Farmhand loader

Rexkramer · Oct 20, 2021

Would an early farmhand F-10 loader be worth saving? Its on a Farmall regular I picked up and itll have to come off to fit in the garage. Id hate to cut it up if its something someone would want

BarnyardEngineering · Oct 20, 2021

Someone would surely want it but most likely that someone is nowhere near you and driving to pick it up and/or having it trucked will far exceed the value of the loader.

So it's quite the conundrum. You don't see Farmall Regulars with loaders every day but I'm sure you don't want to have it in the way all the time, hanging on the tractor.

Maybe if you can get the word out, someone will take it.

chuck machinist · Oct 20, 2021

Take that inquiry over to the Farmall IH Forum.Best of luck CM

Steve@Advance · Oct 20, 2021

Run it on Craigs List, or put it out by the road with a sign.

rockcreek4630 · Oct 20, 2021

If there is a tractor club around see if they want it for display. Do you have pics an f10 on a regular would be kinda clumsy

fastfarmall · Oct 20, 2021

I will buy the cylinder off the grapple, if its got one! But i am in North Dakota!

redforlife · Oct 20, 2021

Well, the same loader will fit an F-20, H, or an M. One of these loaders is handy if its in fairly good shape (good cables, seals, etc.). But you can't be lacking in the operater capability department to use one of these. Un-experienced operater may dump tractor over the first time they use it. An experienced farm-hand loader operator will accomplish same objective with no problem at all. I KNOW, I KNOW, this goes with any loader, but it is much worse and amplified with these early farmhands because they are much less stable and can go much higher because stacking loose hay was one of the jobs it was made for.
I have and operate one. Sadly, they are not much wanted in the antique tractor world. They are really bulky on a tractor, and almost make shedding impossible. I was at a 3 day sale awhile back. 75 to 100 old tractors there and sold, and one farmhand. The iron guy got the farmhand.
I hope you can find someone that wants/csn use it!!! But I wouldn't get my hopes up to high in your quest.

ss55 · Oct 20, 2021

Craig's List and Facebook Marketplace are good places to sell things fast to local buyers.

The market for Regular/F-20 equipment is very limited, very few are used a lot anymore. Could your loader mounts fit other models like Farmall M - 560 or H -460?

Pricing it realistically is important, for example: Deere 45 loaders only sell in the $100 to $300 range. I have no ideal what an F10 loader is worth, maybe others here would know.

redforlife · Oct 20, 2021

They probably worth a $5 bid over the iron guys bid, IF you was looking to buy one. Someone looking for farmhand parts might pay more, but the likelyhood of somebody else running price up over iron price is, well, unlikely.

Rexkramer · Oct 20, 2021

I tried posting a picture of it but it didnt work. Its got a snow bucket on it, no grapple. It would need some tlc to make it serviceable again being it sat for 30+ years

jal-SD · Oct 20, 2021

Early bridge style farmhand. Very rugged loader. We had one on an H when I was growing up in the '50's. Dad was an alfalfa hay farmer. We used a stack frame that made 8-10 ton stacks. When I was in HS, Dad, a cousin that was my age & me could cut, rake and stack 180 acres of alfalfa in nine days if it didn't rain. Did it for several years until I went to college and cousin went to the Navy. Dad couldn't find good help,so he plowed up the alfalfa & raised corn and beans until he retired. The old bridge style farmhand eventually went on a Farmall 300 when the H died. It was sold with the 300 on his retirement auction in 1982. It was a good loader for stacking hay. I still have a pair of lift arm leathers & the tool needed to install them in an WW II ammunition box that was in Dad's shop when he passed away.

P I Pete · Oct 20, 2021

Guy around here has one that he uses in his roofing, carpenter business, has a large platform on it.

Pete

jal-SD · Oct 20, 2021

They never had the capability to use a graple with a cylinder. Up-down with the arm cylinders or extend or retract the manure bucket or hay sweep cables were all the controls that it had. The pump was just about indestructible and are still sought if they are not completely wore out.

3LFarms · Oct 20, 2021

That is the definition of the word contraption!
That is a cool looking Regular. Even has the F&H wheels from an F-20. Where is the pump located? Is it a PTO pump or did they rig something up on the trans input shaft?

Rexkramer · Oct 20, 2021

Its a pto pump. I could get more pictures over the weekend if
it interests everyone

redforlife · Oct 21, 2021

They had thier own independent
hydraulic system, PTO driven. The pump
is directly behind the pto, the tank
mounted on rear of loader, both view
blocked in the photos. Control valve
is mounted on brace arm of loader to
the left of drivers seat. 4 way valve
(both front and back and side to side
lever motion) that controlled both up
and down for the loader, and up and
down tilt of bucket. Both the loader
and bucket come down by gravity
(loader only has one way cylinders).

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