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Home-Built Skid Steer Attachments
"I saved thousands of dollars by building attachments for my Bobcat skid steer loader," says Ron Zunberger, who made a set of pallet forks, a subsoiler, and a rake which he uses on his farm near Quincy, Ohio.
"I spent a total of about $100 to build all three attachments. Comparable commercial units would cost at
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Home-Built Skid Steer Attachments TRACTORS Skid Steer Loaders 23-3-6 "I saved thousands of dollars by building attachments for my Bobcat skid steer loader," says Ron Zunberger, who made a set of pallet forks, a subsoiler, and a rake which he uses on his farm near Quincy, Ohio.
"I spent a total of about $100 to build all three attachments. Comparable commercial units would cost at least $5,000 so I saved a lot of money," says Zunberger.
He used 2-in. sq. tubing off an Allis-Chalmers cultivator to make a rectangular frame that mounts on the loader quick-tach brackets and supports the pallet forks, as well as the subsoiler and rake. The frame is welded to a Bobcat bucket plate which he bought new. He welded the 60 by 20-in. frame to the bucket plate.
Pallet Forks - Zunberger cut a 50-in. long steel T-bar off the cultivator frame and cut 1/2-in. deep notches on top of it, then welded the T-bar to the Bobcat loader frame. He bought a set of standard 3-ft. long pallet forks, which slip on and off the frame from either side via a steel lip.
The position of the forks can be adjusted by sliding them to different notches on the T-bar.
Subsoiler - He used five worn out, 14-in. long moldboard plow shears to make the subsoiler. He cut a 2-in. notch at the end of each shear, then welded all the shears to a 2-in. sq., 60-in. long steel bar, spacing the shears about 1 ft. apart.
Rake - To make the rake he salvaged 5-in. long steel spikes off an old harrow gator, welding the spikes 2 in. apart onto a 60-in. long steel bar off an old 3-pt. blade. He then welded the blade to a length of 2 1/2-in. sq. bar. He made grips out of 2 1/2-in. bar covered by 1/2-in. steel plate to hold both the rake and the subsoiler. He bought 1/2 by 2 by 14-in. steel plate for the side bars and welded a rectangular box around a 2 by 2 by 10-in. bar with 2-in. openings at both ends. Side brackets slip on and off a 2-in. frame.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ron Zunberger, 1353 CR 23N, Quincy, Ohio 43343 (ph 937 585-9147).
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