6011Artist
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- Joined
- Aug 17, 2008
- Messages
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- Location
- Darlington, SC
- Tractor
- 1957 Ferguson 35, 1977? Yanmar 2200, 1963 Cub Cadet Original
After I posted I researched your posting name and realize you are pretty handy with a welder, have sheep, sawmill, dumptruck, polebarn and lots of implements. You say you have 40 acres, so the playground is big enough to get use out of it.
When I was putting up my fences I had an old Datsun Diesel King Kab truck that became basically my fencing truck. No insurance/tags, but I had a rig I built that fit the reciever style hitch I fabbed up out of 2 in tubing that had a roll of high tensel electric wire on one side and a smaller size wire on the other. Easy to back truck into right position and attach wire and drive off rolling out wire or pull it by hand back to the other corner. I kept all my fencing supplies in it and it saved a lot of daily loading/unloading. Kept it loaded til all fences were up. So you could choose a chore for it to be loaded to do.
If I had it, would use it to keep yard maintenance tools in it. Rakes, shovels, weedeaters, chainsaw, pole saw, axes. When I needed to do that type of work, everything is loaded and out of the weather. Finished for the day, shut the door and go inside, tools already stored.
With a dumptruck/loader/sawmill, keep all your oils/fluids in it so you can drive to where you need them. Keeps your buckets out of the weather and out of your pickup.
With 40 acres and a sawmill, sounds like it would make a pretty good rolling tool box. Keep things in it for fence repair, maintenance, even build a pipe rack type of platform on it from the 4 corners and have a solid built drivable scaffold for working on lights in the top of a barn or shelter or drive it along the side to stand on to reach an eve. Mount a regular vise off of one post and a pipe vise from the other, always nice to have a vise handy even out in the field. I would think it would make some sort of off road maintenance/support vehicle that you could keep loaded and make daily tasks easier.
Rusty? Who cares? Go to wally world and buy rattle can camoflage paint to spray your welds or add ons and the body too as far as that goes to make it look like a woodsmans vehicle instead of an old car. If mom is just taking it off the road, it surely is roadworthy enough for off road use for a few years. Rip out all the seats other than the front one to give more storage/ hauling space.
You got enough going on within that 40 acres that you can utilize a free 4wd vehicle till something major breaks on it, then scrap it out.
When I was putting up my fences I had an old Datsun Diesel King Kab truck that became basically my fencing truck. No insurance/tags, but I had a rig I built that fit the reciever style hitch I fabbed up out of 2 in tubing that had a roll of high tensel electric wire on one side and a smaller size wire on the other. Easy to back truck into right position and attach wire and drive off rolling out wire or pull it by hand back to the other corner. I kept all my fencing supplies in it and it saved a lot of daily loading/unloading. Kept it loaded til all fences were up. So you could choose a chore for it to be loaded to do.
If I had it, would use it to keep yard maintenance tools in it. Rakes, shovels, weedeaters, chainsaw, pole saw, axes. When I needed to do that type of work, everything is loaded and out of the weather. Finished for the day, shut the door and go inside, tools already stored.
With a dumptruck/loader/sawmill, keep all your oils/fluids in it so you can drive to where you need them. Keeps your buckets out of the weather and out of your pickup.
With 40 acres and a sawmill, sounds like it would make a pretty good rolling tool box. Keep things in it for fence repair, maintenance, even build a pipe rack type of platform on it from the 4 corners and have a solid built drivable scaffold for working on lights in the top of a barn or shelter or drive it along the side to stand on to reach an eve. Mount a regular vise off of one post and a pipe vise from the other, always nice to have a vise handy even out in the field. I would think it would make some sort of off road maintenance/support vehicle that you could keep loaded and make daily tasks easier.
Rusty? Who cares? Go to wally world and buy rattle can camoflage paint to spray your welds or add ons and the body too as far as that goes to make it look like a woodsmans vehicle instead of an old car. If mom is just taking it off the road, it surely is roadworthy enough for off road use for a few years. Rip out all the seats other than the front one to give more storage/ hauling space.
You got enough going on within that 40 acres that you can utilize a free 4wd vehicle till something major breaks on it, then scrap it out.
