For that wheel base isn't the load on higher side? I mean you have to be cautious lifting softly. If there's an aggresive lift, with that base it might topple.
We used to build large heavy wooden scaffolding to use with our fork truck that had a tendency to lift the rear wheels off the ground. We built a steel box and hung it on the back of the f.t. and filled it with heavy scrap steel plates. Worked great! Hope this helps. After I wrote this I read the comments below and someone suggested drilling lightening holes in the adapter plate to reduce weight. How about taking it a step farther and cut four rectangles out of the plate leaving a large steel cross behind for strength. Then you can use the plates you removed for building the steel box in the back for adding more counter weights.
I built a fork attachment for my tractor loader and like you started stacking my split firewood on pallets with cattle panel cages to hold the wood. Everything you own will soon be on a pallet. It is great. ~P
You really don’t want to read my comment on the xtra weight added to an already overworked miniature skid steer. But I will give you a👍 ona great video, great job of welding also. Stay safe.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Very industrious addition to the Mini. Looks like it will serve you well with a smaller basket for sure. I'd not be afraid of taxing it's lifting capacity even without additional counter weight on the rear, ram failure or hose rupture would be my biggest fear. Looking like a work horse for your future plans Donn, stay safe !!
My first move would be hanging a weight on the back of the forklift as it wouldn't tip so much giving control... a set of tracks would definitely improve the traction of this lift horse. I sure am contemplating a hook that comes down hydraulically so that you have the control to pinch the log and set it on a sawmill or wood processor and save the peavey work for small adjustments. Your the man Donn, that coming from your friend in Alaska!
Hi Donn Put the quick change plate directly to your crates. Would save some weight, no forks needed. Sure, the crates would have to be more stable. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
Save a little weight but cost more if he wants multiple crates to store the wood in and avoid unloading it in the barn and stacking it then reloading it into a bin just to move it to the house. All extra work that he wants to avoid.
Nice project, simpler than usual but excited for what's to come. I agree about the wheel weights as a possible future improvement, especially in the rear
Very clever. You could lighten your fork assembly, with some strategically placed, large holes in the frame. It's clearly way stronger than needed for your demands, so some 6cm holes in the base plate would cut it's heft considerably.
Awesome Donn, I can't wait to see what other contraptions you're going to come up with. Love your ingenuity. Soon as my new shop is finished, I'll start building a 5 person elevator, and make a video of the whole process. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND KEEP THOSE VIDEOS COMING.
Your fork attachment will lift more than your loader, by a significant margin. Well done. Glad to see you changed from your safety skids to work boots before welding. I've burned holes in the top of a nylon shoe or two (and my foot) that way. 😂
Since that loader could lift a good amount of weight, you could probably just rig up some heavy steel plates on the rear side of it as a counterweight, and make it removable. Nice work as always man!! 👌
Fantastic Donn, ya did great work. I believe you could make a silk purse out of a Sow’s Ear if you put your mind to it. Thanks for sharing with us ,glad you didn’t drop the fork hitch on the floor, had me sweating and clinching for a while 🥵. Fred
Job well done thanks for posting your video. I've got plans for quick connect, now I'm going to make a few changes. Oh also, water and feed your loader, it needs to grow up a little. 😁
I knew as soon as I saw that loader in the last video you were going to make it a forked lift of some kind! Brilliant as always Donn!! Let's see them crates!!!
Excellent job. I am doing the same thing fo my Walden. Same as your Gheil only older. I added counterweights under the engine. I'm not sure about building crates when the tank ones are readily available. 300# of weight is added and it handles over 1000# in the bucket. Keep up the good work.
Hi donn, just like to say I like watching you play about with things because you never know what your coming up with next, as regards to your workmanship it’s spot on no faults at all, would trust it all day long so keep up the great work and look forward to seeing what’s made next. Maybe a tank? You never know with you. Mark uk
I thought my son was the captain of overkill. He built a fork frame for his skid steer. It is made of 2x2x1/4" tubing frame and has 3/8x3" strap for the forks to mount on. His skid steer is 2200 lb lift and 4400 lb tip and has not had any problems.
