I had always been keeping an eye out for a loader for my tractor ever since I bought it, just to make it more useful.
Anyway, a chap came in at work looking for a hydraulic fitting. Found him one, and we got chatting etc. Turned out he was taking a loader off his tractor and lived just down the road.....
Couple of days later deal done.
Got a 245 loader, bucket, grab, pallet forks, 2 dung forks and a spare QA plate.
I think I paid a good price, even though it was more than I wanted to spend.
Big attachments are alot more expensive than those for GTs!
So far its taken me 3 evenings to fit the brackets to the tractor. Everything it just so damn heavy and I am working on my own.
Think its all on there, just need to test fit the loader and fit the hydraulics.
We put it in the trailer with his telehandler. However, I have no way of getting it out the trailer, so I will have to try and prop it up high enough to get the tractor in. Once I have got the hydraulic lines hooked up I can get it on the brackets and then we are away.
Anyway, I need to hook up the hydraulics. My tractor is a 1640, serial number is 431510L and I believe I have closed center hydraulics.
Am I right in thinking that I need to T into the pressure line going to the spool block?
And then just T into the return.
In the housing around the trans filter I have a fitting going into it. Can I return into this fitting into the bottom of the trans filter casing?
Anyway, a chap came in at work looking for a hydraulic fitting. Found him one, and we got chatting etc. Turned out he was taking a loader off his tractor and lived just down the road.....
Couple of days later deal done.
Got a 245 loader, bucket, grab, pallet forks, 2 dung forks and a spare QA plate.
I think I paid a good price, even though it was more than I wanted to spend.
Big attachments are alot more expensive than those for GTs!
So far its taken me 3 evenings to fit the brackets to the tractor. Everything it just so damn heavy and I am working on my own.
Think its all on there, just need to test fit the loader and fit the hydraulics.
We put it in the trailer with his telehandler. However, I have no way of getting it out the trailer, so I will have to try and prop it up high enough to get the tractor in. Once I have got the hydraulic lines hooked up I can get it on the brackets and then we are away.
Anyway, I need to hook up the hydraulics. My tractor is a 1640, serial number is 431510L and I believe I have closed center hydraulics.
Am I right in thinking that I need to T into the pressure line going to the spool block?
And then just T into the return.
In the housing around the trans filter I have a fitting going into it. Can I return into this fitting into the bottom of the trans filter casing?
