Bucket-Mouned Forks Flip Up Out Of The Way

Bucket-Mouned Forks Flip Up Out Of The Way TRACTORS Loaders 28-4-11 "I made the bucket on my Deere front-end loader even more useful by equipping it with a pair of forks off an old forklift. I use it to lift logs onto a pile next to my sawmill. The forks can be quickly flipped up out of the way behind the bucket, allowing me to also use the bucket normally," says Henry Shouse, Happy Valley Goose Bay, Labrador. The 4-ft. forks pin to a pair of brackets welded to each side of the 6 1/2-ft. bucket. He took the forks off an old forklift and then had a local machine shop make two brackets out of 3/8-in. plate steel. A big pin goes through each bracket and through a hole already in each fork. "It was an easy conversion to make," says Shouse. "I use it on my Deere 4010 tractor, a construction model that's painted yellow. I had been using a bucket-mounted 15-ft. boom to pick up logs, but someone had to wrap the chains around the logs which made it a two-man job. Now I just drive up to the logs and slip the forks under them. "I mounted a pair of metal rods (not shown) on back of the bucket to make sure the forks can't flip forward when doing loading work. The rods fit through another pair of holes already in the forks." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Henry Shouse, P.O. Box 483, Stn. C, Happy Valley Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada A0P 1C0 (ph 709 896-2373).

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