2-F Front Loader

Leach broadened their product line for 1976 with an all-new front loader, the 2-F. This latest creation of engineer Cyril Gollnick was quite conventional in many ways; a full-pack/full-eject packer body with a three-stage telescopic cylinder, hydraulic hopper doors and a bustle tailgate for increased capacity. Then they added an automatic 'parallelogram' self-leveling fork system very similar to Milton Clar's 1962 E-Z Pack. The system used a pair of bell cranks to which the fork cylinders were mounted. The cranks were actuated by twin links on each lift arm, the rearmost on each side being pivotally attached to the packer body, to impart mechanical movement of the forks as the lift arms were raised. Lift arms had a capacity of 9,000 pounds, and buyers had a choice of a 25 or 31 cubic yard body, which was later joined by a 35 yard model. The 2-F was built through 1990, when it was replaced by the FL-104 series. This 2-F from 1991 has been equipped with triangle coupler for servicing Lodal containers 10/4/09 © 2009 All Rights Reserved Photos from factory brochures/advertisements except as noted Logos shown are the trademarks of respective manufacturers