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Posted by Jess on Tuesday, November 13, 2007:

Al asked in a posting yesterday for info on my rear loader. I really don't have much info and don't know if there is or is not a website. My paperwork has long-since disappeared as such things have a tendency to do.

About eight years ago, right after I got my YM1810, I needed to build a couple of clay roads through creek drains on my property. I took bids from some folks with backhoe/loaders and the best I could get was about $3,750 for the three or four day job. I was still working at the time, so I looked on my web at the office and saw a miracle at Affordable Equipment Co. in Easley, South Carolina. They showed a picture of a Yanmar with the rear loader mounted and I could see right then that, if I was willing to work, I could pay for the loader with savings on the road work.

It cost me $1,100 as best I remember plus the cost to trailer over there from here in Georgia. The control device was installed on the right fender using a hole where we removed the handgrip pipe that sits atop the fender The hydraulic hoses are attached to the hydraulic system on the tractor in an "in-line" fashion. (Some of you will understand that more than I do. I'm quoting them.) The ram has a hole for the attachment pin and you attach it where the top member of the three point hook-up is attached. Using the control, I can extend and retract the ram.

The loader bucket is a 4-footer with a three-point attachment. The bucket dumps rearward. It works like a champ. Raise your TPI to the max and extend the ram. The ram stays on the tractor and I use it with all my implements. It is extremely good to be able to adjust the "pitch" on harrows, tiller, etc. "on the fly." When I finish plowing or whatever, my bucket goes right back on the tractor. It has come to the point that I think of the loader and tractor as one unit. I can tell you it is nice to be able to use my tractor as my ATV for deer hunting, etc. I have taken two 8-pointers this year and it is good to be able to back up to them in the woods, lower my bucket, adjust it parallel to the ground and drag the big rascal into it, get on the tractor, raise the bucket and take off.

The loader was (is) called "The Chief". Hopefully it is still in production. It is worth every penny of cost. I sometimes look at it and realize that I would have paid $3,750 for outside help and at least $5,000 for an ATV to get the same thing I got for $1,100. It is good to be able to drive across clay raods and cross-tie bridges(done with my 1810 and my boom-pole. The bridges were NOT in the $3,750 quote. They only wanted to put in a pipe.) To say that I recommend The Chief is quite the understatement. Al, I hope you can find it.

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