Implement transport dollies

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Arcane said:
Pineridge:
Handsome dolly there, but I don't have the welding equipment or skills. Do you think it possible to do that with hardwood and more weightbearing wheels, or are the weights too great and too concentrated?

rk

RK I do think it possible to use lumber instead of steel as long as it's braced properly. Might also recommend using 4 X 4 or even 6 X 6 lumber as a base.
 
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I use pallets and pallet jacks to move stuff under my tractor. Must be the trucker in me
 
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I wish I could use dollies for my implements but my camp does not have a level piece of dirt on it. My dirt camp is either too muddy or soft to roll anything around. That means my implements get "stuck" even more, so I do like Timber. Pat's EZ hitch really made things 10 times easier to hook up but #1 is still to drive up straight to the implement.

For really stubborn applications I mounted a swiveling eye bolt and use a come-along to help align the implements. LOL...When I first got my backhoe, I didn't realize to hook up the hydraulics and move it into position that way...duh. But the eye bolt and come-along help with other things too. When I get a level concrete pad I'll build dollies. I think they are a great idea.

 
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It doesn't even have to be level, Rob, although since you will be making a new one, I'd certainly recommend you try to get it level. My corncrib, where the tractor and implements are is older than dirt. That concrete floor might be close to 100 years old. Maybe older. It has hills, valleys, pieces sticking up and those dollies move fine on it. I should post a pic of where the rotary cutter is because the floor is so slanted it is actually funny. I wonder if you could get away with this idea on a fairly level graveled area? All you really need these dollies to do is shift side to side, forward and back a little. Although I seem to be able to push them around quite a bit on my crummy floor. Easiest way I've ever moved anything that weighs over 300lbs.
 
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roxy,
Sorry, I guess I should not have used only "level" to describe. I should have stated the dirt is not "hard" enough to roll small dolly wheels on. With any load at all, they dig right into the soft dirt or mud or loose sand, so I am stuck.:confused:
If it was hard like you describe it will work even if not level...true. But if it's soft, no way. I have several carts with dolly wheels on them to load an unload the Blazer when I get to camp. I've dumped them over many times (duh, when will I learn?) either pushing or pulling them because the wheels dig into the ground. Even my moving dolly with Ø8" wheels gets stuck sometimes. That's what I meant to say... (didn't do a very good job of it earlier did I?)
 
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I'm on clay. It varies from being total slop that can pull your shoes off your feet to being hard as cement. Those implements were out in my driveway for a couple months until I rearranged the corncrib to bring them in and none of them sunk. Does sound like you need a cement pad at the least or a shed with a thick gravel floor. Provided the floor didn't get wet it wouldn't sink, would it? I put a foot deep of gravel in my pole barn to get the floor higher, then because my horses live there I put in rubber stall matts and old conveyor belt in the walkway to keep them off the gravel. But there is still gravel where stuff is stored and none of it has sunk.
 
 
 
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