. Sold them bolt on forks on Craigs list so I wouldn't be tempted to use them

karl f · Feb 7, 2013

Zach,
whose piano? Almost thought it was an organ but then saw the 3 pedals.

karl f

craigco · Feb 7, 2013

We had bolt on forks at work for about 2 weeks, then the forks bent and you couldn't use them anymore. I have had a set of forks that have a rod running through the top of them, then the top of the bucket on the backhoe has hooks welded to the top. You just curl the bucket down hook the rod and curl you bucket back up and the fork rest against the cutting edge. Have used this system for years quick and easy to use.

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 7, 2013

That is our piano, you can read the thread from Tractor Talk about it at the link. I posted that picture because it was in the computer and showed the forks. I couldn't take a new photo because the tractor has the bucket on now to plow snow since the Farmall is having issues.
Zach
Piano

supergrumpy · Feb 7, 2013

can you post some pics of how that was put together, thank you

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 7, 2013

I will get some tomorrow and post them.
Zach

Geo-TH,In · Feb 7, 2013

I made my own out of 7 inch channel.

VicS · Feb 7, 2013

I have used the forkes that have a 1.5 in rod running through both of them. They are better than nothing but not much. Have a quick change bucket and home-made pallet forkes from a old fork-lift. plus a bale spear make from truck axles. The best I have seen is ones my friend made. He made a rectangular frame from 3 in square tube to quick-tach to his Massey-Ferguson loader. Bought two bale spears with the holder from Rural King. Put them 2 ft apart on the bottom 3 in square piece. Can see them and get bales and pallets both!

Dachshund · Feb 7, 2013

I used two pieces of grader blade bit for my forks. It's flat, and almost indestructable. I run them from the lower corner (of the outside of the bucket), along the bottom side, and have them sticking out about 30". Two 5/8" grd8 bolts on each, hold them to the bucket. I have used them to lift and haul around several logs (up to about 20" diameter)and 18' long with out problems. They are close to the sides of the bucket. If I need them for "pallet" forks, I move them to another set of holes, closer to the middle of the bucket.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 8, 2013

They do look nice. I am looking at Titan Attachments at Palletforks .com. They look very similar.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 8, 2013

I may be wrong, but I am still going to get the forks. Perhaps you expect too much from them. If I am wrong, I will post that too!!!

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