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Front Loader conversion

  • 22-05-2021 09:00PM
    #1
    Classy 399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    Got a old bomford loader with rams up on the very front is it possible to convert it to euro headstock


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  • #2
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Classy 399 wrote: »
    Got a old bomford loader with rams up on the very front is it possible to convert it to euro headstock

    will that not do it.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarmmachinery-for-sale/euro-brackets-conversion/9022760


  • #3
    Who2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Who2


    It’s not not a great success. You won’t get the tilt right, if it’s something to lift a bale and drop it into a ring feeder it will just about work but there is no comfort in it. I done one a good few years back and regretted ever wasting my time.


  • #4
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Who2 wrote: »
    It’s not not a great success. You won’t get the tilt right, if it’s something to lift a bale and drop it into a ring feeder it will just about work but there is no comfort in it. I done one a good few years back and regretted ever wasting my time.

    I converted a tanco 978 with something like that , but it was the implements that were wrong. 978 arms had to go up along the side of the implement rather than the back. any way by degrees I got the implements right,


  • #5
    Classy 399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Classy 399


    Okay the front loader brackes are very wide on the bomford where u hook on tink around 48 inch so they're wont fit onto ur average 4 ft grab even


  • #6
    Who2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Who2


    I extended out the carrier brackets on a euro head converter so as to make it work, take my advice on it and just scrap the loader and look out for a clean second hand mx or quicke loader.


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  • #7
    Tileman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Yea was trying to do something similar op. A lot of the conversion heads still seem to need modification. I was trying to source one for a mf 880 loader and they all seem too narrow. Anyone sourced one that suits a mf hook style head.


  • #8
    Classy 399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Classy 399


    Its hard to get one dat u can just Weld on to old loader without lot of modifications


  • #9
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,102 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I think I be going to a lad that is a good engineering works to do a job like that

    Slava Ukrainii



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