ONE of the other reasons I needed a loader is to help finish up my carriage doors project. For anyone who's seen my shop tour, you know that I removed a big section of the exterior basement wall where my shop is at, and installed a 9' wide set of custom crafted carriage doors.
The doors work great, but the mud slick right outside the doors isn't as great. I need to pour concrete out there. And it's down in a low spot, so I need to install a drain grate across the doorway width, so any water that rolls down in there can drain away. Then I intend to pour a 10' by 8' slab, just to kind of give me a hard surface approach to the shop.
First step is clearing the old doorway slab. It's 4'x4'x4", which means it weighs right around 800 lbs. I cut it and slid it aobut 10inches away from the building in the original phase of the project. That took well over an hour and a landscaping bar and a J bar and a gallon of sweat.
Enter the new loader forks, and no sweat was broken. 8 minutes and it was all moved. It would have been 5 minutes, but I got stuck trying to drive up the little slope to the final spot. The smooth turf tires were just happily spinning. So I loaded a couple 50lb sandbags on the cournterweight and then stood back there and it grudgingly eased up the hill. I'm okay with it, carrying 800lb slabs up grass hills with no tire chains shouldn't really be possible in my original design specs. So I'm pleased that it did it at all.
Bob
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Re: A little seat time - forks edition
Looks like fun Bob. You certainly have a lot of fun building your loader and doing projects with it.
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Re: A little seat time - forks edition
Bob would the slab weigh about 500 lbs? That would have pushed the lift capability on my 646.
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Re: A little seat time - forks edition
it's 4 feet square by 4 inches thick. Concrete is about 150 lbs per cubic foot, so this slab should be right at 800 lbs.
It definitely couldn't lift and carry much more.
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It definitely couldn't lift and carry much more.
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Re: A little seat time - forks edition
Not sure but I have this vague recollection that around 700 lbs is the recommended limit on the 600 series. I wouldn't do that all day though.
@thebuildist it's a strong loader you built!
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