Moving Implements

[RalphVa]

Use steel-wheeled castors.

A pallet isn't strong enough for my soil ripper. I've castors underneath, but the pallet boards are sagging.

A board plus castors underneath the bush hog works. Gotta have enough castors underneath the board so that it doesn't rock, generally at least 2 on each side with one pair in front of the other pair. Originally, I had a dual set of castors that were done in threes. They weren't strong enough.

I keep them all in the basement of the carriage house and roll them over to the doorway to mount onto the tractor, because I found that the tractor wheels were slightly collapsing the aluminum threshold on the double doors. So, I park the tractor just outside.

Ralph

 

[Haoleguy]

Maybe I missed it in one of the above messages but does anyone just use pallets and a pallet jack to move the pallets into place? Again my apologies if I missed it. ...Gary

 

[petegoud]

Here's what I built to store my small 3-point backhoe on. Having all the wheels swiveling allows for a very fast hookup. I later added some smaller swivel wheels on the side so I could stand this stand on its edge and move it around when it wasn't carrying the backhoe.

 

[Usta]

I saw a problem the first time I unhooked the loader in the garage and then realized I should have placed it a couple feet over to get the car in beside it.

Just using what I had laying around, I made a 2 foot x 2 foot platform by welding 2x2 angle and heavy duty swivel casters and inserted 2x6 planks. Use that for boxblade or ballast box. Made another 4 foot by 4 foot for loader or snow blower. Sure is nice to be able to jockey stuff around with just one hand.

 

[Arcane]

My solution is not elegant, but it works.

 

[Soundguy]

nice use of a pallate.

a buddy of mine lives near a mattress store.

behind their store are some great big nice hd pallates. He gets them now and them.. I'd love to grab a few..

soundguy

 

[patrick_g]

This has been mentioned before but could be repeated for late arrivals.

Harbor Freight sells a rectangular dolly (wood with carpet on it) with 4 castors with a rating of 1000 lbs. They are currently on special for well under the normal $20 price. Two of these (or 3 or 4) will make a base for a simple platform to carry most any 3PH implement. In some instances just a couple of these with no additional structure will work just fine.

The down side is the diameter of the wheels. Although they work well on a smooth hard surface they are essentially useless on gravel or non-paved areas.

I have built some wheeled platforms using HF castors (8 inch diameter) and they work well but no better than the furniture dolly mentioned above AND took more time, more materials, and cost as much or more AND still don't roll worth beans except on pavement.

Pat

 

[Arcane]

Thanks for the heads up on the HF dollies. I bought a couple of them yesterday @ $7.99, and they're under the flail mower now.