RE: (ET) [ET] bucket loader pix

[Larry Elie <lelie ford com>]

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From:   Pieter Litchfield[SMTP:plitch ibm net]
Sent:   Tuesday, January 19, 1999 2:56 PM
To:     electrak discussion list
Subject:        (ET) [ET] bucket loader pix

;I have a bucket loader on an E-15.  I note that a few of us have never 
seen one up close, so I put a couple of rough ;pix up on a web site.

;http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/lane/8670

;There are two pictures if you look all around.  I will fix the page soon, 
but I saw a request for pix, so here they are - ;from the owner's manual.  
Not a GE accessory, this loader was made by EG&W manufacturing in Eagle 
Grove IA.  It ;was a plug-in electric hydraulic with a quick on/off fram 
feature.  I can get mine on or off in a matter of a few minutes.  ;But 
then what do you do with it!

;Pieter

;One 

One assumes that since EG&W doesn't exist anymore (by simple Altavista 
search) that they were bought 
out.  I have seen slightly similar systems on Bollens, John Deere and 
Troy-Built garden equipment, albeit 
using the built-in hydraulics.  Expensive.  Some rentals have them.  
Similar systems, with a separate engine 
running a hydraulic pump, are sold today through Northern Tool & Equipment 
(used to be Northern Hydraulic).  
Most of the current small backhoes are toe-behind models.  

BTW, Pieter, it looks like fun, but what DO you do with it?

Larry Elie