Finally scored my number 1 wanted implement-FEL

TAHOE

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This was on marketplace for a few days, figured it would be gone. Nope, guy still had it. I ran done after church today, he was supposed to have it off, but when I got there, he had just started removal. Thankfully he has a larger Kubota with forks so we got it off fairly easily. I think I may have been 15 to 20 mins from SAWDUST.

This is not a factory Sears unit, but everything was built to bolt on the Sears suburbans.They used an old Saginaw power steering pump and brazed a small tank on top. I'll have to see if it's enough fluid, seems like less than a gallon.
It needs some TLC, but price was reasonable to me so I'm happy. I plan to paint, maybe replace hoses and rebuild cylinders since they are either snap ringed or screw on caps or just install and see how it works first.
I would love to mount it on the FF, but I think the arms a too close to the hood. I measured and I may have an inch, but the bolts that hold the arms to uprights will make it too close.
I'll figure it out, may upgrade pump too, I'll make the engineer at work figure out the one I need LOL.

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So glad for you Marty! And now once you get it going you have no excuses if you hurt your back lifting stuff! Unless the stuff is inside your house...but then you can always put in an extra wide door!
 
And on my home built loader that Josh own now, I used a pump off a Case Hydrive. I believe it's around 11 gpm, and pullied it down about 1:1.5, so a 7gpm is sufficient for a small loader. Likely 6gpm would be plenty for those smaller cylinders as mine had a good 3" of cylinder area.
 
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