Unloading rotary mower

TheMan419 · May 10, 2016

OK, I am for some reason not able to wrap my brain around this.

In process of purchasing a used 5ft rotary mower. Weight of implement will be about 500-600 lbs.

So if I just have the dealer toss it in the back of my pick up, now what? When I get home can I just rachet strap or chain it to the FEL and lift it out of the back of the pick up?

It seems with my Boomer 24 I might not have enough clearance?

Seems a small flat bed trailer is needed?

TripleR · May 10, 2016

I have used a chain hoist and tree limb, lift, drive out from under it, lower.

newbury · May 10, 2016

Your boomer might do it. But I'd plan for a backup on a pair of ramps and a wench with a winch.

Have the wench winch the mower off on the ramps and then hook it up and drive away.

TheMan419 · May 10, 2016

I am not sure the wench I have in mind would want to hook up in the drive way..... and it is gravel so you are going to get beat up....

Handloader109 · May 10, 2016

Have the dealer deliver

BoylermanCT · May 10, 2016

Just lift it a few inches off the pickup bed and then drive the truck forward.

aczlan · May 10, 2016

A engine hoist also works well to lift and let you drive out from under it.

Aaron Z

justinramani · May 10, 2016

+10 on just lifting it enough to drive out from under it. Use a chain and give yourself enough slack. Better yet - borrow a trailer and make it easy on yourself

Foodplot · May 10, 2016

Just to confuse you a bit more: I have two 5-foot rotary mowers. Neither will fit into the bed of my Silverado 2500. They're too wide by a couple of inches. So, they'll have to go in at an angle, or set on top of the bed walls or on a couple of boards across the top of the bed.