Wendelspanswick
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I bought a pair of these a couple of years ago for £30 at a local auction:
They have been sat under a tree since then so I decided it was time to figure out a way to attach them to the loader on the John Deere.
I had a 2M length of 200 x 16 mm plate left over from an old job so I chopped this about to give me a flat frame 1200 mm wide.
I then punched a row of 16 mm square holes into a length of 100 x 12 mm plate and then chopped this in half down the middle to give me the crenelations* for the locking tabs to latch into.
I scrounged some 10 mm plate for the mounting brackets and then I realized with a few more brackets I could also use it on the 3 point linkage.
Here's the frame welded up and all the brackets laid out:
Tacked up:
Fully seam welded with Lincoln 4 mm rods at about 155 amps using my Gys Gysmi 200FV:
Had to weld the toplink bracket on with 3 passes of Lincoln 3.2 mm rods as I ran out of the 4 mm.
Primed in grey synthetic:
A coat of John Deere yellow paint (its actually Smooth Hammerite but its close enough):
The moment of truth, test fitting on the tractor:
And finally with the forks on and using it to shift dumpy bags of logs around at the field, it now means I can fork full bags of logs straight into the back of the van.
*Crenelations - The castleley looking bits on the top of a castle!
They have been sat under a tree since then so I decided it was time to figure out a way to attach them to the loader on the John Deere.
I had a 2M length of 200 x 16 mm plate left over from an old job so I chopped this about to give me a flat frame 1200 mm wide.
I then punched a row of 16 mm square holes into a length of 100 x 12 mm plate and then chopped this in half down the middle to give me the crenelations* for the locking tabs to latch into.
I scrounged some 10 mm plate for the mounting brackets and then I realized with a few more brackets I could also use it on the 3 point linkage.
Here's the frame welded up and all the brackets laid out:
Tacked up:
Fully seam welded with Lincoln 4 mm rods at about 155 amps using my Gys Gysmi 200FV:
Had to weld the toplink bracket on with 3 passes of Lincoln 3.2 mm rods as I ran out of the 4 mm.
Primed in grey synthetic:
A coat of John Deere yellow paint (its actually Smooth Hammerite but its close enough):
The moment of truth, test fitting on the tractor:
And finally with the forks on and using it to shift dumpy bags of logs around at the field, it now means I can fork full bags of logs straight into the back of the van.
*Crenelations - The castleley looking bits on the top of a castle!
proper job there mate, well done.
