Reminder of how the front end loader looked when I got it.
The loader arms are angled between the upper arms and the lower arms.
I had expected this angle between the upper and lower arms to be maintained when I mounted it on my crawler, the same as it would be on a garden tractor loader.
So I was surprised when I mounted the upper arms and the hydraulic cylinders and saw that the arms are angled down toward the floor.
On the original tractor, the upright post must of been mounted so they laid back at and angle instead of standing straight up.
Then I got to thinking about how loaders are mounted on crawlers.
Most of them don't have the sharp angle in the loader arms.
The reason for this is that a crawler is capable of putting much more pressure on the loader arms than a tractor can and that point where the upper and lower arms came together at an angle would be a weak spot that could easily be bent farther.
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These loader arms are strong enough that they would never bend with the amount of pressure that this little crawler will be able to produce, even if they were bent at the original angle.
Still, having them straighter certainly isn't going to hurt anything.
The question now is, how much lift height will the bucket have ?
So I raised the arm up as high as it will go.
With the crawler up on the blocks, the surface of the bottom of the upside down bucket is 1/2 inch higher than the blocks.
The center of the pin for the cylinder is 4 foot 11 inches off the bucket.
With the arms extended out to reach the bucket, the bottom of the bucket will be over 6 foot off the ground.
Looks like everything is going to work out just fine.
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