Steve(ill)
Our 1957 D17 Series I Freeman Loader extended several feet in front of the wheels which allowed dumping manure into the manure spreader. In our area (Eastern Ontario) farmers would clean the stable daily using a stable cleaner and load the manure spreader, then unload at a manure pile on the farm when the snow got too deep in December. The manure pile would be reloaded and then spread on the field sometime from spring to fall.
The front end loader on the D17 would make quick work of the pile
As technology improved, larger/longer barn cleaner chutes were available in the late sixties and more piles moved to beside the barn, and eventually manure pits and pumps and backhoes became the manure removal tools of today
There are numerous Allis Chalmers sales brochures from the fifties/sixties for front end loaders with pics of the various manure piles etc and the AC tractor/loader in action
If I had a dollar (CDN) for every bucket full of manure I loaded into the manure spreader with the D17 back in the day.............
PS our D17 did not have power steering - good arm/shoulder muscle development
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