What monstrousity of a loader is this?

In my opinion IH never built a loader that would match the old 30-31 loaders for work done in a day until they came with new 2000 and 2001 loaders in the 60s. That 33 and 34 were nice enough loaders but they wouldn't lift or break out that heavy load. I'd be willing to bet there are more 30-31 in use today than 33-34 loaders.

I"ve got a loader like that one and I"ve been trying to find good forks for it. The folks at the Case dealer don"t know what I"m talking about. Have any idea where I can get some forks?

Thanks

Ron

Tractors had loaders before they had hydraulics.

Gotta remember that back around 1950, almost every blessed thing was done by hand. Grain, potatoes, sugar beets, manure, seed; everything was moved by human muscle.

Loaders/hydraulics/elevators/augers were just starting to show up on farms and guys did whatever they had to do to get off the end of that damned scoop shovel or spud fork.

Pretty sure your example is a farm/local-built converted hay sweep made into somewhat of a "loader".

No, it isn't pretty, but it probably saved some ol' boy a heck of a lot of work in it's day.

Allan

For several years after WWII most farmers were still using pitch forks to load spreaders. Three uncles of mine bought the first loader in the neighborhood and put it on an H. In those days farmers all had a few dairy cows and they would clean the barn daily by using a wheel barrow and push it out a door and dump it...best was if there was a slightly elevated ramp made of boards so you could pile the manure higher. This was commonly called a "manure pile". About late April it was time to haul the manure to the fields; nobody hauled manure in winter with NF tractors thru the snow Iowa got in those days. The first day the H was used it was comical...the H just sat there and spun the wheels in the slippery manure so tire chains had to be purchased. One uncle was a JD man and it was fun to watch him try to run that H and loader.

We'd haul with 3 spreaders to keep the loader busy. One day I was driving an AC WC on a spreader, stopped to get off and open a gate (our overshoes were always wet and muddy and slippery), my foot slipped off the clutch before I got it in neutral and the WC opened the gate for me. I forgot the WC had hand brakes so the gate was flattened.