Titan Attachments Medium-Duty 60" Clamp-on Pallet Forks, 46" x 4" Fork Length, Rated 4,000 LB, Easy to Install on Loader or Skid Steer Bucket

My review will be a little bit different than most peoples, but I feel this is important for people looking at pallet forks.I received these last Friday the 18th and put them on my 1997 Ford/New Holland 1720 tractor 4x4 with a 7108 bucket so that I can move steel H beams and 6"x8"x6' timbers for a retaining wall I'm building. The forks I bought are rated at 1500#'s which is about 500#'s more then my tractor is rated to pick up with the bucket, so just about perfect. The 20 H beams are 7' long and weigh 175#'s a piece, so I loaded up 4 on the pallet forks (700#'s total weight of steel) and headed down the slight hill in my pasture to the pallet where they will be closer to where the retaining wall is being built. As I was going down the hill the tractor started going to my left and the rear started to swing around so that I was now sideways on the hill and the tractor was going nose first into the ground. I jumped/got launched to the left as it was going over and got shot into the back of the bucket that was now on the ground. The tractor did not roll over as I expected and was still up in the air being held up by the forks and right front tire. I had the wind knocked out of me and sore as hell the next day, but nothing broken and no stitches. I got real lucky. Like play the lotto lucky.What went wrong? Me being stupid is the simple answer. Loading 700#'s of steel, or whatever on those forks and not adding some type of ballast to the rear of the tractor was stupid. The other major problem was me pulling down on the loaded handle expecting it to lower the forks when down is up, and up is down on most tractors. If it didn't tip forward I probably would have 1-4 175# beams coming right at my face due to my lack of experience with frontend loaders. I have close to 200#s of wheel weights on the rear and I don't think that even if I had a liquid ballast in the tires that would have made much of a difference in my situation. This weekend a 55gal barrel will be full of concrete and attached to the rear of my tractor.The forks did not bend or deform while holding up my 4000lb tractor for 20 minutes and it took me about 10 minutes to install them on the bucket and get them hooked up to my chains. They worked great and I have no qualms telling people that they are great for the price and are easy to install.*Update*I've had these now for four years and they are doing great and I'm still alive. I've added 500lbs of rear ballast to the tires and now hook up a six foot brush hog when doing any heavy lifting. We use these all of the time for picking up welders, 4x4x8 bales of hay, picking up trailers, and anything else you can think of. Neither one is bent and for the most part are still level but that could be from the bottom of my bucket being dented now. The only two things that I would change is the height of the handles so that I'm not loosing anymore skin off my knuckles, and a larger pad on the rearmost part of the forks that contact the bottom of the bucket. Just a little narrow for my taste by nothing that I can't fix with a little bit of welding and a 1/4" piece of scrap plate.

I installed these on my Massey Furgeson GC 1725. Install was quick and easy. The Massey has a bucket that is nearly an inch thick so I have had issues with some other bucket attachment items. Not these. They slip on easy and clamp down secure. I got the spreader bar with mine and it keeps the forks from swaying or bowing in or out. The forks work very well and far exceed the capacity of my tractor so I'm not worried about them bending or breaking. Welds were all down nice and beefy and there are no cracks or missing spots. Even the paint job is well done. I lifted some branches with zero issues, and even tested it out on a 400 Lbs kids fort I built years ago. The forks are hard to see when the bucket is lowered or tipped down but with some back rails and practice this will be easy to use (I have run a fork truck, and loaders with SSQA forks so I do have experience with fork use). I only need forks once in a while and this represents an amazing deal for occasional use fork needs.

I would have given 5 starts, really 4 1/2. The support bar between the forks needed all of the holes to be cleaned out with a tap, 12 x 1.75 and a new bolt that was stripped. Not that big of a deal. The forks are beefy and welds good. These are quit heavy, the 2000 pound forks might be lighter. Used these for tree and brush pick up. Work great. Moving around 2-3" limbs and 12-20" tree trunks with ease, forks hold on nice. Using these on a Kobota L2900. A bigger tractor would have a heavy or thicker bucket. These are a bit heavy for this tractor, but work fine.

I'll get my complaints out of the way first, as I don't want people to get the wrong idea about the intended purpose of these. First, you can't see them at all when you're trying to maneuver, especially when the bucket is low to the ground, but if you take your time and get on and off the machine repeatedly, you can use it like a genuine fork truck and lift loaded pallets off of trucks, set them on the ground and vice versa. Second, I didn't find much use for the stabilizer bar. In fact you lose fork length with them, and they don't seem to hold the forks straight anyway unless you clamp the forks down hard. Third, the forks are fat top to bottom as compared to a regular fork, so if you want to drive the forks under the grooves cut into the side of a pallet, they will not fit. They'll only go through the top and bottom boards.All that said, I love these things. They come in so handy around the property with all of my recent construction projects. I've moved pallets of delivered materials, picked up bags of sand and stone off my truck from the supply store using a single fork through the bag handles, they're easy to wrap a chain around instead of going over the bucket to the chain anchor (and they give you more reach for those hard to get into spots to pick rocks, then a curl of the bucket slides the piece in close for the drive away). They're not designed to be a purpose built fork attachment, they're designed to be a make-do for an occasional need, and they do that extremely well considering the price. They have saved me countless man hours in loading and unloading materials.I find that carrying around a cheap dead-blow hammer in the bucket for attaching and removing is the best way to get them on and off. Also, unless you want to keep your forks on all the time and keep them at a standard width, I wouldn't bother with the spreader bar. It just gets in the way and takes forever to adjust. If you clamp these things down using the above-mentioned dead blow, they aren't going anywhere. I accidentally tagged the edge of the bumper of my full size pickup truck with one of these while the e-brake was on and in gear, and it pushed the truck like 5 feet without moving the fork left or right, no spreader attached. I've had as much as my loader will pick without tipping the machine on these, and it's rated for 3800 lbs. No signs of stress to the forks. I was a little skeptical when I saw them for the first time in person, but they're the real deal and will take some serious weight.