Awesome build! 🤓 Now a conveyor to move left or right to load those crates. Hey, and you had angle grinding too! 👍👍 Yeah, rear weight or as you said, wheels or tracks. Thanks for sharing!
great job simple design and well build it look like it will last for years i like the quick release for the forks as the ones I have see use bolts to hold them
G'day Donn that was a good idea fabricating those forks for the skid, it will save a lot of double handling and back ache. Well done mate look forward to your next vlog, kind regards John
You have reached the limits of your machine. Start adding weights to the rear and you may start bending or cracking things. Sometimes we have to be happy with what we have. Forklift attachment is a good add-on.
I ask myself Is there anything this guy can't build?? You answer me with yet another project build done to perfection! Cheers again from Sydney Australia 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🐨🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
You might consider milling a bunch of holes in your adapter plates, it would lighten it up and give more places to weld the plates together. Good luck.
That is really nice fabrication like always. And handy loader also! You could drill some extra thread holes into the fork connector plate to include lifting eyes and or even trailer hitch ball in the middle too!? It is handy and safe to have fixed points to mount some chains or what ever is needed when towing or lifting something
Don, you need a plasma cutter for thick sheet metal. With angle grinder it will take a lot of time to cut it. Good video and good idea! Greetings from Azerbaijan!
Great idea, great innovation, Great fabrication. Love your videos Don, Can't wait to see what you do for a conveyor belt system. Great work sir keep it up.
Perfekt! You do the right things! This problem (remove splitted firewood) is actual for me as well. I will show our hydraulic wood splitter later. P.S. I see Nova milling machine works on your workshop. Nice!
I need one of those! I was a rough terrain fork lift operator in the Army while in Vietnam and have always wished I had one to use of my own. A small one like this would be perfect. I have tried using my garden tractor hydraulic 3 point hitch to lift with a single pipe fork, but the cross bar that links to the lift is not strong enough and gets a permanent twist. It's not really worth modifying it because it's just not meant to do the things I find I need to do.
Was the loader running durring the video. Maybe someday you can do a video about the buildings. They look different than USA style and it would be interesting to see how they are constructed. The black barn behind the loader when you were trying to lift the first big log looked especially interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Nice work done! Pretty soon your gonna start industrial firewood processing :) We did our firewood just recently with less machine power but more people in our country house in Valgamaa. I'm getting really inspired by your videos and want to start building stuff there as well
Another fantastic build maybe a weight round the back made from tractor front weights could be a handy way to balance if the machine has sufficient lifting capabilities 👍🏻
I was definitely thinking the forks need to be “tip up” a lot when sitting flat as you can down tilt them but they are at the extent of the up tilt ( if that makes any sense) But you said as much later in the vid. Adding weight to the little machine will help alot and low as possible Perhaps a very thick skid plate? Anyway you have increased the usability 300% love it well done! ( im struggling with a thumb for my mini excavator as i dont have the matirials)
That 1T container is perfect for testing. Just fill it for example 10 cm at a time and try to lift it. And calculate the result (kg), when you know how much water there can be.
If the capability is there then add some weight to the back end as a counter weight. It would make it a bit more stable when you lift. Worth a thought. Cheers.
For the low cost of used 1T IBC crates (c.€60) , you'd be better off using those than fabricating your own, if you can. Just add some weight to your baby skid steer.
Now you need to build a conveyor for the wood processor and dump the split wood directly into the crate...I built one out of an old hay bale elevator, and dump it directly into an old grain bin...
Just buy those water containers but with broken plastics so they are cheap and just wrap some metal net around the frame and then you have good crates for cheap and you can even stack them if you dont overload them
Excellent build, I've been looking for videos on this for a spear for large bales of hay. You might consider adding some sort of stop at the edges of the large plate to keep the forks from sliding off; I wouldn't want the fork to land on those Estonian safety shoes you sport at the beginning of the video! :)
Perhaps you could build steel waterproof lined rectangle boxes that attach to the rear of the loader that you can fill with water & also be able to release the water when not needed to give much needed weight on the rear of the loader. If a higher pressure oil pump is used then you could also increase the loaders lifting power too.
To Quote "a fellow named diamond Dave the angle of the dangle is most important and controlling the angle at which you lift on the load is very important
Firewood processor build series:
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nice man!
For that wheel base isn't the load on higher side? I mean you have to be cautious lifting softly. If there's an aggresive lift, with that base it might topple.
Where are you donn !
We miss you !
VERY clever !!! hard working -- but very well equipped in the workshop ! I Like your videos and your making's !!!!
