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Al: When I gave my advice yesterday on the 2000 loader side of the issue, I wasn't quoting a book, but rather speaking from experience. I owned a 2000 loader for a number of years, it came with a farm I bought. When the owner-vendor bought it new in 1967 he also bought new, Farmalls 504 and 656 and had the loader installed on the 656. After a couple of years, wanting the 656 free for field work, he cut 6" out of loader frame back where it bolts to rear axle housings and mounted it on the 504. At sale time he advised me loader was much too heavy for the 504. Since I also wanted to keep 656 free for field work, I mounted the loader on my 560D. He had saved those pieces, so I just welded them back in and since the mounting kit for 656 and 560 were the same the loader bolted right up to 560. I could quickly see this loader was not for a short tractor. I was exactly 1 week making a 1500 lb. counter weight for 560 fast hitch. These are a big loader, capable of standing a Utility or 4 cylinder Farmall on it's nose if enough hydraulic presure were applied. Now, I don't care what tractor list anyone comes up with for a 2000 loader. In my days farming, about all the engineering that ever went into a farm tractor loader was customer demand. Sure you can put that loader on a 240-340, but without a ton of counter weight, you wont dare leave the ashphalt, concrete or hard gravel driveway. Before the 2000 loader on my 560, I had a Cockshutt 540, (about same size and configuration as a 340 Utility) with a heavy Wagner loader. About the same weight loader as the 2000. They only time my dad and I ever used the Cockshutt for anything but loader work was in haying time. We used it to pull wagons to the barn. Everytime we took the 1500 lb. counter weight off the hitch, we had to remove the loader. It wasn't safe, with loader weight up front and no counter weight. Step on the brakes and rear wheels would just slide even on the slightest inclines. A good working Farmall Cub would haul as much hay on a wagon.
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