Boom pole on 8N; how much how far?

Thanks, Bryan

Thanks to all for comments.
I can hear my wife now;
"Does this tractor make me look fat?"
my answer;
"no dear, but a bigger tractor would make you look almost too thin"

Bryan

This is on a Ferguson TO-30 same as a 8N or real close. It is a Post Hole Auger Boom modified to be used as a boom pole. It can with the lift arms only go to the ground and up to 5' 7" in height and they will support anything your tractor could ever lift with out bending. I use 2 chains to keep things from twisting when I lift. Look for one of these to use I got this one for 100.00 and it has seen a lot of work. Mark H.

Soundguy

I welded a recever box on top of my rear blade to slide in a 1/4 inch thick 2 in box steel boom into. I can lift up to 9 ft in height or down to 5- ft depending on how I adjust my blade angle. I also can use a come along for lifting. If the weight is to much I can lower the blade for a ancor point. I can lift 1,000 lbs no problem with this set up. Mark H.

You guys be careful about lifting this way. You can get a backwards roll over, trapping you in the seat and could kill you if not bad hurt.

The name of the game is "Foot-Lbs" Multiply feet x pounds in front of the pivot point vs the same thing aft. If aft is bigger you will tip over backwards.

The 8N will way in around 3000 lbs (give or take 500 or so) but it is distributed anong the length. Whatever you are trying to lift is centered on the end of the pole. Take the wt of the object x the pole length (including the lift arm length) and you have the load.....say 500# x 10' total length from pivot to where 500# is attached and you have 500 x 10 = 5000 lb (ft-lbs) force to counteract.

If it is 10 ft to the front bumber of the N and you put 5 80# sacks of sacrete up there on the front bumper or something, you have 4000# of counter weight plus the tractor's distributed weight which will probably be enough as long as you don't do wheelies.

As far as height, shortening the 3rd member can gain you tons of height.

Be Careful

Mark

Mark

I would hook up the boom pole and see if you have any intermediate hook up points other than at the very end. If you do have intermediate points, find the one closest to the tractor that will give you the height you need and then figure

load to be lifted (plow weight) x distance from lift arm pivot on rear of tractor / length of lift arms = effective lifting load.

Don't want to exceed 750 lbs. I would also lift the load and then back the truck up to the tractor versus backing the tractor up to the truck and risking flip over and possible plow damage. If you have to move the plow to get access to it, put it on a pallet or skid of some sort and pull it to a good location. ONLY pull with the drawbar all the way down!

Jeb

If you made an "A" frame to lock the drawbar to the 3rd member anchor, pulling on the drawbar would not raise it and would put forward pressure on the rear of the tractor "ABOVE" the axle which will help greatly in preventing rearward rollovers.

Remember, never pull anything where the pulling connection to the tractor is ABOVE the axle. It must be BELOW (to force the front down) and sometimes even this is not enough.

I fasioned an A frame out of 3/4" steel pipe for my neighbor who was trying to move roundbales with a doodlebug. Seems the tongue of the doodlebug kept popping up in the air (nothing to hold it down when using the lifting arms as a drawbar). The A frame Worked great.

Massey had a better idea on this with their TO series. They tapped 4 ea 3/4" holes in the bottom of the differential housing so that you could add a real drawbar.

Be Careful

Mark