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SVcummins

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My Grandpa had one back in late 30's I think.His was mounted on a 37 G but I never saw either units. O person from Ohio on this site has one. And I have the operators manual for it.
 
Local guy restored one a few years ago. He has demostrated it at local shows.it is quite the 'contraption'.Another guy has an original JohnDeere cable operated fronted loader.The first fel JD built. Again,quite the contraption.
 
Delta red and Leroy , a video of a one working . I suppose they were quite the contraption compared to a modern hydraulic loader but I bet in the day they beat the heck out of a pitch fork
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This is very cool, I've never seen anything like it. If anyone has any write ups or the like on them I'd be interested to read them. I don't know that I understand how they operate though? Is it some sort of pulley and block system that allows you to get enough torque to cut into the manure and scoop it up? Any insight would be neat. Sorry for bein long-winded. Thanks
 
Leroy You probably have lived in the best times a guy could from the horse drawn days to the modern equipment we have now you?ve got to see it all
 
I think if you watch the video it?s how the pulleys are arranged just like you would with a winch line that?s how it?s gets it?s power
 
I've got the remains of an old horse drawn manure spreader in the fence row. I can't even remember what brand it is right now. That manure loader I've seen somewhere at a sale many years ago. I was just a kid and remember listening to my dad describing how it worked. I had forgotten all about it until watching the video.
 
I?ve never seen a loader like that ,thank you for the video link,sure beats the heck out of a pitch fork.
 
I saw an article on these loaders and front loaders, January 2019, Farm Collector magazine.
 
No problem with the hand clutch, it is not used in the operation. You park it dext to the manure pile like from a straw pile from the thrasher that the cattle would tear the pile apart over the winter just like if you were going to use a back hoe. But instead of a back hoe the arm bending and the bucket going over what you want to pick up the bucket slides out along the arm and just pushes into the pile. You park the outfit as close to the pile as you can and get the spreader in reach same as if you were loading from a back hoe. and tractor stays put in one position untill the manure is all picked up within reach of the loader and then you move to a different spot on the pile. Same way with the steam shovel that pushed the bucket into the pile of dirt. You do not use it in the barn but just outside. Think about in modern times where you put a round bale out for them to feed on and a lot of the hay will get pulled out of the bale and tramped into the manure pack the bale is sitting on and place a bale exactly the same every day that tramped in pile of manure just keeps growimg bigger all the time. They would work good in that situation now. Would work same as a back hoe with a reversed bucket. Instead of the back hoe arm bending to move the bucket thr bucket slides along a stif one piece arm instead of the 2 piece arm of the back hoe.
 
SV I do have an owners manual for one and if you get back with me in a vear or so I can have a copy made for you. I have just moved and will be unpacking for that long. Today the sheriff is selling my old family home that Great Grandps built in the 1800's at auction and I still need to get a truck load of items out of the house today If I still can.
 
I'm the fellow in Ohio with one that Leroy talked about. Years ago he was kind enough to make a copy of some original literature and stopped in to see me and the # 26 loader. I also have an original owners manual and they are really a nice manual. They also made a dirt bucket for them. Before my time my uncle wore one of these out using it to load out trucks in a gravel pit. When I was a kid I remember seeing some parts of it laying around. I think they were going to use some of the parts to make up a sawmill but never did. There was one of those tined buckets turned upside down in the yard. IIRC the dog they had would climb up on it as it was in his area he could reach from his chain. I found mine not too far up the road from where I live. It was sitting close to the road and all grown up around it. I rescued it and got it operational. I even found a factory defect in it when I went to mount it on my B model JD. It had spent it's life on an A model. There are 2 sets of holes in the mounting brackets. The ones for the B on the one side was not drilled in the proper spot and needed reworked. LOL.
 
A local guy had one he restored. He took it the threshing show. He died a few years ago, I don't know what happened to it since.
 
I have a neighbor that has one of those, I'm not sure if the tractor runs but it looks like it works. Case made a rear loader for the eagle hitch tractors but it didn't pivot, just worked like a rear mount loader. This looks like it would actually work pretty good.
 
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