Very sweet forks from suitcase weights wouldn't hurt on the back enjoy your videos can't wait for the next one
We used to build large heavy wooden scaffolding to use with our fork truck that had a tendency to lift the rear wheels off the ground. We built a steel box and hung it on the back of the f.t. and filled it with heavy scrap steel plates. Worked great! Hope this helps. After I wrote this I read the comments below and someone suggested drilling lightening holes in the adapter plate to reduce weight. How about taking it a step farther and cut four rectangles out of the plate leaving a large steel cross behind for strength. Then you can use the plates you removed for building the steel box in the back for adding more counter weights.
It's progress like these that make building things for yourself so satisfying... Good work
My dad had a Bobcat about that same size. It was really small but, you are right, it was very capable and could get into places bigger ones couldn't.
Nice safety socks lol. Seriously, a guy I know dropped a fork from a forklift on his toe. It was mush. No bone left.
I built a fork attachment for my tractor loader and like you started stacking my split firewood on pallets with cattle panel cages to hold the wood. Everything you own will soon be on a pallet. It is great. ~P
You know a guys serious when he's working with heavy steel in his flip flops.
rear weight , wheel spacers , tracks , and your on your way great job again .
That little skid loader is definitely going to get a work out. Good job with the forks. Regards, Solomon
I also use IBC crate for firewood. Easy to handle. Wood dry fast in them. 🇳🇴🇳🇴👍👍Nice workshop. Cool videos you make.
Отличная работа ! Человек достоин уважения !!! Столько всего зделал Мастер с большой буквы .ВСЕ СУПЕР !!!
You really don’t want to read my comment on the xtra weight added to an already overworked miniature skid steer. But I will give you a👍 ona great video, great job of welding also. Stay safe.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Very industrious addition to the Mini. Looks like it will serve you well with a smaller basket for sure. I'd not be afraid of taxing it's lifting capacity even without additional counter weight on the rear, ram failure or hose rupture would be my biggest fear. Looking like a work horse for your future plans Donn, stay safe !!
My first move would be hanging a weight on the back of the forklift as it wouldn't tip so much giving control... a set of tracks would definitely improve the traction of this lift horse. I sure am contemplating a hook that comes down hydraulically so that you have the control to pinch the log and set it on a sawmill or wood processor and save the peavey work for small adjustments. Your the man Donn, that coming from your friend in Alaska!
The quick attach is professional looking. Nice job!
Hi Donn
Put the quick change plate directly to your crates. Would save some weight, no forks needed. Sure, the crates would have to be more stable.
Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
Save a little weight but cost more if he wants multiple crates to store the wood in and avoid unloading it in the barn and stacking it then reloading it into a bin just to move it to the house.
All extra work that he wants to avoid.
This sounds like a great idea! I bet he could use scrap or get the material needed when he designs the crates!
nice idea. Probably want to be able to pick them up from any angle though. You'd need a quick change on all four sides.
@@FirstLast-wr9mh I did not think about that.
@@FirstLast-wr9mh make it a removable plate with a pin?
Nice project, simpler than usual but excited for what's to come.
I agree about the wheel weights as a possible future improvement, especially in the rear
Very clever. You could lighten your fork assembly, with some strategically placed, large holes in the frame. It's clearly way stronger than needed for your demands, so some 6cm holes in the base plate would cut it's heft considerably.
Awesome Donn, I can't wait to see what other contraptions you're going to come up with.
Love your ingenuity.
Soon as my new shop is finished, I'll start building a 5 person elevator, and make a video of the whole process.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND KEEP THOSE VIDEOS COMING.
Impressive as always. Love your all wether safety boots in the beginning. If you're the Boss, you're in charge!!
Efficiency is the name of the game, work smarter not harder. 😊👍🏻
Your fork attachment will lift more than your loader, by a significant margin. Well done. Glad to see you changed from your safety skids to work boots before welding. I've burned holes in the top of a nylon shoe or two (and my foot) that way. 😂
Since that loader could lift a good amount of weight, you could probably just rig up some heavy steel plates on the rear side of it as a counterweight, and make it removable. Nice work as always man!! 👌
I like the safety flip flops! I use camouflage crocks in my shop.... good work Donny keep it up
Socks and flops. Works inside my shop.
Socks and flips in my shop. Lol
So professionally done as always great work a pleasure to watch you work
Thanks for another great project video. Love all your projects.
I know several people who store firewood in those crates. It works excellent and they are very cheap
Make some brackets and put some suitcase weights in the rear like the John Deere’s do
Trippe Callahan 100kg on the back would be a game changer. An angled attachment bracket that would allow for more curl would also be really nice.
