Those who have read my intro. will know that I bought a Hydrema Weimar M1500 last year, to replace my JCB 3CX, which had become 'outgunned' on a.n.other project of mine, digging out a large bank to provide a flat area of ground on which to build my new 'toy shed'.
Well I had an urgent need for a set of forks for the 'Drema as I had a great deal of 'stuff' sat about on pallets and a man has to have a set of forks for his machine
The friend who had collected my machine from the other side of the country for me, with his lorry, also knew ' a man needs forks' and had put an old fork carriage on his truck, from his yard, before setting off to collect my Duck from Norwich.
It was a pleasant surprise when Paul arrived, not only with my duck and buckets, but the makings of a set of forks too!!
being just a carriage, from an old masted forklift, they were going to need 'some attention' to make them usable on the 'Drema.
Some of you may have seen another thread I started this evening in the 'projects' forum, but for those who haven't, I recycled a piece of 20mm plate from a.n.other piece of kit that I had and was dismantling, to use for the main pick up plates!
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Again, if you've read my intro, you'll know that i no longer have the facilities that i once had and am working on a bench at home with rudimentary tools only
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Having set out and cut the original plate strategically, to utilise it to its best, profiled some 70mm pin holes in the appropriate locations and put the fork carriage on the bench, I set it all out for assembly
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I've had to weld these up with an inverter stick set as my MIGs are all 3 phase and I'm still looking for a decent generator to provide me with 3 ph - all domestic services are 1 ph in the UK !!
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I had originally planned to fit fixed pins to these with a narrower cheek spread, but had a re-think, so they will be 'bossed' eventually.
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The front pin is only a 65mm one as I didn't have a spare 70mm at the time andwas waiting for a bar of 70mm BDMS en10 to turn up to make some extras with.
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I at least had them usable for now, but had more to do with them, before they were finished!