Loader history?

[gerr]

I remember a contractor arriving with a new back end loader. My father would say how the contractor cleared the mixon (dung heap on the yard) in a day but my father took a week to clear up and repair after him. He had pushed the muck all over the place, under gates, down the lane and bending zinc sheets on doors, etc. But it was great progress from a dung fork. He later bought a second hand grey and gold Fergie with a fork. Must have been about 1967.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

The DB loaders fitted to the 950 were straight bars, cut my teeth on one of those

Done my time with one on a 900 without live drive stacking round bale silage
Makes you appreciate a 996 with live hydraulics and power steering even if it is nearly as old as I am

 

[Mf5445]

All interesting stuff, surprising how quickly they became present on nearly every farm in the country. I suppose you could argue been replaced by telehandlers?

 

[Boohoo]

Done my time with one on a 900 without live drive stacking round bale silage
Makes you appreciate a 996 with live hydraulics and power steering even if it is nearly as old as I am

Two 996s with loaders here, both of them older than I am. David Brown loaders were some of the best available at that time.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Two 996s with loaders here, both of them older than I am. David Brown loaders were some of the best available at that time.

Put the loader on a 995 with a weather frame cab and no power steering, big improvement on the 900. Then put it on the 996 with a wide door q cab, recently fitted the heavier duty front axle, top job .
Have also got a 1390 with a loader, water ballast and a concrete weight but not a patch on the 996. IMO they messed up the balance when they put the new cabs on

 

[glasshouse]

We just had a crappy rear loader till 1980
Then got a quicke 3260 on a crapy ih 584

 

[Boohoo]

Put the loader on a 995 with a weather frame cab and no power steering, big improvement on the 900. Then put it on the 996 with a wide door q cab, recently fitted the heavier duty front axle, top job .
Have also got a 1390 with a loader, water ballast and a concrete weight but not a patch on the 996. IMO they messed up the balance when they put the new cabs on

We have 1 weatherframe and 1 Sekura LP cab, the LP is the best cab for loader work. I need to find a couple of heavy duty front axles. The standard axle isn't up to loader work with wide tyres.

 

[startinghandle]

We just had a crappy rear loader till 1980
Then got a quicke 3260 on a crapy ih 584

All the 584's I seen were ok
The quickie 3260 would be too big

 

[startinghandle]

We just had a crappy rear loader till 1980
Then got a quicke 3260 on a crapy ih 584

I just remembered..... did your 584 have TA ? If so then there would be problems

 

[fiat 9090]

My father had an international b250 with a loader in the sixties,it had a great lift and it was mounted well back and gave great weight distribution ,it was streets ahead of anything else at the time

 

[ewald]

We had a Horndraulic (I think) on a Nuffield 1060 (without power steering) in the 70's - dreadfully heavy, almost undriveable.
This was followed by a Farmhand F12 on a John Deere 3130 - great combination, huge lifting capacity. It stayed around for best part of 20 years until I bought a Sanderson 622 telehandler - just stopped using it overnight. Different class and capability of machine.

I would take some persuading to go back to even a modern tractor and loader.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Was watching this recently.

Average age of machinery buyers looked pretty old then.

How had they not all died of lung cancer?