100kg on the back would be a game changer. An angled attachment bracket that would allow for more curl would also be really nice.
I agree! Add some weight to the back sides behind wheels. It would massively improve its ability.
Fantastic Donn, ya did great work. I believe you could make a silk purse out of a Sow’s Ear if you put your mind to it. Thanks for sharing with us ,glad you didn’t drop the fork hitch on the floor, had me sweating and clinching for a while 🥵. Fred
Job well done thanks for posting your video. I've got plans for quick connect, now I'm going to make a few changes. Oh also, water and feed your loader, it needs to grow up a little. 😁
You should skeletonize the frame of the fork to make it lighter so it could lift more
Skeletonize.....I like that word.
@@nickt9968 lol I do too!!
GOT SOME GOOD TOOLS AND YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THEM, WELL DONE
I knew as soon as I saw that loader in the last video you were going to make it a forked lift of some kind! Brilliant as always Donn!! Let's see them crates!!!
Excellent job. I am doing the same thing fo my Walden. Same as your Gheil only older. I added counterweights under the engine. I'm not sure about building crates when the tank ones are readily available. 300# of weight is added and it handles over 1000# in the bucket. Keep up the good work.
Heavy metal fabrication in flip flops, love it!
Hi donn, just like to say I like watching you play about with things because you never know what your coming up with next, as regards to your workmanship it’s spot on no faults at all, would trust it all day long so keep up the great work and look forward to seeing what’s made next. Maybe a tank? You never know with you. Mark uk
I thought my son was the captain of overkill. He built a fork frame for his skid steer. It is made of 2x2x1/4" tubing frame and has 3/8x3" strap for the forks to mount on. His skid steer is 2200 lb lift and 4400 lb tip and has not had any problems.
Hi , so Happy to See the good old anglegrinder... Cheers from Germany ...
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Awesome 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing. LOL @ 12:01 this means he will be adding weight to back of machine and tracks to the wheeels LOL
Awesome build! 🤓 Now a conveyor to move left or right to load those crates. Hey, and you had angle grinding too! 👍👍 Yeah, rear weight or as you said, wheels or tracks. Thanks for sharing!
Yea I can see that coming too.
great job simple design and well build it look like it will last for years
i like the quick release for the forks as the ones I have see use bolts to hold them
G'day Donn that was a good idea fabricating those forks for the skid, it will save a lot of double handling and back ache. Well done mate look forward to your next vlog, kind regards John
You have reached the limits of your machine. Start adding weights to the rear and you may start bending or cracking things. Sometimes we have to be happy with what we have. Forklift attachment is a good add-on.
I ask myself
Is there anything this guy can't build??
You answer me with yet another project build done to perfection!
Cheers again from Sydney Australia 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🐨🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
Looks like it is still pretty cold there even though I don't see snow. Love your work Donny. Billy J..... Australia.
Finnland. Sure its cold there.
It is somewhat cold. Weird weather. Hope Australia is still nice and warm. Cheers!
@@DonnDIY I live in Queensland in OZ & it's sub-tropical weather here so it's Beautiful one day & Perfect the next. (Ha Ha)
@@Toxicity1987 nope, he is from estonia
Прикольно, маленький погрузчик стал универсальней 🤘
Another excellent build . Keep up the excellent work and content .
You might consider milling a bunch of holes in your adapter plates, it would lighten it up and give more places to weld the plates together. Good luck.
Nice job. Smart idea. Keep the good videos coming.
Good video skills. Lots of angles. Text commentary is a plus as well.
That is really nice fabrication like always. And handy loader also! You could drill some extra thread holes into the fork connector plate to include lifting eyes and or even trailer hitch ball in the middle too!? It is handy and safe to have fixed points to mount some chains or what ever is needed when towing or lifting something
Don, you need a plasma cutter for thick sheet metal. With angle grinder it will take a lot of time to cut it. Good video and good idea! Greetings from Azerbaijan!
Great idea, great innovation, Great fabrication. Love your videos Don, Can't wait to see what you do for a conveyor belt system. Great work sir keep it up.
Love the vids. You should make the crates low enough to put right under your new cutter/splitter. Then you would have a cutter/splitter/loader.
Good day Sir👍 Great work on your forks !👍 Cheers 🌞
Always wonderful, creative and hardworking
Very nice work on the forks and the video
Now how much fun is that ? Your are doing a damn fine boy looks and works pritty good .
