"Best Buy" Kubota Fitted With Home-Built Loader

"Best Buy" Kubota Fitted With Home-Built Loader TRACTORS Loaders 34-4-14 Larry Genge, Glovertown, Newfoundland, nominates his 1986 Kubota B6100 4-WD 14 hp diesel tractor, fitted with a home-built loader and bucket, as his "best buy". "This tractor has more than 1,000 hrs. on it and has performed flawlessly over the years. I use it for general yard work and for handling logs at my sawmill. I can fit the bucket with forks for handling logs, and also a snowblade for moving snow. The bucket is 42 in. wide and can be raised up to 6 ft. high. It'll lift 500 to 600 lbs. To compensate for that weight I mounted a 400-lb. weight box on back of the tractor. "I made my own quick release hydraulic disconnects for the bucket forks and snowblade, which lets me change attachments without having to get off the tractor. "I used 2 by 3 by 1/8-in. box tubing to build the loader arms and 2 by 2 by 1/4-in. tubing to build the posts, which bolt onto a subframe that bolts onto the tractor. I used 1/8-in. thick plate steel to make the bucket. A pair of 1 1/2-in. dia., 16-in. long cylinders are used to raise and lower the loader."

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