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put a smaller bucket on the loader

OK, last year I saw a skid steer on a Friday,bought it that Saturday, cleaned it up on Sunday, blew a head gasget Monday,priced out parts and how-to-do-it Tuesday, put ad online Wednesday, resold with $900 loss on Thursday. Yup, less than a week big hole in my pocket so I learned.... also skidsteer will chew up my grass and gravel driveway waaaay too much !!

Hmm..smaller bucket could be an option as the Freeman loader from Rockton is sitting collecting dust for 5 years.I could 'borrow' that bucket....may be an option but...D-14 does chew up the ground kinda bad(OK, maybe it's the operator)...

but still a smaller machine would be easier to control,take longer, be more fun...

I also have all the cylinders to make a miniexcavator or small backhoe

sigh... if I procrastinate long enough I'll be dead....

Jay

re: BrianC...
Go buy a new compact, Kubota or Kioti

hahaha, yeah that'd be nice..but I don't have 20K USD in my pockets ! don't have 2K. probably comes from not having a paycheck since '86.
I've got lots of 'stuff' around here ,just not a 'compact loader'. heck I've even offered to trade my tandem dump trailer for a loader. Founda a Case646 that would have worked but it got sold overnight for 4K !
Now I'm thinking I gotta build it,commit myself to the project before wife 'commits' me !

Jay



Edited by jaybmiller - 18 Jan 2017 at 6:13am

yeah D-14 has PS, problem is space.too much stuff, tightly packed. smaller machine means less damage and easier on my body.
I even thought about a manure spreader for the garden but it'd be easier,as quick to just dump buckets ,here and there, then till in.
Once the weather breaks a bit and it's SAFE, I'll get the trip bucket and see what I need to do to get it onto the loader frame.
What I 'need' is 5 acres to spread all this 'stuff' out.....though I'd probably fill it up with new 'stuff' pretty fast....

Pick up a couple of the case 400 serries and build a 4 wd artulated out of it. Might end up a little longer then you want but I bet it is actually easier on the ground then the 646 and you can find old case 400 serries tractors with weak motors all over the place. The great part is you get a bunch of hydraulic control valves in the second tractor that become the aux hydraulics or in your case the loader hydraulics.   What you will find is that the small garden tractors with a loader are useless and won't turn unless you have enough weight to make them a wheelie machine without a load in the bucket.   
So it is either build a custom front end or build a better machine. I think you will have a hard time finding anything smaller then the d14 that will be useful with a loader.
You can get a pasquali 988 make sure you have power steering in any pasquali and hope the motor is good because there is only one place to get parts in North America. But it will walk around in circles in places your d14 can't go I know I have one to clean a barn out with. But it had a weak motor and is now waiting for me to get the motor fixed. Won't lift the way my d15 will but will go in the barn alot easier. But the bottom line is realize that that smaller bucket isn't just size it is breaking force. It take alot of force to break up a mess in a barn.

yeah 646.. I know a guy who has one, DOA, I borrowed it 2 years ago, fixed it, then he 'needed' it back PDQ , still sitting in the mud where it got dropped off....sigh.... last one here sold for 3800 canucks...too rich for me.
Just saw  'johnny bucket' on the web, downloaded the pictures. I do have a JD140H3 so that 'system' is possible.
Measureded the trip bucket, it's 40" ,so D-14 with it isn't a great option as smaller is a LOT easier to use here.
I did 'think' about taking 2 hydro units from riders, rotate 90* to build an articulated unit, think is the key here....works in the head,even tufftork says possible, but a LOT of effort.
options....gotta have options...

Jay

Actually I have just what you need an Aztec Tractor Loader built in Minn in the 60's
uses two military jeep rears,articulates,4WD,18HP Kohler motor,48" bucket,hydraulic
drive.Or you can find an old Case Davis trencher some had the loader attachment.

smaller is usually not easier on the body. good luck with your search

I've done the rental thing in the past($200 a day), problem is I'd like to do it on MY time NOT the rental stores clock. I'd like to use it for 2-3 hrs at a time then 'things' always come up...usually when I'm trying to get something done for ME. It'd be like my forklift, wait until 2-3 jobs need to be done, do them, then it'll sit for 2-3 weeks.
I have looked around Holland,MI as I have a great contact there who can haul here but I ain't got no passport ! Also the Canuck really sucks..$4 CDN to $3 USDor worse...sigh.
I'll keep looking, maybe fab up a 'wooden mockup' of this johnny bucket scoop, at least the 140H3 has all the hydraulics plumbed, worse case is 300# of scrap steel to haul away.

Jay

If I wasn't 'missing' two lower discs the barrow/fork would be fine.....
this getting old ain't as much fun as 'they' said it would be...

I think the johnny bucket on a garden tractor would work for you.

The ponys are your REAL problem!!!!

Jay - just bought a not real pretty 1974 AC 720 with an Ark 700 loader - will lift 650# according to the literature.  Is only 2 wheel drive, so don't know if that would be an issue for you, but you were working with a 2 wheel drive with your D14. I will need a weight box on the rear, but will be a lot easier on our grass when I have to go over it than when I am forced to drive my 180 with loader over it!  (720 has very wide turf tires on it). Son in law is buying my 180, so it will stay in the family, at least.

Edited by macvette - 20 Jan 2017 at 6:08pm