The included video illustrates a recent repair to my compact New Holland tractor front loader. While using the tractor last week to move snow, I noticed the loader was flexing and twisting in an unusual fashion. Upon inspection, I discovered the left horizontal loader arm had begun to fail. That is, the flat steel of the arm literally began to rip right next to the weld seam where the arm abuts the rear vertical loader member. It hadn’t completely failed, but was close. This actually happened to the mirror-image right loader arm a few years ago and I had it repaired in a similar fashion to this unit. Consequently I’ve been watching the left arm for signs of failure and until this event, had not detected anything. I did a complete preventative maintenance routine on the tractor and loader this past fall and inspected it then and found nothing obvious. I surmise that when it reached the point of failure, through probable metal fatigue, it went quickly.