No Clutch Hydrostatic Loader

1995 - Volume #19, Issue #5, Page #06

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"We built a pair of hydrostatic loaders to eliminate the need to use the clutch," says Cory Davis, Townsend, Mont.
"My father-in-law George Hensley and I both put up hay using 4 by 4 by 8-ft. Hesston balers. To handle bales, he used a Deere 280 loader on a Deere 4640 tractor and I used a 265 loader on a 4430. The problem was that it takes a lot of clutching to continually go from forward to reverse, and eventually the clutch went out of the 4430. It would have been expensive to re-pair the clutch, and besides it was hard on the leg running the clutch all day. So rather than buy a new tractor with a shuttle trans-mission, George decided to build a loader with a hydrostatic transmission.
"He used a hydrostatic motor from a 440 Versatile swather, mounted on a truck chassis that's fitted with the Deere 280 loader. It worked so well that he then built one for me using a heavier duty hydrostat that we took out of a 6620 Deere combine. George used his lathe to build a coupling from a 352 Ford motor to the hydrostat motor and from the hydrostat to a 4-speed Chevrolet transmission. The transmission connects to a C65 Chevy differential.
"We then built mounting brackets to fit my 265 Deere loader to the C65 Chevy truck frame. We took the springs off the drive axle to add stability to the loader. And we mounted a bucket seat from a car on a Hesston swather seat spring to give the operator a comfortable ride.
"We put a governor on the engine so that during operation the engine maintains a constant rpm driving load from the hydraulic pump. The tractor is propelled forward or backward by pushing on one or the other of a pair of foot pedals. We have used it for half a season and love it. To my knowledge there isn't anything like it on the market. It's so simple to run, with one hand on the steering wheel, one on the loader control, one foot on the go pedal and the other on the brake. No clutch, no shifting. It's fast, easy and comfortable to run. It's perfect for the jobs we need it for."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Cory Davis, 150 Dry Creek Road, Townsend, Mont. 59644 (ph 406 266-3097).

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No Clutch Hydrostatic Loader TRACTORS Loaders 19-5-6 "We built a pair of hydrostatic loaders to eliminate the need to use the clutch," says Cory Davis, Townsend, Mont. "My father-in-law George Hensley and I both put up hay using 4 by 4 by 8-ft. Hesston balers. To handle bales, he used a Deere 280 loader on a Deere 4640 tractor and I used a 265 loader on a 4430. The problem was that it takes a lot of clutching to continually go from forward to reverse, and eventually the clutch went out of the 4430. It would have been expensive to re-pair the clutch, and besides it was hard on the leg running the clutch all day. So rather than buy a new tractor with a shuttle trans-mission, George decided to build a loader with a hydrostatic transmission. "He used a hydrostatic motor from a 440 Versatile swather, mounted on a truck chassis that's fitted with the Deere 280 loader. It worked so well that he then built one for me using a heavier duty hydrostat that we took out of a 6620 Deere combine. George used his lathe to build a coupling from a 352 Ford motor to the hydrostat motor and from the hydrostat to a 4-speed Chevrolet transmission. The transmission connects to a C65 Chevy differential. "We then built mounting brackets to fit my 265 Deere loader to the C65 Chevy truck frame. We took the springs off the drive axle to add stability to the loader. And we mounted a bucket seat from a car on a Hesston swather seat spring to give the operator a comfortable ride. "We put a governor on the engine so that during operation the engine maintains a constant rpm driving load from the hydraulic pump. The tractor is propelled forward or backward by pushing on one or the other of a pair of foot pedals. We have used it for half a season and love it. To my knowledge there isn't anything like it on the market. It's so simple to run, with one hand on the steering wheel, one on the loader control, one foot on the go pedal and the other on the brake. No clutch, no shifting. It's fast, easy and comfortable to run. It's perfect for the jobs we need it for." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Cory Davis, 150 Dry Creek Road, Townsend, Mont. 59644 (ph 406 266-3097).

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