Looking for tractor mounted Knuckle-boom for small yard machine….

Carl:

Sorry no info, just a question: How do you envision using this?

George

I can’t see why a good welding shop can’t fix you up. The hard part would be building the swing gear. You could use the old prentice stile ladder. You have the hydraulics

I think they could build it as heavy as you need. I thought of turning a mounted back hoe into a loader for a dozer as you speak of.We each have our own ideas and shareing them is whats nice about this board.

Hi Carl,
I’ve got a friend that has a small dozer like that, International I think not sure, he was setting it up to hook a back hoe on it and had some sort of hook up that he made. I’ll try and get some pics for you and discuss with him what your planning to do. He’s a welder by profession and a jack of all trades. He copied some specs from another log loader and build his own, pics there to. Give me a couple a days I’ll get back to you.

Mike

Carl,

All of these “smaller” loaders have a mounting plate below the turret (slew) that is intended to be bolted on or welded to a cross member. The three-point rigs just build off of that configuration. That said, if you were to just mount an HD platform off the butt-end of the dozer you would then be able to bolt on the mounting flange. The outriggers are usually mounted to the loader frame itself. So as long as you have enough of a stable platform to connect to and your hydraulic lines are capable of swapping spit, you should be good to go.

I’m all for mounting the loader on the tractor versus the trailer if that is going to be the way you normally run, dozer/trailer. I wish we had mounted the Farmi we have for the County on the back of the Valtra tractor but we didn’t, thanks to yours truly. I regret that decision… It would be so much handier to be able to just back up the tractor to work decks, construct machine piles (slash) etc.

Your dozer-mounted rig would sure be handy for sorting grade/species on the landing as well as loading trucks. Your trucking options would open up considerably as well, and be less expensive, if you don’t have to be joined at the hip with a self loader and pay trucker man to load them for you. Amortized over time, of course.

Hope all is well with you, Bro.

-S

Hi Carl,
I’ve got 12 kinds of log loaders, so you have quite a choice of loaders, plus 3 others from Irish that I don’t have.
JMS, Berfor, Couture, Hardy, Majaco, Patu Kesla, Renaud Gravel, Payeur, Wallenstein, Woody, Farmi, Nokka.

Needless to say you are thinking hard at how your going to put this on your dozer. I myself was trying to imagine how that would work, weight ratio to dozer frame capacity, how close it can be fixed to the dozer,transport mode when not in use etc….

I’ve talked to my friend who was rigging his dozer to put a back hoe on his, he realized that the back hoe was pretty heavy for the dozer and wasn’t comfortable with it so didn’t leave the back hoe on the dozer. Back hoe was pretty big off of a tractor back hoe from Dept. of Transport, not the smaller kind for compact tractors. So just to say probably the size will be a factor, weight on dozer in transport mode, probably not a factor in loader use with legs taking the weight.
We’ve got The Atlantic Farm Mechanization Show here the next three days, should be some loaders there I’ll have a look around and ask if they know anybody that have done such a hook up with there loader.
And for what its worth here are some pics of what my friend did on his dozer for hooking up. I didn’t see the end result of the back hoe hooked to the dozer, not much but could give some idea of what you could do. Not sure how to add pics so here goes.

Mike