WC with Farmhand Loader tipping on side

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   .  Im wondering if any of you had the same experiences with a WC and the old style Farmhand loaders that surrounded the entire tractor: don't remember the number.  The fork must have been 8 feet wide .      Ours was used for stacking hay and loading green pea vines on a truck for the Del Monte factory.  Needless to say, there was a lot of weight and many times you knew the tractor was going to tip on its side so you just held on as it went over.  Certainly, OSHA would not approve now but the tip overs were a common thing and fortunately no injuries occurred.

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Farrell(Utah) Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Springville, Ut Points: 527	Post Options Post Reply Quote Farrell(Utah) Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: WC with Farmhand Loader tipping on side Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 9:36am
	. Im wondering if any of you had the same experiences with a WC and the old style Farmhand loaders that surrounded the entire tractor: don't remember the number. The fork must have been 8 feet wide . Ours was used for stacking hay and loading green pea vines on a truck for the Del Monte factory. Needless to say, there was a lot of weight and many times you knew the tractor was going to tip on its side so you just held on as it went over. Certainly, OSHA would not approve now but the tip overs were a common thing and fortunately no injuries occurred.
	A(1937), 2 G, 2 WD45 diesels, 6 WD45 gas, UC, 2 WD, D17 gas, WF, Farmall 400, D12, Kubota B3030

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HudCo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Location: Plymouth Utah Points: 3716	Post Options Post Reply Quote HudCo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 10:27am
	i have a f11 on my wd 45 but it has wide front three weights on the back with loaded tires . they lift to the sky and i am real carfull lifting on the slightest slopes or hills . look on the pulling forum at the loader on my wc that had to have been a beast, but the old boy that i got it from said it would do more work i a half hour than him and his brother could do all day

jiminnd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Location: Rutland ND Points: 2257	Post Options Post Reply Quote jiminnd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 11:24am
	I had an F10 farmhand on a wd, had rear wheels moved out as far as possible. Stacked a lot of hay and never tipped over, pretty close a couple times. Also used it all winter to feed but had tire chains on it, also wide front may have helped.
	1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner)

Farrell(Utah) Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Springville, Ut Points: 527	Post Options Post Reply Quote Farrell(Utah) Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 11:36am
	. Ours was the F10 now that I see some pictures of that loader. We probably ran the WC with the standard tire width. Anyway, with a fork full of hay or pea vines and a narrow front it could be laid on its side without being really careful. Oh, the good old days.
	A(1937), 2 G, 2 WD45 diesels, 6 WD45 gas, UC, 2 WD, D17 gas, WF, Farmall 400, D12, Kubota B3030

Unit3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Location: NC Iowa Points: 5571	Post Options Post Reply Quote Unit3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 5:26pm
	We have one on a 77 Oliver. It has one job and that is to lift the auger that slides down into our grain pit. I have ridden in that loader bucket to get high up into a trees to cut down limbs. It has been used place bundles of shingles up on the house roof. I can’t imagine farming without one.
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allischalmerguy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Deep River, IA Points: 2885	Post Options Post Reply Quote allischalmerguy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Mar 2025 at 10:48pm
	Hey you guys how about some photos of your tractors with those loaders. I have always been fascinated by them. I have a Farmhand F19 on my WD but it is not one of those type of loaders you are talking about.
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Kip-Utah Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Southern Utah Points: 880	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kip-Utah Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Mar 2025 at 11:21pm
	Farrell, The 1939 WC “Hi-Crop” 36” rear wheels & single front wheel model that my great-grandpa bought from the Cantwell Lumber Cantwells had been broken in half with a Farmhand loader. Some skilled blacksmith had expertly furnace brazed the cast bell housing back together. The ears on the back of the frame rails had also been welded back on. Although we had another bell housing available when we restored this tractor, we chose to use the expertly rehabbed one. We did use different frame rails. Can you imagine a worse candidate to mount a loader on than this one.?!!!🫢
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JC-WI Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: wisconsin Points: 34074	Post Options Post Reply Quote JC-WI Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Mar 2025 at 7:08pm
	Here are a couple old pics of the Farmhand loader . Picture is from about 1950. Seeing that is my oldest sister being held by my father. Putting up the first sheet of steel of a Harvestore base. See the fender missing? Story to that, Dad went to clean barn and it was evening in the winter, I wanted to go with and he told me that I had to go to bed and go to sleep. He went out and I cried myself to sleep. Later he woke me up and told me it was a good thing I didn't go with him that night because the wheel started spinning in the snow and the tire chain caught the fender that I would have been sitting on, and tore it off the mounts and threw it ahead of the tractor and possibly I would have gotten hurt ,or worst, dead. The fender was never put on again. Think that was about the last year it was used for spreading manure too. It was used a lot for cutting hay back in those years up to about 1965 and then got relegated to being under the Farmhand loader to this day. Edited by JC-WI - 25 Mar 2025 at 8:49pm
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Ted J Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: La Crosse, WI Points: 18910	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ted J Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 8 hours 47 minutes ago at 11:38am
	JC, the good Lord was sure watching over you even way back then. That must have opened your Dad's eyes! I think I would have had to change pants! Although I've heard of those loaders, I've never seen one. THANKS for the pics! What a monstrosity!
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Nathan (SD) Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Day County SD Points: 1268	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nathan (SD) Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 1 hour 28 minutes ago at 6:57pm


Steve A Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Silver Level Joined: 12 Apr 2012 Location: NLP Mi Points: 219	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve A Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 1 hour 3 minutes ago at 7:22pm
	That's impressive. I know they were commercially built and work but holy wah ! Reminds me of when my dad built a wooden jib boom for his WD to set the trusses on his new shop. Somewhere there's a slide of that one.