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Jonathan: I have seen spindles break on tractors less than 1 year old. I have also seen tractors 50 years old that heve never broken a spindle. I've seen 40 year old tractors that always had a loader and never broke a spindle. I personally only ever broke one of them, and that tractor never had a loader on it. My 1066 broke a spindle at about two years of age. Tractors the 100 plus hp range, with duals on, and doing heavy tillage work, will put a lot of stress on front axle. Having said all of this, the single biggest cause of front end breakage on tractors is the nut behind the wheel. That was the case with my 1066, and the nut was so advised. I personally would never put a loader on a farm tractor, they weren't designed for it. Fine if you just want to do a bit of yard work, move bit of earth, etc. If however you are into high production farming with loader going full out most of day. Go and buy a real loader, it will be a lot more economical in the long run. In the 1970s I needed loaders at to separate farms. I already owned a Farmall 560D with 2000 loader. I went out and purchased a 45 hp skid steer loader. That machine would load circles around the 560. Two years later I bought a second skid steer loader. Within 2 months my 2000 loader was taken off the 560, packed away in the drive shed until 10 years later a guy came along and bought it. In 1972 those skid steers could be bought for 30% of the cost of a new 65 hp tractor and loader. I imagion the same is still true. Yes I did handle 1200 lb. round bales. Every loader job on my farm, one of those 45 hp skid steers could out perform 560 and 2000 loader hands dowm.
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