DIY Power Barrow

[kmaher]

For those of you that have made a power barrow, what have you used to attach to the BCS quick coupler on the tractor?
Do you use just a piece of 2" pipe? or do you machine down a section of 2 1/2" pipe to fit?

My concern is that the 2" pipe will have too much slop, anybody ever broken a female coupler because of too much play between the two?

I see EarthTools, has a blank you can purchase. but what's the fun of that.

I'm looking to make a flat bed, much like the DR. Power wagon. Main use will be for hauling bales of hay and firewood.

thanks for the help.

 

[NibbanaFarm]

I machined one. It took a long time. And I had to buy a piece of steel at the scrap yard, and cut it to length on the power hacksaw because they cut it with a torch. Which took a long time. Then it had to be bored out because it was a solid round. It didn't seem like there was any pipe available that would work size wise. I couldn't figure out an easy way to make one. The one for $40 at earthtools sounds like a pretty good deal.

If you could find a very heavy walled pipe to make it out of it would be a lot easier.

 

[Nsewell]

I have a Grillo g110 and a 2'' pipe is about .020 too big. I am thinking about making a power Barrow too. I am gonna try to make a peice of sch 80 2'' work for a quick hitch.

 

[NibbanaFarm]

I forget what the dimensions are. I'd be interested to know if you can get both diameters out of a piece of sched 80 pipe. I thought I looked at it and it wasn't thick enough though.

I think it might have been quicker to weld too pieces of pipe together and then cut the diameters.

 

[Nsewell]

The Grillo is only 1 diameter

 

[MossRoad]

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[kmaher]

After much thought and scrounging I built my powe barrow/hauler.
With credit to Old Mech, cmyoung and one or two others, mine is alive.

It was easier to purchase an adapter from Earthtools, I tried to machine one from some sch 80 pipe, but ran into an issue with my lathe. Sch 40 was too thin, so a chunk of sch 80 is need for future reference.

So far it works great, I know it has more capacity than the bcs can handle,but I wanted my wife to be able to move two hay bales at once.

Does anyone know what is the max weight cap of the bcs is,don't want to crack my housing?

 

[cmyoung2]

Very cool, something else for me to copy:laughing: Looks very good for carrying wood and hay bales, I need it for the wood.. My barrow works great for mulch, dirt, rocks. I don't know what the weight limit is, don't think I've come close, even with full loads of rock or gravel. When you look at it, the main weight is probably on the barrow wheels, not the BCS. Only time I would worry about breaking something is traversing a slope and rolling the rig, and even then, after the rollover and everything was "unloaded", just push it back upright and went on. Probably couldn't do that with a regular tractor

 

[joecoin]

Looks good. Where'd you get the front casters?

 

[cmyoung2]

Two questions. Is it a dump? What are the bed dimensions? And again, I really doubt it has more capacity than the BCS can handle.

 

[kmaher]

The Casters are a pair of 12" No Flat pneumatics from Northern Tool they were on clearance for about $15/EA 450 Lb capacity each.

The bed is 48"x 37" ( I had some 36" 2x6 drops to use for the floor). The frame is made from 2x3-1/2 x 5/16 angle, (overkill but its what i had)

The bed kind of dumps, but not really, it pivots on a section of 1-1/4" pipe that is at the frames 1/3 point. I'll try to get pictures latter today.

 

[Nsewell]

I have been planning to build one. I have been looking for a used wheel barrow. I saw one beside a dumpster Sunday. I looked at it and it was in great shape just had a flat tire (l don't need it anyway). We were in my wife's car so I was going to get my truck, we live close I was back less than 3 minutes and it was gone! Just my luck. I like the looks of the flat bed anyway. Nice work.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Kinda works

Doubles as impromptu flail mower.

 

[joecoin]

Yeah, I've been using my brush mower to haul logs but i think I'm pushing my luck.

 

[PILOON]

A friend of mine is in the process of building a powered barrow.
He is using a snowblower as the power source extended up front with asingle swivel 8" wheel.
He is making it dump to the side with a custom built 'tub'.
I'll try to grab a few pics next time I see him.

 

[Gary Fowler]

After much thought and scrounging I built my powe barrow/hauler.
With credit to Old Mech, cmyoung and one or two others, mine is alive.

It was easier to purchase an adapter from Earthtools, I tried to machine one from some sch 80 pipe, but ran into an issue with my lathe. Sch 40 was too thin, so a chunk of sch 80 is need for future reference.

So far it works great, I know it has more capacity than the bcs can handle,but I wanted my wife to be able to move two hay bales at once.

Does anyone know what is the max weight cap of the bcs is,don't want to crack my housing?


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Don't know about the weight, but why do you have your tires on backward?

 

[cmyoung2]

Don't know about the weight, but why do you have your tires on backward?

Don't know about kmaher, but mine are backwards about half the time cause I don't rotate tires every time I change implements.

 

[joecoin]

Don't know about kmaher, but mine are backwards about half the time cause I don't rotate tires every time I change implements.

I only use front mounted implements, and my tires are mounted the same way. That's so I have more traction in reverse, for backing up hills that I mow to the edge of a drop off.