sheepsfoot

[Big Bri]

So i have a chance to buy a Sheepsfoot and i'm wondering how big of one i could pull with my tractor. The one i'm looking at is a double roller. don't know how heavy it is but should find out tonight.
I have a Kubota MX5100. 4wd
Thanks for the help

 

[Bob Rooks]

Double drum sheepsfoot's come in a variety of sizes and weights. You could probably get away with one of the smaller ones.

 

[Big Bri]

Double drum sheepsfoot's come in a variety of sizes and weights. You could probably get away with one of the smaller ones.

Thanks for the reply, I still haven't gotten my return call on the size and weigh. i'm going to be building up a lot in the next couple of months (about a foot and a half) and thought it would be nice to buy this instead of renting.
Brian

 

[houston burt]

i have one thatwas a double some one cut down to one drum. the guys run a concrete company and were going to haul it off for scrap iron got it for cheap it is 6.5-7 foot wide and weight is about 1700-1800 pounds i think is what they told me

 

[Egon]

Some are filled with water for weight.

 

[powerstroke444e]

I would buy it and try but I would bet you end up only using one of the drums as I have pulled double drum rollers and they would push around dozers d5 or d6 on slopes.

 

[MMagis]

Powerstroke444e brings up a very important point. Pulling it is one thing, stopping it from pushing you down a hill is another.

 

[Big Bri]

Powerstroke444e brings up a very important point. Pulling it is one thing, stopping it from pushing you down a hill is another.

I'm lucky there as here in Louisiana. . . at least south LA we have no hills.any way the guy has never called me back so i guess i'll keep looking. he was asking 800 for a double roller sheepsfoot. i think it was about 7 to 8 ft wide.
Thanks for all the advice.
Brian

 

[powerstroke444e]

I have a small 3000lb smooth roller that I use all the time and would love to find a single roller sheeps foot as now I don't have the big toys but find I am wanting a small version of the big ones.

 

[Big Bri]

So i looked at another sheepfoot yesterday, just over 5' wide. i don't think Im going to buy this one because it needed some work. But looking at it and remembering some of your post about stoping it on a slope got me thinking about putting this thing on and off my trailer. I have a deck over goose so the ramps are pretty steep. I think pulling it up won't be a problem. Going down is what consurns me. Is this thing going to pull me off the trailer. . . Being short will it want to jack knife while backing down the ramp. Or am i over thinking this.
Thanks
Brian

 

[Bob Rooks]

You will want to back it onto the trailer, partly because of it's weight and partly because that's the safest way to load and unload.

 

[Big Bri]

You will want to back it onto the trailer, partly because of it's weight and partly because that's the safest way to load and unload.

Thanks
Brian

 

[TRR]

Dang! Where are you finding these rollers? I've been looking for a sheepsfoot in the 2 to 3000 pound range for quite some time now. All I've found is the really big 5' diameter rollers and the little 18 inch roller and nothing in-between. I've checked the big auction houses and that's where I find the big sheepsfoot, but nothing mid-range.

 

[Big Bri]

Dang! Where are you finding these rollers? I've been looking for a sheepsfoot in the 2 to 3000 pound range for quite some time now. All I've found is the really big 5' diameter rollers and the little 18 inch roller and nothing in-between. I've checked the big auction houses and that's where I find the big sheepsfoot, but nothing mid-range.

I've been watching craigslist, ebay and just while driving around looking into fields for old equipment. There was a double roller for sale in baton rouge on craigslist last week for 800. he also had a huge set of disk and two drag line buckets. I called to late on the sheepsfoot. Looked at one the other day that had more welds than steel. He had his drum filled with diesel to keep it from rusting any more. Wanted 1500, was more than i wanted to pay and more than i thought it was worth for the condition it was in.
I started making one last year but stopped when i was told.what i was making wouldn't work. I might finish it as i was almost done. All i had left to do was weld on the feet.

 

[blackie65]

what's a sheepsfoot?

 

[MMagis]

Here's a pic.

 

[blackie65]

thanks.... You mean the big rolly thing with the prongs stickin out of it.
I know what those are

 

[Bob Rooks]

He had his drum filled with diesel to keep it from rusting any more. Wanted 1500, was more than i wanted to pay and more than i thought it was worth for the condition it was in.

It probably had $3,000.00 worth of usable fuel in it, at today's prices.:laughing:

 

[Big Bri]

Here's a pic.

That is a nice one. I haven't come across any that look like that. I like the way it will clean the mud from the roller. All the ones ive looked at have what looks like 1 1/2" round bar for the feet.

 

[Bob Rooks]

Have you seen one of these?
Sheepsfoot Compactor from Guest Industries, Inc.