Fabricating Custom Pallet Forks for Chinese Mini Skid Steer.

Fabricating a custom bracket for John Deere forks to fit my Chinese Mini Skid Steer. They work amazing and a must have for your machine. Your back will thank you.
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[@FirewoodStackingRockstar]

Great job!

[@eddluireg]

Great video thx

[@TheHarlanProject]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@marathonjohnb]

Even though I have a 14,000 lb. all terrain forklift (Bertha), I bought a pair of 48” bolt-on forks for the mini skid. What a waste of money. Could carry around 250 lbs. until I added 350 lbs. of counter-weight. I’ll use them as scrap iron for future projects. I did fabricate a pair of 10’ removable fork extenders for Bertha out of 8” channel iron. Now I can pick-up cars, sheds, or shipping containers. Just an idea for safety, I always cut a radius on any ending edge of metal (your gussets). A rounded edge is easier to fall on then a knife end. All in all, I enjoy the videos.

[@TheHarlanProject]

At the tail end of the video you see me and my wife get off the machine at the same time...I laughed and told her that was lucky! I think we would've tumbled forward had she jumped off before me. It definitely needs counter-weight. Yesterday I lifted a tall item (not too heavy) from my truck and really needed a fork extender for the height. I see that in the future! Thanks for coaching me up on rounding the gussets. One of the reasons I love KZbin...so many great ideas...and I'm humble enough to learn. I did take my grinding wheel to them before painting to soften the knife edge, but I admit they still have a "corner".

[@reungchin]

Remember when I bought my mini skid steer from China, it only cost me pallet forks 140$, 4-1 bucket 350$ , 4extra tires 150$ . Not sure why so high price over there

[@TheHarlanProject]

I sure wish that were the case. Unrelated but related…I listed a modified Jeep with 203k miles and an 8-yr old Honda Pioneer (very clean though) on related Facebook groups. People were killing me about being overpriced. I didn’t think I was based on local listings. Both sold at my ask price to locals. I realized simple supply and demand. We have 20 million people in FL now and 3 million in Orlando MSA. Florida unfortunately has become a very expensive place to live and so everything else follows is my guess. 😭 Thanks for watching!

[@olddirtyburt7522]

Things in demand and the dollar is crap. Everything is going up in price. A 4-in-1 bucket is now 1200 to 2000

[@TheHarlanProject]

@@olddirtyburt7522 😭 life is so expensive

[@reungchin]

@@olddirtyburt7522I figured out, that if u buy direct from the factory in China , it will always be cheaper, even with tax!

[@TheHarlanProject]

@Our Life In Trees just put out a video today about this topic (direct from China vs. American made). I'm with you and land in his camp. I keep planting money trees but they don't produce. Instead hurricanes make money trees...the ones you pay to clean up. LOL