Telehandler attachment adapter bracket

[Sonoftheheir]

Is it possible (or even legal) to use an adapter piece so you could use say manitou bracketed equipment on a merlo?

 

[ACEngineering]

Is it possible (or even legal) to use an adapter piece so you could use say manitou bracketed equipment on a merlo?

So long as its not home made and the attachment load capacity is down rated cant see why there would be a problem

 

[Sonoftheheir]

So long as its not home made and the attachment load capacity is down rated cant see why there would be a problem

Thanks, do you know any bucket manufacturers who would make one? We have Cherry stuff at the moment.

 

[asm]

Hall engineering make one I think

 

[ACEngineering]

Thanks, do you know any bucket manufacturers who would make one? We have Cherry stuff at the moment.

Cherry Products
Albutt
Strimech
Taylers
Leads Welding Company

Basically just about every one in the attachment game, they will or at least should also be able to tell you more about the legal side of it.

 

[jondear]

Evans and Reid I think made ours pin cone to MX

 

[AlbuttDan]

We don't manufacture Adapter Plates. Best in the business is Taylor Attachments

 

[Turra farmer]

We don't manufacture Adapter Plates. Best in the business is Taylor Attachments

I've one from newholland digger to pin and cone spare , fully hydraulic

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We don't manufacture Adapter Plates. Best in the business is Taylor Attachments

Thanks very much for that Dan, I’ve spoken to them and they seem really nice people to deal with.

 

[dowcow]

Why can't it be homemade? They sell brackets for welding onto attachments, so what's the difference if you weld a bracket onto another headstock?

Is it illegal to cut a worn tow hook off a trailer and weld a new one on?

Do you mean illegal, or just that you wouldn't trust your own abilities with a welder?

 

[glasshouse]

Is it possible (or even legal) to use an adapter piece so you could use say manitou bracketed equipment on a merlo?

get a manitou headstock , those merlo headstocks are efing dangerous

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Why can't it be homemade? They sell brackets for welding onto attachments, so what's the difference if you weld a bracket onto another headstock?

Is it illegal to cut a worn tow hook off a trailer and weld a new one on?

Do you mean illegal, or just that you wouldn't trust your own abilities with a welder?

I guess with a manufactured one you’d get a CE mark and that would look better for HSE and insurance?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

get a manitou headstock , those merlo headstocks are efing dangerous

We’ve had merlo for 25 years, never had a problem?

 

[Sharpy]

I've one from newholland digger to pin and cone spare , fully hydraulic

I might be interested in that. Any pictures? Any idea what you would want for it?

 

[glasshouse]

We’ve had merlo for 25 years, never had a problem?

Loading hesston bales onto a lorry the other day, crowded it right over to push a bale in and the hyd pin came out. The bale spike nearly fell off , could have killed someone.

 

[ACEngineering]

Why can't it be homemade? They sell brackets for welding onto attachments, so what's the difference if you weld a bracket onto another headstock?

Is it illegal to cut a worn tow hook off a trailer and weld a new one on?

Do you mean illegal, or just that you wouldn't trust your own abilities with a welder?

Oh I can weld plenty good enough thanks, but I got no paper work to back that up just like 99% of all farmers and main dealers etc. Its a very grey area and I would expect any insurance company to wriggle out of any incident that involves a DIY built attachment fitted to a lifting machine.

For me and many others its not worth the risk of come backs further down the line.

Just because its okay to sell weld on parts to any man and his dog doesn't mean its okay for anyone to fit them.

 

[ACEngineering]

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Loading hesston bales onto a lorry the other day, crowded it right over to push a bale in and the hyd pin came out. The bale spike nearly fell off , could have killed someone.

Schaffer have a brilliant thing to help prevent this, on the headstock they have a angle sensor so when you lift high it limits the amount of crowd back, preventing over crowding of the headstock, never seen this on any other machine, at first I thought the machine was broken

 

[Andrew]

Why can't it be homemade? They sell brackets for welding onto attachments, so what's the difference if you weld a bracket onto another headstock?

Is it illegal to cut a worn tow hook off a trailer and weld a new one on?

Do you mean illegal, or just that you wouldn't trust your own abilities with a welder?

Of course you can DIY it.
BUT you need to do structural calculations, mark it with a SWL and get it Loler inspected before first use.

 

[Flat 10]

Loading hesston bales onto a lorry the other day, crowded it right over to push a bale in and the hyd pin came out. The bale spike nearly fell off , could have killed someone.

It won't have been fully home or the hole is worn in the attachment.

 

[glasshouse]

It won't have been fully home or the hole is worn in the attachment.

It was fully home, the pin retracted itself without me touching the button.
It did it several times.
Its a bad, dangerous design. A manitou pin is failsafe