Quick-Tach Rear Loader Raises Up To 21 Ft. High

Quick-Tach Rear Loader Raises Up To 21 Ft. High TRACTORS Loaders 28-3-44 "It takes only about two minutes to hook up and will lift loads up to 21 ft. high," says Lonnie Nichols, Copeland, Kansas, about his home-built, quick tach rear-end loader. Nichols mounts the loader on back of his Deere 8300 front-wheel assist tractor. The loader has a 7-ft. wide bucket supported by a pair of long hinged arms. The arms are built out of heavy steel beams and the bucket out of thick steel plate. The arms are designed to attach to the tractor's quick hitch adapters and can be mounted on two different settings - a low setting for digging dirt, and a higher setting for lifting objects up high. "We use it for a variety of miscellaneous work. When we built our shop we used it to raise the rafters," says Nichols, who built the loader four years ago. "The operator has to turn back all the time, so it's not the most comfortable loader if you have to do a lot of work. But it's easy to hook up and we spent only about $1,500 to build it. Commercial front-end loaders of comparable capacity sell for $11,000 or more so we saved a lot of money." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lonnie Nichols, 2189 40th Road, Copeland, Kansas 67837 (ph 620 668-5276; cell 620 272-4915)

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