Question for the colective

[skeets]

Boys I need some ideas because I know someone has already done it some place. Has anyone come up with something to put a boom pole on the FEL? Remember I dont weld si any ideas would be super

 

[McMXi]

Boys I need some ideas because I know someone has already done it some place. Has anyone come up with something to put a boom pole on the FEL? Remember I dont weld si any ideas would be super

I decided to go with a turnkey solution. I'm ashamed to admit that I've yet to use the boom pole but that will change shortly as the new sheds/pole barns go up.

Could I have made my own for less money, maybe. But at $1,258 I felt it was worth the cost, even with shipping to the local Kubota dealer. It'll last forever, and when I think of what it would cost to pay a company to put up the buildings that I'm planning and building myself, the cost of this implement doesn't really mean a whole lot.

Here it is on the MX

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Do you have a hitch for a 2” receiver on your bucket? (Bolt on or have some one weld it?)

If I were putting a boom pole on, I’d use the hitch and use 2” tube stock. I think length of your pole (don’t make this weird) also might suggest other ideas?

Edit: just saw @McMXi post and I like that idea better assuming you have SSQA. If not just buy a new tractor with SSQA.

 

[Runs With Scissors]

How long do you need it to be, and how much weight are you projecting to lift?

Without a welder, I’m thinking of a series of clamps or some holes (2-3) that go through a square tube and bolt to the top of your bucket?

Or possibly a round tube that bolts on the top/bottom of the bucket and is held in place by 2-3 U shaped brackets (Like the ones used on automotive exhaust’s)

or this.

 

[skeets]

RWS, Im not looking at a lot of weight and I know the farther out you go the less you can lift, but only a couple hundred pounds at most. Rafters and I dont get up and down a ladder to well any more, so I thought maybe lifting them up, hence the boom pole in the bucket. At least getting them up and in place.

 

[torch]

I made one:

(build thread here)

 

[chim]

The lifting ability with a pole 6' in front of the loader would be very limited. If you had something like the one that torch made, and had it vertical and sitting on the floor before picking the load, it could lift a tremendous amount. Or, you could rent something like I used when I built my shed:

 

[McMXi]

The lifting ability with a pole 6' in front of the loader would be very limited. If you had something like the one that torch made, and had it vertical and sitting on the floor before picking the load, it could lift a tremendous amount. Or, you could rent something like I used when I built my shed:

I have a snatch block and an 8,000 lb winch on my Jeep. You've got me thinking about mounting the winch to the front of the M6060 and running the "cable" up to the snatch block attached to the eye at the end of the boom pole, and turning my tractor into a crane of sorts.

@torch has a chain hoist doing the same thing, but a winch would make for a lot of fine control from the cab.

 

[chim]

My smaller winch has been plugged into the receiver on the 4240 a few times. It isn't anything special. HF with wireless remote. Here are a few pix when there were three 700#-ish A/C compressors that needed to go from the below grade boiler room to a trailer at church.

 

[torch]

@torch has a chain hoist doing the same thing, but a winch would make for a lot of fine control from the cab.

I've thought about doing that -- getting the extra chains out of the way would sometimes be nice and a pulley at the top would also maximize use of available height -- but think I would want the winch control available outside the cab more than inside. Maybe something with a wired or wireless remote control. I tend to work by myself and ideally I'm not in the cab when trying to hook onto or place objects.

As noted by Chim, I strive to keep the pole as vertical as possible and planted on the ground. That photo shows the rear blower as counterweight, but I prefer to have the backhoe on and plant the outriggers too. Makes it a very stable configuration. McMXi has a much bigger and heavier tractor so he can get away with using the FEL hydraulics for the lifting. Not so much with my little B7100!

If I ever need more height, I will fit legs/outriggers to my boom pole assembly so the weight is still on the ground rather than on the tractor's front axle.