Tanco 988 Case IH

FarmerD89

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Hi we’ve a tanco 978 fitted to a case 885xl which is quite tired we bought second hand about 4 years ago to do a job. But we’ve found a 988 with parallel linkage for sensible money, which will use brackets already fitted, is this too big ? Hard to work out from photos of various machines don’t want to shag the tractor.

If anyone knows of any tanco booms sat on farms let me know.
 

Chris16

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Mixed Farmer
Hi, I think you would be ok, especially if it’s a 4wd 885, altho it is one of the bigger tanco booms, they are still fitted to some 4cyl tractors, a friend had a Massey 290 with a 988 on for years and was no bother, tanco aren’t usually as heavy built as quicke etc...so wouldn’t perhaps be quite so heavy to start with.
 

jf850

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Location
Co laois
Hi we’ve a tanco 978 fitted to a case 885xl which is quite tired we bought second hand about 4 years ago to do a job. But we’ve found a 988 with parallel linkage for sensible money, which will use brackets already fitted, is this too big ? Hard to work out from photos of various machines don’t want to shag the tractor.

If anyone knows of any tanco booms sat on farms let me know.

I bought a Zetor 8145 in 2001 with a Tanco 988 loader fitted , with botched up brackets on the tractor . The tractor had a side exhaust , and if fitting a loader , a manifold with the exhaust exiting through the bonnet should have been fitted. Result was a big lump of a loader sitting 12 inches further forward than it should have been .
It had parallel linkage , and if you lifted the boom , while the headstock was tilted down fully it would bend the tilt ram . When it happened the 2nd time , I removed it from the tractor , and sold it for a sum I was quite happy with .
I bought a well used 978 loader , and put it on the same tractor using the same brackets . It was far better suited to the tractor . It then felt like a tractor with a loader on it . Not like a loader with a tractor hidden under it .
Possibly if the tractor had the loader fitted in the correct position , it might have been more suited.
In my opinion , a 988 loader is 2 big for an IH 885 .
 

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