Re: Farmall 560

Posted by Chris-se-ILL on February 24, 2004 at 18:16:54 from (216.174.170.219):

In Reply to: Farmall 560 posted by Richard Ralston on February 24, 2004 at 15:57:55:

I have two Farmall 560's. We have a homemade loader on one of them {it has always had a narrow front end}. It works great! I am looking for a good loader {commercial made} to put on the other 560, because I want a litle wider bucket and the option of putting a hay fork on it.

The main thing to using a loader on a narrow frontend tractor is to keep the load as low as possible {and practical} to minimize the chance of over centering the weight!!! Don't raise the load any higher than absolutely necessary, until you are ready to dump the load or transfer the load. {hint: Keep it low!!!!} I have seen too many folks raise the bucket all the way up to get it out of their way (so it won't block their vision) while mowing or doing other chores... this only makes the whole thing top heavy and gets the operator in trouble if he hits a hole or low spot. I mow with the bucket about 18 inches (or close to that) off the ground.

I took a wide front end assembly off my second Farmall 560 and the entire {-complete-} assembly, bolster, spindles, draglinks and rims has been laying in the shed for 2 years. I changed it to the narrow frontend so that the tractor will steer better while using the sicklebar mower {hard to make a proper 90 degree turn with a wide frontend}.

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