Dolly for implements

[gsxr1100]

Mine was made as a "quick and dirty" one but never upgraded/updated it.

http://home.comcast.net/~mburnickas/BX22/Backhoe/BH_dolly.html

 

[arleyp]

hello- what a great and informative site. can somebody give me a height from floor to platform for the dolly to hold a snowblower for 2230

 

[Tom_H]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I paid about $20 for a furniture dolly at Harbor Freight. It is rated 1000 lb capacity and worked very well for wheeling my 550 lb. box scraper in and out of a shipping container)</font>

Premade dollies can be inexpensive and an easy way to go. Some implements, though, need a custom design. For my brush cutter, the shape and height had to match the implement. For my rear blade, the body is triangular. There's a groove for the blade, and on the front I have a post with cradle to hold the arm at the perfect height and attitude to dock with the 3ph. I have almost as much fun designing and building dollies as I do driving the tractor. Kind'a gives me excuses to keep buyin' more implements. Tee Hee Hee /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[cisco]

It'd sure be nice to have a "stock" dolly that would hold most implements, but ....... alas, all my implements have different footprints, weights and so on. So, when I finally built a garage with a level floor, I made a dolly for each (brush cutter, box blade, rake, chipper/shredder), except my FEL, which I just drop onto the garage floor. I used 2"X6" planks, screwed together, and 4 large dolly wheels per implement(tried using smaller ones, with 6 wheels instead of 4, but they are harder to push when loaded). Mounted each implement on the 3pt, brought it into the new garage, lowered the implement until it was about 9" above the cement floor, and then configured the planks underneath the implement, plus any special supports needed (e.g., chipper/shredder will tip forward if there isn't a post under the 3pt attachment), and just cut the wood accordingly. Nice evening in the garage, a few beers, lots of music in the background, and now all implements have a "home". Sure beats my prior 4 years of just dropping stuff on the ground, and dreading the crowbar/hammer/swearing that was sometimes needed to remount an implement.