How do you store your attachments? Stacking options?

   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #1  

chrisclark

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Cheyenne, WY
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LS XR4046HC
We're in the process of purchasing a tractor and a couple of 3-point-hitch implements (mower, rear blade, hopefully a land plane). It seems like it would be a good idea to keep them covered so they don't get rusted from exposure to rain, snow, etc. How do you store them?

I've been thinking about getting a car port style structure and parking the tractor and implements under it. If we had 2 3-point-hitch implements, it seems that we could park the tractor and implements under the car port with 1 implement facing the same direction as the tractor (just back through the front opening to hook it up) and the other implement facing the opposite direction as the tractor (just back through the rear opening to hook it up). But if we had 3 implements, it would be a bit trickier. Would it make sense to stack them? I can imagine building a shelf out of 4x6 or 6x6 beams supported by concrete blocks and placing the rear blade on top of it. How high can a 3-point-hitch reach? Would we need to sit the implement on top of the shelf on something that can be moved with pallet forks?

I tried to diagram this below. The bumpy line of ^ symbols at the bottom is the ground; the straight line at the top is the roof of the carport (open or able to be opened at both ends). The implements are named and the < and > signs show the direction the 3-point-hitch attachment points are pointing.

---------------------------------- (roof of carport, open at both ends)

<blade
---------
<land plane mower> (3PH)Tractor
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Thanks,
Chris
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #2  
I don't know but I am very interested in what you and others come up with. I would like to do something similar in the way of stacking. But I was thinking about using pallet forks to access them. I don't really have any good ideas, but I sure am willing to steal some!
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #3  
My snow blower sits on a skid outside in the summer and the rear blade is on all the time. In winter the loader is outside on a skid. I grease the exposed hydraulic rams before I take it off for winter.
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options?
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#4  
I just found this tread from 2003: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/30330-need-help-ideas-storage-shelving.html. I guess I didn't go back far enough in the forums. :)

Another idea I'm considering is building a low, narrow, long structure with side-by-side bays for the implements, sort of like this:

+------------+------------+-------+
| rear blade | land plane | mower |


I could just back up to the right bay, hook up the implement, raise it a bit, and drive off. It would keep them all low (within reach of my 3PH) but out of the weather. Perhaps just a tarp over the opening that I can fold back for access.

Thanks,
Chris
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #5  
So what you want is a 'driving shed'. Closed in on three sides with a door of sorts on the access side. Farmers build them all the time. Can use them for firewood storage, too.
Cyclone-Rated-Sheds_211313_image.jpg
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #6  
There is a youtube of a guy that puts all his implements on wheeled boggies. As he takes them off they are pushed away to store and the next is rolled behind/in front to fit. Neat, no heavy handling and quite compact storage. Stacking requires more machinery to lift. You could put benches/shelves over the implements for other storage/tools etc.
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #7  
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.
shed-2.gif

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:

tiller.jpg

blade-1.jpg

chipper 1.jpg


Terry
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #8  
Count me in this arena also. I have the enclosed storage for only the chipper and grapple. The remainder - rear blade, land plane, disc harrow, etc etc are on pallets outside. Of course, the problem for me, is not available land to locate a building - such as Looking4new has - but $$$.
It becomes immediately apparent when storing implements that placing one in front of another in a shed is great until you need the one stored in the back. And without a concrete floor a rolling pallet is not possible.

So I sit here and fantasize and drool at pics of "driving sheds" like Looking4new just posted.
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #9  
If you go back to that stack of cement blocks concept, think about lateral stability as well. My implements get "bumped" when attaching them.
 
   / How do you store your attachments? Stacking options? #10  
I have mine hanging from sections of heavy chain under a heavy duty bench so that they are at "attachment" level. Makes it easy to hook up if I don't get the tractor exactly in the right spot, inside a two stall drive in on the side of my barn. I hang my mower deck on the wall so water does not accumulate on it. The tiller is too heavy to hang so it sits on some scrap 4x4 treated timbers. In Alabama the humidity is so high, any steel in unheated areas will "condensate" and rust - I use "Slide, No Rust" - tool and die protector for a lot of things I want to protect in the barn. WD40 works too but - doesn't last.

Look at No-Rust rust preventive and inhibitor from Slide Products .

The paint job on most attachments is designed to get it out the door. A can of appliance epoxy when they are new goes a long way to keeping attachments looking new. Touch up the skins and scrapes before storing them in the fall.

My tractor runs better when she's clean and shinny!! :)

Big L

PS. Don't forget to unhook the chains or you will pull the whole barn down!!
 
 

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