The tractor frame rails are already drilled and use a machine bolt from the inside. So, it is a question of lining up that plate with the tractor's pre-drilled holes and also aligning the loader to the frame/tractor at the same time. After cussing both that tractor and the front hang loaders for so darned long and after using both separately, I'm totally sold on both in their own right. I think that if I can just get the two married together, it's gonna be a perfect loader/tractor combination. A gang-buster loader mounted on a gas hydro tractor for wintertime use. As it turns out, this particular loader is nothing more than the time-proven Farmhand F-11, just configured to a quick-tach type front mount style. And, with this particular frame layout, I'm thinkin' it really "should" transfer a good amount of the weight to the rear axles where it belongs. I hope that's the way it will end up anyway. But, like I say, I'm kind of a sunflower/ragweed engineer when it comes to this kind of work and when you're dealing with obsolete iron, ya do what ya gotta do. :>) Thanks, Allan 
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