So I spent fathers day weekend cutting and splitting firewood for next winter, almost done. At one point i was backing up and turning and there was an ominous shudder and one of the front tires pulled a patch of grass off ( a huge NONO here at my house ). I didn't like the feeling but couldn't see anything wrong. It happened again on the next load ( I move a large pallet full from splitter to drying shed on my Artillian forks and a carryall I made from scraps) so I stopped the tractor and looked around till I figured out the bracket that folds under the front end and I guess is used for holding up the loader when it's not on the tractor (not owning a snow blower I don't know why anyone would want to take off the loader):laugh: was bent up and left little clearance for turning tires. So I got a chain and pulled the bar forward and got back some clearance. There was a thread about this some time ago on a new tractor and I looked at mine at the time, the 90 degree bend from horizontal to vertical was already over bent and missing paint similar to this other posters. Obviously sometimes there is an object on the ground (firewood) that this bar hits and it is not strong enough to resist so it bends. Sorry to take so long to get to my question which is. When the storage bracket has not been bent approximately what is the angle between the horizontal and vertical bends at the front of the tractor? I would like to restore the proper angle and weld a gusset plate in there so it takes a little more abuse than originally designed for. Thanks for listening.
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