Booster buck

makouli · Jan 10, 2015

Any help with the booster buck loader? All I know is that it was manufactured somewhere in Iowa and that its general configuration was as a hay stacker. This photo shows a slide bucket run by clutch activated PTO cable winches. I need better pictures or links to other resources. Thanks in advance.

leeedwin9 · Jan 10, 2015

I found a conversation from Red Power Magazine saying that Booster_Buck loaders were made in Dunlap, Iowa.

leeedwin9 · Jan 10, 2015

1947 Booster Buck

notjustair · Jan 11, 2015

Just looking at this picture scares me. I know loose hay isn't too heavy but man that it a mammoth thing for a little B (I think that's what that is). Yikes.

I also don't understand how the PTO cable attachment worked. Did it have a friction plate to keep it from free wheeling back down when you put in the clutch? How did you let it down? Back off the friction and let it slip or use the PTO with some kind of reverser setup? With that high A frame did you have a cable that ran over your head to the PTO?

leeedwin9 · Jan 11, 2015

I believe that the tractor with the empty loader is a wide tread F-20.

mkirsch · Jan 12, 2015

I would imagine that there was some sort of brake on the winch that you manually applied to hold and lower the load.

Looking at the pictures, it appears the cable goes over your head. Remember this was in the days before OSHA, lawsuits, even before people knew much about safety in general. Lots of farmers ended up badly maimed either through not knowing what they were doing, or unsafe design because engineers didn't know any better yet. Heck many of the "engineers" were just farmers themselves; all they cared about was getting the job done.

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