IMPLEMENT STORAGE

[flINTLOCK]

I will be buying 6' BB, 6' LR, 6' rotary cutter, 5' stone bucket, 48" grapple and 6' 2 row disc in the spring. Won't have storage shed to start out, but would like to build one over the summer. Any thoughts on dimensions necessary to store this collection and have room for TC40DA?? Hope to pour concrete pad to get good level surface for implement attachment.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I will be buying 6' BB, 6' LR, 6' rotary cutter, 5' stone bucket, 48" grapple and 6' 2 row disc in the spring. Won't have storage shed to start out, but would like to build one over the summer. Any thoughts on dimensions necessary to store this collection and have room for TC40DA?? Hope to pour concrete pad to get good level surface for implement attachment.

If you line all these up side-by-side you have around 37' add a few feet to walk around them and if you want a 3 sided implement shed with each attachment its on bay I would go 60'.

If you want access on both sides of the shed ( roof and two ends) you could maybe go 20-30'.

I will be going through the same thing towards the end of summer when I start moving all my implements to our new house, no shed or work shop. I'll be useing tarps or temporary carport in the begining. Plannign on a barn/workshop with a lean-to on each side for implements.

Could get lots of help in the projects section.

 

[flINTLOCK]

I was thinking about building dollies for some pieces like BB, stone bucket and grapple for more efficient use of space. Don't know if that would work for rotary cutter or rake. Think that dolly for disc would be impossible!!
I was thinking frame building with widest garage door possible I quess.

 

[flINTLOCK]

I was standing in my garage at home which is about 20 by 30 thinking it would be right size for storage shed.I think you'd have more room to manuver with the tractor inside if you put the door in the middle of the 30 foot side allowing implements on each side of the centerline and at the end opposite the door. If I can figure out dolly system, the location of the door is less critical. Will have to wait till collection of toys is complete, then position them on the ground to judge overall size of building.

 

[RalphVa]

Just line them up side by side on dollies or pallet-like platforms on dollies alongside the tractor and maybe one at one end of the tractor. Just need to figure space for implement plus maybe the PTO sticking out. You can actually remove the PTO at the implement and lay it on the implement. I've never done this, but it should have the release gizmo at the other end like the end you put on the tractor. Then it wouldn't stick out. Could tie it up or off to the left or right, too. The cutter will be the one where it sticks out.

I don't have room inside for my BB and have stored it outside on 1bys.

Ralph

 

[flINTLOCK]

Anyone have a good source for metal prefab storage shed in the 20 by 30 foot range?? I'm in NE PA.

 

[RWK in WI]

What about buying an "boom pole" - Then drop implement from tractor, put pole on move old implement out of way and bring next implement to mounting area, take off pole and mount next implement.

 

[LarryD]

Think that dolly for disc would be impossible!!

I think that statement will get a few dissenters. You'll probably have a CAD drawing by morning.

There was a post not long ago about shelving implements, it was an industrial type shelving unit but it sure made good use of the space. I would still build the biggest garage I could afford but the shelf idea would allow for your collection to grow.

I keep my tiller and chipper under a roof but there's not enough room for the BB and rake...I just keep them off the ground on 4x4's.

 

[CDsdad]

40' x 30' is what I'm beginning construction on Monday. It'll have 3 bays 10' each on either end for implements. I can't do prefab, wouldn't fit in with the backwoods motif I have going on my place.

 

[ding2520]

When you finally figure what you need for storage space increase it by 50%. Then you won't have to say later on "I wish I would have made this bigger". You will be adding implements in the future, maybe even another tractor. If you go larger than ever needed, you could always rent out storage space.

 

[TwinWillows]

Interesting as I have the same tractor & many of the same implements. The tractor is stored in the hallway of the barn & all the implements are outside on pallets on gravel along the N side of the barn. W/o the tracctor my stuff covers something like 48 x 12 pretty easily (w/room to walk around each item on all 4 sides).

If I was going to put everything inside, & allow room for manouvering the tractor I'd go no less than 40 x 30 & use warehouse shelving to stack the lighter stuff above the heavy items. I'd want minimum 10ft ceiling but 12ft would be better. My 0.02$.

 

[flINTLOCK]

I found a local guy that had a line on a 20 X 30 quanset style prefab steel with all hardware for much less than half price because it was bought by another, partially paid for, then abandoned. I'll have to figure out how to make that size floor space work. At least some of the implements on dollies. Not sure how high you can lift 3-pt attachments to use shelf storage. I guess I could look into lift forks for FEL to help place them. But then I'll need floor space to store those lift forks. Oh, well, looks like another opportunity.

 

[KYErik]

From time to time I see ads in the local "trader" classifieds about large grain bins for $100-$500 if you take them down. It would be lots of work to safely get one down, but you would have plenty of panels to make several low quanset style huts say 5-6 feet tall if you used a few fenceposts inside for some crude framing.

 

[rpeter]

For a disk you build a pipe assembly on dollies. It looks like a coat rack. Then you hand the disk on the pipe with two chains.

 

[Tom_H]

I have a 3 car garage with some extra space on some of the sides and at the front. The tractor stays in 1 bay and the 2 cars in the other.

Most implements are on dollies. PHD is removed by a little rolling gantry which supports a chain hoist, and is then bolted to wall. I also have an electric hoist suspended in the trusses. I use this to lift the rear blade from its dolly, roll the rough cutter beneath it, and set the rb piggyback on the rc. This rolls to a storage location. The carry-all has casters bolted on the fork bottoms and so the carry-all forks roll underneath the dolly for the rc. This stores 3 implements vertically in 1 location. The elec. hoist also allows me to lift the MMM and put on storage wheels in winter for it to be stored on its side (Larry at moweraxle.com). The MMM dolly and rb dolly then also sit atop the rc and rb.

When it's time to change an implement, the cars go out of the garage (easily-obviously), which then leaves plenty of room to move implements around on dollies (also have chipper, dirt scoop, box blade, tiller on dollies, but no dolly for FEL). It's very easy to roll anything right up to 3ph and attach quickly; no back wrenching motions-just a touch with the pinkie to align attachments.

Elec. hoist is also handy when time to sharpen MMM blades and would be handy if you needed to pull tractor engine, etc.