Testing my homemade loader on my JD 318. I hope it holds together!

This is my first attempt to move dirt with my 1984 John Deere 318 garden tractor. I constructed the loader from plans purchased from a user on Facebook. I've used the loader to move heavy stuff around my yard but this is the first time digging with it. It's a bit challenging for me because of control coordination as well as technique of the best ways to use the float function, lift, and curl simultaneously.

[@Raycr]

You're going to have to play with the loader and get used to it. That's a cool little tractor

[@AlexsProjects]

Thanks! Yep, I definitely need more stick time.

[@TasVeziris]

Your ideas are awesome, how can I get a set of plans from you,

[@cory2146]

This is amazing !

[@AlexsProjects]

Thanks!

[@MINItraktor196]

Класс молодец. Я, сам токой, трактор собрал как у тебя😊

[@AlexsProjects]

Thanks!

[@stevenmay8763]

you should have drove with the flow of traffic after all its a peace of farm equipment even if its a garden tractor like that all you need is a smv sign and flashers it has headlights so legally all you need is flashers and a SMV sign because its farm equipment i do farm work with mine i have all the requirements for farm equipment i'm 100% legal because i'm only going 6 miles at the max and most of the time not even that because i go up the road to haul mulch dirt etc. and that's facts small town southern man out,