How do you store your attachments? Stacking options?

[ishiboo]

Don't store your stuff on treated lumber, unless you use a barrier between it and the steel. Plain wood is the best.

 

[DocDryden]

My attachments are stored inside a pole barn with a concrete floor and some are stored on pallet racks.
I use dollies for the attachments that are stored on the floor.









The dollies I use are from HFT.

 

[chrisclark]

When figuring the depth, remember that the PTO shaft will hang over the front of the implement unless you take it off each time (some do, but I never do).

I hadn't considered that. Thanks. Definitely want to keep the PTO shafts in good condition.

Make it tall enough for room for your ROPS when you back in to attach an implement, and for your tallest implement. In my case that's the chute on the chipper, which just fits after I cut 6" out of it.

I think I'll wait until I have the tractor and initial implements so I can measure them. I'd been considering making the sheds barely larger than implement size, but I'd forgotten that the back tires sit back behind the tractor a bit and might interfere with getting close enough to the implement to attach.

Shelves are very handy for getting small stuff off the floor. We have two over the rotary cutter bay which are full of garden stuff, and some racks in other bays to keep long poles. I'd wonder about access to them if you intend to keep loader implements there - won't you have to first move whatever is in front of them?

My general plan had been to store nothing these mini-sheds but implements. Each unit would have room for a 3PH implement on the ground (supported by 6x6 wood blocks?) and a shelf for a FEL attachment. I imagine it would work out somewhat like the bottom left 4 shelves (2 bays wide x 2 bays high) in DocDryden's photos. Since he uses dollies, I assume there wouldn't be enough space to attach the 3PH to the tractor. I possibly need a new plan here.

If I use dollies, then I might need to pour a concrete pad. It looks like pneumatic casters might work well on dirt/gravel, but keeping them inflated might be a hassle. It seems like every time I use my hand truck, I have to inflate the tires. Hmm... back to the drawing board.

Don't store your stuff on treated lumber, unless you use a barrier between it and the steel. Plain wood is the best.

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Thankyouthankyouthankyou! I would have used exterior lumber because it's outside. I looked it up, and steel seems to corrode 5x faster when in contact with pressure treated lumber. It looks like the common chemical mixes used for pressure treated lumber involve copper, which I suppose gives it its green color. I suppose galvanic corrosion (like when aluminum touches steel on some trailers) is at work. The entire inside and any blocks or dollies would have to be plain wood.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[trihounds]

Here is my approach, not dissimilar from others'.

 

[k0ua]

My attachments are stored inside a pole barn with a concrete floor and some are stored on pallet racks.
I use dollies for the attachments that are stored on the floor.


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The dollies I use are from HFT.

40 yards penalty for excessive neatness!

 

[windy acers]

Here's a somewhat smaller version I built several years ago. It has bays for four implements plus a small closed room with a toilet that's tightly closed and heated above freezing, so works great for storing seeds, garden chemicals, etc.
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But since the "toy" collection tends to grow, you never have enough stalls. So I built dollies for each tool that both make it easier to hook up and lets me slide them in tighter to fit more in:

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Terry

PERFECT THIS IS WHAT I DID

 

[candoarms]

I store my PTO driven implements inside, on dollies. I can roll them around on the concrete floor, making it possible to easily access any implement I want, while also being able to store them in such a way as to take up as little floor space as possible.

It never fails though.......the one I want is always way in the back and I end up rolling most of the others out of the way in order to get to the one I want.....but this is the best system I've come up with to this point.

Joel

 

[Underdog57]

My attachments are stored inside a pole barn with a concrete floor and some are stored on pallet racks.
I use dollies for the attachments that are stored on the floor.


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The dollies I use are from HFT.

I have a Yamaha Moto4 exactly like that, bought it brand new in 1986!!

 

[DocDryden]

I have a Yamaha Moto4 exactly like that, bought it brand new in 1986!!

I bought mine new in 1987, I just keeps going. The only issues I have had is the Reverse Handle / Lever broke off

 

[DocDryden]

40 yards penalty for excessive neatness!

LOL............ You should have seen it before I got the racks.... better yet give it 6 months