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- Sorn Ayrshire
Have you any thoughts about a weight for it all joking aside it would be advisableThanks to everyone for the help, it's much appreciated. Would have been stuck without yous, owe yous all a pint
MF 80 loader for MF265
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Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
50gl drum full of concrete or a linkage box full of 4st weights
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Have a weight here, it was a 40gallon barrel that was filled with concrete, but we will hardly need it, mostly just be lifting digger buckets and things like that, if we start into bease again this year we will probably use it to feed round bale silage so a weight would probably help
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
You,ll soon find out how light the back end is with a silage bale or with the bucket full of stone
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Hopefully won't need a weight that often, never needed one on my 4600 for lifting stone and lifting 4ft concrete manhole lids. Will no doubt need the wait for lifting bales
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Is it hard to mount a euro head onto an 80 loader?
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
That's the very job thank youlike this
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Tidy but at £400 it cost as much as the loader, maybe cheaper to buy a second hand one and make it fit
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
two-cylinder
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- Location
- Cambridge
Very advisable if you are on hilly land.
I once came down a hill with a full half tonne fertiliser bag on the loader, and a slight bounce caused one rear wheel to lose traction and the tractor started freewheeling down the hill. I averted disaster by quickly dumping the bag on the ground but could have been nasty!
Always using a counter weight.
A bit of warning the front stubs will break easy enough if used for round bales, we fitted 2-3 one year and the replacements arent hardened right so went to get 590 stubs and got them lathed down to suit, all sorted now.
have went with the barrle of concrete but it is a pain to put on and off easy. a more counterbalance weight isnt that dear for the convienicne of easy to fit and take off.
very nice loader to use, best in thier day i was told. we have another here to fit the 4wd 390 but dont use it now with the loader on the 7740. the 265 stacks round bales and feeds in another yard, with the 7740 doing most loader work.
have went with the barrle of concrete but it is a pain to put on and off easy. a more counterbalance weight isnt that dear for the convienicne of easy to fit and take off.
very nice loader to use, best in thier day i was told. we have another here to fit the 4wd 390 but dont use it now with the loader on the 7740. the 265 stacks round bales and feeds in another yard, with the 7740 doing most loader work.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
It would be easy to fit a euro head but it'll move the weight forward, putting more pressure on the front axle. If you want to lift bales of silage I'd keep the weight as close as possible.
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Was thinking that and it might alter the crowd angles which we wouldn't want
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
I would shorten the hooks on the loader to keep headstock closer
I done it on mine
I done it on mine
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Was it a good job?
- Location
- Durham, UK
Looks well. The bushes look like theyve been replaced so it should be nice and tight? Id put a weight on it if i was u. I had a similar sized ih and if you got in a bit of sticky going it was useless but if i stuck the old howard rotorvator with a few four stone weights on it would climb mountains. Heck i even have a 45 gallon weight to go on the back of my nh when loading wagons.
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
The 2nd boom we had to buy is abit worn so in a whiles time we will get it pinned and bushed. If we do anything heavier than what we plan we will use the concrete weight, but mostly we will be lifting light things like digger buckets etc
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
Yes, but I only had an old headstock off something else, getting crowd and dump angle took a bit of working out, it's nearly right now, but I really want to make a nice new tidy headstock