I bought the Search Results for trailer mover at Tractor Supply Co. one for $200 (minus a few pennies) a couple of days ago.
I have a Century C42 with the Humpolec HL loader - that wouldn't lift my goose neck horse trailer off its landing gear.
I know, I know, doing that unsecured in the bucket could have resulted in the goose coupler sliding sideways and possibly tipping me over when it got to the end.
I have a little more lift on the 3 point and that doesn't have a several hundred pound bucket penalty, so I got this gadget.
I still don't have enough lift, but I can get by if I use all the lift I have, then push down on the bucket to raise the tractor's front wheels, give the 3 point all the lift I have, then raise the bucket.
This probably overloads the rock shaft, but so does adding a load to an already raised 3 point.
Anyway it worked, but has the following limitations;
1) the ROPS taps the front of the trailer when the rig is barely folded 45 degrees.
Surprisingly this isn't a TOTAL disaster since it is at the rounded corner of the trailer, there is some slack in the ROPS tower and if I keep folding the trailer's corner just passes into the ROPS hoop.
2) I can't see the trailer's wheels until the rig is folded up quite a bit - this MATTERS when trying to slot the trailer into a spot.
By the time I can see my pivot point I can see that I missed it.
IF I folded the ROPS the trailer would probably clear the remaining bottom half of the ROPS, but I have my supplementary hydraulic levers mounted on that and I didn't allow any hose loops for folding.
This is a very occasional use thing on the goose neck trailer, but for straight and almost straight backing I would LIKE to have mirrors.
My C42 has the little glass windows in front of my feet and the frames for those have sockets that look a LOT like they were intended for ...something, maybe mirrors ?
Issue:
Side to side the sockets on those window frames are just about 4 ft apart.
If I want to see both sides of the trailer when backing straight I need 8 ft 6in between mirrors - probably 8 ft 6in between centers, so 9 ft overall.
That is going to have to FOLD and the weight of mirror heads that far out is going to be whippy at best.
Questions:
Anyone done this ?
Is there a Kukje/Century/Branson mirror kit for this ? - - and is it WIDE enough ?
PS Looking back on it the trailer/ROPS interference MIGHT be solvable with a longer top link.
I can't use chain in place of the top link since I have to PUSH on it.
I have a Century C42 with the Humpolec HL loader - that wouldn't lift my goose neck horse trailer off its landing gear.
I know, I know, doing that unsecured in the bucket could have resulted in the goose coupler sliding sideways and possibly tipping me over when it got to the end.
I have a little more lift on the 3 point and that doesn't have a several hundred pound bucket penalty, so I got this gadget.
I still don't have enough lift, but I can get by if I use all the lift I have, then push down on the bucket to raise the tractor's front wheels, give the 3 point all the lift I have, then raise the bucket.
This probably overloads the rock shaft, but so does adding a load to an already raised 3 point.
Anyway it worked, but has the following limitations;
1) the ROPS taps the front of the trailer when the rig is barely folded 45 degrees.
Surprisingly this isn't a TOTAL disaster since it is at the rounded corner of the trailer, there is some slack in the ROPS tower and if I keep folding the trailer's corner just passes into the ROPS hoop.
2) I can't see the trailer's wheels until the rig is folded up quite a bit - this MATTERS when trying to slot the trailer into a spot.
By the time I can see my pivot point I can see that I missed it.
IF I folded the ROPS the trailer would probably clear the remaining bottom half of the ROPS, but I have my supplementary hydraulic levers mounted on that and I didn't allow any hose loops for folding.
This is a very occasional use thing on the goose neck trailer, but for straight and almost straight backing I would LIKE to have mirrors.
My C42 has the little glass windows in front of my feet and the frames for those have sockets that look a LOT like they were intended for ...something, maybe mirrors ?
Issue:
Side to side the sockets on those window frames are just about 4 ft apart.
If I want to see both sides of the trailer when backing straight I need 8 ft 6in between mirrors - probably 8 ft 6in between centers, so 9 ft overall.
That is going to have to FOLD and the weight of mirror heads that far out is going to be whippy at best.
Questions:
Anyone done this ?
Is there a Kukje/Century/Branson mirror kit for this ? - - and is it WIDE enough ?
PS Looking back on it the trailer/ROPS interference MIGHT be solvable with a longer top link.
I can't use chain in place of the top link since I have to PUSH on it.