Moving Implements

[wampum]

I have been looking to get a 3 point attachment for the front loader quick attach. Then it would be simple to build a tower wide and deep enough to handle your biggest and heaviest attachment for the bottom. Then leaving room,add a floor for the next attachment and keep going up one attachment at a time. You could get 2 attachments on the same level by placing them from the front and back. Put a cheap roof on it and a tarp or doors to conceal both open sides. You could go up 8 feet depending on how high your loader arms will reach. All your attachments would be in one place,under roof,with out taking up a lot of space.

 

[Diamondpilot]

It's about what you, me or anyone else considers "benificial". I take pride and care of my tools and machinery and only want to buy them once. I have seen too many piles of rusted out farm equipment along side the roads that will never be used again. Stored and maintained properly, just hook them up and off you go regardless of their age-it's their condition that counts.

I am with you guys. I even store my trailer in the barn. If I need more room I will build on. I built a shop in my barn that is 20x16. I made the ceiling joist out of 12" engineered lumber and 3/4" plywood. I now just lift up seldom used items up there with the forks or the FEL boom pole.

In the first pic you can see the shop. There is a rail around the whole thing and a gate that opens above the door so you have a clear shot at it with the tractor. You can see the stairs in the 3rd pic along with the log splitter I built. The 2nd pic is of the dolly I made out of steel for my FEL Meyer snow plow. 4th pic shows the shop and plow.

Chris

 

[Diamondpilot]

I have been looking to get a 3 point attachment for the front loader quick attach. Then it would be simple to build a tower wide and deep enough to handle your biggest and heaviest attachment for the bottom. Then leaving room,add a floor for the next attachment and keep going up one attachment at a time. You could get 2 attachments on the same level by placing them from the front and back. Put a cheap roof on it and a tarp or doors to conceal both open sides. You could go up 8 feet depending on how high your loader arms will reach. All your attachments would be in one place,under roof,with out taking up a lot of space.

Great idea. They stack boats all the time at the marina's I frequent in the same matter. Usually 4 high.

Chris

 

[nickel plate]

WOW! Nice wood working!

I'll have to build something like that for my chipper that is on it's way here.
I will no longer be able to store and back up to all the implements I have in my barn anymore once it arrives. I was thinking "how am I going to do this?"

And bingo you present pictures of my solution! THANKS!

24'x36' barn loaded with 23' Sailboat 10' wide on trailer 32' overall including tung, 84 GTI (in work), 2 4'x8' work benches, Garden tractor, 5' brush hog, Pto splitter, 7' grader blade, 58" tiller, misc lumber tools, and other toy's like a Racing Kart.. Just have to have toys.

Hello FxdGrMind,
Please note the Walleinstein BX42 chipper/dolly photo. The chipper is attached to two 4x4 PT posts with through bolts-I am 6'-4" tall so the added height works out well and keeps the metal bottom rails off of the dirt.
Fxd...Harley? Me too. 1995 FXDL.

 

[Baby Grand]

I have been looking to get a 3 point attachment for the front loader quick attach. Then it would be simple to build a tower wide and deep enough to handle your biggest and heaviest attachment for the bottom. Then leaving room,add a floor for the next attachment and keep going up one attachment at a time. You could get 2 attachments on the same level by placing them from the front and back. Put a cheap roof on it and a tarp or doors to conceal both open sides. You could go up 8 feet depending on how high your loader arms will reach. All your attachments would be in one place,under roof,with out taking up a lot of space.

Wampum - I have long been eyeing the pallet storage racks that I see at Home Despot and other big box stores. As the economic contraction works it's way thru the supply base and some of the big boxes go feet up, I plan to buy some and build just such a rack system. They are relatively light, highly adjustable and easily reconfigured. Just need to make sure it's anchored to large enough footings or a slab.

-Jim

 

[firefighter jim]

It's about what you, me or anyone else considers "benificial". I take pride and care of my tools and machinery and only want to buy them once. I have seen too many piles of rusted out farm equipment along side the roads that will never be used again. Stored and maintained properly, just hook them up and off you go regardless of their age-it's their condition that counts.

Absolutely right. Could never understand why people invest a large amount of money in equipment only to leave it outside in the weather to rust and deteriorate away. Makes no sense to me.

 

[FxdGrMind]

NiclePlate

Thanks for the design details! She delivers today... alas I will not have time to build it before she arrives. But it's on my list for the w/e.

Sorry FxdGrMind (not a harley, as in Fixed Gear Bicycle mind, it's a moniker from a cycling forum that I also use... makes it easy to remember)
I do like the new Bobtail harleys though! Kinda evil looking yet sporty!

 

[Soundguy]

keep em painted.. paint don't rust

soundguy

 

[jeffinsgf]

Geezzz!! Nickle Plate's shed is cleaner then my house!

I picked up a refrigerator dolly for my Ballast Box. About $15 from Harbor Freight and rated to about 1000 lbs. Works great.

I just welded the casters directly to the ballast box. Don't have to aim at anything. :thumbsup:

 

[jeffinsgf]

Wampum - I have long been eyeing the pallet storage racks that I see at Home Despot and other big box stores. As the economic contraction works it's way thru the supply base and some of the big boxes go feet up, I plan to buy some and build just such a rack system. They are relatively light, highly adjustable and easily reconfigured. Just need to make sure it's anchored to large enough footings or a slab.

