Front-End Loader Mounts On Garden Tractor
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Howard Vogel's 1970's Deere 110 lawn tractor is equipped with a front-end loader that he uses to carry 50-lb. bags of water softener salt, remove snow from his drive-way and haul brush away from his pond. The factory-built loader was originally designed for a small crawler tractor. Vogel's son-in-law started to convert it to use on the Deere tractor but he passed away be-fore he could complete the project. So Vogel finished it himself.
He built mounting brackets for the loader, which is equipped with a 36-in. wide bucket, out of heavy angle iron. A hydraulic pump mounted on the loader frame is powered off the tractor's snowblower pulley.
He filled the tractor's rear flotation tires with 80 lbs. of fluid apiece to counter-balance the tractor. To further counter-balance it, he also built a weight box, which is filled with 140 lbs. of cut-down tractor suitcase weights, for the rear of the tractor.
He also uses chains on the rear tires at all times when he uses the loader.
Vogel paid $500 for the loader, which he sandblasted and repainted. The bucket is painted yellow to match the Deere's wheel hubs.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Howard Vogel, R.R. 3, Waverly, Iowa 50677 (ph 319 352-4731).
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Front-End Loader Mounts On Garden Tractor TRACTORS Loaders 22-4-31 Howard Vogel's 1970's Deere 110 lawn tractor is equipped with a front-end loader that he uses to carry 50-lb. bags of water softener salt, remove snow from his drive-way and haul brush away from his pond. The factory-built loader was originally designed for a small crawler tractor. Vogel's son-in-law started to convert it to use on the Deere tractor but he passed away be-fore he could complete the project. So Vogel finished it himself.
He built mounting brackets for the loader, which is equipped with a 36-in. wide bucket, out of heavy angle iron. A hydraulic pump mounted on the loader frame is powered off the tractor's snowblower pulley.
He filled the tractor's rear flotation tires with 80 lbs. of fluid apiece to counter-balance the tractor. To further counter-balance it, he also built a weight box, which is filled with 140 lbs. of cut-down tractor suitcase weights, for the rear of the tractor.
He also uses chains on the rear tires at all times when he uses the loader.
Vogel paid $500 for the loader, which he sandblasted and repainted. The bucket is painted yellow to match the Deere's wheel hubs.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Howard Vogel, R.R. 3, Waverly, Iowa 50677 (ph 319 352-4731).
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