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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 90408" data-attributes="member: 12954">I removed the attachment plate off the loader a couple days ago and got a chance to look at it close. It's been beat up and wallowed out, as well as a really amateurish welding job for a fairly bad previous repair. I considered freshening it up, but I decided that it was working well enough and punted in favor of higher priorities. Then I realized that it would be fairly easy to just toss it out and buy a standard quick-attach latch plate pair and make it fit the machine. Since the machine is such light-duty to begin with, the least expensive version of those latch plates available will be well-suited.So I guess after all I will be repairing a really loose chain of attachment points and updating the machine at the same time.Also, I figured out that I can make one plate fit to both buckets with the original pin-on configuration so that can be interchanged between the two in about 2 minutes as needed. The forks have the standard 16" rail design, so the other plate will be dedicated to the forks and I can make an easy slide-on mount to suit the 16" rail for an easy way to attach both the auger and a hitch ball, so that will be an easy way to give it triple-duty. Thus I'll be able to attach all my stuff using only two plates. This negates the practicality of an automatic, don't-leave-yer-seat attachment switching, but I don't think the benefit of that would be significant anyway.It will be a Swiss Army loader !!I promise that pictures will be posted as soon as there is something to see.</blockquote>

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