Home-Built Loader For Allis Tractor

Home-Built Loader For Allis Tractor TRACTORS Loaders 26-2-42 Levi Larson, International Falls, Minn., used scrap steel salvaged from the frame of an old car to build a front-end loader for his 1950 Allis Chalmers B tractor. "I built it five years ago. It works great," says Larson. Side rails from the car frame were used to make the lift arms. He bent them to the desired shape and reinforced them with 1/4-in. thick steel plate. He used 4 and 3-in. dia. steel pipe to make the rest of the loader and 1/4-in. thick steel to make the bucket. A pair of 2 1/2-in. dia. hydraulic cylinders are used to raise and lower the loader and a 2 1/2-in. dia., 20-in. stroke cylinder is used to tilt the bucket, which is 28 in. wide. Five spears extend about 8 in. beyond the front edge of the bucket. "The loader has a lift capacity of about 1,000 lbs.," notes Larson. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Levi Larson, 3651 Co. Rd. 145, International Falls, Minn. 56649 (ph 218 377-4334).

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