Attachment storage?

[Impulse]

I watched a video from a guy showing his 425 and attachments mm power trac - YouTube

That is a lot of money to just leave sitting around in the dirt...

How do the people here with lots of attachments store them? I was thinking somewhere between scattered-all-over-the-garage-floor and an i.Robot automated parking silo.

 

[jfh28]

I have mine stored on individual furniture dollies in the garage which is heated for easier starting in the winter......the dollies make moving the attachments around easy......Jack

 

[Impulse]

If shelves were made to hold them, how high can the machine reach up while still being able to attach/detach from them?

I'm thinking maybe an enclosed storage rack on exterior of garage.

 

[Avery11]

If shelves were made to hold them, how high can the machine reach up while still being able to attach/detach from them?

I'm thinking maybe an enclosed storage rack on exterior of garage.

This is what I plan to do. A heavy duty rack system to hold each implement on a custom pallet - heaviest on the bottom and the highest according to the limits of my FEL with forks. Of course, I have a small tractor so the implements are fairly manageable.

 

[cqaigy2]

I've thought about the storage rack too, but haven't gotten around to it yet. In the shop, those dollies are very handy to have heavy objects on.

 

[SpringHollow]

I have a pallet rack outside with a roof, removable fiberglass panels on the front, and tarps for sides. The bottom two shelves were for attachments. I used that religiously for a few years but now I usually just leave most implements outside on the ground.

Ken

 

[woodlandfarms]

Yup, all implements on the ground, under come cedar trees. The only two I am bummed about is my mower as with the holes in the deck the water gets into the spindles and the bearings are exposed. And my stump grinder as the bearings are exposed, but a good amount of grease in the fall all is fine.

I understand the wanting to protect, and I do keep my tractor protected when it is being stored (but when it is working, it gets rained on, it gets snowed on and it sits out now and then for a few days at a time).

Storing in a shop or garage is only practical if you have realestate. and in my opinion no very necessary.

Some people tarp, my feeling is that tarping just traps moisture and things rust quicker. Some people store inside, not sure how surface rust effects their implements but some swear it does.

 

[PhysAssist]

Yup, all implements on the ground, under come cedar trees. The only two I am bummed about is my mower as with the holes in the deck the water gets into the spindles and the bearings are exposed. And my stump grinder as the bearings are exposed, but a good amount of grease in the fall all is fine.

I understand the wanting to protect, and I do keep my tractor protected when it is being stored (but when it is working, it gets rained on, it gets snowed on and it sits out now and then for a few days at a time).

Storing in a shop or garage is only practical if you have realestate. and in my opinion no very necessary.

Some people tarp, my feeling is that tarping just traps moisture and things rust quicker. Some people store inside, not sure how surface rust effects their implements but some swear it does.

I generally agree, and we don't have anything except our mid-mount mower that would be harmed by being left out on the ground, but I'm lazy and having everything on dollies is just so much easier- now that we have a smooth concrete floor to roll them over.

If we had pallet shelving, there would be so many other things that I would want or need to put on it that putting attachments on it would be way down the list.

But that's just me.

 

[ponytug]

Having a pallet rack, I would comment that the tractor and the attachment can generate significant amount of downforce. (Attachment, plus tractor weight)

Point being, when trying to drop an attachment off, you may want to have a much heavier duty rack than you might plan on.

All the best,

Peter

 

[fidowanttobe]

I store mine on top of plastic pallets that are setting on the ground. I swap back and forth too often to "put them away" up on a shelf. Besides, I consider my loader as an attachment and is only on the tractor when needed.

 

[BobRip]

I can't post a picture. How!

 

[Wagtail]

Heavy-duty wheeled pallets (some specifically designed) for me.

My sheds floor is a concrete slab and it's a breeze to wheel them into position and attach, both front & back implements. I can also slide all of the un-used implements into one corner of the shed... ganged together in a 'conga line'. Very easy to get at the implement I want when needed.

 

[MossRoad]

I used to keep all my attachments inside a shed. It was easy to put the snow plow in up against the back wall, then the brush cutter, then the small and large buckets (nested) with the pallet forks and misc small attachments in them resting against the back of the brush cutter, with the 60" mower on the PT and rested down on top of it all. That took up about 15' in a 17' shed, so I still had 2' to walk behind it all. Well.... the wife wants to keep the nice car in the garage, so I had to put the stuff in the car garage in the tractor shed, so the tractor shed is now the stuff shed and the implements sit outside behind the garage. I still stack them up to save space and trow a tarp over the top of them. That keeps the rain off. But its not down to the ground, so moisture evaporates and nothing has rusted to speak of, with the exception of one castering wheel tube on one of the attachments (can't recall which one) that made it just about impossible to get the caster pin out. Had to heat and beat for hours. Keep 'em greased fellas!!!

 

[jajiu]

I cut out a section of hillside along my driveway and used Home Depot wall stones to build a storage area for mine. I have to leave them outside, but I put them on 4X4's or pallets and cover them in the winter, except for the snow plow.

 

[Piston]

I would love a nice big shop to store all my implements, but everything I own is outside in the weather. For the amount of money it would cost me to build a large enough implement shop/garage, I could buy brand new implements and scrap the ones I currently own a few times over.

 

[PhysAssist]

Heavy-duty wheeled pallets (some specifically designed) for me.

My sheds floor is a concrete slab and it's a breeze to wheel them into position and attach, both front & back implements. I can also slide all of the un-used implements into one corner of the shed... ganged together in a 'conga line'. Very easy to get at the implement I want when needed.
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Hi Wagtail,

Great minds think alike- 'cause that is exactly what we have been doing- the only oops so far was underestimating the weight rating needed for safe storage of our ballast box.

Luckily for us, the specialty injection molding shop behind my office gets a lot of molds and other equipment delivered on all kinds of oddly shaped and sized pallets, a large number of which come home with me and make great specialty dolly bases among other things.

Where did you source your casters?

I like having things movable, so I'm always looking for more- so far I have gotten them from HF, Northern Tool, Enci, TSC, and anywhere else I can find decent ones for a decent price.

 

[SpringHollow]

Realize if you are storing these on a pallet rack that you have to leave enough room for the tractor to be able to drive forward and back to load and unload the rack. That is a huge amount of space to use up un a barn or shop. I have one inside that is directly accessible via an overhead door that I do not use for anything else so that one only takes up the space of the rack. Another way to reasonably have one inside is at the end of an aisle where you are using the pre-existing aisle for the tractor to move in. The space you need to move in is larger than the rack space. That is why I put a covered rack outside.

And yes, you have to be very careful loading and loading the rack. If you put a large amount of down pressure on the beam, it will bend.

Ken

 

[BobRip]

I have a lean too on my shed. It holds two buckets.

 

[MossRoad]

I'll second the caution on storing attachments on racks and FEL down pressure.... make the rack strong enough to hold the entire weight of the tractor! :laughing: I bent my shelf setting a mower deck down.

 

[frischtr]

An old picture from when I first built the rack...