how to lift / support rear end of TO-30?

Soundguy · Aug 8, 2013

exactly.

I can remember watching a crew trying to load steel wheel rollers on a transport flatbed with steel ramps. them big buffalo rollers would get halfway up and stall. I walked over and mentioned to the xport driver and roller operator that they had some shabby looking plywood laying ont he front of the xport deck. i told them to lay a piece on each ramp and she would walk up. they balked.. but tried it. ... roller loaded on 1st try.

why listen to an engineer eh?

dbotos · Aug 9, 2013

Picked up an 8-foot 2x12 after work yesterday along with some of these Spax lags:

SPAX 1/4 x 6 in. Yellow Zinc Washer-Head T-Star Lag Screw-4581020701527 at The Home Depot

Got the wood cut and clamped together and started to put the lags in. The little labels on the lags specifically says "no pre-drilling required". Well that is a bunch of BS cause they cracked the wood.

I did two corners an inch in from each edge (and it split with the grain on both corners) before I stopped and decided I'd had it with the fancy lags. Went out and got some heavy-duty construction adhesive and used copious amounts of that to bond the layers together and reattach the one strip that the lags had split off. I actually got a little over-zealous with the adhesive, as I had to clean up a bunch of it that spooged out when I clamped everything together. :ashamed:

The construction adhesive will probably hold everything just fine, but to make doubly sure the layers never shift laterally, I'm also going to make a steel perimeter frame to go around them out of 1/8" plate. Two studs for the garage door handle and two holes to put screws/lags in to keep the wood in the frame (and, yes, I will be pre-drilling holes in the wood for those screws/lags). :duh:

P.S. Home Depot will be getting those fancy lags back.

Soundguy · Aug 9, 2013

i always pre drill a lil to relieve material..

DS43812 · Aug 14, 2013

dbotos said:
We'll have to compare notes. The previous owner said the tires are unfilled (I remember asking when I bought it).

I broke out the new jack stands when I got home. They are pretty big. Attached picture shows them next to one of my truck tires, which just happens to be 30" OD.

A quick way to check to see if the tires are loaded is to ensure that the valve stem is at the bottom and let out a little air. If no liquid comes out they aren't loaded. Otherwise, the jack stands you have seem adequate, but if you are using them on a gravel driveway you MUST be absolutely certain that the surface is level and that you place something SOLID beneath them or they can and will sink into the ground and possibly allow the tractor to fall. Otherwise, cribbing would be much safer to use.

The kid · Aug 14, 2013

dbotos said:
We'll have to compare notes. The previous owner said the tires are unfilled (I remember asking when I bought it).

I broke out the new jack stands when I got home. They are pretty big. Attached picture shows them next to one of my truck tires, which just happens to be 30" OD.

Are those two ton stands?