Posted by Banditfarmer on May 26, 2014 at 14:06:56 from (65.27.225.54):
We who have skid steers use them as tractor and everything else and having a set of fork lift forks it sure is handy. Easy to find for a bobcat but for older and non bobcat machines they are hard to find and when you do find them they are high priced and I mean high! $1500 for a used set for a 4400 Gehl skid steer, To much so I will build a set.
Frank-N-Forks are born! First let me say I am not a welder like Lance, I am a rod burner that can make a weld that will hold and not brake. That said I gathered up some scrap farm steel and got to figuring out how to build them. Found an old bucket to get the hard ware I needed to mount to the Gehl and started cutting and welding. Well its almost done now so I tried them out today and picked up an electric pole and it did without any problem and held it and I when bounced it some and it held! I have one piece to weld on and cut the 1 1/4" shaft to lenth and paint it. They are very over built and might weigh about 400 lbs or more but I think they will hold together, They better with 15 lbs of welding rods in it. They aint Purdy but I think they will work just fine. The forks will go out to 47" wide and into 24" without pulling the shaft and moving the forks. Frank-N-Forks are alive! Bandit
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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