Ford one arm loader fitment?

docmirror

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The data plate says "19-278" in the Component. It is on a 601 Workmaster.

Will this loader bolt up to an 860, or 961 tractor without major modification?
 
601 to an 860 should be piece of cake. A 961 requires a different front bracket...bolts onto the side frame and hangs a bit lower. This also requires resetting the bucket level if a trip bucket (on the 961). This is only 2 bolts if I remember right.
 
(quoted from post at 12:32:18 01/29/23) 601 to an 860 should be piece of cake. A 961 requires a different front bracket...bolts onto the side frame and hangs a bit lower. This also requires resetting the bucket level if a trip bucket (on the 961). This is only 2 bolts if I remember right.

Thank you. I was hoping it would fit the 860 with ease. I have a modified pipe loader on that, and was hoping to switch to the one arm deal. With PS on the 860, it's a good setup for a one arm loader.

The 961 has a trip bucket loader that runs off the tractor hyd so it's pretty slow. I can move the pump from the 860 over to the 961 and get much faster lift.

This will solve all my loader limitations. This one arm has hyd bucket tilt.

This post was edited by docmirror on 01/29/2023 at 12:13 pm.
 
Would one fit an 8N? There is one at a local auction next week. Be fun to have for my 8N.BTW,it has no mounting brackets.
 
I've seen several pics of the one arm on a NAA Jubilee and 8N and 9N. If it has no brackets, it would be a weld-up job to make them for the specific model.

I'm hoping to just unbolt and move the brackets and loader from 601 to 860 without any burning or welding involved.

After having a loader on an 8N, it just doesn't do well. Would not recommend.
 
Doc, Just mounted a one armed loader on a 4 cylinder 4000, same as the 860. Should be a simple bolt up. Brackets are the same for the 600/601-800/801 series.
900/901 series used different mounting brackets. Different brackets for the Jubilee/NAA, and the 8N's. One cool feature on the hydraulic version is that it is
somewhat self leveling, not perfect but darn close. There's pics of it on the ford forum, under one armed loader update. Used the tractor hydraulic, and it is
slow, but I usually use it with my pallet forks and really like it being slow, I do much less damage that way.
 
Ford built brackets to fit a one armed
loader on the 8N but not the 9/2Ns.
I had several of those loaders in the past.
I'm starting to think I should find another
one. Because they are so cool.

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(quoted from post at 09:20:03 01/30/23) Are you asking what the reason was behind
making these loaders?

I know why they made loaders, wonder why the one armed loader was thought enough of to be actually produced. I know how much I abuse my loader, wouldn't think a one armed one would last long without being "tweaked". It just seems so odd and fragile, just wondered if there was a reasoning behind the design that makes it stand out.

This post was edited by JWinIndiana on 01/30/2023 at 11:34 am.
 
Never stood the one arm loader either. To me it looks like it
would try to twist the tractor chassie
 
They were an early attempt at a quick tach
loader. On the pre 1965 Fords you could
drive up to it and attach/detach one in
just a few minutes.
The 65 and later models were wider so took
a bit longer.
Yeah, you needed some weight on the rear
and yes they tended to tip the tractor.
They were not a loader for heavy use but
still pretty handy. The pretty blue one in
the photo this morning I lifted about 1500
lbs a couple times. Couldn't drive the
tractor but was able to back the trailer
under the load and set it down.
The one with the big snow bucket worked
real nice when I tore off the old shingles
on the house and reroofed it. Parked the
bucket under the eves and slid the stuff
into it.
Not saying they were the best loaders
around but still an interesting piece of
engineering.
With ths right mounting kit they fit on
half a dozen different models too.

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Ultradog MN, thank you for the history lesson. The picture of the wood round is more than I would have thought they were capable of. Sorry for taking this thread off topic. Now we can resume our normal programming. 8)
 
Hey Ultradog MN! I hear you might know a thing or two about Ford 3000s. I have a 73. I don't have much experience working on tractors, just to be transparent. Eager to learn though. I hooked up the new solenoid to the starter (I had to take the starter off to get to the other nut). I connected all the wires as I remembered them. Installed a new 4dlt battery to boot, connected the pos cable to the big pole on the solenoid along with another wire, connected tab wire, connected one pole to the starter, and another pole was connected by another wire from the starter, connected the negative cable to the starter, but when I went to connect the neg cable to the battery, it turned the starter over. I looked high and low for diagrams, pictures of installed solenoids (I believe mine is a 5" starter), etc. but no avail. So I re-installed the old solenoid and don't you know it, it is doing the same thing (neg cable is turning the starter over!)

Now I am lost....
 

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