IMPLEMENT STORAGE

[TwinWillows]

Interesting as I have the same tractor & many of the same implements. The tractor is stored in the hallway of the barn & all the implements are outside on pallets on gravel along the N side of the barn. W/o the tracctor my stuff covers something like 48 x 12 pretty easily (w/room to walk around each item on all 4 sides).

If I was going to put everything inside, & allow room for manouvering the tractor I'd go no less than 40 x 30 & use warehouse shelving to stack the lighter stuff above the heavy items. I'd want minimum 10ft ceiling but 12ft would be better. My 0.02$.

 

[flINTLOCK]

I found a local guy that had a line on a 20 X 30 quanset style prefab steel with all hardware for much less than half price because it was bought by another, partially paid for, then abandoned. I'll have to figure out how to make that size floor space work. At least some of the implements on dollies. Not sure how high you can lift 3-pt attachments to use shelf storage. I guess I could look into lift forks for FEL to help place them. But then I'll need floor space to store those lift forks. Oh, well, looks like another opportunity.

 

[KYErik]

From time to time I see ads in the local "trader" classifieds about large grain bins for $100-$500 if you take them down. It would be lots of work to safely get one down, but you would have plenty of panels to make several low quanset style huts say 5-6 feet tall if you used a few fenceposts inside for some crude framing.

 

[rpeter]

For a disk you build a pipe assembly on dollies. It looks like a coat rack. Then you hand the disk on the pipe with two chains.

 

[Tom_H]

I have a 3 car garage with some extra space on some of the sides and at the front. The tractor stays in 1 bay and the 2 cars in the other.

Most implements are on dollies. PHD is removed by a little rolling gantry which supports a chain hoist, and is then bolted to wall. I also have an electric hoist suspended in the trusses. I use this to lift the rear blade from its dolly, roll the rough cutter beneath it, and set the rb piggyback on the rc. This rolls to a storage location. The carry-all has casters bolted on the fork bottoms and so the carry-all forks roll underneath the dolly for the rc. This stores 3 implements vertically in 1 location. The elec. hoist also allows me to lift the MMM and put on storage wheels in winter for it to be stored on its side (Larry at moweraxle.com). The MMM dolly and rb dolly then also sit atop the rc and rb.

When it's time to change an implement, the cars go out of the garage (easily-obviously), which then leaves plenty of room to move implements around on dollies (also have chipper, dirt scoop, box blade, tiller on dollies, but no dolly for FEL). It's very easy to roll anything right up to 3ph and attach quickly; no back wrenching motions-just a touch with the pinkie to align attachments.

Elec. hoist is also handy when time to sharpen MMM blades and would be handy if you needed to pull tractor engine, etc.