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Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
Just a made a bolt out of an old nail lying on the workshop floor to bolt a tongue off a drinker back on. Used a new self locking nut I confess....not sure what hardness it will be ...2.8 maybeView attachment 706798

I remember using 4 inch nails to make m5 bolts long enough to hold the cable shroud on a Quicke loader once, didn’t have bolts long enough and wanted the oroblem sorted! Cut a nail to size, cut the thread and sbot weld a nut on the end!!
 
The handle on this ball valve was totally rotten. I found this in the workshop, it some kind of Ikea door hanger. Made one side straight and drilled an extra hole in it to make a rectangular hole to fit the ball valve.
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Mursal

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I disagree, to much hassle, it wouldn't get done especially on a wet day.
You need a mechanical lock for the loader when its up. Otherwise drivers will take a chance and work underneath it, if its available and not used well that's a different thing.
They had the choice .......

But I think we're splitting hairs on this one, Michael ........
 
I disagree, to much hassle, it wouldn't get done especially on a wet day.
You need a mechanical lock for the loader when its up. Otherwise drivers will take a chance and work underneath it, if its available and not used well that's a different thing.
They had the choice .......

But I think we're splitting hairs on this one, Michael ........
Mines on and off all the time even take it off to wash it and by the time you’ve arsed on finding and fitting your mechanical lock you could of just taken the loader off anyway
 

clbarclay

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Location
Worcestershire
if its available and not used well that's a different thing.
They had the choice .......
Possibly more splitting hairs, but I think the manufacturers should do more than just supply some sort of brace. Some manufacturer saftey features are so poorly thought out that in practice they might as well have not bothered.

Most front loaders look to have the lift ram cylinder attached to the loader arm and the rod attached to the bracket. If ther were attached the other way round (would probably cause a head ache for routing hoses) then it would be much easier to make a brace that shares the rod pivot and is normally hooked up out of the way. Like the red braces on this backhoe
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I might be possible to make some like this for front loaders with the rams the same way round as the kubota pictured a few pages ago, but holding them out of the way would be more complicated.
 
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davedb

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Location
Staffordshire
Possibly more splitting hairs, but I think the manufacturers should do more than just supply some sort of brace. Some manufacturer saftey features are so poorly thought out that in practice they might as wel havel not bothered.

Most front loaders look to have the lift ram cylinder attached to the loader arm and the rod attached to the bracket. If ther were attached the other way round (would probably cause a head ache for routing hoses) then it would be much easier to make a brace that shares the rod pivot and is normally hooked up out of the way. Like the red braces on this backhoe
C10081686.jpg


I might be possible to make some like this for front loaders with the rams the same way round as the kubota pictured a few pages ago, but holding them out of the way would be more complicated.
David brown loaders allways has a prop that sat inside the bracket when not in use you can just see it folded up hear
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I remember a tractor on a farm not far from me that’s now been traded in used to be parked on top of a hill with a long fence post under the loader head stock and who ever used it had to get the tractor bump started of the hill before the loader lost pressure and hit the ground
 

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