I got a loader!!! - Page 2

olds45512 · #11 07-27-2014, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bolivier

Can't pick when the deals come up. My wife is pretty awesome and has been driving me around. But....it all ends tomorrow as she is going back to work and I still am not supposed to drive for another 3 weeks or so. I have too much time on my hands!!! I miss work. I know that's weird, but really I do.

its not weird, id go nuts if i had to stay home.

FFGino · #12 07-28-2014, 11:42 AM

WHAT TO DO WITH IT???

Mount it up...

Use it...

Enjoy your work!!!

Try to inagine what our fathers would have given to have ANY of the "toys" that we own/use today. I think that they would be happy for our progress!!

FFGino. Happy Cubbing!!

zippy1 · #13 07-29-2014, 12:15 AM

Congrats on the loader

and great to hear you're missing work, that's a good sign your feeling better.

TheSaturnV · #14 07-29-2014, 10:24 AM

bolivier,

Congrats on the loader you lucky dawg. Some of us will have to settle for our little Craftsman buckets!

Nice to meet you yesterday, and thanks for showing me the Cub collection.

FYI, I stayed up banging on metal as long as I thought I could get away it. Had to grind just a few more mm's off the bracket, and now it slides on the 882 frame just right. Found a perfect metal pin laying around, so tonight it becomes a QA Craftsman bucket.

bolivier · #15 07-29-2014, 10:47 AM

Awesome, I knew it wouldn't be too much work. And a QA to boot, that's just cool.

rwairforce · #16 07-29-2014, 04:36 PM

I vote for the 149,,,,,,mine!

LOL! that will be sweet on whichever tractor you select.

Jumper · #17 08-01-2014, 10:43 PM

bolivier: Welcome to the club ! You will enjoy that loader power steering or not (although with is much better so they tell me). You can do all kinds of useful things with it especially when your board waiting for winter to end and spring to begin, things like digging a tunnel in the snow while spreading out the pile........ Funny what we will do to get seat time.
(Pictures taken a few days apart)

inspectorudy · #18 08-03-2014, 02:32 PM

I too found a Johnson 10 loader and ended up putting it on a John Deere 318. One thing I found about the J10 is that the height of the tractor is important to the mounting of the loader. They were originally made for small low garden tractors and when I put it on my JD I had to add a space to the cross frame bracket to keep the bucket on the ground minus 21/2 inches. You can see from the pictures that if I had mounted it directly to the frame it would have been 3 inches higher and the bucket would have not quite reached the ground in the full down position. The alternative is to cut and remount the pivot points for the two lift rams but that changes the whole loader geometry. The J10 was also made for a narrow frame tractor even though I mounted it on a wide frame JD. It was a struggle but I was able to use the internal hydraulics of the JD instead of having to mount the pump. I really enjoyed the planing and fabrication to get it to work for me. I am sure you will to. Here is a picture of my JD 318. I added the weight bar to the rear and filled the rear wheels with windshield washer fluid.

bolivier · #19 08-03-2014, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by inspectorudy

I too found a Johnson 10 loader and ended up putting it on a John Deere 318. One thing I found about the J10 is that the height of the tractor is important to the mounting of the loader. They were originally made for small low garden tractors and when I put it on my JD I had to add a space to the cross frame bracket to keep the bucket on the ground minus 21/2 inches. You can see from the pictures that if I had mounted it directly to the frame it would have been 3 inches higher and the bucket would have not quite reached the ground in the full down position. The alternative is to cut and remount the pivot points for the two lift rams but that changes the whole loader geometry. The J10 was also made for a narrow frame tractor even though I mounted it on a wide frame JD. It was a struggle but I was able to use the internal hydraulics of the JD instead of having to mount the pump. I really enjoyed the planing and fabrication to get it to work for me. I am sure you will to. Here is a picture of my JD 318. I added the weight bar to the rear and filled the rear wheels with windshield washer fluid.

Inspectorudy, I have read your thread front to back on mytractorforum. Tons of good info in that thread, which I will use for reference. Once I'm healed up, I can't wait to get started on this project.

Cub Cadet 123 · #20 08-03-2014, 11:17 PM

Congratulations bolivier on the loader and I wish you a very speedy recovery!! What to do?

Option 1: Too many decisions that will only create anxiety, so to alleviate that dilemma send it my way, C/O "Guy without a loader"!

Option 2: What do you do with a loader?.....Get Loaded!

....the fun way.

Enjoy you new loader my friend,

Cub Cadet 123