Hi all,
I have a pair of pallet forks that I want to lengthen the back of to fit my old JCB, like conventional jcb flip over forks. Years back I made a backplate to fit in place of the bucket, which works well, but takes ages to swap over each time I need forks. Hence why I want ones on the bucket when I want them. I live in rural France, I would buy some proper forks if I was in England, but thought I’d adapt these if possible.
Basically I intend cutting the forks off ‘C’, welding a bit of steel in place so they will hang down over the front of the bucket’B’.
I have a sold tool bar which is 3”x3”x 5’, which I was going to use to lengthen the backs, ‘A’.
I was going to butt weld them, any tips guys? Should be strong enough surely?
Fork back Extending
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Re: Fork back Extending
essexpete wrote:Personally I think lengthening might be a bad idea for safety.
Agreed, not a good idea.
Jeremy