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I made a suggestion to be helpful and you want to be a smart arse. Dearborn and Wagner loaders for sale show up around here. I seen two in the last eight months that were bought for less than $600.

A tool or implement are only as good as the guy using it. I knew a one armed man that dug out a basement with a hand shovel... for what it’s worth

Awwww fer Pete's sake. A front loader set up requires hydraulic lines,..a pump,..it's a major undertaking to hook a front loader up to a 1952 8N.

Is it possible?,.....yeah.

But I'm not going to all the trouble and expense of affixing a front loader to an 8N just to move around 4 or 5 yards of topsoil.

I wasn't being a smartass about it. A smartazz would have said:

"That's a fuggin' crazy idea!"

a front loader on an 8N is not the hot setup. Tractor weighs 2200 lbs wet, no power steering, unless you add a front mounted pump driven off the crank you are limited to the gauge tap from the 3 point pump. Basically a 1930's designed garden tractor

I wouldn't call it a "major undertaking" to add a front loader to an 8N.

lol

It's much more of a major undertaking that hooking up a dirt scoop to the 3 point hitch.

Yeh, front loader on a 8N is not a "hot set up", but I did a lot of work with one on the farm before I got a "hot set up" The Wagner loader has a factory front mounted pump. No power steering, but no problem. I found a pair of front tire rims in a bone yard and had a local machine shop cut out the centers and weld to a set of 14" car wheels and put used tires on them. Pulled off the narrow wheels and put them overhead in the shop for the day when I sell the tractor. The setup is flotation rather than the narrow tires digging in and hard to steer with loader weight.

Once you mount a loader you can use it for a plethora of things. A scoop you scoop unless you plant flowers in it.

Hilarious, but true. That's how they end up. Flowerbed lawn ornament may in fact be the scoop's highest utility.

I might be interested in your scoop Blanket. Where are you in Iowa?

Letts rural

Thanks,
Your a little over 2 hours away. I will have to think on it.

OR

Advertised on Craigslist as "Great condition, used very little. $150 firm"

I have one. Used it a lot until I got a tractor with a front end loader.

How's your dirt?

In this area a scoop could work well in some places,
be useless in others. As someone suggested, teeth welded on
would help. Building a ripper would too. Turned around, a scoop
could be used as a platform to haul stuff. Then you could get rid
Of that wheelbarrow

Hire some mexicans, should be plenty around these days.

Bristoe; I’d just rent a compact tractor w/ loader for a day and be done with it.

The implement being called a 'scoop' was called a 'slip', back in the day.

B
Good luck on your search for a 3 point mounted fresno. I have one and have used it extensively hauling gravel from my pit to the access road. Mine is four feet wide and will carry about 1/2 yard of material.

I drag it through the pit and fill it as full as possible, then I get off the tractor and finish filling the box with a shovel. The tractor will obviously not lift this much weight. The unit was designed to be drug,slid over the ground, to the point of dump.

I made use of the fresno because I was moving material 100s of feet. And then we got a larger tractor with a good front end loader.

The prognosticator in me predicts you will buy the "scoop" and quickly discover it will not do anything you could not already do easier and quicker with your terracing blade. Unless you are moving material a great distance.

Unless you wish to invest in this device which will cover as grader and scoop. I used one like this to level three acres of ground including cutting ten feet of elevation from a hill and adding five feet of fill in the low places.