-Jim

Used pallet rack is very easy to come by. Check warehouse supply dealers in your area. Chances are, one of them specializes in used racking.

Also, from several years of experience using the stuff, it doesn't need to be anchored at all. I have tens of thousands of pounds of stuff sitting on pallet rack that is just standing on a slab.

 

[dcyrilc]

Used pallet rack is very easy to come by. Check warehouse supply dealers in your area. Chances are, one of them specializes in used racking.

Also, from several years of experience using the stuff, it doesn't need to be anchored at all. I have tens of thousands of pounds of stuff sitting on pallet rack that is just standing on a slab.

That probably depends on what part of the country you're in. If you live on the west coast where earthquakes "happen" you may want to secure it. The Nisqually Quake we had a few years back was a 6.2 and using geoligical records we're due for a 9+.

 

[wedge40]

Absolutely right. Could never understand why people invest a large amount of money in equipment only to leave it outside in the weather to rust and deteriorate away. Makes no sense to me.

Hmm I could build a barn and put NOTHING in it or by the tractor and implements I need figuring they are water proof. Most people dont leave things in the weather because they want too, but rather they have too.


Wedge

 

[wampum]

Wampum - I have long been eyeing the pallet storage racks that I see at Home Despot and other big box stores. As the economic contraction works it's way thru the supply base and some of the big boxes go feet up, I plan to buy some and build just such a rack system. They are relatively light, highly adjustable and easily reconfigured. Just need to make sure it's anchored to large enough footings or a slab.

-Jim

That Pallet rack sounds good. Put a few attachments in a small space makes sense. Even set outside they could be protected from the weather fairly easily and would make it easy to retrieve your attachments. I see them at a local (monthly) machine auction,almost every month. Earthquakes do not happen here very often,never knew of one in the past 50 years,so that should not be a problem.

 

[jeffinsgf]

That probably depends on what part of the country you're in. If you live on the west coast where earthquakes "happen" you may want to secure it. The Nisqually Quake we had a few years back was a 6.2 and using geoligical records we're due for a 9+.

Just playing devil's advocate, if you have a 9+, I don't think a couple of expansion bolts in your slab are going to be enough.

 

[jayste]

Everyone has some really nice ideas here for you. Nickle Plate does get the award for cleanest shop though! Chris (Diamondpilot), I think you're a close second. As far as storage goes, I don't store mine on these but I've got some old storage shelves/pallet racks that came out of our local Walmart storage room before they built the NEW and IMPROVED SUPER WALMART. They'd hold most boxblades, rakes, etc. I'll get pics later.

 

[dcyrilc]

Just playing devil's advocate, if you have a 9+, I don't think a couple of expansion bolts in your slab are going to be enough.

We have a 500 year window so hopefully I'll be long gone before it comes. If it does happen in my lifetime, I hope I'm out working on the farm and not downtown or something.

 

[firefighter jim]

Hmm I could build a barn and put NOTHING in it or by the tractor and implements I need figuring they are water proof. Most people dont leave things in the weather because they want too, but rather they have too.


Wedge

It's your money.................You want to leave your expensive equipment out in the weather, knock yourself out.

 

[nickel plate]

Everyone has some really nice ideas here for you. Nickle Plate does get the award for cleanest shop though! Chris (Diamondpilot), I think you're a close second. As far as storage goes, I don't store mine on these but I've got some old storage shelves/pallet racks that came out of our local Walmart storage room before they built the NEW and IMPROVED SUPER WALMART. They'd hold most boxblades, rakes, etc. I'll get pics later.

Thanks jayste but you have only seen a portion of my 1280 sf shop-the cleanest part. Being an urban packrat and keeping the joint clean is somewhat of an oxymoron.

 

[JIGBUILDER]

I have a 40 'X 60" X 10' ceiling tractor shed with a gravel floor and its crowded. I use my bucket on my 50 hp tractor to lift and move several attachments. I use bolt on shackle hooks like this from Gemplers item #162227 http://http://www.gemplers.com/product/162227/Steel-Shackle-18000-lbs-Safe-Working-Load. Yeah their overkill but all they cost me was time after work cutting rusted 5/8" bolts off with my radiac.

The company I worked for at the time had several 30' long 8000 lb flat plate bond jigs they were scrapping out and asked emplotees if they wanted any of the hardware from the jigs. I removed about 12 of them with a 4" radiac and a Dotco high speed motor after work. The bolts size for the holes are 5/8" diameter. I mounted three of them on the bucket with 1/4" thick backing plate. I also have several different size nylon lifting straps/clevis/different length chains and 3/8" lifting cables to lift a implement from one spot to another.

I did have chain hooks but with nylon straps/chains/cables the lifting ring worked better.

 

[SpringHollow]

I added used pallet racks outside, posts resting on solid concrete blocks. I built a roof on my 24' rack. You can use tarps on the sides to keep rain and sun out. I have also vertically hung roofing/siding panels on bolts, securing the bottoms with bolts with wing nuts (could use small eyebolts with longer bolts slipped into them as securing pins - might bang around some though). I have heavy implements on the bottom, lighter on the next shelf, then things like snow tires, etc on the highest rack. I cut the side panels short in a couple spots so i can easily drive in and grab my bucket and forks without removing panels.

Ken