отличная работа!!в хозяйстве будет не лишним
Ну как всегда,качество работы на высоте.🖐️👍👍👍
Nice to able to drive the loader inside the work shop.
Wow kudos on the fab work and welding
Perfekt! You do the right things! This problem (remove splitted firewood) is actual for me as well. I will show our hydraulic wood splitter later.
P.S. I see Nova milling machine works on your workshop. Nice!
I need one of those! I was a rough terrain fork lift operator in the Army while in Vietnam and have always wished I had one to use of my own. A small one like this would be perfect. I have tried using my garden tractor hydraulic 3 point hitch to lift with a single pipe fork, but the cross bar that links to the lift is not strong enough and gets a permanent twist. It's not really worth modifying it because it's just not meant to do the things I find I need to do.
Nice to see you using Chinese safety slippers
You do very good work!
You are amazing dude! I get so excited to watch you on Saturdays. I do miss the fact that you don’t speak much anymore.. but that’s not a complaint :D
Was the loader running durring the video.
Maybe someday you can do a video about the buildings. They look different than USA style and it would be interesting to see how they are constructed. The black barn behind the loader when you were trying to lift the first big log looked especially interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
Nice work done! Pretty soon your gonna start industrial firewood processing :)
We did our firewood just recently with less machine power but more people in our country house in Valgamaa.
I'm getting really inspired by your videos and want to start building stuff there as well
Good to see you are wearing your Adidas safety scuffs!
Another fantastic build maybe a weight round the back made from tractor front weights could be a handy way to balance if the machine has sufficient lifting capabilities 👍🏻
Nice job Sir! And as always, quite clever.
I was definitely thinking the forks need to be “tip up” a lot when sitting flat as you can down tilt them but they are at the extent of the up tilt ( if that makes any sense)
But you said as much later in the vid.
Adding weight to the little machine will help alot and low as possible
Perhaps a very thick skid plate?
Anyway you have increased the usability 300% love it well done!
( im struggling with a thumb for my mini excavator as i dont have the matirials)
"your firewood production skill has increased by 100"
Great video ...very informative. In the process of making my own fork attachment.
That 1T container is perfect for testing. Just fill it for example 10 cm at a time and try to lift it. And calculate the result (kg), when you know how much water there can be.
Awsome build as always keep up the amazing work!!!
Another great video. Can't wait to see the next one.
A conveyor from the processor to the crates and maybe a door on the crates to make getting wood out easier and you should be set.
Hi Donn. Looks great. Has always Liked,shared. All my best
If the capability is there then add some weight to the back end as a counter weight. It would make it a bit more stable when you lift. Worth a thought. Cheers.
I agree, definitely tilt the mounting bracket further back if you can.
Constant source of inspiration. Nice work!
Thought you would have built your own skid steer! Great job and thanks for sharing.
For the low cost of used 1T IBC crates (c.€60) , you'd be better off using those than fabricating your own, if you can. Just add some weight to your baby skid steer.
Now you need to build a conveyor for the wood processor and dump the split wood directly into the crate...I built one out of an old hay bale elevator, and dump it directly into an old grain bin...
the skid steer will be handy for cleaning the saw dust off the workshop floor
I see some tracks and rear weights in the near future. 😃🤔
Water barrels? Old simi truck tank? Fill til it balances right?
Great build!
Nice and strong !
Väga asjalik tõstesüsteem tuli välja! Jätka samas vaimus :)
Keep your welder sparking is good to watch
Just buy those water containers but with broken plastics so they are cheap and just wrap some metal net around the frame and then you have good crates for cheap and you can even stack them if you dont overload them
Nice work boots Donn😊👍
Excellent build, I've been looking for videos on this for a spear for large bales of hay. You might consider adding some sort of stop at the edges of the large plate to keep the forks from sliding off; I wouldn't want the fork to land on those Estonian safety shoes you sport at the beginning of the video! :)
Live your safety shoes 😁 nice job
Perhaps you could build steel waterproof lined rectangle boxes that attach to the rear of the loader that you can fill with water & also be able to release the water when not needed to give much needed weight on the rear of the loader. If a higher pressure oil pump is used then you could also increase the loaders lifting power too.
Отличная работа. 👍👍👍👍
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To Quote "a fellow named diamond Dave the angle of the dangle is most important and controlling the angle at which you lift on the load is very important