I am a bit familiar with the Paulson loader. The company that built it is (was?) in the same town my son lives in, and is about 15 miles from my place. I have not installed a Paulson loader, but I have operated N tractors with the Paulson on them. Be careful, as the bucket is not self leveling, and as you raise the load up high, it can come back over the top edge of the bucket and crash the hood or operator of the tractor. Yup, I learned that the hard way, but was lucky to not get hurt. With the hydraulic bucket, you can keep adjusting the bucket floor to keep it approximately parallel with the ground. The trip bucket I was using did not have that possibility.
The Paulson loader is much more convenient to access the driver position on the tractor. It was a giant step forward compared to the jungle jim design of the Dearborn loader circa N series tractors.
If you are going to extend the rear mounting frame of the loader at the rear axle, I would not use any metal stock lighter than 3/8" thick, and would feel a whole lot safer with 1/2". A good friend of ours recently had a tractor/loader accident in which the rear axle mount on his Farmhand loader showed metal fatigue and while he was lifting a round bale over the 5' high fence, that piece broke on one side and the loader crashed down nearly flipping the tractor on its side. He was very lucky that the bottom of the bucket landed on top of a stout wood fence post, and that limited the twist and flip of the tractor. He was pretty shook up and dearly needed some new underware, but survived the incident. His tractor was a Farmall 350 with wide front and rear wheel weights, but the results would probably be the same or worse on any other brand. The strength of the rear axle mounts is critical to the safe installation of the loader.
Don't modify the length of your stabilizer bars until you are absolutely sure. The pivot pins for the stabilizer bars must be in a straight line with the mounting studs for the 3 pt arms. They can not be higher or lower, nor forward or back from that imaginary line. If they are not on this line (extending out from the mounting stud towards the wheel), then the stabilizer bars will bind up and may damage the 3 pt arms or lift as the implement goes up and down. If your loader frame mounts under the axle, then the stabilizer brackets will need to be shortened or redrilled to set the pins up higher by the thickness of the loader mount. The bolts you use for the fenders and loader mounts will probably be available in 1/2" increments in length so I'd bring 7" and 7 1/2" lengths. You will find the extra length to be an advantage as you try to assemble fenders, loader frame and stabilizer brackets.
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