removing loader from FarmaLl H

Does anyone know the make and model of this loader? I would like instructions how to remove it safely. Thank you

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Looks like that tractors in jail. Sorry just had to say it.

Looks like a Farmhand loader. Not sure about model number but it is not a F11 model. They are good loaders and will lift high. Maybe Allan in Nb. will also answer. He should know the model number. What are your plans for the tractor? I would put the loader back on the tractor or the tractor will be just another H whether or not you restore the tractor. The loader adds character to the tractor and shows what these old tractors did to earn their keep. Armand

Nice pink H! Someone will have the correct answer but looks like you could take the bucket part off, block up the back part and unhook it from the tractor and then drive/pull the tractor out the front.

It is an early farmhand F-10 loader.Remove the front attatchment,block up the rear,and pull out the front.you may have to remove the "cage"and a few other parts to gain adequet clearance.OR,starting at the top,dis mantle it piece by piece.but PLEASE do NOTscrap it,those old farmhands are getting awfully scarce/rare.they were the original haystacker/loader.like the other post said,removed you will just another H(one of 1000s),restored,you will have a one of a kind showpiece.

that thing will lift higher than anything (over20 ft.)Our locacal autioneer used one for years as a machinery loader.A man in the next town still uses one(mounted on a SuperM)to topout his hay barn.

This is long and all I can tell ya, is how I used to do it. Also, it is a heck of a lot easier than it sounds after you have a "parking stand" in place.

Take the header off by removing the two cables and the two lower pivot pins.

Wherever you want to permantely park this thing, set two TALL posts in the ground spaced just to the outside of the lift cylinders (probaly about 10 feet apart).

Across the top of these posts attach a 12" plank with either large bolts or 12 penny spikes, two in each post. Again, about 10 feet off the ground. A huge "TT" if you can picture it.

Now, your ready to take the loader off the tractor. :>)

Drive up to this "TT" and set the front of the loader up on the 12" plank. Wrap a couple of short pieces of chain around the plank and the front of the loader to hold it in place.

1. Remove the two angle braces at each frame rail and move them over to the side, trying them out of the way.

2. Remove the PTO drive coupler at the loader pump.

3. Remove the nuts of the two bolts attaching the loader to the loader mount under the rear of the main loader frame.

4. Jack up the rear of the loader on each side enough to let you take out those bolts and block the rear of the loader up on each rear corner.

The loader is now sitting on the two stacks of blocks at the rear and the front is sitting on, and chained to, the top of that plank.

5. Drive the tractor out the front between the two posts and then take off the loader mount assembly from the tractor by removing the two bolts at the side and the two axle clamps. (this is the hardest part because that old sow is heavy!) :>)

OR, YA CAN BRING IT OVER HERE AND I'LL TAKE THAT LOADER OFF FOR YA. (Brings back memories of my youth) :>)

Can't remember what they called that old loader, but it was the precursor to the F-10. Made in the late '40s.

You ought to talk to Nebraska Cowman. Betcha he might like to take that old loader to his display at Red Power Roundup.

Allan

Hi Red,

Folks did it in different ways, I know. Most just left the darlings on permantely, :>)

However, the tractor just won't clear that cage if the front end is on the ground like the later F-10s. And, it's hard to remove the cage without another loader. :>(

I used to have to take 'em off and put the things back on 3 times a summer. Could do it in 30 minutes once that wooden stand was in place.

You guys are really making me feel old this morning! :>)

Allan

Where are you located? You really have a piece of history there!

Allan

Hey Allan is that one of the old cable lift types or is it hyd. lift. I remember my dad talking about the old cable lift loaders and how they caused bad problems

This one is hyddraulic lift and cable tilt via a vertical standing cylinder at the rear of the unit.

They later moved that tilt cylinder inside one of the arms on later versions.

Yeah, I've seen those old "winch" types. They were the very first I think.

Allan

Hey Allen! I bought an H last summer with that loader on it. Your idea sounds good. I took the top cage off in the shop with chain hoist then drove rest to resting spot and took front off. Put the front end on the ground and blocked up the rear. Unhooked the rest from tractor and drove out front-laid a 2 x 4 next to cross angle iron. Mine is for sale anytime. All painted IH red and in good shape. Len

That also brings back memories of my youth on the farm in So Dak. My dad had one of those Farmhand loaders before he bought his new F-10 Farmhand (we always called it "The Farmhand")in 1953. He had a fixture just like you are describing as the Farmall H he had on the loader was his only tractor. So, he had to take it off and on between stacking hay and cultivating corn several times each summer. In 1954 he bought a Super H as a second tractor, so we could finally leave the loader on the H for hay stacking. My uncle found one of the weaknesses of these loaders when he raised it all the way to the end of the cylinders and suddenly both cylinders buckled and the load of hay dropped to the ground spraying oil everywhere. It ended up doing serious damage to the loader in addition to him escaping injury. I have not seen one of these old Farmhand loaders for years. Roger