My new toy...tool

sandhills · April 18, 2015, 12:55:23 AM

My friend and I went together to buy it Sunday and bought this at an auction

Ray, just for you I took a picture of it with the rock in front of it (OK so it's actually a chunk of concrete I chisel plowed up tearing up another garden spot) I thought you might get a kick out of that though ;). Not my first choice for a payloader at all but one I know the history on and a nice little clean/straight machine, hopefully it will serve us well.

thecfarm · April 18, 2015, 06:23:24 AM

That looks good. Don't look all banged up.Park something like that here and you would see a rock about 100 feet in any direction. I could move some rocks with that. ;D But now I need something to dig the rocks out with. I have just about got all the rocks I can dig out with a 40hp tractor.

Chuck White · April 18, 2015, 06:51:20 AM

That's a clean looking machine there, Pat.

That grapple will get lots of use!

POSTON WIDEHEAD · April 18, 2015, 08:11:01 AM

Now thats a BACK SCRATCHER!

Magicman · April 18, 2015, 08:15:37 AM

That looks like a very beefed up machine. Congrats!!

slider · April 18, 2015, 08:17:40 AM

I like it.

drobertson · April 18, 2015, 08:18:03 AM

Dandy! looks good,,

GAB · April 18, 2015, 08:20:17 AM

Quote from: thecfarm on April 18, 2015, 06:23:24 AM
That looks good. Don't look all banged up.Park something like that here and you would see a rock about 100 feet in any direction. I could move some rocks with that. ;D But now I need something to dig the rocks out with. I have just about got all the rocks I can dig out with a 40hp tractor.

I've been to Ray's place (last year when I delivered the GRITS) and can vouch for the fact that the man has rocks and large boulders. He has some that I think could challenge a 50 ton dozer with an excellent operator at the controls.
Gerald

Magicman · April 18, 2015, 08:32:15 AM

I always get the impression that if Ray got rid of all of his rocks that he would be left with only have a hole. Them rocks are holding up what dirt that he has. ;D

North River Energy · April 18, 2015, 11:23:12 AM

Nice purchase. Bought a similar H30B about 6 months ago and have been very happy with it so far.
Came with a fresh set of factory parts and service manuals. 8)

Dave Shepard · April 18, 2015, 11:39:38 AM

How do you get in it? Duke,s of Hazzard through the window? :D

That's a real Payloader, an IH brand name. Does it have a D282 engine?

sandhills · April 18, 2015, 02:14:38 PM

Dave the bottom half swings out but does make getting out kind of a pain, seems to be right in the way. I'm not sure about the engine, just know it's a 6 cylinder gas IH, really didn't have time to do much research with this before the sale but I don't think we screwed up ???. My landlord owned it a few years ago then sold it to a close neighbor, I like knowing the history just got it to the farm last night so I'll play around this weekend and figure out the particulars.
North River Energy, I'll be looking for those manuals, I really think it will be a handy little rig

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fishpharmer · April 18, 2015, 03:12:42 PM

Nice score Sandhills, looks handier than a shirt pocket (old saying). 8)

North River Energy · April 18, 2015, 03:58:45 PM

Dave,
It's probably a g262?

Sandhills, get in touch if you need any data from the books.
When you get a chance, maybe a photo of the valving for the grapple?

Delawhere Jack · April 18, 2015, 07:24:26 PM

That's a TALL BOY! Hey, when you sit in the cab, can you see the Rockies?

sandhills · April 19, 2015, 12:12:41 AM

Quote from: North River Energy on April 18, 2015, 03:58:45 PM
Dave,
It's probably a g262?

Sandhills, get in touch if you need any data from the books.
When you get a chance, maybe a photo of the valving for the grapple?

Thank you, I'll try to get a few pictures in the morning, I feel stupid because I never really looked all this over before we bought it, last minute type of decision I guess. All I really got done was checking all the fluids, saw it had been switched to electronic ignition so no points, and watched the previous owner load it to get hauled to the sale.
Delawhere Jack, not quite close enough for that ;), it does have decent reach for it's size though.

Corley5 · April 19, 2015, 08:24:47 AM

Good looking old machine 8) 8) 8) I've often that such a tool would be handy around the farm

sandhills · April 19, 2015, 11:42:12 PM

North River Energy, I'm not much of a photographer but here are a few pics, I'll try to explain as best I can.

Ok in first pic, the bottom lever runs the up/down of the loader, top lever tilts the bucket forward for down/back for tilting back (bear with me I'm sure yours are the same) but move top lever to left to open the grab forks and right to close them.
Second pic is looking directly down on the valve over top of the top lever, linkage to the far left on valve bank controls the grapple, center linkage controls tilt of the bucket, and hard to see (greasy) linkage to the right and slightly below works from the bottom lever to raise/lower the loader.
Really not sure why I put the third pic in, but hope this helps some, if you need more let me know.

North River Energy · April 20, 2015, 01:19:01 PM

Nice. Looks like a factory third valve. I'd like to do a similar one-lever conversion on my two valve setup.

If the detent on the boom lift is weak, you want to be careful while carrying/holding a load, as the weight/length of that lever can easily pop the valve out of position if you hit a 'bump in the road'.

Thanks for the effort.