My neighbor finished it up today. I bought this conversion plate as a blank with just a flat face on it and he fit it to my loader. I'm psyched today! He is going to complete the bucket conversion with the heavy duty quick attach plate I bought to put on that this week. Hopefully.
So I took the box I built for moving the splits, and sitting on top of that rolling platform for under the porch, and I piled the larger rounds from the Ash I cut today into it instead of lifting them up to the height of the truck. I chained the box to the forks so I could dump them when I got to the processing area. It worked great. I think I need to build a separate box to go on the forks that is a little bigger for just hauling/dumping rounds. I will see how moving logs with the forks goes. I think I will try that tomorrow.
NICE, you will love the forks. more useful than a bucket. 90% of what I use mine for is for the forks. log work can be tricky without a grapple to hold them, be careful on uneven ground. is it a skid steer quick attach? I'm trying to do something like that for my Bx, that doesn't weigh a ton. The new bx quick attach won't fit my older loader and all of my attachments had different mounts anyways. problem with my setup is the skid steer plate is too heavy. my lift capacity is 700ish and after 100 lbs of steel on each side of the loader and attachment, leaves a little left to pick stuff up, so making my own setup.
Ya. I had forks on my with my last loader. Chain the logs like Dennis (backwoods savage) said. It is a quick attach, aftermarket. I bought the heavy duty one. My tractor will lift about 1600 lbs. and move it around. (Operating capacity.) Breakout force I think is about 2600lbs or so. I figure I won't be lifting more than 1000lbs most of the time. With the size I built the box for moving splits, and the size of logs I may be moving. I won't be pushing it. I like the idea of using a trailer but I don't have one. I wonder how it would work to lift logs up to height of truck, then push them on the truck. Especially when things are frozen and slippery.
Deere has a quick attach setup that really works well for the small loaders where extra weight even at the pins is no good. Last I knew they sold the brackets for loader arms and buckets/attachments as separate pRt numbers. Even if you save $$ building your own, it's a good system to copy.
you mean like I did on my beaver build? that's where I copied it from... back dragging with the bucket puts a lot of stress on the retaining pins, even hardened ones. Works well for a lightweight setup though... wanted the kubota setup to be a little less ghetto. The "j brackets" from deer are about 35 bucks a piece, and if you have 3-5 attachments adds up quick when you need 2 per attachment. I wasn't able to use Deere's loader arm brackets due to space constraints, but might make something very similar for the baby bota
Nice, you are going to love having SSQA on your loader. If I need to get in a tight spot I just drop what evere attachment I have on the loader. The problem with the Deere QA is there is not as much aftermarket support for attachments like there is for SSQA. You can go about anywhere and buy stuff for SSQA. Kubota has a quick attach for the BX and B series. You just pick up the bucket and install the 2 bottom pins. http://www.kubota.ca/en/productdetail.aspx?trail=&prodid=644
that plate won't work on my older BX loader, its only the newest loaders. I've already checked into that. but only the bucket has the kubota pins/spacing, so everything else I have doesn't matter. It would be easier to adapt something to the tractor than to make kubota specific mounts for all the attachments. as far as aftermarket, there isn't much out there in small light weight attachments for the 18-23hp market and when you do find it it is normally machine specific (kubota/JD, ETC). you get a bucket and thats about it. Most SSQA stuff is way to heavy for these little machines. I have 4 attachments... bucket, toothed bucket, pallet forks and hay tines/hay forks.
I wouldn't put a SSQA on BX. It is nice that Kubota came out with the quick attach for the BX there is not a whole lot out for it now, forks, snow plow, and grapple. Your right the quick attaches for the smaller tractors are all manufacturer specific. I always thought it would be cool to put a mini skid steer quick attach on a BX or B series.
