Re: metal WORKING today

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:100dvck$18gr0$1@dont-email.me...
FYI:  Slip on bucket forks are really handy on a front loader.  If you
only need them once in a while its no big deal to put them on and take
them off, and they are pretty cheap.  They have a couple issues, but if
you don't use them often you can live with it.
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My younger neighbor has slip-on forks for his loader and tried to use them to stack the logs the tree company left in a tangle in my yard. He found they were useless for lifting all but the smallest logs, though he could knock the larger logs around so he played with them for a while. I weighed one he could barely lift at the specified capacity of his tractor, proving its hydraulics were still in good internal condition, if not so pretty externally.
Then I set up my manual hoists and neatly stacked all of them on blocks to cover for winter, including two at ~25' long and over 4000 Lbs each.